by Sophie Mamattah, Clare Edwards & Sharon McAulay | Dec 17, 2020 | Arts, Community, Cultural Regeneration, Culture, Events, Lonliness, Place, Power, Research profile
At the beginning of 2020, colleagues from STAR Project, Renfrewshire Council and the University of the West of Scotland organised a workshop, Paisley Art & Soul. The workshop brought together members of Renfrewshire’s local communities and other stakeholders to discuss the ways that art and culture affects individual and community prosperity and wellbeing. This co-produced research project aligns closely with the aims of Future Paisley, a wide-ranging cultural regeneration programme currently ongoing and, in which, local communities are collaborating with a broad range of partners to reshape the town’s future. (more…)
by Sophie Mamattah | Sep 17, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Regeneration, Culture, Events, Lonliness, Sport, Uncategorised
In the early spring, plans for our upcoming Annual Symposium – to be hosted at the University in May, 2020 – we well underway. And then, the COVID19 pandemic arrived.
By the end of March, 2020 we – based at UWS – along with colleagues from across our networks of collaborators, stakeholders and associates were finding our feet in the ‘new normal.’ For many of us, this included working from home for the foreseeable future. (more…)
by Sophie Mamattah | Sep 10, 2020 | Arts, Community, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Regeneration, Culture, Events, Place, Publications, Research profile, Uncategorised
The passage of time has been a somewhat strange – or at least, stranger – thing to experience in 2020 than is usually the case. It is nevertheless heartening to look back over the academic year through the lens of the posts that we’ve been able to publish on the CCSE blog. (more…)
by Sophie Mamattah | Jul 16, 2020 | City of Culture, Community, Cultural Regeneration, Events, Place, Uncategorised
Earlier in the year, CCSE staff got together with colleagues from STAR Project to deliver a workshop alongside STAR community members. The workshop was an opportunity to discuss community experiences of culture in and around Paisley and Renfrewshire. The workshop was part of our UKRI project, funded as part of their ‘Enchacing Place Based Parterships’ stream. (more…)
by Gayle McPherson | Jun 25, 2020 | City of Culture, Cultural Regeneration, Events, Place, Uncategorised
After our own recent experience of hosting a virtual conference, CCSE Director – Prof Gayle McPherson – spoke this week at the 7th biennial International Symposium on Cross -Sector Social Interactions. As the restrictions on co-presence and travel remain in place for many, the event took place virtually. (more…)
by Heather Kay and STAR Project Community Members | Mar 26, 2020 | Community, Cultural Regeneration, Events, Place, Power, Uncategorised
Back in February (admittedly, a time that now feels but a distant memory), the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events, Renfrewshire Council and STAR Project came together to ask the Paisley community what culture meant to them. Despite the appaling weather, our community members attended en masse to tell us exactly what it meant to them. (more…)
