FLEX (Flexible Dwellings for Extended Living)
Principal Investigator: Prof Ann Light
From 2012 to 2013
The FLEX (Flexible Dwellings for Extended Living) project sought to address a challenge of 21st century wellbeing – an increasing older population that wants to age ‘at home’, facing the social isolation that accompanies the loss of traditional meeting places like pubs, pension queues, community centres and the High Street. 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
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
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 Bench Project
Principal Investigator: Clare Rishbeth
From 2015 to 2016
The focus of ‘The Bench Project’ is on locations where people often ‘hang out’, the act of everyday sitting on a bench or low wall, near a takeaway, a park entrance or in an urban square. The research has explored the stories, memories and activities of people using these places and questions how they provide places for social interaction. Read more
Voices of War and Peace
Principal Investigator: Ian Grosvenor
Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy is a First World War Engagement Centre funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund. Read more
Performing Living Knowledge: Developing a replicable model for arts-based empowerment of marginalised urban communities in Uganda and Malawi
Principal Investigator: Jane Plastow
This project builds on the arts and social science activities pioneered by the Uganda strand of the AHRC funded INTERSECTION project, under the Care for the Future programme. The project worked over 20 months with 60+ volunteer members of a working class community in Walukuba, Jinja, in eastern Uganda. Read more
Participatory Arts and DIY Culture Project
Principal Investigator: Prof George McKay, UEA
From 2017 to 2018
Participatory Arts and DIY Culture is a 12-month project funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme. Read more
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
About the Connected Communities Programme
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These two films give you an insight into the work and aims of the Connected Communities programme, in particular its approach to collaborative research between universities and community partners. It gives you a chance to hear from project partners and the lessons we learned from over 300 projects. Read more
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