Future Places: A Digital Economy Centre on Understanding Place Through Pervasive Computing
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Computing & Communications
Abstract
The Future Places Centre will explore how ubiquitous and pervasive technologies, the IoT, and new data science tools can let people reimagine what their future spaces might be. Today, the footprint of such systems extends well beyond the work environments where they first showed themselves and are now, quite literally, ubiquitous. Combined with advances in data science, particularly in the general area of AI, these are enabling entirely new forms of applications and expanding our understanding of how we can shape our physical spaces. The result of these trends is that the potential impact of these systems is no longer confined to work settings or the scientific imagination; it points towards all contexts in which the relationship between space and human practice might be altered through digitally-enabled comprehension of the worlds we inhabit.
Such change necessitates enriching the public imagination about what future places might be and how they might be understood. In particular, it points towards new ways of using pervasive technologies (such as the IoT), to shape healthy, sustainable living through the creation of appropriate places. To paraphrase Churchill: if he said we make our buildings, and our buildings come to shape us, the Future Places centre starts from the premise that new understanding of places (enabled by pervasive computing, data science and AI tools), can be combined with a public concern for sustainability and the environment to help shape healthier places and thus make healthier people.
It is thus the goal of the centre to reimagine and develop further Mark Weiser's original vision of ubiquitous computing. As it does this so it will cohere Lancaster's pioneering DE projects and create a world-class interdisciplinary research endeavour that binds Lancaster to the local community, to industry and government, making the North West a test-bed for what might be.
Such change necessitates enriching the public imagination about what future places might be and how they might be understood. In particular, it points towards new ways of using pervasive technologies (such as the IoT), to shape healthy, sustainable living through the creation of appropriate places. To paraphrase Churchill: if he said we make our buildings, and our buildings come to shape us, the Future Places centre starts from the premise that new understanding of places (enabled by pervasive computing, data science and AI tools), can be combined with a public concern for sustainability and the environment to help shape healthier places and thus make healthier people.
It is thus the goal of the centre to reimagine and develop further Mark Weiser's original vision of ubiquitous computing. As it does this so it will cohere Lancaster's pioneering DE projects and create a world-class interdisciplinary research endeavour that binds Lancaster to the local community, to industry and government, making the North West a test-bed for what might be.
Planned Impact
The Future Places Centre will be driven by an impact agenda - aiming to transform the way we think about the spaces we live in. Its premise is that ubiquitous and pervasive technologies, the IoT, and new data science tools, can let people reimagine what their future spaces might be. For this to occur, it is necessary that research facilitate academic and public discourse on the possibilities of future places and deepen comprehension of what these might be.
This proposition will be tested and made real through a series of long-term thematic case studies. Each will have a particular focal point, enabling in-depth investigation and practical impacts that can anchor more widespread research. Underpinning these will be innovative ubiquitous computing tools and techniques that provide the knowledge necessary for evolving future places.
The first domain of impact will be the natural environment, i.e. investigating the ecology of the North West coastal area to unfold the complex entanglements of human practice and the environment. Through a series of public engagement workshops and design processes, this theme will make visible that relationship to the public at large and a particular focus of this impact will be in the design and didactic role of Eden North and other longer-term transformative projects on the Bay area.
The second domain of impact will be the built environment. This will have as its focal point various new housing developments in the North West. The ambition behind these is to develop new housing community models that place environmentally sustainable living alongside reconfigured infrastructures. Through series of public engagement workshops and design processes (with local stakeholders ranging from developers through to planners and the potential occupants of these new settings), we will share information about the built environment enabled by IoT and data science and thus impact upon the future form of these developments.
Finally, we will impact through changing health outcomes. This is a bold ambition but we believe we can achieve this through using prior DE project insights to help exploit technology to evidence the relationship between space and human health outcomes. The focal point for this research is the development of the Health Innovation Campus at the University which will house the medical school alongside new 'healthy living' businesses and start-ups. It is expected that these will drive new directions for collaboration with the centre.
The aim is for the impact of the centre to go far beyond technology innovation and to suffuse the public imagination, providing new reasons to perceive and shape space. In so doing new opportunities for businesses and services will emerge too. To support these businesses and services we will train the next generation of interdisciplinary researches and this training will provide further impact on the research community as a whole.
