Community Arts (including Art and Health)
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: Capabilities and wellbeing: operationalising the capabilities framework
Grant Holder: Dr Paul Anand
The study was funded by an innovation award and sought to explore the extent to which philosophical ideas about the capabilities approach to develop an instrument for measuring human capabilities – or freedoms. Using a normative framework based on the work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum a survey instrument was developed piloted and then sent out to about 1000 adults in the UK. [read more]