Orkney and Shetland Dialect Scoping Study Video
This video describes a research project to find out if it is possible to build a digital corpus of Orkney and Shetland Dialects. Read more
Exploring Personal Communities: A Review of Volunteering Processes
The aim of the review is to explore the personal community through the lens of volunteering in order to shed light on the ways in which individuals experience and adjust to one another within and across communities. Read more
Diasporic Film in Communities
The Diasporic Film in Communities project set out to critically examine the role of Diasporic film culture in Diasporic communities through an exploration of three postcolonial publics (African-Caribbean, Chinese and South Asian). Read more
Networking Communities
This document 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. Read more
Connecting youth with geographic communities
The aim of the project was to examine how youth organisation connect young people to different geographic communities. Read more
Communities defeating or endorsing extreme violence
The study develops the concept and understanding of ‘connectors’ – individuals and groups who are positioned at intersections of different communities and who, by acting as conduits of connectivity, may reduce or in some cases increase the likelihood of violence and threat to life. Read more
Shakespeare’s Global Communities
This is a collaborative review of the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival (WSF), which was one of the key strands of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Read more
Project › Year of Shakespeare
Performing Impact
This study was undertaken to investigate the potential to enrich and support forms of evaluation on a company’s arts activities via approaches drawn from scholarship on arts practices and the processes, as well as outcomes, they involve. Read more
Project › Performing impact
Breaking up communities’?
This scoping study explores the social impact of housing demolition in the late twentieth century. Read more
Philosophy of Religion and Religious Communities
This scoping study addresses the question ‘when, if ever, is it acceptable to prohibit the use of religious symbols?’
