Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC)
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The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC) is one of three centres in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Coventry. CAMC is home to a vibrant research culture that weaves together three strands of scholarship:
- Critical Practices
- Cultural Memory
- Well-being and the Arts.
The Centre's research is both transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary: it pursues excellence with unique disciplines, and shares the belief that exchanges across disciplinary boundaries can transform discrete scholarly fields and can improve the lives and experiences of the individuals and communities with whom it engages.
Members of CAMC are internationally recognised as leaders in the fields of:
- Art History
- Curatorial Studies
- Design and Design Futures
- English Literature and Language
- Gender and Women's Writing
- Material and Cultural Studies
- Practice Research
The Centre is home to a community of scholars whose wide, multimodal interests, cutting-edge scholarship and unparalleled creative practice comprise CAMC’s distinctive research climate. Its members supervise an ever-growing PhD community whose studies lie in distinct fields of expertise but who benefit from the lively transdisciplinary context in which they work.
CAMC is deeply local, and its members actively work to enrich and promote Coventry’s museums, galleries and heritage sites as well as fostering community health, mobility and access to creative and cultural productions. As citizens of the 2021 City of Culture, CAMC members are working with external partners to enhance Coventry’s cultural experience and to expose PhD students to the work of these partners through co-funded studentships.
At the same time, CAMC's research has a global reach, with partners throughout the UK and across Europe and North America. Its collaborations with international partners have been supported by awards including Horizon2020, Leverhulme Research Fellowships, British Academy fellowships and AHRC networking grants. CAMC is a member of the AHRC Midlands Four Cities (M4C) Doctoral Training Programme, which brings talented PhD students into the Centre.
CAMC is a truly exceptional environment, sustaining a team of world-leading researchers, artists and creative practitioners who are engaged with each other’s work and dedicated to nurturing early career researchers and PGRs.
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Priory Street
Coventry
CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
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2023-11-30 11:00:32