Ritual Reconstructed: Challenges to Disconnection, Division and Exclusion in the Jewish LGBTQI Community
Principal Investigator: Dr Margaret Greenfields
From 2014 to 2015
This collaborative project, led by Bucks New University and undertaken in partnership with Liberal Judaism/Rainbow Jews; the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University and the University of Portsmouth consists of an exploration of the interplay between faith identity and sexual orientation as mediating or disrupting factors for London and South-East England based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, 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
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
Temporal Belongings Research Network
Principal Investigator: Dr Michelle Bastian; University of Edinburgh
From 2012 to 2013
Despite time often being experienced as an objective and unchangeable force within which we live our lives, work across the social sciences and humanities argues that shared understandings of time intervene into social life, shaping social methods of inclusion and exclusion, understandings of how change happens and who can make change, as well as accounts of how the past and Read more
Georgian Glasgow
Principal Investigator: Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow)
From 2012 to 2015
This project examines the history of Glasgow in the Georgian era (1700-1840) via literature, art, and objects from the period. The project deals with key themes and authors alongside new theories of cultural memory. In 2014 a major exhibition (‘How Glasgow Flourished – 1700-1840′) will take place in Kelvingrove Museum. Read more
Collective Worship in Schools: An Evaluation of Law and Policy in the United Kingdom
Principal Investigator: Dr Alison Mawhnney Bangor University
From 2014 to 2015
The majority of schools in the UK are required by law to organise acts of collective worship (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) or religious observance (Scotland) for their pupils. 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
Evaluating the outcomes of cultural services: a mixed methods investigation
Principal Investigator: Mrs Briony Birdi, University of Sheffield
From 2012 to 2015
The project is a Collaborative Doctoral Award (2012-2015) being undertaken by Martin Simmons, based in the Information School at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with Derbyshire County Council Culture and Community Services department. The overall aim of the project is to increase understanding of how people in Derbyshire value culture and how these forms of value can be conceptualised. Read more
Temporal Connectivities: A scoping study of the available research on time and community
Principal Investigator: Dr Michelle Bastian
2011
Despite the complicated and wide-ranging role of temporality in some of the most pressing questions about social mechanisms of connectivity and belonging, the research on ‘time’ and ‘community’ has remained fragmented and underdeveloped. Read more
Imagine: Connecting Communities Through Research
Principal Investigator: Professor Kate Pahl (University of Sheffield)
The Imagine Project Working in partnership with local communities, we are exploring the social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement to imagine better futures and make them happen. This five-year project, running from 2013 – 2017, brings together a range of different research projects working together across universities and communities. Read more
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