Ustinov College

Collaborations with Durham Colleges

Current research collaborations are undertaken with St Mary’s and Josephine Butler Colleges.

  1. 2011-2012. The Principal is principal investigator on a successful Artist in Residence Leverhulme application connecting SASS and St Mary’s. Margareta Kern’s residency at Durham is broadly concerned with the National Miner’s Strike in 1984/85  re-visited in the light of the recent anti-cuts protests, occupations, strikes and resistances to the austerity measures, that are taking place across the UK (and globally). http://strike1984.wordpress.com/about/.

  2. Advances in Biographical Research Seminar Series in collaboration with Josephine Butler College that launches in October 2012 with a seminar on ‘Women’s Lives, well-being and community’ with the Regional Refugee Forum North East that documents  participatory and visual  biographical research undertaken with women asylum seekers and refugees. The series closes with a national conference at Durham on the issues raised in the seminar series.

  3.  A collaborative Leverhulme application for a Writer in Residence connecting Ustinov, Josephine Butler and St Mary’s Colleges was submitted in July 2012. This proposal will connect GCR/SCR/JCR’s of the three colleges as well as local/national/international students with Richard W. Hardwick, the Festival of the North East and the wider communities on the journey of the St Cuthbert’s Gospel from Lindisfarne to Durham.

  4. A proposal is in development for a national/international research hub on Sex Work and Sexual Exploitation to be located between Josephine Butler and Ustinov Colleges and the School of Applied Social Sciences (SASS).  This builds on a highly successful seminar series between Josephine Butler and SASS and Josephine Butler’s campaigns around prostitution and social justice.