Sustainable Communities

Working closely with a variety of community stakeholders in the UK, Japan, the Philippines, Greece, Canada and Kenya, our research puts centre stage the voices and aspirations of community groups and individuals who have been traditionally disregarded by mainstream management discourses.

The ICCSR research explores a wide range of business and society issues from the point of view of the community, including market-place exclusion, food poverty, rural health, volunteering and post disaster reconstruction and tourism.

Outputs have been disseminated not only through academic publications but also through documentary dramas. Virtual games and community based exhibitions and installations curated jointly with the award winning New Vic Borderlines:

Communities in crisis
Food poverty
Community co-design and co-production
Community identity and collective memory
Volunteering
Community leadership
Community tourism
Health in the community

Academics leads

Professor Mihaela Keleman

Professor David Pemberton

Dr Judy Muthuri

Dr Lara Bianchi

Dr Lee Matthews

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Associated publications

Journal articles

Millward, H. A., Kelemen, M. L. and Mangan, A. (2019), Co-Producing community and individual change through theatrical interventions, Organizational Aesthetics: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, 34-50

Surman, E., Kelemen, M., MILLWARD, H. and Moffat, S. (2018), Food, ethics and community: Using Cultural Animation to develop a food vision for North Staffordshire, Journal of Consumer Ethics, 2/2, pp. 17-25

Gold, S., Muthuri, J.N. and Reiner, G. (2018), Collective action for tackling wicked social problems: a system dynamics model for corporate community involvement, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.179, pp. 662-673.

Lin, Y., Kelemen, M. and Tresidder, R. (2018) Post-disaster tourism: building resilience through community-led approaches in the aftermath of the 2011 disasters in Japan, Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Kelemen M, Surman E, and Dikomitis L. (2018) Cultural animation in health research: An innovative methodology for patient and public involvement and engagement. Health Expectations.

Goulding, C., Kelemen, M. and Kiyomiya, T. (2017) Community based responses to the Japanese Tsunami: a bottom up approach, European Journal of Operational Research.

Kelemen, M., Mangan, A and Moffat, S. (2017), ‘A little act of kindness?’: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work, Sociology, Vol.51(6), 1239-1256.

Lam, B., Zamenopoulos, T., Kelemen, M and Na, J. H. (2017) Unearth hidden assets through community co-design and co-production, The Design Journal, 20:sup1, S3601-S3610

Burgess, G., Kelemen, M., Moffat, S. and Parsons, E. (2017), Using performative knowledge production to explore marketplace exclusion, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal.

Lin,Y., Kelemen, M. and Kiyomiya, T (2017). The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan. International Jourmal of Project Management.

Podcast

Resilient Communities: Business and Corporations, Cumberland Lodge