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 Lan Pham | Aug 13, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Lonliness, Place, Power, Research profile
Exploring what arts and culture have to offer efforts to prevent loneliness is the focus of my PhD research. Loneliness is a subjective feeling of a gap between the relationships a person wants and what they have. Three types of loneliness have been described in academic and grey literature (Mansfield et al., 2019) (more…)
