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
Photos from the Utopia and Connected Communities Conference
Photographs taken at the Utopia and Connected Communities Conference which took place at the British Library Conference Centre on the 7th of January. Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- December 14, 2016
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) 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 2018 Dave Ward Co-ordinator, The Windows Read more
- By Rachel Daniel
- December 5, 2016
Around the Toilet Win Engage Award!
Congratulations to the Around the Toilet project team who last week took away the top prize in the Arts, Humanities and Social Science category at the Engage 2016 Awards. The awards, run by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, celebrate high quality public engagement with research projects. Read more
- By Katherine Dunleavy
- December 5, 2016
