Project map. Projects
Calderdale Libraries – Let’s Clear the Air This project focuses on a Council priority of clean air, and will engage the public with research around air quality and respiratory health.
City of London – Bumping Spaces
This project explores the concept of ‘bumping spaces’- places where people come together to meet, share ideas or local knowledge – as an antidote to social isolation.
Cornwall Libraries – AccessLab for Libraries This project will bring scientists and citizens together to access research around climate, environment and health.
Fife Cultural Trust – Pause not Full Stop This project aims to encourage people to challenge their own and society’s view of the menopause.
Glasgow Libraries – Sharing Stories Sharing Stories is aimed at ‘literacy hotspots’ in Glasgow and will encourage families to connect with research about how children’s literacy develops.
Libraries NI – Turning Heads: Hair as Culture and Identity This project explores the idea of how hair shapes people’s identity to challenge preconceptions and stereotypes across communities and cultures.
London Borough of Camden – Place Shapers Place Shapers will engage people from three local areas in participatory workshops focusing on the past, present and future of their communities.
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham – Telling the Tale Telling the Tale combines self-care and storytelling. The project will use an overall concept of storytelling to work with artists, researchers at Imperial
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College Self Care Academic Research Unit and London Institute of Medical Sciences.
London Borough of Sutton – Navigating Information in the Era of Media Manipulation
This project aims to investigate the concept of information manipulation, and encourage the public to think critically about information.
Manchester City Council – Language Diversity in the City This project will engage the community with research around multilingualism, and invite them to access and reflect on research on Manchester’s language diversity.
Redbridge, Kirklees and Newcastle – Tickets to the Afterlife This project will explore the concept of libraries as ‘death positive’ spaces. The library services involved hope to investigate if people’s attitudes to death change depending on where they live, on their cultural backgrounds or both.
Treorchy Library – Fake News: What is it and how to avoid it This project looks at the topic of fake news, aiming to improve the critical thinking skills of participants and draw on the library’s local history collection to explore whether misinformation is in itself a new concept.
West Lothian Council – Lothian Lugs Lothian Lugs is a co-created collaboration between West Lothian Libraries and Heriot Watt University. Topics explored may include human-robot interactions, health technologies or health cities.
Western Isles – Together
This project will focus on themes and activities that are co-designed by the public, with researchers and local artists exploring the themes creatively with communities. The project will be delivered via the mobile library service.
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public with research on their chosen theme. We hope to see benefits for both libraries and researchers from these partnerships: libraries will benefit from new ideas and approaches and attract new audiences, and universities will have the opportunity to demonstrate their civic role by engaging the public with research, or formulate research interests with public input. We are working with the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engage- ment (NCCPE), who support universities to engage with the public, to help the Engaging Libraries projects to develop effective approaches to partnership. A key reflection from the first round of Engaging Libraries was that libraries need to be clear and confident in how they describe the value of their project, the benefits of working with a public library and the ask of their partner. We therefore wanted to provide projects with resources to help with how to approach potential partners, and how to create effective partnerships. Again, we also found that where library services collaborated with partners, rather than commissioning them, it led to pos- itive relationships as both parties had a stake in the outcome of the activities. For Phase 2, we are encouraging libraries to
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