This proposition will be tested and made real through a series of long-term thematic case studies. Each will have a particular focal point, enabling in-depth investigation and practical impacts that can anchor more widespread research. Underpinning these will be innovative ubiquitous computing tools and techniques that provide the knowledge necessary for evolving future places.
The first domain of impact will be the natural environment, i.e. investigating the ecology of the North West coastal area to unfold the complex entanglements of human practice and the environment. Through a series of public engagement workshops and design processes, this theme will make visible that relationship to the public at large and a particular focus of this impact will be in the design and didactic role of Eden North and other longer-term transformative projects on the Bay area.
The second domain of impact will be the built environment. This will have as its focal point various new housing developments in the North West. The ambition behind these is to develop new housing community models that place environmentally sustainable living alongside reconfigured infrastructures. Through series of public engagement workshops and design processes (with local stakeholders ranging from developers through to planners and the potential occupants of these new settings), we will share information about the built environment enabled by IoT and data science and thus impact upon the future form of these developments.
Finally, we will impact through changing health outcomes. This is a bold ambition but we believe we can achieve this through using prior DE project insights to help exploit technology to evidence the relationship between space and human health outcomes. The focal point for this research is the development of the Health Innovation Campus at the University which will house the medical school alongside new 'healthy living' businesses and start-ups. It is expected that these will drive new directions for collaboration with the centre.
The aim is for the impact of the centre to go far beyond technology innovation and to suffuse the public imagination, providing new reasons to perceive and shape space. In so doing new opportunities for businesses and services will emerge too. To support these businesses and services we will train the next generation of interdisciplinary researches and this training will provide further impact on the research community as a whole.
Organisations
- Lancaster University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Lancaster City Council (Collaboration)
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North merseyside (Collaboration)
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) (Collaboration)
- AGE UK (Collaboration)
- The Eden Project (Collaboration)
- Kendal Mountain Festival (Collaboration)
- Iceland Foods Ltd (Collaboration)
- Eden Project (Project Partner)
- University of Technology Sydney (Project Partner)
- University of Lisbon (Project Partner)
- University of Sydney (Project Partner)
- NHS West Lancashire CCG (Project Partner)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (Project Partner)
- Samsung (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Regenda Homes (Project Partner)
- Lancashire County Council (Project Partner)
- Blackpool and The Fylde College (Project Partner)
- Local Council Roads Innovation Group (Project Partner)
- Public Health England (Project Partner)
- Universita della Svizzera Italiana (Project Partner)
- Inprova Group Ltd (Project Partner)
- Heathfield Ladies Residential Home (Project Partner)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Project Partner)
- Connected Places Catapult (Project Partner)
- Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Micro:bit Educational Foundation (Project Partner)
- Hardy & Ellis Inventions LTD (Project Partner)
- Bristol City Council (Project Partner)
- Matter 2 Media (Project Partner)
- Lancaster City Council (Project Partner)
- Small World Consulting Ltd (Project Partner)
- NHS Liverpool CCG (Project Partner)
- University of Melbourne (Project Partner)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Project Partner)
- Halton Housing (Project Partner)
- Morecambe Bay Hospital NHS Trust (Project Partner)
Publications
Lloyd K
(2021)
Abundance: Nature in Recovery
Isba R
(2021)
Are child health information services a viable source of accurate vaccination data for clinicians working in paediatric emergency departments in England?
