Network member

Helen Manchester, PhD

University of Bristol

Helen Manchester is a Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures at the University of Bristol, UK. Helen is interested in digital exclusion, material cultures and re-imagining ‘care’. She develops methodologically innovative approaches to research, including co-design and co-creation, often working in interdisciplinary teams with artists, technologists, civil society organisations and policy-makers. Helen has led a number of Research Council UK funded projects, working with older people, including Tangible Memories: Community in care and Tangible Memories: Parlours of Wonder.

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Publications

Manchester, H. and Barke, J. (2020) Regulating for careful knowledge production: researching older people, isolation and loneliness. In Mcdermont, M., Cole, T., Newman, J., & Piccini, A. Imagining Regulation Differently: co-creating regulation for engagement. Bristol: Policy Press.

Bates, V. L., Hickman, C., Manchester, H., Prior, J. & Singer, S., (2019) Beyond Landscape’s Visible Realm: Recorded sound, nature and wellbeing. Health and Place. (Available online 27 December 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102271)

Manchester, H. (2018) Objects of Loss: Resilience and Continuity in Material Culture Relationships in Newman, A., Davenport, B. & Goulding, A. (2018) Creative Practice in the Resilience of Older People. Connected Communities Series: Bristol: Policy Press.

Manchester, H., & Jarke, J. (2022). Considering the role of material gerontology in reimagining technology design for ageing populations. In: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 15(2), 181-213. → full paper (open access)