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Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards 2019 Celebrating excellence in public engagement at Goldsmiths 23 May 2019
Table of Contents
2 Welcome
3 Running Order
4 Established Researcher category
4 Winners
8 Commendations
12 Nominated
18 Early Career Researcher category
18 Winner
20 Commendation
22 Nominated
26 Postgraduate Researcher category
26 Winners
29 Nominated
30 Special Award for Community Engagement
Established Research Table
Category,
of Contents
Winner — 1
Welcome Running Order
Welcome to the Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards ceremony at Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards Ceremony
Goldsmiths, University of London. These awards recognise and celebrate Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137a
the excellent work researchers at all career stages do with members of
the public, whether they’re sharing ground-breaking findings with new 17.10 Welcome by Prof Elisabeth Hill, Deputy Warden of Goldsmiths
audiences or collaborating with the public throughout their research.
17:15 Introduction by Dr John Price, Academic Lead for Public Engagement
An exceptional range of innovative activities and projects were
17.25 The presentation of the awards and commendations
nominated, showcasing different approaches to engaging the
in the category of Established Researcher
public with research and practice. Our researchers worked with
organisations like the BBC, Tate, Google, and the V&A to engage diverse 17.35 The presentation of the award and commendation
audiences through film, performance, art and citizen science. in the category of Early Career Researcher
There was a real sense that researchers, partners and the public benefited 17.45 The presentation of the awards in the category of Postgraduate Researcher
from this work, demonstrating how research in the arts, humanities, social
sciences and computing can create real positive change in the world. 17.55 The presentation of a Special Award with a
focus on Community Engagement
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the
nominees, whose work with the public is a real asset to Goldsmiths 18.05 Closing remarks by Dr John Price and drinks reception
and an example to our community, and beyond.
Prof Elisabeth Hill
Deputy Warden of Goldsmiths
Find out more about all of the nominated projects including
the winners, commendations and nominees.
2 — Established
Welcome Research Category, Winner Established Research Category,
Running Winner
order — 3
Established
Researcher category
Winners
Prof Bill Gaver and
Andy Boucher for
My Naturewatch
Camera (Design)
The Interaction Research of a year’s work by The camera was featured
Studio teamed up with Studio members, led on a Springwatch
the BBC’s Natural History by Professor Bill Gaver episode which aired
Unit to create wildlife and Andy Boucher. on 11 June 2018 to a
cameras that people live audience of about
could build at home and The camera, which is 2 million viewers.
use to take a closer look inexpensive and easy to This prompted tens
at their local wildlife. The make, has encouraged of thousands of
My Naturewatch Camera, many people to take unique visitors to the
a DIY camera that interest in local wildlife project website where
automatically captures as well as digital making. they found detailed
images of animals, People can view the instructions for making
was the culmination images and control the camera, and to date Bill and Andy are My Naturewatch
the camera from the an estimated 2,000 continuing the work with Cameras are also being
comfort of their own people have made My the Natural History Unit, exhibited in a variety
homes by connecting Naturewatch Cameras, and are developing a of venues including
to a Wi-Fi network set largely in the UK but self-build bird feeder that a recent meeting of
up by the cameras. internationally as well. can read RFID-tagged the African Bird Club
birds that will hopefully and an upcoming
feature on future event associated with
seasons of Springwatch. London Design Week.
4 — Established Research Category, Winner Established Research Category, Winner — 5
Winner
Sue Mayo for Decorum:
Manners for Women of
the 21st Century (Theatre
and Performance)
Furthering her practice-
based research into new
forms of intergenerational
arts practice, Sue Mayo
designed and led three,
3-month projects with
women aged 14 to 80
in London, Southend
and Peterborough.
These were in
partnership with Magic
Photo by Holly Falconer
Me, the UK’s leading
intergenerational arts
organisation, and Metal
Arts, artistic laboratories
based in parts of the
UK where there is a
lack of provision.
