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D.J. Britton's play about Lloyd George, aimed at post-devolution Wales, created a bottom-up artistic and commercial model that involved potential audiences in the creative process. The play toured remote rural locations as well as towns, achieving unusually high audiences for a drama of this kind. Its reach was further extended through a BBC broadcast on the 150th anniversary of Lloyd George's birth. The play stimulated considerable public discussion of national history. A direct impact was a £20,000 grant from the Arts Council of Wales to pursue the creative and audience development processes with another play. The innovative methodologies also attracted international attention at Singapore Management University's Arts/Business Conference for practitioners, arts organisations and businesses.
The journal and books disseminate our high quality research in an accessible form that deepens public understanding of Celtic Studies, shapes HE curricula worldwide, contributes to cultural life and informs public debate. The journal has been ranked as one of the two most internationally influential in the field of Celtic literature.
The populations of over 250 European and near Eastern cities are benefitting from closer integration of health and planning. As a result of research undertaken at the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments (WHO CC), built environment professionals have integrated concerns about public health into their decision-making and, correspondingly, public health professionals have engaged with how urban places affect health. Based on a long-term programme of empirical study, this has happened through our development, and subsequent operationalisation, of the concept of `Healthy Urban Planning'. The adoption of our models, assessment tools and appraisal methods, has fostered a new emphasis on urban development and planning at neighbourhood level; the implementation of which has resulted in more active lives, more inclusive communities and environments that support health.