in BMJ health & care informatics
Edwards L
(2021)
'Design for Noticing' with Biodiversity Logbooks
Borowiec D
(2021)
The environmental consequence of deep learning
in ITNOW
Gere C
(2021)
Of Instagrammatology/De L'instagrammotolgie
in Hybrid 07: Le Reseau Creatif du Langauages/The Creative Web of Languages
Pollastri S
(2021)
Biodiversity Logbooks for an Environmental Pedagogy of Care
Borowiec D
(2022)
Trimmer: Cost-Efficient Deep Learning Auto-tuning for Cloud Datacenters
| Title | "Levelling Up" essay |
| Description | This essay was published on Caught by the River to accompany the launch of the North Country anthology, and discusses levelling up in social structures, in marine ecosystems and literature |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Wider global readership |
| URL | https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2022/11/levelling-up-karen-lloyd-north-country/ |
| Title | Anthropophony |
| Description | Poem published on Ink Sweat and Tears site for the Poetry Society's Environment day |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Wide international readership |
| URL | https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/for-national-poetry-day-the-environment-karen-lloyd-penelope-shuttle-... |
| Title | Come Forth into the Light |
| Description | Essay on new forms of lighting and global light proliferation. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | FPC Digital Anthology |
| Description | Online digital anthology featuring creative writing from the shortlisted writers in the first FPC Environmental Literature prize |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Wide readership |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/future-places/activities/the-future-places-environmental-essay-and-poetr... |
| Title | Future pervasive displays in care settings |
| Description | Video describing pervasive display research in care homes |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRznHE44cs&ab_channel=LU-DataScienceInstitute |
| Title | Going Around the Houses |
| Description | This neurodivergent artist amassed stories from participants in Barrow-in-Furness to produce an ambitious illustrative mapping of voices of positive reflection and wellbeing. It's called 'Going Around the Houses' to indicate the benefits of her neurodivergent approach in understanding a place. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | Inside the Rockpool Shrimp there is a Dying Star |
| Description | An essay exploring microplastics in marine and freshwater organisms in Morecambe Bay and beyond |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Published by UEA Anthology of Speculative Nature Writing |
| Title | Lugworm Walks |
| Description | This work investigates the non-human cartographies of lugworms, through data collection tools such as GPS tracking. The artist's own walks searching for lugworm castings on the mudflats in Morecambe Bay, were recorded through video and GPS. She made casts of the castings which were part of an installation at White Elephant Contemporary, a gallery in Morecambe. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://www.nuriarovira.art/nr-cartographic-interventions |
| Title | Mapping Health Art - Lancaster Health Week |
| Description | A two-day exhibition of the Cartographic Intervention commissioned works displayed at a local arts and community centre. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | Morecambe Bay: three short audio works |
| Description | This artist created three short audio works as a soundscape of birds in the Bay, which can be used as a form of therapy in residential care homes. This is particularly effective for people experiencing memory loss, through listening to the 'bird landscape of sound', which would have been the background to their daily lives. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | http://www.jogorner.co.uk/research/cartographic-intervention/ |
| Title | On Bewilderment |
| Description | Piece for New Networks for Nature booklet |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Booklet distributed at NNN annual conference November 22 |
| URL | https://www.newnetworksfornature.org.uk/ |
| Title | Playground for the Soul |
| Description | Rachael and Maria's |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://exploremorecambebay.org.uk/things-to-do/playground-for-the-soul-a-morecambe-soundmap/ |
| Title | Rurban Hope Spots Maps |
| Description | A number of images describing the Rurban Hope Spots mapping approach. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | Rurban Hope Spots animations |
| Description | Four animations produced as part of the initial FPC walking trail 'Lancaster's food growing hope spots'. Animations highlight key findings of the Rurban Hope Spots project |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | State of Flux |
| Description | This work looked at the shifting dynamics of the salt marsh areas of Grange-over-Sands and Arnside. The two sets of prints reflect the changes, with what was once beach at Grange becoming salt marsh, and marsh turning to beach at Arnside. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None at this time |
| URL | https://karenlester-66208.medium.com/state-of-flux-431c83028f16 |
| Title | The Once and Future Land |
| Description | A film of interviews in situ in the Lake District with environmentalists, landowners, farmers, artists and business owners |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | The Sound Canopy |
| Description | Collaboration with Emma Sayer (LEC). The Sound Canopy was designed for Glastonbury Science. The installation includes 4 tin can listening devices connected to the canopy that play audio when lifted from can holders designed to represent sounds. All the audio recordings submitted represent different examples of science research from researchers across the country. Current recordings include sounds of Antarctic ice, dolphin communication, MRI scans and natural radio emmissions of the planet. The audio files can be adapted so the installation can be used in other settings. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Installed in the Science Futures areas at Glastonbury (in The Green Fields). Unknown number of engagements at present. The Science Future area as a whole had thousands of visitors and engagements. National and international audience. |
| URL | https://glastosciencefutures.org/the-sound-canopy/ |
| Description | The Future Places Centre (FPC) has continued to achieve its goal of exploring how digital tools and technologies can help shape the way places are understood and renewed. Its objectives in this regard entail demonstrating how different forms of data can allow new perspectives and points of view on processes of change and renewal, allowing contact and exchange between groups and communities that have had little involvement before and enhancing the depth of understanding of those that have. |