Working with filmmaker the hijab, correct use of The film screenings the public could get chapter on her work
Chuck Lowry, Sue and cutlery, and choosing were accompanied by advice on behaviour on intergenerational
the groups explored friends over family. opportunities to engage from the participants. practice. All three
manners for women, a with the audience, participant groups are
theme which unearthed Each group made a film extending the discussions All three films are online, interested in continuing
deep and immovable from their stories, and and encouraging and by December to work together, with
attitudes and beliefs, these have been shown audience members to 2018 had been viewed a pilot project taking
illuminating difference at The WOW Festival in consider where they 2,109 times. One film place in London in 2019.
across age, ethnicity the Southbank Centre, learned their ‘decorum’ has also been shown
and culture. The process Tate Exchange, Metal rules. At the South Bank at the Theatre and
allowed the group to Peterborough, and Centre, participants Performance Research
examine the topic as co- Twenty-One, an arts and performers also Association, and Sue
researchers, with issues centre in Southend. staffed ‘advice tables’ will be referencing the
as varied as wearing where members of project in a forthcoming
6 — Established Research Category, Winner Established Research Category, Winner — 7
Commendation
Dr Kat Jungnickel for
Bikes and Bloomers:
Victorian Women
Inventors and their
Extraordinary Cycle
Wear (Sociology)
Across 2018, Dr Kat and tell’ sessions actively but allowed publics Guardian, NPR (USA), The through their clothing,
Jungnickel undertook an engaged significant to try on and explore. Times, The Telegraph, designing convertible
extensive series of live and diverse audiences This approach brought and MailOnline. costumes that enabled
interactive and media through partnerships with her findings to life, the wearer to change Through these
activities to engage organisations including building on the Coinciding with when needed. engagements, Kat not
diverse publics with the the London Cycling project’s collaborative parliament’s Vote only demonstrated her
outcomes of a long-term Festival, Google, London and practice-based 100 campaign, these The project not only world-leading expertise,
research project and the Transport Museum, methodology. activities undoubtedly revealed the kinds of but also her openness,
publication of her book, Institute of Engineering impacted public radical new cycle wear enthusiasm, energy and
Bikes and Bloomers: and Technology, and Alongside the thousands perceptions by revealing invented by women positivity. In recognition
Victorian Women Field Day Music Festival. engaged by Kat’s event- and demonstrating during the period, but of Kat’s achievements
Inventors and their based, interactive how women carved out worked with different on the project, she has
Extraordinary Cycle Wear. Many of the outcomes exchanges, her research new feminine modes of publics to learn from secured over €1.8m
of Kat’s research were reached many millions mobility in public space. making and wearing funding from the ERC
Ten events ranging from practice-based, including through national and Specifically, how women the garments. to continue her work.
more traditional talks extraordinary recreations international media creatively protested
to installations, making of convertible Victorian coverage, including: against restrictive ideas
workshops, costume cycle wear that she not BBC World Service, BBC of how they should
demonstrations and ‘try only demonstrated, London, Sky News, The act and move in public
8 — Established Research Category, Winner
Commendation Established
Established
ResearchResearch
Category,
Category,
Commendation
Winner — 9
Commendation
Tassia Kobylinska for
My Home Is Not My
Home: The Voice of
Domestic Workers
(Media, Communications
and Cultural Studies)
Each year the Home activism in different parts Workers organisation in Exploring themes of provided the public with Shoreditch gallery
Office issues between of the world, engaged London who were trained acute poverty, sexual and new ways to think about L’étrangére hosted the
16,000-19,000 visas a group of migrant in video production physical abuse suffered at what we see or don’t exhibition and organised
under its ‘domestic domestic workers during the participatory the hands of exploitative see, in both migrant a series of accompanying
workers in private with a video project workshop series. employers and the pain domestic workers and events. The importance
households’ scheme, documenting their of being separated even in ourselves. of Tassia’s work was also
which allow foreign plight and empowering The workshop series was from their families, they recognised in an article
families to bring them to tell their a collaborative project generated powerful film The project is an on the plight of domestic
domestic workers to the story through film. led by Tassia, alongside of testimonies produced important voice in migrant workers written
UK. Working in private Dr Joyce Jiang, a Lecturer and directed by the a broader lobbying in the Guardian.
households, migrant The engagement at the University of York, women themselves. campaign against the
domestic workers rarely culminated in an and created a safe, hostile immigration
have the opportunity exhibition featuring a supportive, therapeutic The exhibition presented climate in the UK, which
to share their stories of combination of video and creative space in the films, photos, facilitates modern slavery
hardship, struggle and interviews and mobile which the women were documents and other of those most vulnerable
disempowerment. phone footage produced able to share personal items which were who cannot return to
by twelve migrant stories about their lives integral to the identity their home countries.
