Projects
Explore a selection of our current and past research projects.
What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry
The project explores and connects questions of who produces, what is made, and how class is represented and understood.
Developing a taxonomy for culture and heritage capital
The project explores and develop a taxonomy of culture and heritage capital (CHC).
Museums and Spontaneous Memorials. A Museology of Trauma
The project explores the international study of the conceptual, practical, documentation and curation of spontaneous memorials after traumatic events.
ESRC Strategic Hub for Local Policy Innovation Partnerships
The project explores the partnership delivery of cultural infrastructure projects in the North of England and beyond.
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UKRI Policy Fellowship
Department for Culture Media and Sport Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up.
Beyond the Creative City
The project brings together expertise, research power, and emerging disciplinary lenses in agenda-setting and scoping.
COVID-19
Impacts on the cultural industries and the implications for policy.
AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
The Institute for Cultural Practices (ICP) is proud to play a leading role in the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
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Community Climate Resilience through Folk Pageantry
A Manchester-focused case study responding directly to its climate action policies.
Connecting rural areas to the creative economy
Exploring the opportunities and barriers for working in the creative sector in rural Cheshire.
GHIA
Green Infrastructure and the Health and Wellbeing Influences on an Ageing Population.
The Manchester Art Museum Online
Creating an online exhibition of the Manchester Art Museum from 1886-1953.
Manchester Together archive
We are leading on a programme of research related to the spontaneous memorials of the Manchester Arena attack (photo courtesy of MCC).
Museums and the Art Market
Researching the archive of the art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, acquired by the National Gallery.
Object lessons from Tibet and the Himalayas
An inter-disciplinary group of university academics, museum curators and Tibetan specialists.
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Partnership Development in Kosovo
Empowering victims of war through art and culture: developing a museum of war, peace and memory in Kosovo.
Theatre of Debate
A five year programme run by Y Touring Theatre Company, stimulating debate amongst young people.
The Travelling Heritage Bureau of Displaced, International Women Artists
A co-research project and supportive network with and for international women artists based in the North West of England.
Understanding participation
This project proposes a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between participation and cultural value.
Sellafield site futures
The project will explore a series of credible end state scenarios for the Sellafield site.
