Skip to main content
Community

2023 projects

Supported through the Harmonised Impact Acceleration Account, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through six Research Councils, we delivered a range of innovative projects that worked with local and global communities and partners to address issues around health, the environment, education and the economy.

The fund aims to support research and innovation, and trial diverse and innovative ways to support industry, policy, and public engagement.

Our funded projects covered a diverse range of activities from local school and community-developed wellbeing initiatives, delivering community archaeology training, to illustrated stories to help young refugees, and promoting grassroots writing projects that tackle criminal justice problems in Mexico.

Community Archaeology Specialist Training Pilot

Delivery of training to enhance skills and wellbeing for participants engaging in community archaeology.

Creative educational resource to share real life patient stories with eye care students: humanising health care

Sharing real life mental health stories from people with lived experience of visual impairment with trainee professional eye care students.

Where Next for Future Farming Skills?

Shaping an agenda for training future farmers, identifying policy support and good training practice.

All is Not Well: Advocating for people with disabilities in Bulgaria

A Manifesto for Change to advocate for people with disabilities in Bulgaria, and for those who care or support them

The Greenfinch archive: Sharing servicewomen’s stories of the front line

Retelling servicewomen’s participation on the front line during the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Darllen Hunaniaethau - Reading Identities

Working with Secondary school Welsh teachers to co-produce educational resources to discuss identities in literary texts in the classroom

Bert Hardy Archive: Opening up a Photojournalist Collection to Communities, Culture and New Partnerships

Transforming research, education and public interaction with archives and special collections at Cardiff University

Beyond prison writing: grassroots literature for justice in Mexico

Proving the power of writing to create community and tackle injustice

Developing guidance tools for whole energy system retrofitting to inspire progress towards Net Zero

Working with partners to increase knowledge and confidence in energy systems retrofitting across the housing sector

WasteReBuilt – a circular approach to transform waste sand into resource for the built environment

Linking the cast metal industry and concrete production sector to divert waste sand from landfill