| Exploitation Route | These activities have built deeper connections with relevant partners and stakeholders and are allowing preliminary findings and data sets to be further developed and given over to future development both within the FPC's time span and over the longer term. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | The FPC has continued to develop its impact with the narrative of its research reaching beyond the founding (and already comprehensive) set of partners and stakeholders. An ongoing series of lectures and talks in various communities around Morecambe Bay is drawing large numbers of retired attendees and leading to rich and fruitful connections that are allowing the FPC to further deepen its knowledge base, adding insight into aspects of local and community knowledge about the relationship between human practices and natural ecology that has not been documented before. Increasingly extensive ties with schools throughout the area entailing the use of digital tools and devices (such as Micro:bit) to foster 'digital naturalism' amongst school children is contributing to the shaping of more regional and environmentally connected curricula that will become a benchmark. The development of a panoply of environmental creative writing activities and competitions is fostering and highlighting the role of narrative in shaping the relationship between communities and their locales, as well as placing the FPC at the fulcrum of these endeavours. The testing and development of open source platforms on geospatial data is leading to new modes of engagement between regional councils and the communities they serve, and affording opportunities for insight and exchange that is altering the criteria used to judge the merits of planning policy and protocols. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Rurban Hope Spots GIS Layer |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | (eCampus For Care) Impact Acceleration Account Seed Funding |
| Amount | £14,851 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Department | Impact Acceleration Account Lancaster |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | (eCampus For Care) Lean Launch Programme Cohort 10 |
| Amount | £3,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Closing Loops |
| Amount | £1,496,371 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 20167559 |
| Organisation | National Lottery |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 04/2027 |
| Description | Digital Scholar Scholarship "Shaping thought for better digital futures: a Digital Future" |
| Amount | 80,000 kr (SEK) |
| Organisation | Royal Institute of Technology |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start | |
| Description | Equity for the Older: Beyond Digital Access |
| Amount | £984,746 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W025337/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | ICURe follow on funding: FY21 round 4 |
| Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | QUENCH Network: A Network Linking the Quality of Urban Environments with Nature-Connectedness and Health |
| Amount | £313,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Rurban Hope Spots |
| Amount | £9,364 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Department | Impact Acceleration Account Lancaster |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | SaMPaS (Salt Marsh Participatory Sensing) |
| Amount | £36,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Title | Rurban Hope Spots Methodology |
| Description | A GIS methodology for analysing open source datasets to enable land suitability for food growing to be assessed based on a series of defined but flexible parameters. Open source methodology made available via Github |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Description | (Lancs & South Cumbia NHS) IAA Evaluation Study Collaboration |
| Organisation | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Technical lead on the IAA project, provision and deployment of eCampus infrastructure. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to deployment building, development of user requirements and participation in user engagement activities (i.e. interviews) |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Blueprint for the Bay collaboration |
| Organisation | The Eden Project |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Role on the Advisory Board |
| Collaborator Contribution | Resources and activities to combat loneliness and social isolation in three areas around Morecambe Bay, over 2 years |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Eden Partnership on Future Places Centre Environmental Literature Prize |
| Organisation | The Eden Project |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Planned and delivered the literature prize event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sponsored a prize |
| Impact | Ongoing partnership |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Freezone study with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Equipment and eCampus infrastructure |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purchase of equipment and effort contribution in supporting the study |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Iceland Partnership on The Future Places Centre Environmental Literature Prize |
| Organisation | Iceland Foods Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Planned and delivered the literature prize event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sponsored a prize |
| Impact | Ongoing partnership |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Kendal Mountain Festival Partner on Future Places Centre Environmental Literature Prize |
| Organisation | Kendal Mountain Festival |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Planned and delivered the literature prize event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Promoted the Literature prize and provided a space for delivering the award ceremony. |
| Impact | Delivered the Future Places Environmental Essay and Poetry Prize event. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Lancaster City Council Deployment (Salt Ayre Leisure Centre) Partnership |
| Organisation | Lancaster City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Installation and support of the system deployment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to Salt Ayre Leisure centre and support for the deployment of e-Campus. |
| Impact | Active deployment of the e-campus system. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Lancs Wildlife Trust Collaboration On The Lost Sounds & Biodiversity Logbooks |