Tassia Kobylinska, who domestic workers from and struggles as migrant construction of migrant
is known for her film The Voice of Domestic domestic workers. domestic workers. They
10 — Established Research Category, Winner
Commendation Established
Established
ResearchResearch
Category,
Category,
Commendation
Winner — 11
Nominated officially recognised and learn, while engaging Dr Roger Green for was formalised as Voice Group, establishing a
Indigenous peoples alumni, promoting Voice 4 Deptford 4 Deptford in 2016, and Youth Forum to enable
Dr Carla Figueira of Taiwan. Students access and diversity, (Social, Therapeutic and successfully bid for a young people to have a
for Dispossessions: Nadezhda Ponomarenko social awareness Community Studies) Big Lottery Awards for voice in their potential
Performative and I-Ying Liu worked on and engagement, All grant of £10,000. future, and insisting
Encounter(s) of the project and several and fostering impact Voice 4 Deptford is a that green and open
Taiwanese Indigenous others volunteered to locally and globally. campaign response to In 2018 and 2019, Voice spaces be open to all.
Contemporary Art (ICCE) support the event. This exhibition also local concern about the 4 Deptford brought key
demonstrated the very large scale proposed stakeholders together By bringing together
The need to raise Dispossessions was the openness of Goldsmiths private redevelopment of to work towards a better academics and
awareness of the largely first research-based to programming the Convoys Wharf site in outcome for residents community activists, the
overlooked work of exhibition of Taiwanese challenging work of Deptford. With 3,500 new in the local community, work of Voice 4 Deptford
indigenous artists Indigenous contemporary largely overlooked artists. homes being built, 85% of including London has new relationships
from non-Western art in the UK, constituting the proposed residencies Assembly member Len and perceptions around
countries led to the a gathering of artistic Online materials from the will be built as luxury Duvall, Greater London campaigning for fair
development and hosting and curatorial activism event allow it to continue apartments, leaving Authority Planners, housing. Regeneration
of Dispossessions: and showcasing to have impact, while only 15% as affordable. London Borough of is all too often seen as
Performative Encounter(s) contemporary work from the engagement with Lewisham Planners, local a ‘top down’ approach
of Taiwanese Indigenous a Taiwanese Indigenous Taiwanese Indigenous From 2012, Dr Roger Evelyn Ward Councilors, where the power does
Contemporary Art. perspective. It was an peoples continues to be a Green met directly with Mayor of Lewisham not reside in the hands
exemplary cultural and focus in Carla’s research. a large number of local Damian Egan, and MP for of those who are directly
The project took place artistic event where A collaborative research community groups and Deptford Vicky Foxcroft. affected on the ground.
in May 2018 and was a indigenous people were project with Taiwanese individuals in Deptford, However, through this
collaboration between in control of the narrative. populations is currently settling on a research Voice 4 Deptford have project, Roger has
Dr Carla Figueira and being developed, partnership collaboration focused on a range of shown a continuing
Biung Ismahasan, curator The project allowed and this has also led with Malcolm Cadman outstanding issues, such and real commitment
from the Bunun Nation Carla and her students to to the reinforcement from Pepys Community as setting up a properly to centring the voices
– one of the sixteen practice what they teach of existing links with Forum. This partnership formed Cultural Steering of local people.
universities in Taiwan.
12 — Established Research Category, Winner
Nomination Established
Established
Research
Research
Category,
Category,
Nomination
Winner — 13
Dr David Hirsh for
raising awareness of
left wing antisemitism
in the UK (Sociology)
David has been at
the forefront of the
campaign against
antisemitism on the
Left for nearly 20 years.
