New Book from Connected Communities: Re-Imagining Contested Communities
We are very pleased to announce the release of a new volume in the Connected Communities book series from Policy Press. The volume, edited by Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Pahl, Elizabeth Pente, and Zanib Rasool, challenges contemporary ideas about ‘place’. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- March 5, 2018
Extended Deadline for New Perspectives Conference
In consideration of the UCU industrial action, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the New Perspectives Conference to the end of next Monday, 5th March. More information about the conference can be found in the call for papers below. . Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- March 1, 2018
Practical Ways to Be Creative & Digital: Spotlight on Leapfrog
Our third Creative & Digital project in February is LeapFrog, a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new creative approaches to consultation. They have been developing resources, in collaboration with community groups, in order to create toolboxes to improve consultation and communication in future collaborative works. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- February 21, 2018
Mapping Cinema Experience – Blog
The second of our highlighted projects for the Creative & Digital Month is the ‘Mapping Cinema Experience’ project, led by Dr Daniela Treveri Gennari, who has kindly written a short blog post on her experiences of the project. Mapping Cinema Experience builds on the work of the AHRC funded “Lost Italian Cinema Audiences” project (ICA), 2013-2016. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- February 14, 2018
Stories2Connect – Blog
As part of National Story Telling Week, we highlighted some of the fantastic work that has come out of the ‘Stories to Connect with’ project, run by Dr Candice Satchwell. Candice, and her intern Gregory, have written two short blogs on their experiences of the project below, with some lovely reflections on the work of this project. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- February 7, 2018
CFP: Understanding Everyday Participation Conference
The Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values project invites submission of abstracts for the conference: Understanding everyday participation: Re-locating culture, value and inequality 11-12 June, 2018 Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester Confirmed Keynote speakers include Professor Omar Lizardo & Professor Kate Oakley This closing project conference asks how we might re-think the field of participation studies, both within and across Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- February 5, 2018
Call For Papers – New Perspectives on Participatory Arts
Call for papers This FREE conference, organised by the AHRC Connected Communities programme, seeks to draw together the new knowledge and practice generated by and emerging from funded research projects across Connected Communities as well as more widely in the fields of community and participatory arts. Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- February 1, 2018
Catalyst Fund deadline – extended to 7th of Feb!
You now have until the 7th of February to apply for the final round of catalyst funding! Aims and purpose The Connected Communities Catalyst Fund is intended to support the consolidation of exciting new ideas arising from the Connected Communities programme. Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- February 1, 2018
National Story Telling Week
As part of National Story Telling Week we have been highlighting some of the stories that have come out of the Stories 2 Connect project. This project has been working with children and young people from Barnado’s and other groups to tell the stories that might otherwise not be heard. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- January 31, 2018
New Fund for Community-University Partnerships
A new fund has been launched, in part as a result of the Connected Communities Report , which aims to support community-university partnerships, with the money coming to the community partners. Read more
- By lucyelkerton
- January 29, 2018
