As Easter approaches and, we enter the second spring of restrictions brought about by the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, it is interesting take a moment of pause to reflect on the activities undertaken and progress made at CCSE.
Continue reading “Review of the Year so Far: A View from Our Blog”
To better showcase our outputs from the work we undertake at CCSE with our colleagues and partners in Renfrewshire, Scotland the UK and further afield, we’ve given our Publications page an overhaul.
Continue reading “Our Publications Page has had an Overhaul 📚”
The search for concepts I feel comfortable with to describe arts, culture, health and wellbeing has been a long one. Theories and concepts have been described as a lens to see the world or a framework to scaffold the thesis. For me it has felt more like trying on many coats.
Continue reading “Fetching a Coat: Finding a Concept that Fits Arts, Culture, Health & Wellbeing”
Back at the beginning of April, I wrote a short blog post sharing my experiences of some of the challenges of doing a PhD during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes we might have been in lockdown, but the sun was shining and the colours of spring were beginning to bloom around us.
Continue reading “The PhD and the Pandemic Part Two: The ‘New Normal’ for a PhD Student”
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.
Continue reading “UKRI Place Based Partnership – Evidence Review Launch”
Never in my professional or academic career has my field of study and work been more relevant than over the last seven months.
Continue reading “Covid 19: Participatory Action Research as Emergency Response”
As an approach, co-production has increasingly come to the forefront, both in research and in design of services. This has led to greater attention and effort being made to draw on the knowledge of those with lived experience, whose voices count and, attempts to understand how they count.
Continue reading “Fridays Can be Fun: Spring into Methods 2020”
This week I am doing a bit of reflection, today is my last day as a Research Associate at the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events as I am parting ways to take up a full time post at the University of Glasgow.Â
Continue reading “Farewell to CCSE: A Parting Reflection”
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.
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.
Continue reading “Arts and Loneliness: Reflections from Lockdown”
COVID-19 has hugely affected – and is still affecting – lives across the world. Isolation, economic shutdown and contact tracing have impacted our psychology, our daily routines and social activities.
Continue reading “Sport Diplomacy and The Pandemic of Racism: Addressing Issues on Athletic Activism & Protest”
After our own recent experience of hosting a virtual conference, CCSE Director – Prof Gayle McPherson – spoke this week at the 7th Biennial Symposium on Cross-Sectoral Social Interactions.
Continue reading “CCSI 2020: 7th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions”
Our Colleague, Dr Stephen Collins’, short film ‘James Town & Slavery’ has been selected for the Changing the Story International Film Festival.
Continue reading “Short Film, James Town & Slavery”
Our FESTSPACE project was conceived in a pre-COVID19 world, where those interested in festivals, events and urban policy were debating how to best design and manage public spaces to bring people together, to encourage co-presence and generate convivial atmospheres involving as wide a representation of the population as possible.
Continue reading “Festivals, Events & the COVID-19 Pandemic”
As I write we’re entering our fifth week of Lockdown and I am currently reorienting the ‘who with’ and ‘how with’ part of my PhD. In the meantime, the feedback between theory and practice will have to be through applying a conceptual perspective to my own life.
Continue reading “Being Neither Productive or Non-Productive”
When I started my PhD just a little over a year ago, I made a mental list of all of the things that might happen over the next three years, and all of the challenges I might face. That life happens around and throughout your PhD journey is something that all researchers must confront at some point during their studies, and doing a doctorate requires an intricate management of the world beyond the PhD.
Continue reading “The Pandemic and the PhD”
Background
In 1808, a group of local community figures came together to establish the Paisley Philosophical Institution.
Continue reading “Paisley School of Arts | Est. 1838 : A Living Archive Project”
In early January, CCSE’s Deputy Director, Professor David McGillivray, was invited to the Olympic capital, Lausanne, to present his work as part of an Event, Cities and Urbanism conference hosted by the University of Lausanne.
Continue reading “Cities and Urbanism, Lausanne January 2020”