In this episode of Keep Talking about.... community researchers talk about how being a community researcher can help to give something back and support others, how  friendship can be a lifeline during difficult times and the power of lived experience to create change. "Your friends are the family you pick aren't they. Without them, I'd would have been hopeless really."Keep Talking is a UKRI Enhancing Place-based Partnerships for Public Engagement funded project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals taking part and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Staffordshire University or Expert Citizens CIC. Any content provided by those involved are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign individuals, groups or communities or cause offence. To this effect the topics discussed in this podcast may be upsetting for some listeners.Music credited to www.bensounds.com.

In this episode of Keep Talking about.... community researchers talk about how being a community researcher can help to give something back and support others, how community and family can be a lifeline during difficult times and the power of lived experience to create change.  Keep Talking is a UKRI Enhancing Place-based Partnerships for Public Engagement funded project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals taking part and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Staffordshire University or Expert Citizens CIC. Any content provided by those involved are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign individuals, groups or communities or cause offence. To this effect the topics discussed in this podcast may be upsetting for some listeners.Music credited to www.bensounds.com.

This podcast looks at the role of a community researcher, identifies some of the challenges they have overcome, both in their own lives and throughout the global pandemic and how they have built a community. The series covers isolation, disability, creativity, friendship and, family and community.Keep Talking is a UKRI Enhancing Place-based Partnerships for Public Engagement funded project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC. Produced and hosted by by Adam Gratton. See https://www.adamcgratton.com/ for more information.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals taking part and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Staffordshire University or Expert Citizens CIC. Any content provided by those involved are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign individuals, groups or communities or cause offence. To this effect the topics discussed in this podcast may be upsetting for some listeners.Music credited to www.bensounds.com.See www.staffs.ac.uk/research and www.expertcitizens.org.uk for further information

This podcast looks at the role of a community researcher, identifies some of the challenges they have overcome, both in their own lives and throughout the global pandemic and how they have built a community. The series covers isolation, disability, creativity, friendship and, family and community.Keep Talking is a UKRI Enhancing Place-based Partnerships for Public Engagement funded project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC. Produced and hosted by by Adam Gratton. See https://www.adamcgratton.com/ for more information.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals taking part and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Staffordshire University or Expert Citizens CIC. Any content provided by those involved are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign individuals, groups or communities or cause offence. To this effect the topics discussed in this podcast may be upsetting for some listeners.Music credited to www.bensounds.com.See www.staffs.ac.uk/research and www.expertcitizens.org.uk for further information

This podcast looks at the role of a community researcher, identifies some of the challenges they have overcome, both in their own lives and throughout the global pandemic and how they have built a community. The series covers isolation, disability, creativity, friendship and, family and community.Keep Talking is a UKRI Enhancing Place-based Partnerships for Public Engagement funded project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with Expert Citizens CIC. Produced and hosted by by Adam Gratton. See https://www.adamcgratton.com/ for more information.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals taking part and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Staffordshire University or Expert Citizens CIC. Any content provided by those involved are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign individuals, groups or communities or cause offence. To this effect the topics discussed in this podcast may be upsetting for some listeners.Music credited to www.bensounds.com.See www.staffs.ac.uk/research and www.expertcitizens.org.uk for further information

 In this episode I hear from pupils at St Mary's school Tunstall, who in working on a WW2 project continued to dig deeper and in doing so learn about the heroics of Staffordshire's John BaskeyField. They have gone on to write letters in his memory thanking and hoping to track down members of his family 75-years on from D-DAY. 

In this episode of The Way We Were Podcast I take a look at the cinemas and picture houses of North Staffordshire over the last 60-years. I hear from members of the Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire nostalgia community group and hear the thoughts of local historian Mervyn Edwards...

In the third and final instalment of my look at D-DAY I talk to Daniel Harrison who landed on Gold beach and was involved with logistics during the days after the Normandy landings...

In the second of my three-part series looking  at D-DAY and the Normandy landings, I talk to Jim Wildes who worked on bomber command during the June 6th, 1944...

In the first of a three-part commemoration of the anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy landings during WW2 we hear from Norman Lewis, 99, about his mission to blow up a bridge and his years as a POW...