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Spaces of Community: Exploring dynamics of the UK café industry

Exploring the development of the café industry, and understanding the role of different types of cafés in a range of urban spaces. 


Motion Bank

The main focus of this project is the creation of online digital scores, to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website.


In the Dancer’s Mind

A study into creativity in contemporary dance.


Civic Epistemologies

The Civic Epistemologies project is about the participation of citizens in research on cultural heritage and humanities.


LABO21

Funded through the Culture 2007 programme, this project is a European platform for interdisciplinary research on artistic methodologies.


Independent Evaluation of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM)

This project evaluated key aspects of the CSM functioning in the context of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) as it is today, 8 years after the Reform, and 3 years after the last evaluation.


Austerity Retail in Britain

This project from the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) aims to critically examine the emergence of what we call ‘austerity retail’ initiatives amidst rising food poverty in Britain. These include ‘social supermarkets’ and other forms of ‘community shop’ offering highly discounted products, and often making use of ‘surplus’ or ‘rejected’ foods which would otherwise be thrown away. 


Tackling Religion-based Hate Crime on the Multi-Faith Campus

The project aimed to better support students in understanding what religion-based hate crime is and encourage them to report and receive support, and strengthen the existing reporting and case management mechanism.


TubeCrush Connected Intimacies

The TubeCrush as Connected Intimacies project aimed to explore the website TubeCrush, which allows people to take and share unsolicited images of attractive men on the London Underground. From this website, the project sought to study how such a practice is shaped by desire, digital culture, masculinity, and the urban space of the major financial city of London.


Performing Inclusion

Performing Inclusion examines audience responses to dance performances by disabled people in North and East Sri Lanka and seeks to develop strategies for capacity building in ‘mixed able’ dance practices and the evaluation of arts for development activities. The project is a collaboration between University of Essex, Coventry University, VisAbility (a German and Sri Lankan ‘mixed-able’ dance organization) and 15 Sri Lankan researchers.


Evaluation of the Shuttletime Programme

This project examined the effect of engaging in the BWF Shuttle Time programme, compared to traditional Physical Education, on children's current and future engagement in sport and physical activity and health.


Payday futures: sub-prime credit markets in transition?

The project investigated the impact of the regulation of UK payday loans or High-Cost, Short-Term Credit (HCSTC) and how this is reshaping credit markets for borrowers.


Creative Spark - Kyrgyzstan

Our activity addresses the often-neglected segment of the creative enterprise sector based on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ (ICH), or ‘traditional cultural expressions’ (TCEs). We help young entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan develop more sustainable businesses through tailored intellectual property and marketing strategies.


Blooms for Bees

Blooms for Bees aims to promote bee-friendly gardening and encourage citizen scientists from across the UK to explore the presence and floral preferences of bumblebees in their gardens and allotments.


Phase 2 'Capacity Building and Internationalisation for Higher Education' Brazil Exchange

This British Council funded capacity-building project addresses UFES’s institutional and regional needs to enhance its internationalization capabilities within priority Social Sciences research areas as per its Internationalisation Plan.


Agroecological practices as territorial development: an analytical schema from Brazilian agroforestry case studies

Agroecological practices have been widely promoted as an alternative to the hegemonic agri-food system, yet they also can help to ‘green’ the system.


The Application of Environmental Forensics

The application of environmental forensics, including targeted analysis of environmental media, wastes, foods and consumer goods, has long been a core part of Greenpeace's mission to 'bear witness' to environmental problems and to seek and evaluate more sustainable solutions.


Eating for Development? Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the Sustainable Development Goals

Eating for Development? Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the Sustainable Development Goals


Using network ecology to understand and secure resilient agroecosystems

Through the adoption of methods from statistical physics the analysis of multilayer social and ecological networks is possible, giving insights into the robustness and resilience of multiple, interconnected networks.


Circular Economy Hackathon 2020

An immersive, innovation-focused event to re-imagine how organisations, large and small, can and should leverage circular economy to minimise their impact on environment, resources and society, while maximising business opportunities and growth.