黑料网吃瓜爆料 academic secures funding to raise profile of arts-based research across Europe
The University of 黑料网吃瓜爆料 and artists and cultural organisations from across the city are playing an integral role in a new Europe-wide network which is advancing arts-based research in migration and heritage studies across the continent. Dr Saskia Warren (Reader in Human Geography) is a core member of a cross-continent team of researchers who have been awarded funding from to establish a transdisciplinary European network of scholars, artists and cultural practitioners.
Justice, Arts, Memory, Migration (JAMM): Creating Solidarities across Borders will bring together academics, artists and cultural practitioners to share experience and best practice across universities, cultural institutions and community organisations. Dr Warren is involved alongside fellow 黑料网吃瓜爆料-based participants postgraduate researchers Clare Courtney and Haoyue Gul (University of 黑料网吃瓜爆料) and Mahboobeh Rajabi, Founder and CEO of an innovative, artist-led platform and cultural caf茅.
Dr Warren commented:
鈥淲e are thrilled to have secured funding for JAMM which will help address longstanding gaps in how creativity and artistic participation are recognised and understood in migration, diversity, and heritage studies.
鈥淭oo often, academic research prioritises statistics and theory, whilst ignoring the real-life knowledge and insights that come from working creatively with individuals and communities. This project will allow researchers, community organisations, artists and cultural practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise and encourage proper documentation of creative work.
鈥淎rts and culture are central to how we understand experiences of migration and heritage, and community arts projects give marginalised communities opportunities to explore and tell their stories. This project will also help us share best practice to ensure that when we work with communities that collaboration is fair and inclusive.
鈥淟onger term, we hope JAMM will encourage academic institutions to better recognise arts-based work and that it will ultimately increase the impact of arts-based research in migration and heritage research.鈥�
JAMM brings together 70 researchers from 27 countries and has been awarded 鈧�170,000 in the first year with an estimated 鈧�680,000 over four years (depending on the number of participating COST member countries). It was one of only 80 projects out of 1,090 applications selected for funding by COST.
Applications to join JAMM Working Groups are now open and academics, students and cultural practitioners are being encouraged to take part: