Experts in the Community
Experts in the Community Dr Joanna Nissel is a poet and Operations Lead at Bath Spa University’s The Story Society, an interdisciplinary research centre exploring the use of Story…
Poetic social infrastructure: Foregrounding relational, everyday heritage through poetry
Dr Joseph Owen is a senior researcher on the AHRC And Towns projects, a specialist policy officer for Public Policy | Southampton and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities and a critic of…
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers This blog is from Dr Aiysha Jahan, a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University in Wales.…
Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis
Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis Isaac Fraveshi – PhD student, poet, and artist at the Southampton Institute of Arts and Humanities – has worked with Feeling…
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda?
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda? What can poetry offer to policy makers? Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) The AHRC-funded Feeling…
Subtle and Simple Surprises: reflections on co-creating a ‘Living Glossary’ for a community of practice.
In this blog Professor Stephanie Jones discusses the process of creating a vocabulary for shaping a community that crosses disciplines and sectors: considered words, she suggests, are vital for…
Practicality and Magic: Mentoring, Poetry, and Community Practice
Professor Will May (University of Southampton) reflects on the stories that poets tell about the people who make them poets. Will’s AHRC Fellowship, Invisible Mentors, explored the role,…
Literature and community
Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) In this blog Professor Nicky Marsh, from the University of Southampton, introduces March’s theme of ‘communities’. There are as many forms of community as…