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
Stress Points: Policy and Practice in the Japanese Furniture Industry
Principal Investigator: Sarah Teasley
2012
Stress Points’ examines the relationship between local communities, industrial policy and global economic, cultural and political forces, through an extended exploration of public sector initiatives for developing and strengthening local furniture industries in Japan, c. 1890-1960. 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 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
Centre for Hidden Histories
Principal Investigator: Professor John Beckett (Department of History, University of Nottingham)
From 2014 to 2016
The Centre for Hidden Histories is one of five First World War engagement centres that have been established by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to investigate the First World War and support community groups in their efforts to research and commemorate the war. 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
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
Connecting communities via culture-led regeneration – exploring incentive and momentum with UK city of culture 2013 shortlisted candidates
Principal Investigator: Mrs Kerry Wilson (Liverpool John Moores University)
From 2011 to 2012
The Cultural Cities Research Network was formed in March 2011 to discuss the impact of bidding for the UK City of Culture 2013 title. Network members included different individuals and communities involved with or interested in the bidding process from the three shortlisted cities of Birmingham, Norwich and Sheffield. Read more
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