Taking Yourselves Seriously
Principal Investigator: Kate Pahl
From 2015 to 2018
Taking Yourself Seriously is a year long project that aims to create a set of co-produced resources that are connected with arts methodologies with a particular focus on research in the voluntary and community sector. 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
Performing Abergavenny: creating a connected community beyond divisions of class, locality and history
Principal Investigator: Prof Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University
From 2013 to 2014
This project built upon Walkerdine et al’s research in Abergavenny for the Connected Communities Programme, ‘Community as micro-sociality’ (2012-13) which discovered that Abergavenny as a community is geographically disconnected along north/south fault lines, historically related to class and dislocation, and Mackey et al’s project ‘Challenging concepts of ‘liquid’ place through performance practices in community contexts’ (2011-14). Read more
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