David Studdert and Valerie Walkerdine are pleased to announce three new outputs arising from our work on the Connected Communities programme.
Our new book: ‘Rethinking Community Research: Inter-relationality Communal Being and Commonality’. (Palgrave/Macmillan2016) “This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Read more
- By Katherine Dunleavy
- February 22, 2017
Job and funding opportunities: Senior Research Associate and Studentship
University of East Anglia, Senior Research Associate. Participatory Arts and DIY Culture Project £32,004 to £38,183 per annum Participatory Arts and DIY Culture is a 12-month project funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme. The Principal Investigator is Professor George McKay, AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities Programme, and Professor of Media Studies at the UEA. Read more
- By jessicak
- February 16, 2017
Norwich Reggae Research Network symposium: Scoping the Field, report
The first Reggae Research Network symposium, entitled ‘Scoping the Field’, took place in Norwich on 24-25 January 2017. The network is being co-organised by the Connected Communities programme and the Translating Cultures theme. This report by George McKay was originally posted on the Reggae Research Network website. You can follow the network on Twitter @reggae_network. Read more
- By jessicak
- February 6, 2017
Registration for Litcom 1 now open!
Litcom 1: A Conference on Literature and Communities Norwich Writers’ Centre, Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich Thursday 2nd March 12.30pm – 5.30pm & Friday 3rd of March 9:30am – 5pm Free Event (registration essential) Keynote speakers Ava Chalkiadaki, Vice-Chair, Organisation of Culture, Sports and Youth, City of Athens; member of the Organising Committee, City of Athens Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- January 30, 2017
Making Suburban Faith goes international. Spiritual Flavours @ Festival of Political Photography 2017, Finish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. February 4th – March 30th 2017
UCL PhD student Laura Cuch is one of the photographers exhibiting at the Festival of Political Photography 2017, in Helsinki. This year’s edition of the festival is titled ‘Post-Food’ and will show a range of visual work that focus on political, social and environmental dimensions of food. Read more
- By Katherine Dunleavy
- January 26, 2017
Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new edited collection which arose from the Connected Communities Project ‘In conversation with…: codesign with more-than-human communities.’ The book looks at the potential for bringing more-than-human research and participatory research into conversation. Read more
- By Katherine Dunleavy
- January 23, 2017
Common Cause Survey Now Open
Common Cause examines collaborations between universities and Black and minority ethnic communities in Arts and Humanities research. It seeks to engage with both university and community based researchers in order to understand how they are working together, sharing good practice and could further develop mutual value. Read more
- By Katherine Dunleavy
- January 18, 2017
Litcom 1: A Conference on Literature and Communities, Deadline Extended
Litcom 1: A Conference on Literature and Communities, Call for Papers Norwich Writers’ Centre, Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich 2-3 March 2017 – free attendance (registration essential) Application Deadline: 12pm 24th January 2017 Keynote speakers Ava Chalkiadaki Vice-Chair, Organisation of Culture, Sports and Youth, City of Athens; member of the Organising Committee, City of Athens World Book Capital Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- January 17, 2017
Community-based sustainable smart cities and IoT – EPSRC-sponsored workshop
Academic workshop details EPSRC UK sponsored workshop on community-based sustainable smart cities and IoT: When: Wednesday 1st of February 2017, 14:00-16:00 Location: Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London, E1 6LA Keywords: Smart Cities, Digital Civics, Civic IoT, Food Systems, community design, connected sustainability, sustainable HCI, non-utilitarian HCI Co-Chairs: Sara Heitlinger (s.heitlinger@qmul.ac.uk) and Chris Speed (c.speed@ed.ac.uk) The workshop is part of a Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- January 16, 2017
Thoughts on the Utopia and Communities conference, 6-7 December
#saynotoutopiafatigue The evening before the conference, most of us met in a restaurant near Euston, where the talk and laughter and ideas at the dinner tables moved around utopia, our summer fair, elections and the political future, what are you doing over xmas. Read more
- By George
- December 16, 2016