| Organisation | Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North merseyside |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Demonstrating workshop activities to staff for use within the organisation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-delivery of activities in schools and community |
| Impact | Ongoing co-delivery of workshops in schools and community. Use of workshop activities within the organisation. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Openshaw Resource Centre Display Wall Collaboration |
| Organisation | Age UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Provision and installation of large-screen displays and supporting computing equipment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to deployment building, development of user requirements and participation in user engagement activities (i.e. interviews) |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | Digital interactive feedback display |
| Description | A web-based system that allows users to report their experiences of engaging with a Future Places Centre trail. Specifically designed to operate on large screen public displays, the system enables users to report audio snippets tagged to particular waypoints along a defined trail. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| URL | https://fpc-walk.lancs.ac.uk |
| Title | Hope Spots Walking Trail Guide System |
| Description | A mobile, location-aware web-based application that delivers localised content to a user's mobile device. Specifically, the system leverages Bluetooth beacons to identify the proximity of users and provides dynamic content that describes new ideas for adapting local environments along a defined trail to engender discussions on food sustainability. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Through an initial trial of the system in a city in the NW, the technology is now being repurposed to facilitate new trails within Morecambe and surrounding areas. |
| Company Name | IF GIVE LTD |
| Description | IF GIVE LTD is developing novel digital tools for third sector organisations (including Oxfam) that are enabling the support of new fundraising models that aim to maximise fundraising income for charities by increasing donor agency and control in charitable giving. Charities across the sector are challenged with a series of issues related to fundraising: A decline in the number of individuals giving to charity, the need to provide timely feedback, maintaining engagement, reducing the overheads of collecting donations and, especially in the case of disaster relief, reducing the time taken to raise money in response to a crisis. While the number of donors in the UK fell by 1.6M in 2020 (CAF,2021), the demand for charity services has increased in recent years. In particular, the need for humanitarian assistance caused by climate change has risen by 40% in the last year alone (UNOCHA,2021). We respond to the immediate need for innovation in disaster fundraising and address major challenges fundraisers face more broadly. IF GIVE represents a spin-out from Lancaster University that is now actively engaged in commercializing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that can facilitate an entirely new, rule-based model for charitable giving. The service enables donors to create rules using pre-specified payouts in response to real-world triggers to create a modern, interactive and highly personalised experience for donors that encourages regular engagement with their chosen causes. |
| Year Established | 2022 |
| Impact | Through the establishment of IF GIVE LTD, the company has been invited to apply for seed funding via Innovate UK's ICure programme to support additional industrial research activities over a 12 month period. In particular, IF GIVE as a commercial entry has allowed the founding researchers to formalise and strengthen partnerships with NGOs including Oxfam Australia who are working closely with IF GIVE LTD to support design and productisation activities. As a company registered in the NW, we expect IF GIVE LTD to bring economic impacts to the region and will look to engage with smaller local charities and social good projects throughout. |
| Description | 'Reimagining the Lake District Uplands' Facebook Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A page where comments and interesting links can be posted concerning the Lake District but also other posts relevant to the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | 'Reimagining the Lake District' Goldsmith Press website, co-written with Charlie Gere, Karen Lloyd, Ian Convery and Simon Stainer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 4000 word co-written article on the need to re-imagine the environment of the Lake District uplands in relation to the climate crisis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 'Reimagining the Lake District' The Ecologist Magazine, co-written with Charlie Gere, Karen Lloyd, Ian Convery and Simon Stainer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 1600 word co-written article on the need to re-imagine the environment of the Lake District uplands in relation to the climate crisis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2022 |
| Description | Biodiversity in Ryelands Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Planting a hedge and planting snowdrops in Ryelands Park. Learning about the newly planted white cherry trees. 57 children in Year 1, teachers, classroom asistants and some parents. This is the start of a longterm project in Ryelands Park to monitor biodiversity and care from the hedgerow. Micro:bit surveys will follow. This project was run with a land manager, council engagement representative and a member of the Friends of the Park. The aim of the activities are to build knowledge and connection with the park space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Book Talk at Keswick Literature Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk about Karen Lloyd's PhD research and her published book |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Book Talk at Timber Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk about the research and writing of my book abundance nature in recovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://timberfestival.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Timber2022_PrintProgramme_final.pdf |
| Description | Book Talk for Buxton Field Club |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Karen Lloyd's PhD and latest book |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Book Talk for Natural England Regional Office |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk about Karen Lloyd's PhD research and published book |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Buxton International Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Book talk with Mark Cocker and Professor Tim Birkhead |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://buxtonfestival.co.uk/news-and-blog/2022-buxton-international-festival-programme-highlights |