After a decade opposing
attempts to demonise
and ‘other’ Jewish and
Israeli academics and
universities while a to the inquiry and who pieces, e-newsletters, Philip Palmer and in the world of British As one of only a few
member of the UCU, he felt that their voices academic articles and Richard Shannon for radio and audio drama, audio drama festivals
has focused increasingly were not listened to. information about recent Goldsmiths Audio Drama including guest of honour worldwide, it provided
on the threat of and upcoming events. Festival 2018 (Media, the playwright and radio opportunities for listeners
antisemitism coming This was followed by a Communications and dramatist Roy Williams. who normally engage
from the Labour Party series of events around Furthermore, David Cultural Studies) The keynote lecture with content alone to
and an emboldened the country that involved recently started a was delivered by writer, come together. The
anti-Semitic Left. screenings of the podcast called ‘Centre From The Archers to poet and broadcaster festival is ongoing,
documentary followed by Circling’, which is Wooden Overcoats, Professor Seán Street - with the 2019 edition
In 2017 he was involved a Q&A and discussion on about the challenges to audio drama has taken Britain’s first Professor of taking place in May and
in the Whitewashed left wing antisemitism. liberal democracy from many forms, but what Radio. The guests jointly sponsored by Audible.
project, a response political extremes on does the industry look curated a selection of
to the highly flawed Alongside the both the Left and Right. like today? This was the five outstanding audio
and widely criticised Whitewashed project, central question being dramas broadcast in
inquiry by Shami (now David runs the Engage Finally, David is a asked at the inaugural the last decade.
Baroness) Chakrabarti Online website, which is prominent and public Goldsmiths Audio
into antisemitism and described as “a resource critic of antisemitism Drama Festival, a one- The unique event was
other forms of racism in for political people who in the Labour Party, day event to celebrate attended by around 50
the Labour Party, which will increasingly find that whether via social media audio drama in all its people and provided a
cumulated initially in they need to understand or on radio, television forms, from BBC Radio networking opportunity
a documentary and contemporary or newspapers. He Drama and independent for those in the industry,
book. The film was antisemitism”. has written articles radio to podcasts. as well as a chance for
based on interview for Jewish News and the public to engage
material of a number The site contains a Jewish Chronicle, and The event included with academic research
of people who made wide range of valuable frequently appears on the discussion panels and practice.
written submissions resources including blog talk radio station LBC. featuring leading figures
14 — Established Research Category, Winner
Nomination Established
Established
Research
Research
Category,
Category,
Nomination
Winner — 15
David Woodger for In 2018 David was with Gypsy and ideas and delivered a
Supporting Report approached by one of Traveller Empowerment session at a national GRT
Racism GRT to raise his students, Sherrie Hertfordshire (GATE hate crime ambassadors
awareness of hate Smith, for advice on Herts) founder training conference
crime towards Gypsy, how to analyse the vast Josie O’Driscoll. in Hertfordshire.
Roma and Traveller amount of data she
communities (Social, had collated on hate David analysed the Two academic papers
Therapeutic and and discrimination first 18 months of data from original analysis of
Community Studies) against the Gypsy, collected and has data are currently being
Roma and Traveller presented findings to developed, as well as
David Woodger is an (GRT) communities. the Crown Prosecution planning a third that will
expert on institutional Service’s Hate Crime include the practitioner
racism and convenes Sheerie, who is from committee and to responses to the
the BA Applied Social an English Romany trainee social workers at sessions he facilitated.
Science, Community Gypsy background, VID University in Oslo,
Development and established the Report Norway. He has also This is an innovative and
Youth Work. Racism GRT website visited a Roma inclusion creative project that
in 2016 in partnership project in Oslo to share demonstrates David’s
expertise in institutional
racism, while supporting
an often overlooked
group. This collaborative
project has also created
an innovative tool in
Report Racism, to
meet the needs of
GRT communities who
are often excluded
from other reporting
mechanisms and have
low levels of trust in
police and outsiders.
16 — Established Research Category, Winner
Nomination Established
Established
Research
Research
Category,
Category,
Nomination
Winner — 17Early Career
Researcher category
Winner
Phoenix Perry for Bot
Party (Computing)
What are our social can be through simply gives Phoenix more input to date at locations
rules around touch in holding hands or creating into her PhD research all around the world,
public spaces? How can complex chains of touch and ideas about where from London to San
touch create pro-social through multiple different the game can go next. Francisco to Macedonia.
experiences in safe ways people. The game gives
using games? These are people permission Bot Party uses capacitive Phoenix has used
some of the questions to be playful and to sensing technology observational data
raised by Bot Party, a question the social to determine when collected at each of
playful game designed rules and expectations players are touching one these sessions to explore
by Phoenix Perry that around touch. another. It facilitates research questions from
explores and encourages an intriguing and novel her PhD and to expand
touch between players. Phoenix has created form of interaction that her own horizons.
