Launch of 'The Clarendon Way', by Yellow Wood. Photo Credit: Patrick Duddy Photography
Community-led research
We're working with Ulster University on ways to meaningfully connect and embed research and education into community life.
The Ideas Fund planning session. Photo Credit: NWCN
Our work with UU is multifaceted. One thing we collaborate on is community engagement on the future of the Derry-Londonderry Magee campus, and help the university make connections in the community.
We're particularly passionate about community-led research. Sometimes, traditional research practices can have an extractive effect on communities, having an unintentionally alienating effect on the people involved. That's why, following from our work with the Ideas Fund, we've established the Community Research Collective with Ulster University to help unpick this issue, and explore more mutual models of research.
Human Library
The Human Library is an interactive social experience that challenges prejudice by highlighting stories that are often unheard.
Human Library at the launch of 'District Of Hope'. Photo Credit: Ian Lennox
'Human Books' are people who have volunteered to challenge prejudice through respectful conversation with participants who 'borrow' them. Our books have titles that relate to their experience of prejudice and discrimination.
A Human Library session is free and makes no economic profit, but we believe the social profit is immeasurable.
During a Human Library session, people are invited into small groups to 'borrow'—to listen and ask questions of—our Human Books. We take great pride in the impact our Human Books make on their readers, who remark to us that these sessions put them in contact with people and lived experiences they may never have encountered before.
Our Work
Our work connects community organisations to community assets, and supports them while inclusive, sustainable change takes root.
