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
Leapfrog – transforming public sector consultation by design
Principal Investigator: Dr Leon Cruickshank, Lancaster University
From 2015 to 2017
The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new creative approaches to consultation. 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
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
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
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
Castleford Heritage Project
Principal Investigator: Professor David Waddington, Sheffield Hallam University
2012
Sheffield Hallam University worked alongside the charitable Castleford Heritage Trust with the intention of helping loval groups to develop bids to the Heritage Lottery Fund to enable them to investigate and portray key aspects of their local culture and heritage. Read more
Heritage Legacies
Principal Investigator: Dr Jo Vergunst; University of Aberdeen
From 2014 to 2015
Heritage Legacies seeks to explore the legacies – the outcomes, benefits, and assets – created by heritage research funded by the AHRC’s Connected Communities programme. We are working with a range of Connected Communities projects to understand legacies and propose future directions for community–university partnerships in this field. Read more
How should decisions about heritage be made?
Principal Investigator: Helen Graham (University of Leeds)
From 2013 to 2014
In early 2013 the project spent four months working together to explore the issues raised by decision making about heritage and then designed a research project. In our Phase 2 research (beginning in July 2013) the project will to root our bigger concerns with democracy and heritage in specific places and contexts by mapping who makes decisions, when and where. 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
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