UEP’s PI Andy Miles introduces the interim report for the Aberdeen Case Study.
This report focuses on UEP research in the Aberdeen Case Study up until June 2015. The ‘urban village’ of Peterculter (known locally as Culter), is a semi-rural community with a strong industrial heritage and a rich associational culture situated on the south-western edge of the City. Positioned at the end of Aberdeen’s oil wealth corridor, Continue reading
UEP reflects the varied interests of researchers in the project team but Dr Andrew Miles’ chapter on cultural participation in Manchester, published in Wolff and Savage (eds), Culture in Manchester. Institutions and urban change since 1880, is perhaps the closest there is to a ‘founding text’ for the project. Continue reading
Principal Investigator and lead on Aberdeen case study, Andy Miles, introduces the work taking place there
Work on the Aberdeen case study began in February 2014. Aberdeen is one of two UEP cultural ecosystem studies in Scotland that have been funded primarily by Creative Scotland, the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries, which is particularly interested in what it calls ‘edge’ communities. Continue reading