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
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
Translation across borders: exploring the use, relevance and impact of academic research in the policy process
Principal Investigator: Stephen Connelly
From 2014 to 2015
The usefulness of academic research to policy making requires academic outputs to be easily taken up by policy makers. Yet mutual frustration persists. Academics often believe their evidence-based findings are ignored, while policy makers often feel that academic outputs are too abstract and/or complex to help in solving their problems. 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
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
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
Enfield exchange
Principal Investigator: Dr Tilly Blyth, National Museum of Science and Industry
From 2012 to 2013
One of the many objects in the Science Museum’s collections is a manual telephone switchboard from the Enfield telephone exchange. It was collected by the Science Museum in 1961, because it was the last of its kind to be taken out of service in the Greater London area. 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
Connectivity and conflict in periods of austerity: What do we know about the middle class political activism and its effects on public services?
Principal Investigator: Annette Hastings (Glasgow University)
2011
Our project was a scoping review of middle class community activism – research evidence of the taken-for-granted fact that the middle classes shout louder and get more. Our review identified four causal mechanisms that explain how and why the middle classes benefit disproportionately from the state as individuals and as community groups of activists. 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
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