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The University of Southampton
Public Engagement with Research

2021/22 Funded Projects

Public & Community Engagement Development Awards 2021/22

Projects supported to run November 2021 to July 2022 are shown below.

Awards in Strand 1 - Civic University: Co-creation/co-production with local partners

Death Rituals and the Mexican Day of the Dead in Covid19 times

A community-engaged art project exploring the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on ideas of death and commemoration of the dead.  Project Lead: Jane Lavery - Modern Languages.

'The rollercoaster journey, the search for light': video co-creation with young people for young people

Giving voice to young people with experience of chronic pain treatments, to share their lived experiences and create awareness.  Project Lead: Rhiannon Joslin - Health Sciences.

Foot Health Partnership Project

A community partnership project in the heart of the City, with podiatry students and Age UK Southampton.  Project Lead: Lindsey Cherry - Health Sciences.

Building a university-community social enterprise partnership

Collaborative development of pilot social enterprise projects with community partners at the university community interface.  Project Lead: Pathik Pathak - Social Impact Lab.

Micro-Pet Community Bus

Exploring human relationships with invisible nonhumans - with researchers, community bus-drivers, cleaners and passengers.  Project Lead: Emma Roe - Geography.

Engagement Activities for Home/grown SO14

Engaging with inner-city residents to address local social and health issues and build community.  Project Lead: Pathik Pathak - Social Impact Lab.

Rewilding the Mind

Tackling mental health issues in a creative, nature-inspired, adventure-filled way.  Project lead: Andy Lai - Chinese Associate Southampton; with Dawn-Marie Walker - Health Sciences.

Green and blue prescribing

Improving health and promoting pro-environmental behaviours through research and site-specific theatre.  Project Lead: Michelle Smith - Theatre for Life CIC; with Kath Woods-Townsend - LifeLab.

Is this street made for me?

Exploring the role of roads in our wellbeing and how we use them to connect or disconnect from the world around us.  Project Lead: Claudia Murg - We Make Southampton; with Alan Wong - Engineering.

Nature-themed co-creation

Combining visual art and music to co-create a nature-themed video to support wellbeing during Covid-19 and beyond.  Project Leads: Cindy Brooks and Michelle Mayall - NIHR ARC Wessex and School of Health Sciences.

Awards in Strand 2 - Developing citizen science engagement approaches

Routes to using digital pysychological support in Motor Neurone Disease

A collective exploration bringing together people with MND, their carers, healthcare professionals, and volunteer-supporters.  Project Lead: Cathryn Pinto - Psychology.

Footnotes: an investigation of the perceptions of feet

Citizen scientists and education providers explore narratives about feet: perceptions, diversity, shape, pathology/injury and heritable conditions.  Project Lead: Emma Cowley - Health Sciences.

How would you HAND-le this? The power of public involvement in hand-related research

Developing a resource to explore what it is like to live with hand osteoarthritis; brining lived-experience insights into the design of healthcare technologies.  Project Lead: Tina Munyebvu - Engineering.

Wild Citizens! Enabling children to become active environmental citizens

Equipping and supporting primary school children to become active citizen scientists and citizen environmentalists.  Project Lead - Andri Christodoulou - Education.

Awards in Strand 3 - Reflective Practice for Public & Community Engagement

Reflecting on an arts-based approach to belonging

Exploring the potential of arts-based activities in facilitating friendships/belonging for people with profound learning disabilities.  Project Lead: Melanie Nind - Education.

Evaluating Community Engagement in Heritage

Testing a co-created evaluation framework with funders, practitiioners and communities.  Project Lead: Makanani Bell - Archeology.

Exploring reflective artistic practice with vulnerable community groups - understanding bone health

Improving the understanding of bone structure, function and disease could improve uptake of health advice around bone ageing.  STEAM education is a developing approach to learning using STEM and the arts as an intersection guiding inquiry and deeper understanding.

This project will explore this  intersection in the context of skeletal research which will inspire artist-led creative practice driven by bones microstructure. A multi-textured wax crayon representing bones multiple layers of complexity will be produced as an educational resource  including curated box with bespoke ‘bone crayon’ tools and paper with artworks produced and educational experiences shared across community groups.

Led by Claire Clarkin - School of Biological Sciences  c.e.clarkin@soton.ac.uk

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