2018

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£64k ESIF Widening Participation through Skills – Citizen Journalists (with Michael Leyshon, CGES)

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ESRC Impact Acceleration Award – Sensing Nature: Promoting inclusive multisensory experiences within nature-based settings managed to promote biodiversity (with Sarah Bell, UEMS)

This Impact Cultivation Award will fund a focused two-day workshop with project partners, to:

1. Explore the knowledge and capacity-building needs of UK-based environmental charities, such as the RSPB and the WWT, for enabling and promoting inclusive onsite sensory, physical, social and intellectual experiences in nature-based settings for people living with visual impairment
2. Examine how these charities can best realise and evidence the social and economic benefits of promoting these socially inclusive multisensory nature experiences

Budget:  £17k

ERDF SMARTline – University of Exeter collaborative project with the Medical School (Tim Taylor), Geography (Catherine and Michael Leyshon), EMPS (Stuart Townley), Business School (Gareth Shaw), Volunteer Cornwall, Cornwall Council and Coastline Housing

SMARTLINE is a research and innovation project aimed at supporting the growth of eHealth and eWellbeing of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Cornwall through the identification and support for products, processes and services that will improved the health and wellbeing of social housing tenants and build the cohesion of their communities.  This is a partnership project involving the University of Exeter, Coastline Housing, Volunteer Cornwall and Cornwall Council.

Budget: £5.1million

ESIF SMARTtenant – University of Exeter (Catherine and Michael Leyshon), The Learning Partnership, Volunteer Cornwall, Cornwall Council and Coastline Housing

Smart Tennant focuses on vulnerable social tenants to deliver new training programmes to stabilise households and give them the confidence and skills to move towards employment and the opportunity to volunteer to support their peers in the community thus adding to the social capital of the area.

Budget: £1.98million

ESIF Living Well to Work – University of Exeter (Catherine and Michael Leyshon), The Learning Partnership, Cornwall Council, Volunteer Cornwall and Pentreath

Living Well for Work will deliver 12 pilots to test and evaluate innovative ways of engaging older individuals and those with mental ill health, LDD, autism, diabetes to re-engage in training and employment.  

Budget £1.2million

ESRC IAA - iTap Mapping

This is a collaboration between the University of Exeter (with Michael Leyshon) and Age UK and is called the TAP-MAPPING project.

TAP (Transport Access People)-MAPPING offers an opportunity to accelerate innovation and realise the wider impacts of the Volunteers in Communities project run by Dr Michael Leyshon and Prof Catherine Leyshon. At an operational level TAP-MAPPING will improve existing transport management systems for volunteers through social innovation in Cornwall's community transport sector. At the sectoral level the project will establish a network of partners to produce and deliver digital solutions into the future. This will include bringing in new partners from the digital economy. TAP-MAPPPING in this sense will produce a new triangle of innovation; with the public, private and third sectors collaborating on the real world problem of community transport management

Budget: £25K

The Reading Agency Bibliotherapy

With Professor Paul Farrand, Dr Joanne Woodford (Clinical Education, Development and Research, Psychology) with Dr Michael Leyshon (Centre for Geography, Environment and Society). The research is a small qualitative study evaluating the attitudes and perceptions held by users of the Adult Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme available through public libraries across England. 

Reading Well Books on Prescription helps people to understand and manage common mental health difficulties though reading self-help book titles. The scheme is endorsed by health professionals and supported by public libraries.  The research will also examine the potential to involve community based volunteers in supporting people to engage and use books on the scheme and activate wider community support

Budget:  £20k

NHS RCHT Sustainability and Transformation Plan

Research around engagement activities on the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Sustainability and Transformation Plan with Michael Leyshon (Centre for Geography, Environment and Society). This project for the NHS develops a research approach for engagement activities with a variety of different publics to help gauge their opinions on the changing structure of health care. The study is focuses on the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Sustainability and Transformation Plan.

Budget:  £15k

Cornwall Community Fund – LifeCycleFal

Social intervention with BikeWorks Falmouth and the University of Exeter (with Michael Leyshon). This is a pilot research and practice project on the delivering of a bike mechanic course to young people in Penryn. The course develops soft and hard skills amongst young people in one of the most deprived parts of Cornwall.

Budget:  £1k