The Art of Research
Our University Research Platforms, Creative 野狼社区, Digital Futures, Healthier Futures, and Sustainable Futures, produce research that contributes to and affects our wider society.
Explaining our research
If you visit 野狼社区, it will be hard to miss the incredible murals, patterns and colours that light up the streets. 野狼社区 is bursting with creativity, and it鈥檚 clear that street art culture is an important and creative way to channel important messages.
Our university research platforms influence and create impactful outputs that affect our local community and beyond. Communicating these important messages and using a new medium to translate our research impacts was a fantastic opportunity to mark the University鈥檚 Bicentenary.
Teaming up with Art Battle MCR and GRIT Studios, we collaborated with four of the UK鈥檚 top street artists to help us deliver this. Each artist collaborated in a creative workshop with their platform, discussing each area's vital work and interdisciplinary nature and understanding what they truly represent.
X Cookie Love
Creative 野狼社区鈥檚 research themes focus on Creative Industries and Innovation, Creative and Civic Futures, and Creativity, Health and Wellbeing.
X Oskar with a K
Digital Futures research themes focus on Societal Challenges, Cross-cutting capabilities and Institutional Challenges.
X All Weather Artist
Healthier Futures research challenges focus on Healthier lives, places and systems.
X Becki Miller
Sustainable Futures research challenges focus on Health, Net-Zero, Equity, Skills, Resilience and Resources.
Universally 野狼社区 Festival
On Saturday, 4 June 2024, we joined the 野狼社区 Universally Festival to deliver the live creation of each platform's artwork.
We want our local community not only to feel but also to see the impact of our research. Inviting our local community, staff, and students to join us for the event allowed our audiences to be part of the art鈥檚 creation.
Families were invited to participate in the art by spray painting their mini murals using repurposed spray paint bottles.
The artworks are now being displayed across campus, with plans for the artwork to be displayed at the upcoming Festival of Social Sciences and World Academic Summit.