Engaging, researching and sharing lived experience

Educating ourselves: learning from and connecting approaches to lived experience

City as Lab is supporting a 2-year programme of workshops, activities and conversations with a focus on engaging, researching and sharing lived experience in the Nottingham city region. Our ambition is to create an equitable community of practice comprising local people, professionals and researchers who can learn from each other and connect with approaches to lived experience. With an emphasis on two core State of the Nation 2022 targets for young people: ‘mental and physical health’, and ‘self, society and the future’, we will be inviting city-based practitioners with learned experience of working with the most vulnerable young people to shape and inform our understanding of how to undertake collaborative research.
First collaborative workshop for researchers and practitioners with learned experience, (‘Our City, Our Lived Experiences’) March 2024

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Faculty of Arts – ‘Creative Conversations’

The Faculty of Arts ‘Community of Practice’ approach focuses on sharing experience and novel approaches to delivering knowledge exchange with partners across a range of sectors and organisational types. 

Through ‘Creative Conversations’ we invite colleagues to discuss and share what Arts-led best practice, collaboration and co-production looks like moving forward. We address issues and partnerships local to Nottingham as well as project collaborations further afield.
Our Creative Conversations focus on:

• Arts and Education. Including work on teacher practice and CPD, resources, pupil knowledge and awareness.
• Community Engagement. Exploring inclusive community participation and engagement in research and knowledge exchange and managing relationships
• Health Humanities. Focusing on the value of translating Arts and Humanities research to enable improved healthcare services, patient experience and innovation in practitioner training and new approaches.
• Place-based Galleries, Libraries, and Museums. Exploring ways to work with galleries, libraries, archives and museums as well as ways of deploying humanities and arts research in the service of improving the local cultural, heritage and economic landscapes and reach to diverse audiences.

If you are outside the Faculty of Arts and are interested in joining in with these Communities of Practice in the Faculty of Arts, we would love to hear from you! Please email ar-fara@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk 

If you are already in the Faculty of Arts, please go to the Arts Research Hub.