Participatory ArtsNetworked communities as dynamic co-created learning environments
Principal Investigator: Professor Neil Ravenscroft
2013
Through a series of co-created and facilitated workshops and training programmes, Phase 1 of this project has brought facilitation practice into conversation with academic research methods to create a co-designed multi-method model for organising the generation of data about personal and community histories and associations. Read more
Evaluating the Legacy of Animative and Iterative Connected Communities Projects: A Three Dimensional Model of Change
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen
From 2014 to 2015
This project explores ways of evaluating and enhancing the legacy of the Connected Communities (hereafter CC) programme by investigating and reflecting on the impacts that four projects funded within this programme have had in both in the communities with whom they were conducted and can have in new community settings, both in the UK and beyond. Read more
The Poetics of the Archive: creative and community engagement with the Bloodaxe Archives
Principal Investigator: Professor Linda Anderson Newcastle University
From 2013 to 2015
The archive of Bloodaxe Books, newly acquired by Newcastle University, is one of the most extensive and significant poetry archives in the world. The challenge is to unlock its meaning and use by seeing it as more than a scholarly resource, accessible through standard search-based catalogue, and to allow more creative, open-ended and playful interactions with it. Read more
Tangible Memories: Community in care
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Manchester
From 2014 to 2015
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team including digital artists and makers, learning researchers, computer scientists, social historians, older people themselves and those who work with them we are co-producing a set of new digital tools that will address some of the key societal challenges concerning the care and well-being of older people and the legacy of the memories and stories that Read more
Untold stories of volunteering: a cultural animation project
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen (Keele University)
From 2013 to 2014
The project aims to give voice to ‘untold stories of volunteering’ by employing a cultural animation methodology to ensure that such stories are co-designed and co- produced with and by volunteers and other interested stakeholders. Read more
Cambridge Community Heritage
Principal Investigator: Dr Carenza Lewis, University of Cambridge
From 2012 to 2013
In Cambridge Community Heritage (CCH) project (2012-13), ten University of Cambridge researchers in Archaeology, History, Heritage and Public Engagement collaborated in research with 37 community groups in eastern England. Read more
Our Data Ourselves
Principal Investigator: Tobias Blanke
From 2013 to 2015
Our AHRC funded research project: ‘Our Data Ourselves’, will increase our understanding of the nature and role of the data that young people produce when they use social platforms and applications on their smartphones. We have paired with members of Young Rewired State. Read more
Creative practice as mutual recovery: connecting communities for mental health and well-being
Principal Investigator: Professor Paul Crawford (University of Nottingham)
From 2013 to 2017
When considering the attributes that modern-day healthcare is frequently accused of lacking, it is all too easy to overlook one of the most precious of all: humanity. The nascent discipline of health humanities aims to address this critical shortcoming. Read more
Community as micro-sociality and the new localism agenda
Principal Investigator: Professor Valerie Walkerdine
From 2012 to 2013
The Big Society and localism agendas bring to the fore issues of how communities might operate within a time of austerity. This project addresses current concerns by using a theoretical approach to community which understands it as relational activity, the act of communing, which is the small everyday activity which makes up what counts as community. Read more
Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive
Principal Investigator: Simon Popple (University of Leeds)
From 2013 to 2015
Pararchive aims to co-produce a new open digital resource that will allow anyone to search and collect on-line sources and combine them with their own media (film, photographs and other ephemera) to tell their own stories, make new archives, be creative, start new projects and do their own research. Read more
