Telling the Bees
Principal Investigator: Deborah Maxwell
From 2015 to 2016
Beekeeping is currently experiencing a surge of popularity, coinciding with a rise of localism and a consumer drive for homemade produce. Bees have also become popular subjects of non-fiction prose, literature, poetry and art, in part because their plight has become emblematic of contemporary environmental crises. Whilst a new generation of beekeepers is emerging, the methods by which they learn their skills is changing. 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
Online Orchestra
Principal Investigator: Michael Rofe
We’re asking how we can use the internet to give children and amateur musicians who live in remote communities around the country the same opportunities to play in an orchestra as those who live in larger towns and cities. We’re designing an online orchestra that will allow people who live hundreds of miles apart to make music together for the first time. Read more
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
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
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
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
Bridging Environmental Values
Principal Investigator: Steve Cinderby
From 2013 to 2014
Our project looked at: What behaviour that benefits the environment means to people? How they defined it?… and How their environmental actions differed between the places they went and within the groups they mixed with? Read more
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