Valuing Different Perspectives
Principal Investigator: Dr Peter Matthews
2014
This project will run both a community-led and academic-led evaluation of project legacy from two previous Connected Communities projects – Community Hacking 2.0 and Ladders to the Cloud. At the heart of this proposal are complex issues of power, knowledge and methodology. Within this complexity are simple binaries that can be presented as poles: positivist-interpretivist; academic-community; participatory-external; quantitative-qualitative. Read more
Bridging the Gap between Academic Theory and Community Relevance: Fresh Insights from American Pragmatism
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen, Keele University
From 2013 to 2014
‘Bridging the Gap’ focuses on what is considered ‘actionable’ knowledge by communities and what makes knowledge relevant, useful and/or practical at their end. The four AHRC projects involved in this collaborative grant application share the view that academic theories are not ends in themselves; rather that they must serve the needs of the communities studied. Read more
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