The Open University staying at Llwyn Celyn
'A group from the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, will allow the 'Written in Stone' project team the opportunity to spend time developing a framework for evaluating geodiversity in the context of ‘place’, with broad application for organisations involved in land and property management.'
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh staying at Saddell House.
'A team of deaf and hearing academics who conduct research on sign language related topics, including interpreting and translation, language policy and sign language in everyday life. The retreat will be led intirely in British Sign Language making it accessible to all and leading to impactful outputs for the academic, deaf and wider communities.'
University of Oxford staying at Goddards.
'A patient-led research programme by the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. The group consists of several participants who are undertaking PhDs studying their own illnesses. The retreat will allow us to consolidate lessons from five years of the programme and plan how best to support additional patient-led research studies.'
University of Bradford staying at the White House.
'A group from Visualising Heritage, School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences will use digital archaeological capture methods such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, 360° video, to creatively document, visualise, and interpret the historic Landmark Trust property and its surrounding landscape.'
University of Plymouth staying at Hawkers Cottages.
'Students from the Environmental Building Group: our project allows our MSc Low Carbon Architectural Engineering students to understand how the construction of this vernacular form contributes to the warm in winter/cool in summer performance of the cottages.'
Imperial College staying at Auchinleck House.
'Researchers from the Department of Life Sciences, Behavioural Ecology will take part in a week of workshops studying bird communication, namely house sprarrows, to expand their knowledge and encourage new collaborations in this area.'
University of Southampton staying at Belmont
'A group of historians from the Department of History at the University of Southampton working on nightlife in the Eighteenth-Century English Town. We will be using our stay at Belmont to immerse ourself in the eighteenth-century world while we prepare our papers for a urban histories panel at the ESSHC Conference in Leiden 2025 and to workshop the introduction to an edited collection we are planning on the same topic.'
Queen's University Belfast staying at Auchinleck House.
'A group of applied linguists, educationalists, and social scientists from the Centre for Language Education Research will use time at Auchinleck to conceptualise three intersecting projects in language research, benefitting from the history-rich environment to remain focused on geopolitical and sociocultural learnings from the past to plan for a better future.'
University of Oxford staying at Woodspring Priory.
'A team of researchers from the Departments of Astrophysics and AOPP at the University of Oxford will congregate to develop proposals for observations of exoplanets with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, focusing on measurements of thermal emission from ‘lava planets’, and measurements of chemistry on ‘hot Jupiters’.'
University of Cambridge staying at New Inn.
'Architectural historians working towards PhDs including the 'architecture of hospitality'. As a writing retreat, the stay will encourage and foster a sense of community. The New Inn is an example not just of a medival hall, but a precurer to many of the places currently studied by current Cambridge students.'