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Artful Engagement: disseminating a pilot national Arts Education Framework at the UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education

Background on MAP Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) is a 4-year international, interdisciplinary applied research project, which began in 2020. MAP demonstrates the value of arts-based methods for everyday peacebuilding with and for young people in post-conflict affected countries (namely, Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal). The research project is providing…

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Markets Before Modernity

Markets – simply put, institutions designed to facilitate and structure exchange – tend to get a bad press. Think back to the financial crisis of 2007-08, the damaging consequences of which were felt throughout the world. That crisis persuaded many people that markets cause as many problems as they solve,…

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Policy engagement towards informing the current and future role of Community First Responders’ in the United Kingdom

We aimed to engage with policy stakeholders related to ambulance services and Community First Responders (CFR) schemes at a local, regional and national level to co-create and inform policy relating to CFR schemes, and to inform their future development. University of Lincoln research has: Provided evidence to UK ambulance services…

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Government endorses all recommendations made in the summer women’s football review – so what next?

The government has endorsed all recommendations made in the raising the bar report that was released on July 13 this year following a review chaired by former international footballer, Karen Carney. Carney “felt great relief” when hearing that the government had accepted all recommendations of the review. Culture Secretary, Rt…

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Bridging the Gap: Forensic Psychology Academia and Practice

The University of Lincoln, HMPPS North East and Yorkshire Psychological Services have been supported by the Lincoln Policy Hub fund to identify opportunities to ‘bridge the gap’ between academia and practice within Forensic Psychology. Specifically, Lincoln Policy Hub provided funding to support staff from the School of Psychology to host…

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Boston neighbourhood police collaboration

Police in the small coastal town of Boston, Lincolnshire face unique challenges. With eight major languages spoken, including English, police can struggle to engage with newer migrant communities and build public confidence. Local police approached the university to build a collaboration around their desire to engage better with the local…

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New Psychology Research on Gaelic Games

Researchers in the School of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Lincoln have been collaborating with colleagues in Ireland to advance knowledge and understanding of sport psychology in Gaelic Games. The research, led by Dr Trish Jackman and Dr Matthew Bird, consisted of two studies and resulted in…

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Talking Back

‘Talking Back’ sought to improve the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) website (https://map.lincoln.ac.uk/), by focusing on how to best communicate our work for policymakers such as national ministries, UN agencies, researchers, and potential future funders.  The work undertaken has improved the discoverability of the research, as well as how to…

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Creating Lincoln’s climate assembly process, #ClimateHopeLincoln to inform local climate policy

(Cathartic) thoughts of an academic, community changemaker and policy professional… Whilst we had no initial prescriptive plans in how to deliver the entire assembly process, we decided that this process should be as organic and community led as possible, given our main aim was about connecting people and building a…

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University of Lincoln Professor calls for societal change at the Women in Sport Inquiry

Attending the Palace of Westminster is not an ordinary Tuesday morning activity for an academic from Lincoln (or anywhere else for that matter). I counted down the stops between King’s Cross and Westminster, trying to distract myself from the overcrowded tube. One commuter claiming, ‘this is the busiest it’s been’,…

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