University of Nottingham
project: Transnational Communities: towards a sense of belonging
Grant Holder: Dr Maggie O'Neill
Using both participatory action research and arts practice the project explored a sense of belonging, place and emplacement with four transnational communities who are defined as refugees/asylum seekers/undocumented people (in Derby, Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham). The Long Journey Home artists in exile group based in Nottingham explored these themes and created a series of works for exhibition. Other regional universities supported us with; exhibition space, staff support, supporting artists and communities. [read more]
project: Citywide: interactive experiences in the city using mobile mixed reality technologies
Grant Holder: Professor Steve Benford
The Citywide performance project explores new kinds of artistic performance that take place on the streets of a city and simultaneously online: aiming to mix digital content with live action to create a compelling experience for both kinds of players. The project culminated in the construction of a number of highly visible mixed-reality experiences. These performances take the form of games in which street players and online players compete and collaborate in order to try to establish an understanding of one another's environment and experience. Can You See Me Now? [read more]
project: The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)
Grant Holder: Dr Lynda Pratt
Loved and loathed in equal measures by his contemporaries, the poet, biographer, historian and social and cultural critic Robert Southey (1774-1843) was one of the most public and controversial figures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. The Collected Letters will make it possible for scholars to access for the first time his complete surviving correspondence. [read more]
project: Modernist Magazines: A critical and cultural history
Grant Holder: Professor Peter Brooker
The critic Michael Levenson warned that "A coarsely understood modernism is at once an historical scandal and a contemporary disability". The Modernist Magazine Project aims to refine and enhance the record through the production of a scholarly resource and comprehensive critical and cultural history of modernist magazines in the period 1880-1945. So-called 'little magazines' were small, independent publishing ventures committed to new and experimental work. Literally hundreds of such magazines flourished in this period, providing an indispensable forum for modernist innovation and debate. [read more]
project: Mapping performance culture: Nottingham 1857-1867
Grant Holder: Dr Jo Robinson
This project investigates the performance culture of Nottingham, 1857-1867. In a key collaboration between theatre history and geographical information science it will develop an intuitive interactive map and research database, which will layer social, cultural and economic data onto a spatial representation of the town. [read more]
project: An Electronic Edition of Piers Plowman in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.31
Grant Holder: Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre
The aim of this project is to edit the text of William Langland’s Piers Plowman as it appears in the sixteenth-century MS Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.31, as part of The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. The Archive has been established with the goals of creating a multi-level, hypertextually linked, textbase of the complete textual tradition, with colour digital facsimiles of every authoritative witness, and of developing a model for computer generated archives of texts transmitted in complex documentary traditions. [read more]
project: The Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)
Grant Holder: Malcolm
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814) was a major figure of the late Enlightenment in France, author of the best-selling novel Paul et Virginie (1788) which was first published as part of a much longer philosophical text, the Études de la Nature (1784). [read more]
project: A Key to English Place-Names
Grant Holder: Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre
"A Key to English Place-Names is a database maintained at the Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, The University of Nottingham. It is intended to provide an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society (itself housed within the institute) and other researchers.Readers are encouraged (by a 'Your Comments' box beside each name) to offer comments on the appropriateness of otherwise of the etymologies (e.g. [read more]
project: Gendering Latin American Independence: Women's Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850
Grant Holder: Professor Catherine Davies
The aim is to rethink Latin American Independence in terms of gender. The project consists of three lines of enquiry: the study of women’s political culture, women’s writings, and the textual construction of gender in literary and political discourse.
Research Questions: The project is a textual and historical study that investigates the ideas and activities of women who, as a social group, contributed to the making of public culture in early nineteenth-century Latin America but were largely excluded from it. [read more]
project: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (UK operations)
Grant Holder: Dr Sarah Hibberd
Compilation of bibliographical information and abstracts of all scholarly writings on music published in all formats in the UK. These are sent electronically to RILM head quarters in New York to be added to the international database available by subscription to institutions and individuals. This phase of the project (RILM-UK 1999-2004) has brought the UK coverage of monographs up to date, thereby ensuring that a great part of the strengths and diversity of UK musicology is properly represented within, and made available to, the national and international community. [read more]