Building and Enriching Shared Heritages
Principal Investigator: Prof Roey Sweet, University of Leicester
From 2013 to 2014
‘Building and enriching shared heritages’ consolidated and built upon existing relationships between the University and the wider community by exchanging knowledge in the skills needed to conduct historical research. Read more
Tailored trades: clothes, labour and professional communities (1880-1939)
Principal Investigator: Dr Vike Plock (University of Exeter)
From 2012 to 2014
The Industrial Revolution fundamentally changed the commercial, professional and social landscape of the modern world. While factory and clerical workers, sales assistants, parlour maids, trade unionists and other members of a newly established workforce faced changing working environments, a radical transformation of clothes paralleled this revolution in trades and industries. New vocations required new vestments. Read more
Reframing state-citizen relationships in a time of austerity
Principal Investigator: Professor Joe Painter (Durham University)
From 2012 to 2013
This project examines how the different policy stances of the Scottish and UK public sectors are being rolled out in a time of austerity. It will identify and examine the mechanisms through which the role of the state is being changed in light of the ‘Big Society’ and ‘Localism’ agenda in England and the Community Empowerment Bill in Scotland. Read more
Time of the clock and time of the encounter
Principal Investigator: Dr Johan Siebers (University of Central Lancashire)
From 2012 to 2013
This project investigates the difference between the time of the clock and the lived time of experience. We live in a world dominated by the time of the clock, yet many aspects of life have a different rhythm and temporality. The time of community, especially, is very often more complex and differentiated that standardised clock time. Read more
Scaling up co-design research and practice
Principal Investigator: Dr Theodore Zamenopoulos (The Open University)
From 2013 to 2014
Community Partners: The Glass-House Community Led Design; Blackwood Foundation; Fossbox; Flossie; Silent Cities; Voluntary Action Westminster; Hannah Goraya The project focuses on organisations that support communities through creative co-design activities (including media, technology, product design and place-making). 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
Researching community heritage
Principal Investigator: Bob Johnston (University of Sheffield)
From 2013 to 2014
Researching Community Heritage brings together academics and community partners interested in researching local heritage. The team consists of a network of researchers with expertise in a wide range of subjects from landscape archaeology to storytelling and cultural history. Read more
Gateways to the First World War
Principal Investigator: Professor Mark Connelly
From 2014 to 2016
Gateways to the First World War is one of five AHRC-funded public engagement centres established to bring together academics and members of the public in commemorating the centenary of the First World War. 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
Performing impact
Principal Investigator: Professor Patricia Thomson (University of Nottingham)
From 2012 to 2013
A project looking at what counts as the impact of community theatre, and how it might be documented. It explores ideas about different forms of evaluation and who they are of use to: should the purpose of evaluation be only to meet funders’ requirements? What is ‘formative’ evaluation and how can it be of use to community theatre practitioners themselves? Read more
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