CCER Projects

This project is a collaboration between the Migration Museum and Goldsmiths Lecturer and Researcher Louise Doherty, (STaCS). Louise is working with museum staff to evaluate the People's Panel and Network- an initiative that was established in 2022 to embed grassroots community engagement and co-production as central to the Migration Museum's work and ethos.

The Museum believes that by building a community engagement strategy from the ground up, community members are actively involved in co-creating the values and objectives at the heart of the museum and that ultimately through shaping the programme in the future, community engagement and consultation will be mainstreamed into every aspect of the running of the museum.

As well as evaluating the project’s processes and framework for co-production so far, the project seeks to locate the Migration Museum’s Values via analysis of the workshops and surveys undertaken with the People’s Panel and Network. Additionally, an open access toolkit will be co-produced offering practical advice and recommendations to others seeking to embed meaningful co-production in their programming and community engagement practices.

For more information and to access the co-created toolkit.

The new research this will yield will reveal potential pathways to change which can be used by others elsewhere. This will also involve an evaluation of how children’s services have implemented the findings of Professor Bernard’s earlier research.

Methods have included street surveys; participant observation; community sounding board events; discussions at community ‘bumping spaces’; group discussions at community hubs/centres; house/flat interviews; and community mapping. The project has been supported by Awards for All Funding and Goldsmiths Enterprise funding.

This project is a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Social and Humanitarian Crisis and Dr Panagiotis Pentaris, scoping, initially, the existing literature on recovery and resilience in the aftermath of natural disasters worldwide. It aims to identify research gaps and design a cross-country research project focusing on both local and international policies in disaster relief.