Research & Innovation
Researchers across the University have embraced opportunities to connect local and regional communities, cross-faculty creative ventures, policy initiatives, global cultures and communities. Research collaborations with local cultural sector, organisations and communities have strengthened the University’s connections with place and its reputation as a centre of excellence for place-based research.
We’re proud of our place-based research initiatives and invite you to discover more about their impact here: Place-based Research and Culture Programme (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window
Acting on Climate Link opens in a new window
Acting on Climate explores the climate crisis with young people across the UK and beyond through creative approaches including performance, film and visual arts.
Rachel Turner-King and Bobby Smith’s research always involves schools and community groups, with public engagement and impact integral to what they do. From a travelling pop-up Story Garden to engaging citizens in localised knowledge of the city’s green spaces and working together with communities, their work aims to reimagine our relationships with uncared for and abandoned spaces using arts, storytelling and placemaking.
Retrofit Rocks Link opens in a new window
The project team prototyped and tested a new experimental methodology with elements of design thinking to better understand barriers to engagement with retrofit measures designed to reduce household carbon emissions and alleviate fuel poverty.
With the support of experienced arts professionals and a local school in Radford, St. Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, the project engaged children in creative activities and reached out to the adult population living in the area.
The objective of the project was to increase awareness of retrofit measures and undertake research to help understand barriers to engagement with schemes designed to improve residents’ house energy efficiency.
Our Collaboration and Co-Production Fund enables Warwick researchers to collaborate with a wide range of partners locally, nationally and internationally. Many of these projects have involved working with artists and cultural organisations to extend the reach and accessibility of our research.
These have included scientists working with dancers and musicians to bring their research to life for young audiences, philosophers working with poets to raise the voices of those who are seldom heard in the city and theatre scholars collaborating with photographers and people with lived experience of homelessness to tell their own stories.