Projects
Learning Lives Project
Years active: 2011-2012
Funder: BBC Learning
A multi-generational study of everyday reasons for learning and the resources used to support that learning.
80 by 18
Years active: 2013-2014
Funder: AHRC
A research and development project developing a digital platform to make visible a city’s resources for young people’s learning.
Reinventing Learning Cities
Years active: 2016-2018
Funder: AHRC
A multi-sited ethnography of citizens, civil society and city leaders learning strategies in times of change.
Asset Based Curriculum Project
Years active: 2008-2009
Funder: Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
A study of the obstacles and enablers to mobilising a city’s resources to support learning in schools.
Teenage Kicks
Years active: 2013-2014
Funder: AHRC Cultural Value
A collaborative investigation of youth perceptions of cultural value.
All Age Friendly City
Years active: 2014-2015
Funder: Future Cities Catapult
A collaborative research and development project to generate new visions of a city characterized by intergenerational solidarity and encounters.
Replicate
Funder: EU Horizon 2020
Years active: 2016-2021
A critical reflection on the processes of citizen engagement in a Smart City project.
Productive Margins – Isolation and loneliness of older people
Years active: 2016-2017
Funder: ESRC
A collaborative project bringing together older adults, community researchers, academics and artists to understand and communicate the isolation and loneliness of older adults.
Urban ID: Urban Living Pilots
Years active: 2017-2018
Funder: EPSRC led but 7 research councils involved
A cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary project to diagnose and address sustainable city challenges.
Tangible Memories and Tangible Memories: Parlours of Wonder
Years active: 2015- 2018
Funder: AHRC
An interdisciplinary, collaborative and arts based project exploring how to enhance the quality of life for older adults in care homes.
Co-creating Cities and Communities
Years active: 2017
A collaborative project to examine how creative, collaborative, urban research can make a positive difference to cities and communities.