| Description | CACI Case Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Case study generated by CACI detailing the way their socio-demographic data is being used by the Future Places Centre (FPC) in their research. This is a different way to how universities normally use their data and CACI were keen to showcase the FPC approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Charnley Fold meeting with NHS foundation / Age Concern |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Staff and NHS collaborators working at the Charnley Fold Enhanced Dementia Day Support Centre, Preston regarding the presentation/explanation of our system and subsequent plans to explore a deployment for evaluation as part of the IAA eCampus For Care project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Curlew Poetry Workshops - Ryland's Primary School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Continuing curlew project work on curlews with 2 classes of year 5 pupils - writing poetry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dallam Secondary School Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Following an invite from the school, I went to meet a group of young people from Year 10 who are running an environmental project in the school grounds. This involved land management and environmental monitoring activities using Micro:bit. The students showed me their work to date, involving using Microbit to gather soil humidity and air temperature data and their plans for different areas of the school grounds. I showed similar ongoing projects including Biodiversity Logbooks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Eden/Lancaster University Zoom Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8 speakers providing 5-minute talks connected to Eden projects and Eden's collaborations with Lancaster University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Education in the context of a climate crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Short talks by staff at Lancaster University, Eden Project and local schools involved in the Morecambe Bay Curriculum, followed by online Q&A. Videos shared online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Environmental Literature Prize Award Ceremony |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The award ceremony connected to the Environmental Literature Prize which took place during the Kendal Mountain Literature Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | From Tolkein's Shire to Thatchers England' in Freize Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 900-word article on Chelsea in the 1960-70s in relation to the counter-culture and punk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Future Places Centre Environmental Literature Prize Anthology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A collection of environmental essays and poetry submitted for the Future Places Enviromental Essay and Poety Competition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Future Places Centre Environmental Literature Prize Twitter Account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Twitter account to maintain engagment and awareness of the prize (from 2021) and ahead of the next anticipated literary competition in 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Future Places Centre Lecture Series on Morecambe Bay |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of 6 lectures on research around Morecambe Bay organised by the Future Places Centre as part of the Arnside Leture Group. Audience was predominantly retirees with a mix of ex-academics, -professionals and -government |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Future Places Centre Lecture Series on Morecambe Bay - The Gathering Tide |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public lecture given as part of the FPC lecture series on the people and landscapes of Morecambe Bay in collaboration with Arnside Lecture Group. Session recorded for upload on to the FPC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Future Places Centre lecture series on Morecambe Bay - Food Futures in Morecambe Bay |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public lecture given as part of the FPC lecture series on the people and landscapes of Morecambe Bay in collaboration with Arnside Lecture Group. Session recorded for upload on to the FPC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Future Places Centre lecture series on Morecambe Bay - Timescapes of Morecambe Bay |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk with Serena Pollastri and Suzana Ilic to Arnside Lecture Group about the Timescapes of Morecambe Bay project. The theme of the project was engaging young people in work about coastal futures in the local area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Futurum Educational Resource |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Futurum Careers is a free online resource and magazine showcasing different careers to 14-19-year-olds worldwide. This article will be used to engage students with the FPC research and to inspire them about what is possible for an academic / social research career. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Guest Reader at Arvon Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I talk on the writing life, and writing the environment for a group of student writers at the Hurst Shropshire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.arvon.org/ |
| Description | Guided FPC trail (Hope Spots) at the Northern Real Farming Conference 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Guided walking trails were offered as part of the 'Lancaster's Food Growing Hope Spots' walking trail. Guided tours were given to farmers and local food campaigners as part of the Northern Real Farming Conference, and additional guided trails were carried out with project collaborators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Heathfield Expansion Planning Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visited Heathfield Care Home to discuss with residential care professionals future plans for expansion of our research activities (including further CEDE experiments) and broadening the existing system deployment. Furthermore, we agreed to engage further with users of the system including the onboarding of new patients and suitable methods to capture user behaviours with the system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Literature Talk on 'Abundance' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to the general public at Words by the Water Literature Festival on the experiences of writing 'Abundance' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Literature Talk on 'Women