multiple iterations of encourages people to Bot Party has been an
The ‘Bots’ are beautifully the game, all with input play and engage with iterative participatory
created cubes with from the members of each other, Phoenix design exercise carried
different personalities the public who have and her research. out in situ at game events
that begin to sing when interacted, played with resulting in four distinct
you hold them and make and fed back on the Over 3000 people versions of the game.
contact with others. This game. Each iteration have played Bot Party
18 — Established
Early CareerResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Winner Early
Established
Career Researcher
Research Category, Winner — 19Commendation
Liam Healy for DUF-ZINE:
Issue 01-13 (Design)
Liam has produced a
series of self-published
‘zines’ or publications
in collaboration with
displaced people across
Europe. Each issue
documents different
aspects of European
migration routes –
from the everyday
experiences of a
refugee camp in Lesvos,
Greece, to the material and via apps like been distributed in contexts that produced led publications, that
culture of post-Jungle WhatsApp, connecting Lesvos, Greece, where them. The zine is an empower refugees to
landscapes in Calais. Liam to a network they were produced example of a device that tell their own stories
of migrants he met in close collaboration shifts from speculative while creating networks
The zines produce while undertaking with a displaced person design’s typical mode and learning new skills.
unseen perspectives his PhD research. living in one of the of downstream ‘debate’,
on the experience of state-run camps. to an upstream,
migrating across Europe Six zines have been situated speculative
to tell different stories produced so far, with The process of design practice.
to those often seen in several others currently production and
mainstream media. They being developed. While distribution is part of By pursuing projects with
are made collaboratively some are available Liam’s research and individuals rather than
with migrants using to purchase online, is highly situated and NGOs, Liam is developing
smartphone technology several batches have unique to the people and collaborative, refugee-
20 — Established
Early CareerResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Commendation Early CareerEstablished
ResearcherResearch
Category,
Category,
Commendation
Winner — 21Nominated
James Bulley for Still
Point: Bringing Daphne
Oram’s final score to
the Proms (Music)
In July 2018 James Studio, Hugh Davies. 13, ‘Pioneers of Sound’, Proms’ agenda to find a come. The concert was The Guardian’s review of
Bulley and fellow This historic discovery at the Royal Albert particularly ‘21st-century’ particularly fitting as the Prom said the piece
composer Shiva was the culmination Hall, performed by the kind of programming. Oram came up with the was ‘thrilling’, and ‘still
Feshareki performed a of years of research. London Contemporary The piece ‘felt very radical ideas for the work sounds hugely ground
world premiere of the Orchestra. It is now unique and very special while working for the BBC breaking.’ The influential
final score written by Working closely with regarded as the earliest and uncategorisable, and at the Royal Albert Hall classical music website
the electronic music Feshareki and alongside example of a composition we’re now increasingly during World War Two. 5 against 4 wrote it now
pioneer, Daphne Oram, the BBC Proms and specifying real-time looking at things that ‘surely must rank as one
alongside the London numerous technical electronic transformation don’t fit into a neat box’. The performance was of the most innovative
Contemporary Orchestra specialists, Bulley of instrumental sounds. broadcast live on BBC post-war pieces of music
at the BBC Proms. was able to ensure Still Point was the last Radio 3 with highlights composed by anybody.’
that the BBC Proms The performance was composition Oram shown on BBC Four,
Bulley rediscovered the performance followed featured as part of the wrote for orchestra reaching over 100,000
lost final score for Still the exact specification BBC’s ‘Pick of the Proms’ before founding the BBC people, and became
Point in the Daphne that Oram had set down round up and led BBC Radiophonic workshop the most-requested
Oram Collection while for the work in 1948. Proms director David in 1958, laying the off-schedule audio for
researching the work of Pickard to recently foundations for the new Proms 2018, with 18,478
founder of Goldsmiths’ Still Point formed the remark that Still Point fields of British electronic streaming requests and
Electronic Music centre piece for Prom helped further the music that were to 1,129 direct downloads.
