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Ruth Webber is a PhD researcher on the UEP project. Currently based in Glasgow, Ruth’s PhD was made possible by UEP’s partnership with Glasgow Life. Her blog below reflects on her position as a researcher undertaking two ethnographies in Glasgow communities. As such she is involved in research that is connected to, and in dialogue with, the issues raised by the debate surrounding the controversial Glasgow Effect art project by Ellie Harrison. Continue reading
Mark Taylor and the team have been having a look at new data on participation in Christmas traditions.
The newest wave of Understanding Society has recently been released on the UK Data Service. For the first time, this wave has included data on some Christmas-related activities: putting up a Christmas tree, distributing Christmas cards, and giving gifts. Continue reading
Susan Oman gave her first keynote at Tate Liverpool last week. Below are some sections of the presentation and some thoughts on the plenary panel.
Culture is frequently described in terms of its relationship to well-being. Often, the implication being, that culture is only as GOOD as the quality of its attachment to well-being. Well-being is the patriarch, the most powerful and the one to do the serious work of policy, while culture is there to make us feel pretty. While playing with the ways in which the culture – well-being relationship is represented, the serious work of my provocation is to ask for a rethinking of this portrayal in order to move forward. To break not only the Temples of Culture, to cite the name of this event, but what seem to be sacred depictions of culture, as relative to well-being, in policy.
Lisanne Gibson and Delyth Edwards outline findings in the Valuing Participation Report, published 30 October 2015. This report describes research focusing on the participation of young people growing up in care. Continue reading
UEP’s PI, Andy Miles introduces the UEP panel at the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Soundings and Findings conference, together with slides and audio from contributors.
As part of the AHRC’s Connected Communities Festival 2015, UEP held three separate events focusing on work carried out in three of the project’s cultural ecosystems. On the 19th of June, the School of Museum Studies hosted one of these events, a workshop on Care experienced young people and Participation. Delyth Edwards has summarised the event. Continue reading
As part of this year’s Manchester International Festival, UEP co-Investigator, Abi Gilmore spoke on a panel questioning, Does Culture Need Walls? Continue reading
On the 24th April 2015, Lisanne Gibson and Eleonora Belfiore organised a one-day symposium at the University of Leicester to showcase emerging work from the ‘Histories’ strand of the project, which sees the team exploring in a critical-historical perspective present-day notions and discourses of participation, cultural value and the relations between them. Continue reading
Abi Gilmore explains UEP’s Manchester and Salford park-based contribution to the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Connected Communities festival this year.
Parks are important assets for everyday participation. Our interviewees and ethnographies are revealing Continue reading
