Research project

Neighbouring Data

Project overview

Neighbouring Data draws together and amplifies place-based data on pride, culture, heritage, health and wellbeing. This work offers insight into the qualitative data that local authorities and communities need to inform their place-based decision making.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR
Research interests
  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 
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Other researchers

Professor Daniel Ashton

Professor-Cultural & Creative Industries
Research interests
  • Work and the Creative Economy
  • Culture, Data and Place
  • Arts and Cultural Organisations
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Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow
Research interests
  • Culture and heritage in place-- using creative methods to understand local identities
  • Arts and humanities approaches to policy-- using theory and practice to challenge orthodoxies
  • Modernist art and literature-- Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Be…
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Joey Jones, Joseph Owen, Nicky Marsh & Daniel Ashton, 2025
Type: other
Daniel Ashton, Richard Gomer, Joey Jones, Nicky Marsh, Joseph Owen & Owen Richards, 2025
Type: report