Lost Spaces
Principal Investigator: Dr Dai O’Brien (York St John University)
From 2015 to 2016
This project aims to explore the consequences of lost community spaces for the Deaf community in Bristol. Recently, the Deaf community have lost the Centre for the Deaf, which was the centre of the community for many years, and the Centre for Deaf Studies in the University of Bristol, which was the birthplace of Dr Paddy Ladd’s Deafhood theory and Read more
(R)agency?: The Creative Practises of Anger
Principal Investigator: Dr Helen Limon
From 2015 to 2016
(r)agency? The Creative Practices of Anger is a multi-disciplinary network, drawing together a team of early-career researchers, working in a number of different fields – both creative and critical – and a series of research activities and case studies that together form a research project on what the role and potentialities of anger might be in communities. Read more
Fields of Green: Addressing Sustainability and Climate Change through Music Festival Communities
Principal Investigator: Matt Brennan (University of Edinburgh)
From 2015 to 2016
Fields of Green is an AHRC funded research project exploring the sustainability of Scotland’s music festivals through the eyes of artists, audiences and festival organisers. In his opening remarks at the September 2014 United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated unequivocally: “climate change is the defining issue of our time. Read more
Creative Citizens
Principal Investigator: Ian Hargreaves
From 2011 to 2015
Media, Community and the Creative Citizens explores the many different ways in which social media and other, older media forms help citizens to generate value for their communities. We take case studies from three areas of creative citizenship – community journalism; community-led planning and design; and creative networks. Read more
Beyond the Campus: Connecting Knowledge and Creative Practice Communities Across Higher Education and the Creative Economy
Principal Investigator: Dr Roberta Comunian, King’s College London
From 2012 to 2015
The network aimed to create a platform for discussion between academics, practitioners, artists, cultural organisations, business development managers and other university directors, about knowledge connections and collaboration between universities and the creative and cultural sector. Read more
The Hospitality Project
Principal Investigator: Naomi Millner
From 2015 to 2016
The Hospitality Project is an arts-based research collaboration between three universities (Bristol, Manchester, Leeds) and three Bristol-based community partners (Dignity for Asylum-Seekers, the Bristol Hospitality Network, and Barton Hill Walled Garden Project). Read more
Football and Connected Communities
Principal Investigator: Michael Skey
From 2015 to 2016
Focusing on young people aged between 14-18, the project has been designed to engage with three current debates around football in the UK. First, the rising cost of watching live football and the extent to which many groups primary engagement is now through media. Read more
Everyday Lives in War: experience and memory of the First World War
Principal Investigator: Sarah Lloyd
From 2014 to 2016
The Everyday Lives in War centre is one of five First World War engagement centres funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Read more
Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future
Principal Investigator: Prof. Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)
From 2014
The Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) until December 2016. It forms a focal point for connecting academic and community researchers interested in how the First World War lives on in the twenty-first century world. Read more
The Impact of Festivals Project
Principal Investigator: George McKay; george.mckay@uea.ac.uk
From 2015 to 2016
The Impact of Festivals is a 12-month project funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme, working with research partner organisation the EFG London Jazz Festival. The Principal Investigator is Professor George McKay, AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities Programme, and Professor of Media Studies at the UEA. The Research Associate is Dr Emma Webster, co-founder and co-Director of Live Music Exchange. Read more
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