Leicester’s Voice in Research Workshop 2025 Time and Date: Tuesday 24th June, 12pm-3pm Location: Innovation Centre, 49 Oxford St, Leicester LE1 5XY How does it work? Forget research locked away in labs—we believe in real-world knowledge, the kind that comes… Read More »Call for participants: Leicester’s Voice in Research 2025
About The Project This PhD project explores the role of public health messaging used in social prescribing contexts. Focusing on physical activities in green environments, the research seeks to inform evidence-based tailoring of health communication to reflect the diverse backgrounds,… Read More »Can better information about wellbeing activities in green spaces improve the uptake of social prescribing initiatives?
About The Project Nottingham City Council and the newly established East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) and Mayor have committed to a vision of inclusive growth. Inclusive growth, the foundational economy and other ‘beyond GDP’ local economic strategies are being… Read More »Beyond GDP: mapping and understanding community-led alternative economic development enterprises and practices in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
About The Project This project uses an unrivalled collection of political propaganda from the 1850s and 1860s, including newspapers, handbills, and election literature, held by Nottingham Central Library (Local Studies), to interrogate issues of popular protest and political representation as… Read More »Popular Protest and Political Representation in Nottingham: Drawing contemporary lessons from the 1850s and 1860s
About The Project This project seeks to work with Oak Tree residents to create stories which represent the varied experiences of life on the estate. Work will be grounded in and carried out by members of the Oak Tree community… Read More »Our Community, Our Voices: Stories about Oak Tree estate created by Oak Tree residents
About The Project Artists and cultural institutions have historically played a vital role in Nottingham’s social andcultural life . However, in recent years, many new artists have either clustered in the urbanareas or have left Nottingham for more economically prosperous… Read More »Developing New Artists, Artist Groups and Organisations in Nottingham
About The Project Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are creative hubs but, according to a Counter Culture report (ACE funded, 2022), while they have ‘most of the elements that can be combined into a strategy to comprise a Music City; it does… Read More »Engaging with and Communicating Music Provision, Education, Activities, and Performance Opportunities to Children and Young People across Nottinghamshire
About The Project In 2019, Nottingham City Council declared a climate and ecological emergency, which set an ambition to be the first carbon neutral city in the UK by 2028. This goal is known as Carbon Neutral Nottingham 2028 (CN28).… Read More »Beyond Green: Community Participation towards Resilient Urban Nature
About The Project A sustainable resource with potential community benefits, freely available and literally under our feet sounds too good to be true. But is it? You can help us work this out. This Research Placement project offers the opportunity… Read More »Exploring a sustainable resource with potential community benefits: A green opportunity under our feet?
About The Project This PhD project will examine the challenges and develop solutions for a bottom-up, community-led approach to inclusive economic growth in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Conventional local and regional development strategies have not considered who benefits from economic growth,… Read More »Developing a community-led approach to inclusive growth in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
