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project: Contested Common Land: environmental governance, law and sustainable land management c.1600-2006
Grant Holder: Professor Chris Rodgers
An examination of the management of common land since the 17th century using historical methods of enquiry, and an examination of modern governance mechanisms and the emergence of sustainable land management as a discrete objective for the future of our Commons. [read more]
project: Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Locality and Work in West Britain 1870-1918
Grant Holder: Dr Richard Noakes
Cornwall has a number of significant historical communications sites starting with Porthcurno and ranging over early radio sites at Poldhu and the Lizard to Land’s End and Bodmin Radio and the Satellite station at Goonhilly. The ‘Connecting Cornwall’ project will be using the Cable and Wireless historic archive to develop new research into the communications industry in Cornwall with an emphasis on the Eastern Telegraph Company in the first instance. [read more]
project: Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach.
Grant Holder: Dr Sven Helmer
Research in Bolivia, Peru and Chile,
combined with museum research there and in the UK, focuses on Bolivia,
Peru, and Chile on the basis of previous ethnographic, archaeological
and museological knowledge and contacts, and three time horizons:
Tiwanaku, the Inka-early colony, and the contemporary. [read more]
project: Architecture, Mathematics, and English Culture 1550-1750
Grant Holder: Dr Stephen Johnston
The project combined the histories of architecture and of science to investigate the relationship between architecture and practical mathematics, and the development and changing role of the architect. Sir Christopher Wren emerged as the central historical figure of the project, for his career as astronomer, natural philosopher and architect. [read more]
project: Hidden Histories of Exploration: Exhibiting Geographical Collections
Grant Holder: Professor Felix Driver
This project considers the role played by indigenous peoples and intermediaries in the history of exploration, as revealed by research in the collections of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The project is particularly concerned with the roles of guides, porters, pilots, cooks, carriers, interpreters, go-betweens and informants in the creation of geographical knowledge. In wider terms, it seeks to provide a model for new ways of working with well-established geographical collections. [read more]
project: The Emergent City: Access and analyze data relating to urban spaces to make informed, interpretive media artworks.
Grant Holder: Mr Steve Tanza
The increase of a technology infrastructure in the modern city means that technology is all-pervading, from CCTV to car sensors and tracking inside ourphones the contemporary global city landscape is one of data. This project aims to analyse the patterns created from the monitoring of this technology and turn it into audio visual artworks which provide new ways of seeing. This project has created and continues to create participatory digital artworks that invite viewers to guide data flows or to simply observe self-generating compositions. [read more]
project: Widening Young Male Participation in Chorus
Grant Holder: Professor Martin Ashley
An interdisciplinary study of the conflicts faced by boys undergoing voice change. The study draws on the sociology of boyhood and the physiology of vocal development during puberty. The project addressess the question of how high boys should sing between the ages of 11 and 14, when large numbers are lost to singing. There is conflict between speech quality singing in a tessitura that descends with the growth of the larynx and falsetto/"head voice" (thin fold phonation) which maintains a high tessitura thought to sound "angelic". [read more]
project: Breaking through rock art recording: three dimensional laser scanning of megalithic rock art
Grant Holder: Dr Margarita Diaz-Andreu
The project Breaking through rock art recording was led by Dr Diaz-Andreu(Durham University). It aims to test the novel technique of 3D laser scanning for the recording of prehistoric rock carvings. The main objectives were to assess the reliability, accuracy and precision of this technique for recording purposes and to evaluate its capacity to discover new carved motifs invisible to the naked eye. [read more]
project: An exploration of the potential for new narrative experiences in first person perspective gaming.
Grant Holder: Mr Daniel Pinchbeck
First person perspective, or shooter, (FPS) games are mass-market virtual realities, whose cultural significance is increasingly clear, yet their content is tends to be problematic, often highly violent, with very limited emotional depth or semantic complexity, and utilising a tiny number of narratives and archetypes. [read more]
project: E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
Grant Holder: Ms Sally MacDonald
The E-Curator research project "3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment" is a project at UCL Museums and Collections.
This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. [read more]