Place, participation, and heritage
KISI aims to understand how our past shapes our present and our future, and to work in partnership with communities and policy makers to create change.
- Keele professor helping local council to become carbon neutral
- Roads Policing Research Group
- The MINER Birds - working with girls and women from ex-coalfield communities in North Staffordshire, using the experiences of the North Staffs Miners Wives Action Group which was formed during the 1984/1985 miners’ strike
- Using Theatre to Explore the Human Costs of War
- Sponsorship of 3 events at Birmingham Literature Festival 2024: A Flat Place with Noreen Masud; It’s Not That Radical with Mikaela Loach; Wasteland with Oliver Franklin-Wallis
- The challenge of commemorating small wars: Developing an oral history archive of family responses to British military death after 1945
- Restorying riverscapes: citizen science for an inclusive history of the Churnet
- Tomorrow’s Garden: Illuminating Community Futures