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CULTURE, PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT

A cross‑university research community bringing staff together to explore issues of identity and belonging, migration, decolonisation, and diaspora in an era of environmental change.

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The aim of the research community is to hold networking events, workshops, and seminars that spark interdisciplinary collaboration for projects, co‑authored publications, and bid‑writing. The conveners are Arran Stibbe and Susie Olczak. This page features ongoing and completed projects of members of the community.

Members' Projects

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Framing

Migration

Investigating how the production of photography for humanitarian purposes can be reimagined to open the possibility for a new ‘ethics of seeing’.

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Mapping the music of migration

Using storytelling in music as a tool to counter
negative stereotypes and open up a space of intercultural communication and awareness.

Global Voices for Rights and Refuge

A network of academics, artists, practitioners, and students whose work engages with displacement, migration, and otherness.

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Narratives of the Extreme

Testing positive climate change adaptation through sculptural practice.

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Legacies of Slavery in Gloucester

​Evaluating and reconsidering the city's diverse connections to transatlantic slavery.

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Under the Same Moon

​A creative and critical writing project, exploring Serbian identity in the context of displacement, war trauma, and political inheritance.

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The Presence of the Divine

Ethnographic research among Gujarati Hindus in the UK examining presence, digital innovation and sacred food during and after the pandemic. 

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Ecopoetikon

Showcasing and exploring the narrative ecology of ecopoetry from the Global South and Global North 

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Africa: Diversity and Development

Researching Africa’s diversity and dynamism, and the interaction of people and place. 

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