An exploration of the relation between the concepts of ‘community’ and ‘future’ in philosophy
This scoping study has examined a range of contemporary and historical philosophical approaches to understanding the relation between the concepts of ‘community’ and ‘future’. Read more
Conflict with and between communities: Exploring the role of communities in helping to defeat and/or endorse terrorism and the interface with policing efforts to counter terrorism
This initial scoping study seeks to examine conflict within and between communities – with respect to the role of communities in helping to defeat and/or endorse terrorism and the interface with policing efforts to counter terrorism. Read more
Youth and Community: Connections and Disconnections
This literature scoping project engaged with a series of issues concerning the ‘connectedness’ of young people with their communities and community agencies. Read more
Situating Community through Creative Technologies and Practice
This interdisciplinary scoping study critically discusses the relationships between communities and their creative uses of digital technologies: the nature of this use, its impact on the formation and sustenance of communities, and the potential this holds for social change. Read more
The changing nature of ‘connectivity’ within and between communities
We examined conceptualisations of the kinds of connections which can form, tie and strengthen community – and, importantly, the significance of these for the kinds of communities constructed. Read more
ICT use and connectivity of minority communities in Wales
This project has aimed to gain an understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on changing cultures and patterns of connectivity within and between minority communities and the potential of multifaceted digital divides in constraining or shaping these forms of connectivity. Read more
Public participation as a process of de-politicization
This study focused on writings on the notion of “postpolitics” and on the argument that public participation has become no more than a strategy of de-politicization. Read more
Concepts and meanings of community in the social sciences
This project undertook to produce a conceptual review, linking theoretical underpinnings with the usage of the concepts of community in empirical research and describing the manner in which these conceptualisations appear in government and non-government sector policies and practices. Read more
Whose Remembrance?
This Scoping Study looked at how far there is an awareness of the history of colonial troops and how they contributed to and were affected by service in the two world wars. Read more
Imagining the Place of Home
This scoping study and research review examines the relationship between how home and community are the product of powerful acts of imagining. It focuses on each of these terms and of their relationship to the imagination and to each other. Read more
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