on Nature Anthology' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to the general public at Lancaster Literature Festival on 'Women on Nature Anthology' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lunchtime Talk with Natural England: Abundance and the Future Places Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk to Natural England Regional Offices about experiences of writing the book 'Abundance' and working with the FPC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lune: A Journal of Literary Misrule |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An online journal supporting experimental and hybrid forms of writing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | Masterclass on nature and environmental writing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass on nature and environmental writing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Measures That Matter Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This virtual workshop brought together key partners and influencers of the Future Places Centre to help shape the centre's research agenda. A series of 'future scenarios' proposed ahead of the workshop were further developed during the session with participants engaging in future thinking to identify and clarify key measures (of place) that matter for the scenarios outlined and for the centre as a whole. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Morecambe 'Vision' Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Lancaster County Council and local organisations (e.g. Morecambe BID) regarding the use of footfall data to support the digital economy in Morecambe and the sharing of data with the Future Places Centre including access to datasets to explore the novel application of real-time place informatics in the NW region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Opening talk for exhibition at Space2Create voluntary organisation, Kendal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk to open a new exhibiton involving attenders making poetry inspired by works of art |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Place Transformed Colloquium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Follow up to the Back-in Place conference in Swansea (September 2021), progressing the conversation about in-person, virtual or hybrid working. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://back-in.place |
| Description | Reconnecting Communities & the Police: A Brief Reflection on Civic Collaboration Tools in Community Policing Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog co-authored with Morecambe BID that motivates the need for research into civic tools for building community-police partnerships in the reporting of ASB. Discussion with LCC and local organisations regarding the use of footfall data to support the digital economy in Morecambe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Reimagining Landscapes: Environment Communication and the Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two day conference, including keynotes, panels, performances. The Reimagining Landscape conference is a call to help us reconfigure our relationships with the natural world. At this time of unprecedented change, our keynote speakers and panel discussions will open dialogue towards new ways in which literature and the arts can disseminate environmental issues and foster engagement amongst the wider community. Speakers and panellists include ecologists, land managers, farmers, writers, artists, photographers and musicians. The conference is a step towards establishing a new centre for environmental communication at Lancaster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/future-places/activities/conference-reimagining-landscape-environment-co... |
| Description | Review of Wild Fell by Lee Schofield, on Caught by the River website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review on Wild Fell which is a book about habitat restoration in the Lake District |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Rural Observatory Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to discuss what rural observatories might look like, and how they may be used to promote data in place for the rural North of England/South Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Rurban Hope Spots - Urban Agriculture Consortium Policy Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented the Rurban Hope Spots methodology to a group of policymakers in Northern Ireland which had been convened by the Urban Agriculture Consortium. This was an opportunity to share land mapping approaches and methodologies for collecting data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Rurban Hope Spots- Urban Agriculture Consortium Land Mappers Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presented on the Rurban Hope Spots project on two occasions to a new collaborative UK land mapping community. In June 2021 we introduced the approaches we were taking in the project and we presented project findings and resources to the group in February 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Science Week at Quernmore School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Science week career talk and introduction to Micro:bits for Class 1. Interactive demo of different micro:bits and coding together with Makecode. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Summer of Hope Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A press release about the Back In Place Conference, held at Swansea University in September 2021. Keynote speakers included Alan Penn, Bishop June Osborne, Gutto Harri, Yvonne Rodgers and Charles Clarke. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Summer of Hope Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A gathering of 30 thought leaders to discuss the future of place. It was held at Swansea University and generated a white paper identifying key ways to transform our experience of place, both physical and digital. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk to girls at Dallam School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to talk to Year 9 girls at Dallam Secondary School about careers in computing. Lynne Blair led the talk and I talked about my experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Cultural Landscape in the Anthropocene written by Karen Lloyd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A challenge to the precedent of landscape preservation in the Lake District. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Lost Sounds (Who's Calling) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Digital Naturalists. Using digital technology for noticing. Drawing birds from local area and printmaking with conductive ink. Circuit making and coding with Scratch to make interactive prints. Then creating an interactive soundscape. Class of 26 year 3s directly involved. Parents and other classes engaged through interactive soundscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://www.thelostsounds.org |
