Philip Astley – Father of Modern Day Circus
- Submitting institution
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Staffordshire University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- Lists 36
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output including two elements: a journal article and a web archive
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- December
- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Dr Carmel THOMASON from Staffordshire University, was the lead of the Heritage Lottery funded Philip Astley project (Celebrating the father of modern day circus, HG-15-05207), which ran 18 months in 2017 – 2018 with the aim to celebrate
Astley’s life and legacy, raising awareness of the significance of Astley in the local region, engaging communities in developing activities around this heritage, as well as developing creative and educational activities in Newcastle-under-Lyme during
the 250th anniversary of modern circus.
The project made use of Culture 3.0 methods as described in BOEHM 2016 (also Staffordshire University), including the intentional use of co-creation, the embedding of creative activities in everyday life as part of the anniversary year, and a non-linear research process, all geared towards maximising impact of co-created research
insights. In research terms, two key sets of insights were utilised; a) a participatory process was applied to the Philip Astley project in order to embed co-ownership and co-production into the practice of developing the celebratory activities; and b) the
co-creation process resulted in unique insights about specifically Astley’s family history, as well as his Circus legacy, resulting in a 17 page resource pack (http://www.philipastley.org.uk/resources/ ).
It incorporated unique insights in an accessible manner and was distributed at the exhibition event, attracting 16,600 people, as well to educational organisation in the area. An additional educational pack for younger children was also developed.
Dissemination activities included curating a series of talks, an ASTLEYFEST (family fun day with 8000 visitors), 6 Film screenings (326 visitors), co-creation of new theatre content in collaboration with the NewVic, a children’s poetry competition, a
town trail, and other activities documented on the Astley website. http://www.philipastley.org.uk.
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- Non-English
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