Dr Joseph Owen
Poetry, Policy and Place: The Crab and the Mole
Our new project—Poetry, Policy and Place—seeks to understand how poetry orchestrates a conversation between policymaking and place research.
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Dr Joseph Owen
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Lived experience and decision-making: an applied approach to using, connecting and representing qualitative evidence
Nicky Marsh, Joseph Owen and Daniel Ashton explore the role of cultural data and how we can use it to improve our local area.
mjhowcroft
- Jan 22
- 5 min
Prides in places: interdisciplinary perspectives on pride
Call for Chapters Editors: Michael Howcroft (University of Glasgow): michael.howcroft@glasgow.ac.uk Joseph Owen (University of...
Isaac Fravashi
- Jun 13, 2023
- 4 min
Sticking together: Collage as a community listening praxis
Top-down policymaking can impede public engagement if communities feel their values are not being acknowledged.
Dr Joseph Owen
- May 3, 2023
- 3 min
SIAH at CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies
At the tail end of March, researchers from the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH) attended the Creative, Knowledge...
Katie Holdway
- Apr 19, 2023
- 3 min
Neighbouring Data: First Steps
How can qualitative and quantitative data be generated, connected and visualised to inform placed-based decision making?
mjhowcroft
- Jan 23, 2023
- 4 min
Pride(s) in place(s): interdisciplinary perspectives on pride
Call for Papers Royal Geographical Society Conference, London, 29 Aug – 1 Sept 2023 Organisers: Michael Howcroft (University of...
Joanna Nissel
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
Can poetry help us to understand pride and volunteering?
Our project partner, Joanna Nissel, recounts the development of her poetry workshops that sought to understand pride and volunteering.
mjhowcroft
- May 18, 2022
- 4 min
Whose pride is it anyway?
Dr. Michael Howcroft, Research Fellow at the University of Southampton and Co-Investigator on our Feeling Towns project, explores some of...
Dr Beth Whalley
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Southend and Me: Unearthing Pasts, Dreaming Futures
How do our memories and expectations of place shape experiences of heritage in the present? In this blog, Dr Beth Whalley looks both past...
David Fevyer
- Jul 10, 2021
- 6 min
‘And transport’: Mobility matters in the recovery of towns.
What are the impacts of transport planning on place? In this blog, David Fevyer explores how mobility (and limited mobilities) can...
Ken Crowe
- Jun 28, 2021
- 5 min
Visitors and the development of Southend in the later 19th century
How does the past of a town shape its present and future? In this blog about Southend - one of our case studies – historian Ken Crowe...
Dr Erinch Sahan
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
How to build a social economy: Lessons from the Fair Trade movement
In this blog, Dr Erinch Sahan, Chief Executive of the World Fair Trade Organisation details some of the routes towards sustainable local...
Michelle Rumney
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
The Art of Travel: From Place to Place, from Here to There, from Me to You…
In this piece, which centres on two of our case-study towns, Hereford and Bournemouth, artist Michelle Rumney reflects on emotional...
Professor Catherine Clarke
- Apr 12, 2021
- 7 min
Future Histories: Writing the Places We Want
What do we want our towns – and our other places, from cities to villages – to be in the future? What kinds of tools and resources do we...
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