Luci Gorell Barnes' Outputs (22)
If racism vanished for a day: A billboard (2024)
Physical Artefact
The RESPECT team created a billboard based on the If Racism Vanished for a Day book. Unveiled in St Werburghs, Bristol, the billboard highlights the lived racialised experiences of children, which often go unheard.
The community billboard displays... Read More about If racism vanished for a day: A billboard.
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK (2024)
Journal Article
Children’s sense of place is important for wellbeing, development and belonging in a community or place. The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic – Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery) project used creative methods and repeat engagement t... Read More about Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK.
‘Where do you feel it most?’ Using body mapping to explore the lived experiences of racism with 10- and 11-year-olds (2024)
Journal Article
This paper presents an overview of the arts-based methodology used in a research project that aimed to explore the impact of the lived experiences of racism on 10- and 11-year-old children in the United Kingdom. The research responds to the relative... Read More about ‘Where do you feel it most?’ Using body mapping to explore the lived experiences of racism with 10- and 11-year-olds.
If racism vanished for a day: Towards a kinder, anti-racist society (2024)
Journal Article
In this article the RESPECT team (Racialised Experiences Project: Education, Children and Trust) give an overview of their research about the impact of racism on the mental health and well being of primary school children, and share some examples of... Read More about If racism vanished for a day: Towards a kinder, anti-racist society.
Teaching hidden climate threats: drought in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Winning the GA’s silver publishing award in 2020 for their e-book and associated teacher notes, the team behind the resource creation reflect on the impact of their work and the importance of climate discussions in the primary classroom.
Over the... Read More about Teaching hidden climate threats: drought in the UK.
The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
This paper offers a new child-centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self-reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longit... Read More about The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19.
‘Make sure to stay safe’: Using art and trust to navigate research collaborations through an evolving social crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Effective communication and engagement around a global pandemic require a thorough understanding of perceptions and experiences of affected groups. Children were significantly impacted by mitigation measures during COVID-19, yet their voices were sel... Read More about ‘Make sure to stay safe’: Using art and trust to navigate research collaborations through an evolving social crisis.
Seeing through the fog – stories of social shocks to empower youth voice and leadership (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (Article 12) clearly states that children have the right to be to be heard and to have their views taken seriously. However, their voices are seldom listened to or considered in policy making and policy de... Read More about Seeing through the fog – stories of social shocks to empower youth voice and leadership.
Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats (2023)
Journal Article
In this article, the Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery (VIP- CLEAR) team talk about the research they have undertaken in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the voices of children need to be listened t... Read More about Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats.
Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Children are unheard voices within the COVID-19 pandemic. We are unaware how intersections of complex factors in specific social settings have impacted their perceptions and are determining what ‘recovery’ means. ‘Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Loc... Read More about Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’.
If Racism Vanished for a Day (2022)
Book
This picture book was co-written and illustrated by 17 children from Bristol Schools. They think it's important to learn from children's experiences of racism so have posed simple sentences and illustrative responses for readers to critically reflect... Read More about If Racism Vanished for a Day.
Learning To Live With Fog Monsters (2022)
Book
This story book, its concept and storyline were co-produced by Luci Gorell Barnes, Verity Jones*, Lindsey McEwen* and Amanda Webber* with contributions from Sara Williams*, Toity Deave*, Laura Hobbs*, Deepak Gopinath* and Laura Fogg-Rogers* (*Univer... Read More about Learning To Live With Fog Monsters.
The power of picture books: A pandemic tool to recovery (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper draws on 18 months of interdisciplinary research in partnership with Schools and Early Years settings across some of the most socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, funded by the AHRC. The interdisciplinary team undertook an art based re... Read More about The power of picture books: A pandemic tool to recovery.
The welcome banner: Cultural exchange through creative collaboration (2022)
Book Chapter
This chapter describes the ‘Welcome Banner’, a participatory creative project facilitated by the author with parents - many of whom have English as an additional language - at Speedwell Children’s Centre, Bristol. It describes the context and methodo... Read More about The welcome banner: Cultural exchange through creative collaboration.
Voices in a pandemic: Listening to the voices of children in a pandemic through arts-based, deep mapping methods adapted for online delivery (2022)
Journal Article
The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic—Children’s Lockdown Experience Applied to Recovery) project aims to explore younger children’s experiences of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform their recovery and resilience to future social s... Read More about Voices in a pandemic: Listening to the voices of children in a pandemic through arts-based, deep mapping methods adapted for online delivery.
Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper will draw on ongoing research funded by AHRC which works with 5 schools / Early Year centres in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of Bristol. It will reflect on how we have used maps as a way of exploring children's experi... Read More about Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds.
Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country (2021)
Journal Article
Engaging young citizens with drought risk and positive water behaviours is essential in domestic water demand management within the wider climate crisis. This paper evaluates a new research-informed, picture book—‘DRY: The Diary of a Water Superhero’... Read More about Promoting water efficiency and hydrocitizenship in young people’s learning about drought risk in a temperate maritime country.
Reweaving urban water-community relations: Creative, participatory river “daylighting” and local hydrocitizenship (2020)
Journal Article
Framed by questions about ‘hydrocitizenship’ in the 21st century, this co-produced, interdisciplinary arts and humanities-centred research explores the (re)weaving of local knowledges, experiences, perceptions and values of water and place through th... Read More about Reweaving urban water-community relations: Creative, participatory river “daylighting” and local hydrocitizenship.
DRY: Diary of a Water Super Hero (2019)
Book
This is the children's book (designed for Key Stage 2) produced as part of the knowledge exchange within the NERC -funded DRY (Drought Risk and You) project. The book aims to promote awareness of drought in the UK and of positive water behaviours -... Read More about DRY: Diary of a Water Super Hero.