Category: Engagement and outreach

Vestiges: Crafting Connections through the Heritage of the Peak District

Vestiges: Crafting Connections through the Heritage of the Peak District

Written by Dr Melanie GilesVestiges worked with Sheffield Museum Trust’s Weston Park Museum to help enrich the cultural and creative content of their exhibition celebrating the life and work of Peak District antiquarian, Thomas Bateman. Collaborative discussion...

Building Cultural Diplomacy into the Agenda of Cultural Sustainability

Written by Dr Biyun ZhuThis project positioned cultural diplomacy at the heart of cultural sustainable development. It discussed how international cultural activities address cultural sustainable development goals (such as cultural diversity and equity) amid the...

Beautiful Care

Written by James Thompson Over the course of 2021-2022, Luke Tanner (dementia care therapist and consultant) conducted interviews with care workers asking them what they understood by the term 'beautiful care' and if they could give examples of beautiful care in their...

Defining and Developing the UK’s First Arts and Culture Community Land Trust through Community-Led Research

Written by Emma Martin This project supported the initial development phase of the UK’s first Community Land Trust (CLT), dedicated to arts and culture, based in Wirral Arts and Culture CLT (WACCLT), Wirral, Northwest England. CLTs are democratic, non-profit...

Refugee Arts Networks: Extending the Frame

Written by Dr Szabolcs Musca  In November 2021, a group of academics, artists and activists gathered to ask: What are the strategies and challenges faced by refugee artists today? How can networks foster systemic change? How can we develop new frameworks driven by...