Disability and Community: Dis/engagement, Dis/enfranchisement, Dis/parity and Dissent (the D4D project)
Principal Investigator: Martin Levinson
The project team brings together disabled and non disabled academics from a range of disciplines, with disabled artists, writers and performers, and with community partners (including Accentuate, Disability Arts Online, Shape and Disability Rights UK). The leadership of the project will be shared between two universities (Exeter and Bristol) and Accentuate, a disabled-led arts organisation. Read more
Online Orchestra
Principal Investigator: Michael Rofe
We’re asking how we can use the internet to give children and amateur musicians who live in remote communities around the country the same opportunities to play in an orchestra as those who live in larger towns and cities. We’re designing an online orchestra that will allow people who live hundreds of miles apart to make music together for the first time. Read more
Researching in Public: Learning and Legacy in the Connected Communities Programme
Principal Investigator: Keri Facer
From 2013 to 2015
This longitudinal research project studies the Connected Communities Programme as a whole. It asks what we can learn from the programme about the implications of community-engaged and interdisciplinary research for participating researchers and collaborators, for the future of universities and for the production of knowledge. Read more
Making Suburban Faith: design, material culture and popular creativity
Principal Investigator: Dr. Claire Dwyer, Prof. David Gilbert
This project explores the ways in which suburban faith communities create space focusing on architectures, material cultures, rituals, music and performance. The project is based in Ealing in West London and focuses on eight different faith community case studies selected to represent different faith and migration traditions. Read more
Stress Points: Policy and Practice in the Japanese Furniture Industry
Principal Investigator: Sarah Teasley
2012
Stress Points’ examines the relationship between local communities, industrial policy and global economic, cultural and political forces, through an extended exploration of public sector initiatives for developing and strengthening local furniture industries in Japan, c. 1890-1960. Read more
Centre for Hidden Histories
Principal Investigator: Professor John Beckett (Department of History, University of Nottingham)
From 2014 to 2016
The Centre for Hidden Histories is one of five First World War engagement centres that have been established by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to investigate the First World War and support community groups in their efforts to research and commemorate the war. Read more
And the doctor said….
Principal Investigator: Jackie Reynolds
From 2012 to 2014
‘And the Doctor Said….’ is an innovative research project, which uses creative writing as a way of exploring people’s experiences of healthcare in North Staffordshire. A series of workshops led by creative writers, playwrights and storytellers took place during 2013 in four different community venues in and around Stoke-on-Trent. Read more
Sensing the late Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Archaeology of Hertfordshire
Principal Investigator: Kris Lockyear
From 2013 to 2014
The project has created a cross-archaeological society team of geophysicists who have undertaken magnetometry surveys of over a dozen sites in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We continue to survey sites when they become available. Read more
Around the Toilet
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jen Slater (Sheffield Hallam University)
From 2015 to 2018
The toilet is often thought to be a mundane space, but for those who lack adequate or accessible toilet provision on a daily basis, toilets become a crucial practical issue which can create and reaffirm feelings of exclusion and regulation. Thinking around toilets and their function as material as well as socio-cultural environments presents an opportunity to consider forms of identity in multi-faceted ways. Read more
Telling the Bees
Principal Investigator: Deborah Maxwell
From 2015 to 2016
Beekeeping is currently experiencing a surge of popularity, coinciding with a rise of localism and a consumer drive for homemade produce. Bees have also become popular subjects of non-fiction prose, literature, poetry and art, in part because their plight has become emblematic of contemporary environmental crises. Whilst a new generation of beekeepers is emerging, the methods by which they learn their skills is changing. Read more
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