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
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
Legacies of war 1914-18/2014-18
Principal Investigator: Professor Alison Fell (University of Leeds)
From 2012 to 2013
‘Legacies of War 1914-18/2014-18′ is a project at the University of Leeds run by a team of academics with research interests in the First World War and its multiple legacies. Read more
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