Place, Community, Environment
Many Collective researchers work on place, community, and environment, with foci ranging from the local to the national and global. Place-based oral history is about understanding how people make sense of change, including displacement, environmental transformation, the loss of industries and the communities organised around them, and the contested meanings of landscape and home.
The Byker Community Archive, Green Corridors North East, Accessing the Wellbeing Commons, and the previous Living Deltas projects all deal with the intersections of place, community and environment. The Byker Community Archive project aims to co-create oral histories which contest official narratives and document histories that remain unrecorded. Both Ryan Fallon and Lily Tidman’s PhD projects explore community, and environment in the North and North East of England.
Relevant projects
Current:
Accessing the Wellbeing Commons
AHRC-Funded PhD: Hospital Volunteering in the 'far North' of England, 1979-1997
Past: