Assessing the Impact of CinBA

18 months after the official project end-date we have revisited CinBA project partners and participants to reflect on the impact of the research. The report highlights 7 areas in which significant impact can be identified:

  • Research impact
  • Pedagogical impact
  • Continuing professional development: impact on established makers /artists
  • Impact on creative practice
  • Policy impact
  • Commercial Impact
  • Personal and professional impact on CinBA members

The report also comments upon how CinBA has been leveraged going forward and contains 10 key learning points highlighting how impact from Humanities research can be enhanced.

Access a copy of the report here:

Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe. Assessing the Impact of a HERA Research Project


Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe (CinBA) brings together partners from the Universities of Southampton, Cambridge and Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet) and the Crafts Council. It offers important insights into the fundamental nature of creativity by exploring a part of European history not influenced by contemporary concepts of art – the Bronze Age – looking at developments in crafts that we take for granted today: pottery, textiles and metalwork. It investigates objects as a means to understand local and transnational creative activities, investigating the development of decorative motifs and the techniques and skill used for these. It tracks these developments over more than a millennium within regions forming a north-south axis across Europe: Scandinavia, Central Europe and the Adriatic. In addition, links between ancient and modern creativity are explored through contemporary engagements with Bronze Age objects by modern craftspeople and the public.

CinBA is funded through HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area. HERA aims to strengthen the European voice in the Humanities by coordinating research activities and transcending historical limitations to develop new Europe-wide research agendas. CinBA is one of 9 HERA-funded projects on the theme of ‘Creativity’.

Grant Number: 09-HERA-JRP-CI-FP-020
HERA Call: Creativity
Budget: 973,582.00 €
Project Duration: 31st May 2010 – 1st September 2013
Project Leader: Dr Joanna Sofaer (University of Southampton, UK)