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Beyond Bricks and Mortar. Participatory research on place attachment, place perception and heritage in the Test Valley

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Mary Barker PhD, C Psychol

Professor of Psychology & Behavioural Science
Research interests
  • Mary Barker is Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Science. She has a joint appointment i…
Connect with Mary

Email: meb4@soton.ac.uk

Professor Joanna Sofaer

Professor of Archaeology
Research interests
  • Asset-based community development and role of cultural and community assets in health and wel…
  • The relationship between heritage and wellbeing
  • The social value of archaeology 
Connect with Joanna

Email: J.R.Sofaer-Derevenski@soton.ac.uk

Professor Matt Ryan

Professor
Research interests
  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science
Connect with Matt

Email: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

Dr Paolo Spada

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Diffusion and impact of governance and social innovations (Democratic Innovations).
  • Combining large surveys, field experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis 
Connect with Paolo

Email: P.Spada@soton.ac.uk

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Blue Description Project

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Bringing Heritage to Life: Reliving Southampton's Medieval Past through digital storytelling

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Building a Creative AI Lab

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Building Exchange: Capacity, Resilience and Sustainable Eco-systems in the Global Creative and Cultural Industries

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Community tracking of coastal artefact movement at Happisburgh

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Critical Posthumanism in Practice

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Cultures, Ecologies and Economies of Oil: A Critical Exploration of the Lived Contradictions and Representations of Oil across Nations, Sectors, and Disciplines

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DemoPlay Project

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Paolo Spada

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Diffusion and impact of governance and social innovations (Democratic Innovations).
  • Combining large surveys, field experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis 
Connect with Paolo

Email: P.Spada@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Matt Ryan

Professor
Research interests
  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science
Connect with Matt

Email: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

Dr Vanissa Wanick FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design
Research interests
  • Games for Social Impact and Wellbeing
  • Human Behaviour and Interaction Design 
  • Participatory and Co-Design Methods 
Connect with Vanissa

Email: V.Wanick@soton.ac.uk

Dr Richard Gomer BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (he/him)

Lecturer in Computer Science
Research interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Agency-oriented Design
  • Data Institutions
Connect with Richard

Email: R.C.Gomer@soton.ac.uk

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Developing approaches for site-responsive composition

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Lead researchers

Dr Drew Crawford

Head of Department
Research interests
  • Intermedial and collaborative music creation practice
  • Choreographic implications of sound spatialisation in live performance
  • Electronic music production and composition
Connect with Drew

Email: D.H.Crawford@soton.ac.uk