| Description | The Lost Sounds at Big Wave Tidal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited by 'The Bay: A Blueprint for Recovery' to bring the Lost Sounds interactive display to their Big Wave Tidal event on Morecambe Prom. The event was affected by heavy rain so turn out was low. Approx 20 people made prints but more people saw the display. As a result of the display I was invited to take the Lost Sounds to RSPB Leighton Moss at half term. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Lost Sounds at Quernmore school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Digital naturalist workshop involving drawing, printmaking, circuit-making and programming using Scratch with a focus on noticing birds and bird calls. Class 3-4 directly involved (approx 26 children, 1 teacher and 1 teaching assistant). Soundscape display installed for wider school and families (approx 100 people). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | http://www.thelostsounds.org |
| Description | The Lost Sounds at RSPB, Leighton Moss |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visitors to Leighton Moss took part in creating a soundscape of the birds found at the RSPB reserve. This involved making prints with conductive ink and attaching them to a display using capacitance-sensing Touch Boards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/RSPBLeightonMoss/photos/5856130354434340 |
| Description | The Lost Sounds at Wildlife Trust, Heysham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to run joint evet with Lancashire Wildlife Trust at Heysham. This activity extended the activity beyond the previous activities with bird calls to include insects and butterflies. Chris Hassall from the University of Leeds shared bioacoustic recordings to use for the event. Two wildlife recorders took part in leading the wildlife walk. Families took part in making prints of birds and insects for an interactive display, created for the Heysham site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Lost Sounds of Teesdale |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event with TCR Hub in Teesdale. 10 families (25 direct participants). TCR Hub identified families. Two day workshop involving sound recording and bird watching walk with Natural England guide. This was followed by printmaking birds with conductive ink, circuit-making and programming with Pi-top laptops and Scratch to create bird prints that 'sing' when touched. The prints were used to make an interactive soundscape exhibit for visitors to the centre that was on display for approx 10 days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Lost Sounds workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Digital naturalist workshops involving fieldwork, arts and programming to develop naturalist skills and create interactive soundscapes of local bird life. Delivered and exhibited in schools and community settings. Prints produced some children displayed in the Eden Pavillion at COP26. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | Tidescapes. Sea level rise and trash tides; engagement with coastal communities through citizen science and the arts (panel). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reimagining Landscape: Environment Communication and the Humanities - Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Duration: 7/07/2022 ? 8/07/2022 Contribution to conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/future-places/activities/conference-reimagining-landscape-environment-co... |
| Description | Timescales of Morecambe Bay Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition of artwork produced by young people through the Timescapes of Morecambe Bay Project, which focused on local futures under climate change. The young people also took part in roundtable discussions with experts about coastal futures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Timescapes Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Timescapes of Morecambe Bay Exhibition at the Maritime Museum, Lancaster. Exhibition of art work produced by Young People during the Timescapes Project, which focused on imagined coastal futures in the light of climate change. Stereoscopic images and bespoke viewers used to view work. Activities designed for visitors to make their own coastal future postcards. Display of related artefacts from the museum's collection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Treescapes Panel at Timber Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on UK objectives for tree planting - 'where will all the trees go?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual Common Room - Film Showing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Premiere of "Once and Future Land" - a short film discussing issues facing land use and biodiversity in the Lake District |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual Common Rooms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 4 hosted virtual 'gatherings' throughout the year open to academics and interested parties working on, or connected to, research around Morecambe Bay. Individuals gave short talks about their work, followed by questions and general converstion. Links for futures collaboration were created. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Virtual FPC Trail (Hope Spots) given at the FoodFutures Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented a virtual version of the first Future Places Centre walking trail, 'Lancaster's Food Growing Hope Spots', followed by questions and discussion with a mixed audience of community organisations, anchor institutions, policymakers, farmers, businesses and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Visit to The Old Vicarage Care Home, Grange-over-Sands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Initial engagement with potential collaboration partner. Our research goals and system were presented to said potential partner with a discussion leading to interest in beginning a deployment trial. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | World Heritage Watch visit to the Lake District World Heritage Site |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Investigating inhibiting land use practices under the Lake's World Heritage inscription, alternative models and meeting residents and communities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Writing course for Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Writing day at Wordsworth Trust looking at gardens, mosses and manuscripts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/gardens-mosses-and-manuscripts-all-day-writing-workshop/ |