CRESC Senior Research Fellow Andrew Miles has been awarded £12,000 by the AHRC under the Connected Communities Project Development Scheme to develop a large-grant application for a study entitled ‘Everyday Participation – articulating cultural values’.

The project will engage a range of potential partners and stakeholders in scoping out key issues, contexts and frames for understanding and connecting everyday participation, cultural value, community and the creative economy. An integrated programme of workshops, symposia and pilot case studies, taking place from April through to June 2011, will support this exchange and inform the development of a full-scale research proposal

Andrew is leading a cross-university and cultural sector consortium of academic and sector researchers, which includes Lisanne Gibson from the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, CRESC Theme 5 affiliate Abigail Gilmore from Manchester’s Institute for Cultural Practice and Arts Council England’s Director of Research and Knowledge Catherine Bunting as co-investigators.

Elenora Belfiore (Warwick), Felicity James (Leicester) Jane Milling and Kerry Schaeffer (Exeter), and MLA Clore Fellow Sarah Stannage complete a multidisciplinary team with expertise in the history, theory, practice and policy dimensions of social and cultural participation and its valuation.