Fostering inclusion
KISI aims to break down barriers to participation in civil society and democratic politics, and to understand and facilitate community cohesion.
- co-Create
- Ages and Stages
- Families from minority communities affected by dementia
- Curating Development
- Engaging Marginalised Voices in Climate Policy: A Staffordshire & Stoke COP Initiative.
- Beaches, Beach Finds and Belonging: An Inclusive History of Beach Cleans on the Isle of Skye
- Community Climate Skills: Understanding and tackling knowledge and skills gaps in community climate action
- Radical Creative Ageing Living Lab: ‘A Warm Welcome'
- Secondary to Higher Education – Enhancing Language Learning opportunities among underprivileged young people in Tunstall to enhance transferable employability skills and encourage a sense of attainment
- ‘Digital Exclusion in and around Staffordshire’. The ‘real-life’ challenges of digital exclusion
- YMCA ‘Youth Voices’ project - Listening to Children and Young People: Everyday Realities and Futures in North Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent.
- Reaching Across Borders (KAPP funded project). Building a Waldorf/Steiner education approach to reduce vulnerability to mental health for Syrian refugee pupils in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
- Making Space for Play
- Creating community-based informal libraries: A case study in Arsal, Lebanon
- Enhancing democratic well-being through co-creating an understanding and satisfaction of justice needs among Northern Irish citizens: A community dialogue pilot project
- Understanding Lived Experiences to Influence Policy
- Wilder Connections – co-designing participatory biodiversity uplift as Longton, Stoke on Trent, levels up
- ‘Lifting the lid’: an exploration of ‘social story-making’ as generative justice practice with crime-affected people and communities.
- Community Climate Action: Keele, Councils and Communities Working Together
- STEM-Taskforce: Fostering Female Leadership in STEM among Forcefully Displaced Young Females in Colombia
- Soundpots: a framework for early years music activities to counteract the impact of Covid on young children in Stoke and Staffordshire
- Doing Social Change Differently through Community Ownership. A research collaboration between Cheshire West & Chester Council and Keele University - Laying the groundwork for a 'Routes out of Poverty' Community-based learning programme for unlocking community wealth and community ownership.