AHRC/RSA Citizen Power in Peterborough collaborative research project: understanding the impacts of citizen participation in Peterborough
Principal Investigator: Dr Mark Roberts (De Montfort University)
From 2011 to 2013
The Citizen Power programme looks at how citizen power can and should shape civic and democratic renewal. Based on theoretical argument, action research and policy analysis, the programme aims to develop ideas and practical policy solutions for cultivating civic activism and reinvigorating decision-making in the UK. The programme feeds into the RSA’s broader work on pro-social behaviour and community empowerment. Read more
Bridging the gap between academic rigour and community relevance: Fresh insights from American pragmatism
Principal Investigator: Professor Mihaela Kelemen (Keele University)
2011
The project aims to exchange ideas across collaborating projects and their respective community partners about the type of knowledge that communities find useful. For example, is it the content/substance or the format/packaging of knowledge that matters most to them? Read more
Building resilience through collaborative community arts practice: a scoping study with disabled young people and those facing mental health complexity
Principal Investigator: Hannah Macpherson (University of Brighton)
2012
This study involved delivery of a program of weekly resilience-building arts workshops for young people with complex needs, and a literature review. We found a significant existing evidence-base linking visual arts practice to individual and community resilience across a number of disciplinary fields including art therapy, social work, community health, cultural policy and geographies of health. 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
Connecting communities via culture-led regeneration – exploring incentive and momentum with UK city of culture 2013 shortlisted candidates
Principal Investigator: Mrs Kerry Wilson (Liverpool John Moores University)
From 2011 to 2012
The Cultural Cities Research Network was formed in March 2011 to discuss the impact of bidding for the UK City of Culture 2013 title. Network members included different individuals and communities involved with or interested in the bidding process from the three shortlisted cities of Birmingham, Norwich and Sheffield. 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
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
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
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
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
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