Multi-Story Water: Towards Hydro-Citizenship
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 185712864
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- January
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component output (MCO) contains a substantial volume of material (textual, visual, performative), all of which relates to and extends from a single, large-scale, AHRC-funded research project. Funded research ran from 2014-2017, with critical write-up following, as is reflected by the MCO’s contents. The case for double-weighting is being made on the basis of the extent, depth and range of the materials included. These include a public-facing website, four scholarly publications (three from peer-reviewed, international journals), and selected documentation of the practice-based research that was central to the project.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Multi-Story Water (MSW) was a community-facing Practice as Research (PaR) project conducted in West Yorkshire, and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Following an initial, one-year phase during the previous REF cycle (2012-13), a more sustained, second phase ran from 2014-17. Bottoms led the research, in Shipley and Leeds, as one of four regional case studies constituting the interdisciplinary AHRC project, “Towards Hydro-Citizenship”.
The research methodology fused PaR with PAR (Participatory Action Research), emphasising an evolving process without preconceived outcomes. Dialogues with water-proximate communities identified memories, feelings and concerns in relation to local river/canal environments (including flood risk awareness). Site-responsive creative methods were then used to dramatize these findings in forms appropriate to context. Practical outcomes were treated not as “end products” but as contributions to an ongoing capacity-building process, feeding back into further community dialogue. A network of water professionals was also engaged as a participating “community” during the research, to identify and address challenges to effective public communication.
This submission collates two distinct but related sets of components:
(1) Practical outcomes (items 1-5): these include the MSW website, a public-facing platform with work-in-progress blog and documentation of all practical initiatives. Given the large volume of material on this site, the contents listing highlights selected PaR outcomes, identifying relevant documentation for each;
(2) Critical reflections (items 6-9): these published outputs analyse key aspects of the MSW research, in relation to underlying theoretical concerns. Item 6 is a 2017 book chapter that looks back on the initial MSW project (2012-13), but was written during the early stages of the Hydro-Citizenship phase, and introduces themes developed in subsequent work. Items 7 and 8 reflect on key strands of the developing practical research, within interdisciplinary publication contexts. Finally, item 9 locates the practice within a broader, historico-theoretical framework.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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