Networking communities: mobility, nationalism and the historical geographies of connective infrastructures
Principal Investigator: Dr Peter Merriman, Aberystwyth University
2012
This project provides a synthetic review of how transport infrastructures and mobility practices have been seen to help and hinder the cohesion of local, regional, national and trans-national communities in different geographical, historical and cultural contexts. The main research review is in four sections, covering ‘Infrastructures, technologies, materialities’, ‘mobile practices’, ‘scales’, and ‘politics’. Read more
Dig Where We Stand: Developing and Sustaining Community Heritage
Principal Investigator: Dr Andrew Flinn
Drawing inspiration from the History Workshop slogan “Dig Where You Stand”, the project proceeded from the belief that a community’s sense of itself and place rests on an understanding of its past. Read more
The meaning and role of community cinema in rural Norfolk
Principal Investigator: Dr Mark Rimmer, (University of East Anglia)
From 2012 to 2015
This project seeks to explore the meanings and roles of rural community cinema projects in Norfolk, as these are understood by members of rural communities. The project began in September 2012. The project will engage with questions about the social experience of attendance at rural cinema screening events. Read more
Cymunedau cysylltiedig 2: researching the industrial and post-industrial heritage of the Swansea valley
Principal Investigator: Professor Huw Bowen (Swansea University)
From 2013 to 2014
This multi-partner, bi-lingual community heritage project is focused on the history of industrial and post industrial communities in the Swansea Valley. Read more
Whose Remembrance? A scoping study of the available research on ex-colonial communities and the experience of two world wars
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museums
2012
Whose Remembrance? sought to investigate the state of research into the experiences of the peoples of Britain’s former empire in the two world wars, and the understanding and availability of this research to audiences and communities today. The project was carried out by the IWM Research team in consultation with an advisory group of academics and specialists. Read more
The age of we
Principal Investigator: Dr Tom Wakeford (University of Edinburgh)
To 2014
Our culture is increasingly moving towards an ethos of participation. Whether in government, which promotes co-production, social research that increasingly funded to undertake collaborative inquiry, medicine in which patients are increasingly recognised as experts or the arts, where citizen creativity is being scaled up through digital technologies, there are rapid changes underway. Read more
Conceptualisations and meanings of “community”: the theory and operationalisation of a contested concept
Principal Investigator: Professor Graham Crow (University of Southampton)
2011
The project explored the many different ways that community relationships have been researched, focusing in particular on the range of research methods used by community researchers whose findings have been published since 2000. Read more
Leeds stories of the Great War
Principal Investigator: Professor Alison Fell (University of Leeds)
From 2013 to 2014
Leeds Stories of the Great War is a project run by the University of Leeds. It is about investigating the experiences of people who were living in Leeds during the First World War. This is one part of a bigger project called Legacies of War which is about commemorating the centenary of the First World War. 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
Community Hacking and other projects
Principal Investigator: Prof. Chris Speed
Community Hacking covers a series of three small AHRC Connected Communities grants that has involved working closely with partners and residents across Wester Hailes in Edinburgh. The three projects (Community web2.0:Creative Control through Hacking, Ladders to the Cloud, and Communities within spaces of flows) explore the design and development of physical and virtual networks. Read more
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