The AIR Network - Action for Interdisciplinary air pollution Research

Project team

Professor Charlotte Waelde (co-investigator)

Funder

AHRC

Value to Coventry University

£13,252.42

Total value of project

£168,647.04

Collaborators

Principal Investigator Dr Patrick Bueker, University of York
Co-Investigator Dr Sarah West, University of York
Co-Investigator Dr Heather Price, University of Stirling
Co-Investigator Dr Cindy Gray, University of Glasgow
Co-Investigator Miss Anna Walnycki, International Institute for Environment and Development
Co-Investigator Dr Miranda Loh, Institute of Occupational Medicine
Co-Investigator Professor Michael Wilson, Loughborough University
Co-Investigator Dr Jana Wendler, The University of Manchester
Co-Investigator Mr Jackson Makau, Shack/Slum Dwellers International-Kenya
Co-Investigator Ms Cassilde Muhoza, Stockholm Environment Institute
Co-Investigator Dr Timothy Njoora, Kenyatta University
Co-Investigator Ms Fiona Lambe, Stockholm Environment Institute
Co-Investigator Ms Kanyiva Muindi, African Population and Health Research Centre
Co-Investigator Dr Megan Julie Wainwright, Durham University
Co-Investigator Mr Matthew Hahn, St Marys University Twickenham
Co-Investigator Dr Alexander Medcalf, University of York
Co-Investigator Dr Cressida Bowyer, University of Portsmouth

Duration of project

18 months - 01/10/2017 - 01/04/2019

Project overview

The AIR (Air Pollution Interdisciplinary Research) Network is an interdisciplinary research partnership of African and European researchers and African community members, with the long-term aim of creating innovative, participatory solutions to air pollution and its effects on human health in low-resource settings in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

As part of the collaborative and co-created a series of artistic music videos and digital stories highlighting air pollution and lung health in the slums in Nairobi.

Professor Charlotte Waelde's role was to encourage colleagues from Nairobi to think about intellectual property in relation to their artistic outputs and how they could use this to claim ownership over these works and consequently greater identification with the project and its aims.