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
(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
Reinventing Learning Cities
Principal Investigator: Keri Facer
From 2016 to 2017
The Reinventing Learning Cities research project explores the multiple ways in which cities learn through social, material and digital processes. Based at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, it constitutes part of the AHRC Connected Communities Programme. This project asks what methodologies we can deploy to reimagine and make visible the different learning processes in the city. 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
Common Cause: Understanding and enabling collaborations between BME communities and universities to create better research in the Arts and Humanities
Principal Investigator: Keri Facer
From 2016 to 2018
The quality of the knowledge base of the Arts and Humanities – its claim to inform and reflect the historic and contemporary world – is dependent upon its capacity to reflect the breadth and diversity of human experience. In the UK, however, BME groups are under-represented in research-intensive universities and in research leadership roles in these fields. Read more
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
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
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
Wonderland: the art of becoming human
Principal Investigator: Dr Amanda Ravetz
2016
Wonderland is an artistic research project by and for people in recovery from substance use disorder and/or mental health issues. It is part of a new, North West social movement, under the proactive slogan of Recoverism, allied to the arts, harnessing social change and emancipation by re-framing cultural identities around substance use disorder. Read more
The meaning and role of community cinema in rural Norfolk
Principal Investigator: Dr Mark Rimmer, (University of East Anglia)
From 2012 to 2015
This project seeks to explore the meanings and roles of rural community cinema projects in Norfolk, as these are understood by members of rural communities. The project began in September 2012. The project will engage with questions about the social experience of attendance at rural cinema screening events. Read more
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