Connected Communities Programme

We all belong to communities - at home, in our neighbourhoods, at work, at school, through voluntary work, through online networks, and so on.

Communities are vital to our lives and wellbeing. But their importance means we need to understand their changing place in our lives, their role in encouraging health, economic prosperity and creativity, their history and their future.

The Connected Communities programme led by AHRC, ran from 2010 – 2019, resulted in over 300 projects that were designed to help us understand the changing nature of communities in their historical and cultural contexts and the role of communities in sustaining and enhancing our quality of life.