Ecology and Community: The Role of Community Performance in Re-telling and Enshrining Brecon’s Theatrical Heritage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Gold
Keyword(s):  
Archival Research ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Community Performance ◽  
Community Heritage

This article introduces the Heritage Lottery Funded project, Brecon Little Theatre’s A Time Traveller’s Guide to Theatrical Brecon. It outlines the project and provides an overview of the process of sharing archival research through a community-led promenade performance, reflecting on the strengths of this way of working and briefly exploring how this practice might fit within the wider discourses around community, heritage and ecology.

‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Zosia Kuczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Process

The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.

The Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System

2013 ◽  
pp. 926-937
Author(s):  
P. R. Blackwell ◽  
Darrel McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Center ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

During the past 20 years, the role of geospatial technology in society has increased dramatically. However, the impact of these technologies in rural areas remains minimal. In Texas, a federally funded project called the Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System (the System) has emerged as a model for bringing the benefits of geospatial technology to all portions of society. The model involves distributed, academically based Centers, each with regional specializations, linked together into a unified system for addressing critical needs in emergency response, economic development, and natural resource management. The Centers operate on three focus areas, i.e., data, applications, and training. The Columbia Center has been in operation for five years and has demonstrated the practical strength of the System through numerous local and statewide projects, responses to natural disasters, and other geospatial activities.

The Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System

2012 ◽  
pp. 566-577
Author(s):  
P. R. Blackwell ◽  
Darrel McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Center ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

During the past 20 years, the role of geospatial technology in society has increased dramatically. However, the impact of these technologies in rural areas remains minimal. In Texas, a federally funded project called the Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System (the System) has emerged as a model for bringing the benefits of geospatial technology to all portions of society. The model involves distributed, academically based Centers, each with regional specializations, linked together into a unified system for addressing critical needs in emergency response, economic development, and natural resource management. The Centers operate on three focus areas, i.e., data, applications, and training. The Columbia Center has been in operation for five years and has demonstrated the practical strength of the System through numerous local and statewide projects, responses to natural disasters, and other geospatial activities.

Going "Mad" in Gold Country: Migrant Populations and the Problem of Containment in Pacific Mining Boom Regions

2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Fraser River ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
American Migration

Based on archival research conducted in California, British Columbia, and eastern Australia, this essay examines the role of mobility in shaping the institutional experiences of individuals committed or arrested for insanity in the major Pacific mining boom regions of the nineteenth century. Through the transnational story of James "Scotty" Brown, a sailor who escaped from the California State Insane Asylum in time to join the 1858 American migration to the Fraser River goldfields in British Columbia, I demonstrate that instability and flux characterized not only the backgrounds of "mad" migrants, but also their frequent encounters with gold country asylums and jails. Specifically, I argue that these institutions often facilitated the mobility of the individuals that, in principle, they were constructed to "contain."

Co-Producing Research

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Community Contexts

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With policy makers in mind, contributors discuss in clear and accessible language what co-production between community groups and academics can achieve. The book will be valuable for practitioners within community contexts, and researchers interested in working with communities, activists, and artists.

scholarly journals Action research with young people: possibilities and ‘messy realities’

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 255-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Percy-Smith ◽  
Morena Cuconato ◽  
Christian Reutlinger ◽  
Nigel Patrick Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Informal Settings

This paper reflects on our experiences of using participatory action research (PAR) with young people as part of an EU H2020 project exploring the spaces and styles of youth participation in formal, nonformal and informal settings. The paper outlines key tenets of action research and provides a brief review of the literature concerning the use of PAR in youth research. Drawing on three case studies, we provide an honest account of some of the messy realities involved in realising the promise of participatory action research in practice. The central focus is on how the action research played out in practice, the challenges of undertaking PAR within the context of a funded project with predefined deliverables, the power relationships between researchers and young people and how agendas are negotiated in action research. We conclude with some critical reflections on lessons learnt, highlighting the importance of acknowledging the exploratory nature of PAR and the critical role of the researcher as facilitator.

