Residency Trainee Artist Opportunity
A great trainee artist opportunity! Residency Trainee Artist (Full-time, October 13th – December 5th 2014, plus 20 additional days to be agreed in 2015 / 37 hours per week/ £1440) This is a trainee artist […]
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WANTED: Get Talking Artist(s) in Residency
Artist Commission to support the Get Talking Evaluation of Appetite August 2014 – March 2015 Staffordshire University’s Creative Communities Unit is looking to commission an individual or group of artists to support the evaluation […]
Social Enterprise Pop-Up Shop 2014: Sptialfields Market, London
We are delighted to announce that our collaboration with the Students’ Union to bring a Pop-Up Shop Competition was a fantastic success! Congratulations to all of the students who participated during the days in both […]
Research That Encourages Mutual Benefit by Sarah Page
Having recently conducted a couple of pieces of focus group research I have been encouraged by the reciprocal benefits experienced by researcher, commissioners of the research and research participants themselves.
Introducing the new guy…!
We briefly posted on Facebook earlier this week about welcoming our new Administration Assistant Ryan to the Creative Communities Unit. Of course, it is always a daunting thing joining a new team and been thrust […]
Tipping the Conversation
Adam Gratton, Get Talking Volunteer, reflects on how Get Talking and tea helped conversation flow at a beautiful performance of As the World Tipped on a soggy Friday night
Stoke is where the ‘art’ is!
Adam Gratton, Get Talking Network Volunteer and Cultural Reporter for Appetite reflects on his experience of being part of Get Talking for Appetite As I helped to unload the wild array of implements for the […]
Are you a Youth worker in Stoke or North Staffordshire? Let us hear your thoughts….
We are currently carrying out a small research project looking at the feasibility of developing a local youth work network for youth workers in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire. Please take a couple of […]
The complexities of managing youth work
Youth work in the UK has seen significant changes and challenges in recent years. A recent study by the Creative Communities Unit (The Shape of Youth Work Report) found that across the West Midlands there was […]
Get Talking Researcher Job Vacancy – Apply now!
The CCU advertises a great employment opportunity to work on Appetite, an Arts Council funded project in Stoke on Trent. The Creative Communities Unit wishes to recruit a Researcher for the ‘Appetite’ programme – an Arts Council funded, Creative People […]