Living Histories of Sugar invites audiences across the Atlantic to be immersed in the sights and sounds of historical characters: from sugar barons and refinery owners, to enslaved and ‘free’ people, sugar refinery workers and their wives. This performance encourages Caribbean and Scottish audiences to contest, re-signify or otherwise rework the historical record.
Living Histories of Sugar invites audiences across the Atlantic to be immersed in the sights and sounds of historical characters: from sugar barons and refinery owners, to enslaved and ‘free’ people, sugar refinery workers and their wives. This performance encourages Caribbean and Scottish audiences to contest, re-signify or otherwise rework the historical record.
The work in enriching linked data records with information from museum exhibitions, mapping connections between art and museum objects across the world, creating information that will make arts knowledge more accessible and shareable for artists, scholars, and the public.
Digital Livelihoods studies online work, digital economies, and digital skills training among refugees living in cities.
The Covid-19 Response Governance Mapping project kept track of the measures related to data protection, a key area of Covid governance, and documented the legal and political frameworks in which these measures took place. One of its main outputs is a dataset.
The film, an output of practice-based research, invites the audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity.
Becoming Animal proposes a different kind of nature film: shot in the Gran Teton Park in Wyoming, USA, it examines our shifting relationship to what we call “nature”.
SOCIAM sets out to explore how existing and emerging social media, along with crowdsourcing platforms like Zooniverse, are changing the relationship between people and computers.
SMS:Africa provides evidence-based research on the role social media can play in shaping relationships between technology, power and the dynamics of democracy.
The project mapped humanitarian reporting across media organisations, winning an award for Outstanding Impact in Policy and Practice at UEA.
What does it mean to change the fundamentals of our 20th century economic model? How do we make our supply chains more sustainable? How will the practices and politics of distribution be changed by new digital technologies? The EPSRC funded OxChain project set out to explore how Blockchain technologies can be used to reshape value in a much broader and diversified way.
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