scholarly journals eHealth technologies and the know-do gap: exploring the role of knowledge mobilisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-701
Author(s):  
Sheena Asthana ◽  
Rod Sheaff ◽  
Ray Jones ◽  
Arunangsu Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Knowledge Mobilisation ◽  
Experience Of Care ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Patients Experience

Background: eHealth technologies are widely believed to contribute to improving health and patients’ experience of care and reducing health system costs. While many studies explore barriers to and facilitators of eHealth innovation, we lack understanding of how this knowledge can be translated into workable, practicable and properly resourced knowledge mobilisation (KM) strategies.Aims and objectives: This paper describes the aims, methods and outputs of a large European Union funded project (eHealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (EPIC)) to support the development of a sustainable innovation ecosystem in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, in order to explore how knowledge mobilisation activities can help bridge the know-do gap in eHealth.Conclusions: Preparatory knowledge sharing, linkage making and capacity building are necessary preliminaries to co-production, with an emphasis on capturing the uses to which patients, carers and health workers want to put new technologies rather than promoting new technology for its own sake. Financial support can play a key role in supply-side dynamics, although the contextual and organisational barriers to eHealth innovation in England should not be underestimated.

Amadubi Rural Tourism Project in Jharkhand: Development of Project Risk Management (A)

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Goutam Dutta ◽  
Sumitro Santra
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Project Risk Management ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Management Issues

Rural Tourism is an important feature in development of emerging states in India. This case study, an UNDP funded project with ministry of Tourism, GOI, focuses the problem faced by a NGO in developing a rural tourism in Jharkhand in India for a decade. The management issues are feasibility and financial viability, lack of project and infrastructure planning, role of government agencies. The case stresses need of project risk management in this type of private partner partnership

The Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
P. R. Blackwell ◽  
Darrel McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Service Center ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Geospatial Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

During the past 20 years, the role of geospatial technology in society has increased dramatically. However, the impact of these technologies in rural areas remains minimal. In Texas, a federally funded project called the Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center System (the System) has emerged as a model for bringing the benefits of geospatial technology to all portions of society. The model involves distributed, academically based Centers, each with regional specializations, linked together into a unified system for addressing critical needs in emergency response, economic development, and natural resource management. The Centers operate on three focus areas, i.e., data, applications, and training. The Columbia Center has been in operation for five years and has demonstrated the practical strength of the System through numerous local and statewide projects, responses to natural disasters, and other geospatial activities.

Towards Effectiveness and Transparency in E-Business Transactions

2009 ◽  
pp. 127-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Jarrar
Keyword(s):  
Central European ◽  
Complaint Management ◽  
Ontological Commitments ◽  
Customer Complaint ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Business Regulations ◽  
Methodological Principles

This chapter presents an ontology for customer complaint management, which has been developed in the CCFORM project. CCFORM is an EU funded project (IST-2001-38248) with the aim of studying the foundation of a central European customer complaint portal. The idea is that any consumer can register a complaint against any party about any problem, at one portal. This portal should: support 11 languages, be sensitive to cross-border business regulations, dynamic, and can be extended by companies. To manage this dynamicity and to control companies’ extensions, a customer complaint ontology (CContology) has to be built to underpin the CC portal. In other words, the complaint forms are generated based on the ontology. The CContology comprises classifications of complaint problems, complaint resolutions, complaining parties, complaint-recipients, ‘’best-practices’’, rules of complaint, etc. The main uses of this ontology are (1) to enable consistent implementation (and interoperation) of all software complaint management mechanisms based on a shared background vocabulary, which can be used by many stakeholders. (2) to play the role of a domain ontology that encompasses the core complaining elements and that can be extended by either individual or groups of firms; and (3) to generate CC-forms based on the ontological commitments and to enforce the validity (and/or integrity) of their population. At the end of this chapter, we outline our experience in applying the methodological principles (Double-Articulation and Modularization) and the tool (DogmaModeler) that we used in developing the CContology.

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