Co-creative communities

Traversing a vast terrain including local and regional democracy, ageing, care, reproduction, sexuality, disabilities, and migration, we co-create the spaces and tools communities need to re-frame narratives, claim and defend rights, and forge powerful solidarities.

 

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NEW ABC: Networking the Educational World: Across Boundaries for Community-building

Contact: Sarah Crafter
Partners: For information on partners, see project workstreams page.

NEW ABC carried out nine innovative actions co-created together with children, youth and other stakeholders in nine EU countries aimed at enhancing the inclusion of migrant and refugee children and young people in education.

 

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Children Caring on the Move

Contact: Sarah Crafter
Partners: Young people from Red Cross (West Midlands) and Refugee Youth (London) 

Using participatory and creative research methods with separated migrant children and adult stakeholders, Children Caring on the Move (CCoM) investigates separated child migrants’ experiences of care, and caring for others, as they navigate the complexities of the immigration-welfare nexus in England.

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Migrant Art Archive

Contact: Marie Gillespie
Partner: A range of partners

A digital space devoted to migrant self-representation and to migration research projects that use arts-based methods to explore experiences of migration. 

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The Amar, bari, amar jibon (ABAJ) study

Contact: Manik.Deepak-Gopinath 
Partner: Bangla Housing Association (BHA), Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN)

The Amar, bari, amar jibon (ABAJ) was a co-produced study exploring the housing needs, experiences, and aspirations of 76 older Bangladeshi adults aged 50 years and over across four East London boroughs. Community co-researchers and community (Bangla) and professional research advisory groups participated from the outset to make research relevant, accessible, culturally appropriate, and transferable to wider practice and policy.

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Scots Language and Culture - OpenLearn Create Resources

Contact: Sylvia Warnecke
Partners: Education Scotland and communities across Scotland

This Scots language and culture MOOC has been co-created by The Open University in Scotland and Education Scotland with communities across Scotland.

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RGS Music Group

Contact: Kerry Jones
Partner: Unit Nine

Project in partnership with Unit Nine, a youth music development programme, which works with young people in challenging circumstances to evaluate their work,  grow as a company, raise their profile and win more contracts and grants to support young people.

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Advancing and Implementing Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention

Contact: Keir Irwin-Rogers
Partner: Scottish Violence Reduction Partnership, Metropolitan Police, Home Office, Scottish Government

The project aims to develop effective public health approaches to violence prevention, and work with a range of stakeholders at a local, regional and national level to advance these approaches in policy and practice. 

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Co-produced resources for patients with dementia, heart failure, diabetes and their carers

Contact: Jitka Vseteckova
Partner: Carers in Northamptonshire, Integrated Care across Northamptonshire, NHS Foundation Trust Northamptonshire Reach for Health

Co-produced with Carers in Northamptonshire and iCAN (Integrated Care across Northamptonshire), a set of community assets working with patients with dementia, heart failure and diabetes and their carers.

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Intergenerational Toolkit on Healthy Ageing

Contact: Jitka Vseteckova
Partner: Goyal Foundation, Generations working together, Age UK, Early Years Alliance, Centre for Social Justice, Ready Generations

Working in partnership with Campaign for Learning and University of Bedfordshire and funded by Hallmark Foundation, this is a pilot to develop an intergenerational toolkit on Healthy Ageing; a co-produced learning resource to empower families towards healthy lifestyles across the lifespan. 

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Participatory Arts and Social Action Research (PASAR)

Contact: Umet Erel
Partners: Migrant parents, families and young people.

This research project addresses the UK social science community's need to better understand how participatory action research approaches engage marginalised groups in research as co-producers of knowledge. It combines walking methods and participatory theatre to create a space for exploring, sharing and documenting processes of belonging and place-making crucial to understanding and enacting citizenship.