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
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
Places for all? A multimedia investigation of citizenship, work and belonging in a fast changing provincial city
Principal Investigator: Professor Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex)
From 2011 to 2013
With residents of Peterborough as its focus, Places for All? explores the multiple and diverse place attachments and work and migration histories of people of all ethnic backgrounds, from people born in the city to those who arrived very recently. Read more
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