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
And the doctor said….
Principal Investigator: Jackie Reynolds
From 2012 to 2014
‘And the Doctor Said….’ is an innovative research project, which uses creative writing as a way of exploring people’s experiences of healthcare in North Staffordshire. A series of workshops led by creative writers, playwrights and storytellers took place during 2013 in four different community venues in and around Stoke-on-Trent. 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
Sensing the late Iron Age and Roman Past: Geophysics and the Archaeology of Hertfordshire
Principal Investigator: Kris Lockyear
From 2013 to 2014
The project has created a cross-archaeological society team of geophysicists who have undertaken magnetometry surveys of over a dozen sites in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We continue to survey sites when they become available. 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
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
Around the Toilet
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jen Slater (Sheffield Hallam University)
From 2015 to 2018
The toilet is often thought to be a mundane space, but for those who lack adequate or accessible toilet provision on a daily basis, toilets become a crucial practical issue which can create and reaffirm feelings of exclusion and regulation. Thinking around toilets and their function as material as well as socio-cultural environments presents an opportunity to consider forms of identity in multi-faceted ways. 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
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
Enfield exchange
Principal Investigator: Dr Tilly Blyth, National Museum of Science and Industry
From 2012 to 2013
One of the many objects in the Science Museum’s collections is a manual telephone switchboard from the Enfield telephone exchange. It was collected by the Science Museum in 1961, because it was the last of its kind to be taken out of service in the Greater London area. Read more
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