Research project

Mansbridge Heritage Project

Project overview

This project collaborates with to co-produce creative workshops and baseline data to capture what residents feel, understand and experience about Mansbridge, a suburb of Southampton known for its generous green spaces, striking layout, and distinctive style of housing. The architect designed the estate with , and 2025 marks the centenary of its development. We co-created a to celebrate the history of the area with the local community, providing analysis of three key themes across the programme: pride, heritage literacy, and place perception.

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Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Joanna Sofaer

Professor of Archaeology
Research interests
  • Asset-based community development and role of cultural and community assets in health and wel…
  • The relationship between heritage and wellbeing
  • The social value of archaeology 
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Other researchers

Dr Joseph Owen

Research Fellow
Research interests
  • Culture and heritage in place
  • Arts and humanities approaches to law and policy
  • Modernist art and literature
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Mr Isaac Fravashi

Research interests
  • Collage aesthetics in literature
  • Experimental literature
  • Approaches to authorship
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs