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Museums are places where visitors can learn, participate in activities, and share ideas (Devine and Tarr, 2019). As a key part of the creative industries, museums contributed 6% (£115.9 billion) to the overall UK economy in 2019 (Higginbotham, 2021)....

The project is a workshop developing approaches to site-responsive composition, exploring music’s relationship with the acoustic in which it’s performed, and the choreographic implications of spatialising sound in live performance. A final showing wi...

We are developing an AR sporting exhibition for a museum of sports located in Wimbledon. The museum celebrates all sports centered in Wimbledon. The long-term goal of the project is to provide a multimedia curation for historic artifacts and simulati...

A Postcolonial History of Rehabilitation aims to provide the first thorough comparative study of a topic that is widely debated in the media and has major legal and political consequences for ideas of criminal justice, national security, and human ri...

The DemoPlay project will provide the University of Southampton with an innovative hybrid role-playing game for research and capacity building. The project activities are supported by the SIAH-HEIF Research Stimulus Fund pursuing a two-fold objective...

Stories of Spaces and Places is a citizen science project in collaboration with the Council for British Archaeology and University of Surrey examining the role of special places and their role in wellbeing.Do you have a space or place that is special...

The long-term aim of the project is to create a participative online hub and digital museum about the Jewish culture and heritage of Belarus. This digital museum will be an open, interactive and popular space to centralise resources on Belarusian-Jew...

The economic and social effects of the COVID crisis are likely to lead to an extended period of widespread public anxiety. Provision of non-clinical solutions to the promotion of public wellbeing using existing resources is therefore vital.  A collab...

Sounding History is a new podcast on music’s global histories focusing on unheard links between music, technology and the environment. It is presented by Dr Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton) and Prof Christopher J Smith (Texas Tech University...

This is a pioneering project in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures. Few studies in this field have focused on the Middle East and, above all, on Iran, Iraq, and Saudi-Arabia. The primary aim is the investigation of the systemic nat...