22 — Established
Early CareerResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Nominations Early Career
Established
Researcher
Research
Category,
Category,
Nominations
Winner — 23Phoenix Perry for Dr Manuel Ramos-
Games Library Week Martinez and Dr Paolo
– Games Fictioning Plotegher for The Field
talk (Computing) (Visual Cultures)
In November 2018, a In 2013 Dr Paolo
cross disciplinary team Plotegher, Dr Manuel
at Goldsmiths put Ramos-Martinez and
together a fantastic others initiated the New
series of events to Cross Commoners, a
celebrate ‘International collective that explores
Games in Libraries’ week. and experiments with
The event raised the self-organisation in
profile of Goldsmiths New Cross. A year later,
within the London the project developed
games community students and staff students, discussing a into The Field, a self- care, solidarity, shared with members moving
and highlighted the at Goldsmiths, and range of topics relating organised, co-operatively resources and collective across both spaces
brilliant games resources members of the public to games. The public run space that lies service provision, The and encountering new
available to students were able play games had the opportunity to somewhere between Field creates a space approaches to research
in the Library. and talk to the creators. learn about Goldsmiths a social centre and a to explore alternatives and communities of
research while staff community centre. to the inequality, experience. The Field
Phoenix worked closely External speakers spoke and students were competition and brings together people
with Evie Jamieson about topics including able to discuss their The Field operates both exploitation of capitalism. from Goldsmiths and the
from Library Services, Afrofuturism (Chella research and games with as a common resource Its members work community for projects
Computing Researcher Ramanan), escape members of the public. for groups and people in together to organise that address problems
and Lecturer, Federico rooms (Mink Ette), and New Cross who cannot events, workshops, faced by people in the
Fasce, alumni and current British Library Games Tweets after the event access private and campaigns and projects. increasing absence of
students to programme Collection (Stella suggest that attendees public institutions, and extensive welfare.
a week of events Wisdom). Phoenix spoke found the it entertaining as a place to encourage The Field has developed
including idea generation about her research into and informative. social solidarity across partnerships with
workshops, games game interfaces, while gender, age, class, a variety of local
software training, and Evie spoke about the race, and ability. organisations,
culminating in the Games experience of creating collectives and co-
Fictioning conference. and curating a games It is an independent, ops including Sanford
collection for the library. not-for-profit co- housing co-op, Ceramic
The public conference operatively run social Studio Coop, and DIY
was free and attended The evening was busy and educational Space for London.
by around 100 people. and members of the project. Through local
There were 20 playable public mixed with political action, radical The Field has a reciprocal
games produced by members of staff and education, mutual relation with Goldsmiths,
24 — Established
Early CareerResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Nominations Early Career
Established
Researcher
Research
Category,
Category,
Nominations
Winner — 25Postgraduate
Researcher category
Winners
Alessandra Caso and Jo
Kenrick for Top of the
Cops: Murder on the
Dancefloor (Psychology)
The St James Hatcham because of the huge helping to combat
Building was transported importance of the Police some of the difficulties The event, which
back to the 1980s for and Criminal Evidence of human memory. was in collaboration
the murder mystery of Act (PACE) 1984, with Creative Vortex
the year in an immersive which fundamentally On the night, a murder Productions, a
and participatory event changed the way police was staged and the Goldsmiths student-lead
led by the Forensic investigations are audience found multi-medium production
Psychology Unit. Set to carried out in the UK. themselves in the company, was a huge
a backdrop of 80s pop midst of a live police success, with over 90%
classics, attendees were The changes brought investigation. They took of the attendees surveyed
encouraged to come about by this legislation part in an eye-witness saying that they had
dressed in clothing from were heavily influenced line-up, had the chance learned something from
the era and be ready to by psychological to examine evidence the event. One attendee
take part in psychology science and showcase about potential suspects, was quoted as saying:
research alongside an the way research can interact with a variety of “I would recommend
evening of live music, be applied with real characters and observe 2 any event put on by the
dancing and drama. world impact. The main parallel suspect interviews Forensic Psychology Unit”
aim of the event was using either 1980’s or
The neon nostalgia to help the audience current techniques.
