Negah Angha Photography

Negah is a multidisciplinary scholar with a background in international relations and humanities. She is a third-year PhD student in the War Studies Department at King’s College London. She holds an MBA and an MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University. Negah is also a photographer who uses visual methodologies for research and dissemination of findings. She is currently developing a solo exhibition at King’s SSPP Exchange Space to provide the viewer a different understanding and feeling towards Sufism and Sufi communities. Disrupting age-old biases. The role of her photographs and the experimental events surrounding the exhibition will provide a diverse outlet in explaining the academic research towards understanding how Sufis develop socially harmonious communities.  Photos exhibited in the September 2019 SSPP Exchange Space group exhibition at King’s College London. Orange is the new blue, Chefchaoen, Morocco 2019 (left); Spiritual moments, Tétouan, Morocco 2019 (right).  

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Alex Pereira - Picture book for children’s environmental education

This project comprises the art production of a picture book on environmental education for preschool and primary school children. The book tells a story of a little astronaut who has been sent on a housekeeping mission. The story is an allegory of the child’s home environment and the outer space, aiming to raise children’s awareness and sensitivity about environmental protection and resource conservation. The project explores visual methods to advance attitudes towards waste management and engage children and parents in storytelling about the environment, fostering creativity and cultivating emotional identity. Dr. Alex Pereira is Teaching Assistant in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. He holds a doctorate in Public Policies from the King’s Brazil Institute, a master’s degree in Environmental, Politics and Globalisation from the Department of Geography at King’s, and an MBA in Environmental Management and Technologies from the University of São Paulo. His doctoral research compares the national waste reforms in Brazil and India, exploring how pressure groups and institutions shape environmental policies in both countries. Recently he has focused his research on design thinking to understand how the integration of design and academic research can promote innovation in public service provision and sustainability.

Art & Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community

Art & Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community is a multi-year, collaborative and inter-disciplinary research project, led by Rachel Kerr and James Gow at King’s College London in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science and University of the Arts London. It was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security (PaCCS) research programme and Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). Art and Reconciliation set out to question the potential of arts-based and creative approaches to reconciliation. It explored the concept and practice of reconciliation combining approaches from history and conflict resolution, art and creative practice, and both qualitative and quantitative social science methods in three strands: History, Practice and Discourse.

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Gender Justice Memory

Gender Justice Memory is a platform for thinking about transformative gender justice in transitional societies led by Jelke Boesten at King’s College London and Helen Scanlon at the University of Cape Town. While designed as a research project based in academia, the platform aims to bridge scholarship and the arts for social change through networks and partnerships.

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Transnational Violence Against Women and Girls

Transnational Violence Against Women and Girls (2016-19) is an ESRC-Newton funded project (£533k) led by Cathy McIlwaine at King’s College London and Paul Heritage at Queen Mary University of London. The project explored the nature of gender-based violence against women and girls among Brazilians in London and among those living in a favela community in Rio de Janeiro. The research was conducted in ways that combined social science and arts based, creative engagements to try to understand such violence more fully. In collaboration with the People’s Palace Project, Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), CASA Latin American Theatre Festival and Gael le Cornec in London and with Redes da Maré and Bia Lessa in Rio de Janeiro, the project developed verbatim theatre play (Efemera), two films and a major audio-visual installation at the Women of the World exhibition at the Southbank Centre (2018) (Scar). This work led to another project also with LAWRS and Gael le Cornec on the Step Up Migrant Women campaign funded by the Lloyd’s Foundation (2018-19) resulting in the Right to be Believed and an audio-performance installation as a result of King’s funded VEM researcher-artist collaborations grant.

2019 Collaborations with Artists in Residence

Collaborating artists to took up residency at King’s for 2 weeks in July 2019 in the Inigo Rooms at Kings Culture. This facilitated extended dialogue both between the artists and researchers directly and indirectly involved in the VEM network. A final exhibition in The Exchange was held in October -November 2019 coinciding with the ESRC Festival of Social Science presenting the findings and displayed the new cultural products produced by the project as well as the film detailing the collaborations.