commonly associated understand the role of
with the era aside, the psychology in influencing
1980s were chosen police procedure and
26 — Established
PostgraduateResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Winner Postgraduate
Established
Researcher
Research Category, Winner — 27Winner Nominated
Pedro Douglass-Kirk Robert Chapman,
for Stroke Odysseys: Teemu Toivainen and
Workshops and Prof Yulia Kovas for
Performances with GEkNOwME: Genetic
Stroke Survivors from pop-up (Psychology)
Local Communities
(Psychology) GEkNOwME was an
interactive gallery
PhD candidate Pedro exhibition taking place
Douglass-Kirk has performances at theatres see the humour in their in 310 New Cross Road,
been working on a around the UK. In April life after stroke by sharing with an aim to work
large-scale community 2018, Pedro & Lucinda personal experiences. with people who might
project called Stroke Jarrett, the Director of not normally engage
Odysseys, a performance Rosetta Life, collaborated The workshops with genetics and the
arts programme with the V&A museum to progressed and broad societal issues
for neurological run six workshop sessions developed into the final raised by advances in
rehabilitation. Funded with 12 stroke survivors, performance called genetic research.
via the charity Rosetta with activities including Journey to A Word with
Life, Stroke Odysseys is vocal and improvisatory original compositions The project was The event was un- it encouraged them to
delivered in partnership movement exercises. written by renowned developed by the ticketed to ensure full think about genetics
with South London composer Orlando Accessible Genetics access to everyone as in ways they never had
stroke communities. Many of the participants Gough. It has been Consortium as part of the the organisers wanted to before. Over the summer,
had severe aphasia, performed at two ESRC’s Festival of Social attract members of the the project managers will
Stroke survivors work and certain words were community settings for Science, and several of public who might not be visiting Tomsk State
with professional difficult to arrive at, the general public in the exhibits encouraged have an understanding University, a collaborative
dancers and musicians creating much humour London and Oxford. public participation. of genetics. To expand research partner of
to develop performances despite the serious nature the reached publics, the Goldsmiths, as part of
based on their personal of the content. Likewise, One of the key strengths The artworks featured exhibition ran on a Friday an Erasmus programme
stories that allow them physical and cognitive of Stroke Odysseys were created by evening and Saturday. and are intending to
to ‘remember who they difficulties created involves training and Goldsmiths students Tours were also offered facilitate their own
are’ and in so doing, challenges of daily living supporting Stroke to communicate of the exhibitions, but initiatives for interactive
build their resilience including dressing, Ambassadors, who fundamental genetic participants were also exhibitions in Tomsk.
and confidence. eating and navigating are stroke survivors concepts in an accessible free to explore the space
public transport. previously involved in way. They included using and ask any questions
A series of workshops workshops who then ink to replicate gene and if they wished.
in multiple communities However, the activities attend and support new environment interplays
and hospital settings have provided an environment workshops in hospitals and identifying rare The event was extremely
been completed with where these individuals and community centres. genetic variants using well received, with many
national and international were able to have fun and origami butterflies. participants noting that
28 — Established
PostgraduateResearch Category,
Researcher Winner
Category, Winner Postgraduate
Established
Researcher
Research
Category,
Category,
Nominations
Winner — 29Special Award for
Community Engagement
Rose Sinclair for
‘The Women of
Windrush’ (Design)
To mark the 70th formed by Caribbean talks, podcasts and of a wider initiative everyday crafts,
anniversary of the women in the UK reflective discussions, Rose was invited to objects and artefacts of
arrival of the MV Empire following WWII, Rose Rose created a participate in the V&A traditional Caribbean
Windrush at Tilbury organised or contributed welcoming and safe Look We Here: Curating Front Room spaces in
docks, Goldsmiths to six events with a space for sharing and the Caribbean project, a new light; to rightly
designer and lecturer range of partners, remembering the often- which challenged both elevate them and the
Rose Sinclair embarked including: The British overlooked contributions the under-representation networks that created
on a range of activities to Library, the Black Cultural of Caribbean women of Caribbean creativity them and reaffirm their
engage the public with Archives, the Mayor of to the UKs social within the V&A, and cultural importance and
material legacy of the London’s community and cultural life. negative perceptions and value. Furthermore, these
women of the Windrush engagement team, The stereotypes of Caribbean engagements provided
generation, particularly Brockley Society, and This was done primarily art and popular culture. Rose with invaluable
their crafts and textiles. the Constance Howard through making insights and data which
Gallery, and the V&A. workshops, but also These exchanges have informed her
Based on her practice- through responding to and events helped doctoral research.
based doctoral research From weaving workshops objects and artefacts participants to see
into the textile networks to community baking, and even food. As part the often overlooked,
30 — Established Research
Special Award Category,
for Community Winner
Engagement Special
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Award for
Research
Community
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Engagement
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