Fellows' updates October 2025 Fellows' update: Iz Durose
Iz Durose (CF 2024) won Coastal Radio DAB's LGBTQ+ Champion Award.
By Iz Durose, 2025
Arts and communities
About this theme
This theme covers topics relating to achieving positive change and resilience for UK communities of all kinds through engagement with arts, culture and creative practices. It is one of our current programmes for Fellowships, launched in 2023, and has been developed in consultation with our Arts and Culture working group. Fellows’ stories
Blogs & conversations Renegade Guides: the places we go, the stories we share
Writer, guide, and founder of Living London, Saira Niazi spent her Churchill Fellowship in the USA exploring how tours and storytelling can be more inclusive, ethical, and community-focused. Her travels took her through 41 neighbourhoods, 32 guided tours, and 36 interviews with “renegade guides,” organisers, and storytellers, culminating in the creation of the Renegade Guides Handbook. Since its launch, Saira has been sharing her findings widely and continues to lead tours, write, and collaborate with communities.
By Saira Niazi, 2025
Fellows' updates September 2025 Fellows' update: Sally Pezaro
Sally Pezaro (CF 2025) contributed to the journal 'Exploring the Experiences of Nurses who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic: An arts-based inquiry'.
By Sally Pezaro, 2025
Fellows' updates September 2025 Fellows' update: Sai Pathmanathan
Sai Pathmanathan (CF 2016) has released two new publications this year with an environmental focus.
By Sai Pathmanathan, 2025
By Boseda Olawoye, 2023
Report Developing dance theatre practice for communities living with brain injuries
By Lucinda Jarrett, 2023
Fellows' updates July 2025 Fellows' update: Angela Samata
Angela Samata (CF 2017) presented at the International European Federation of Art Therapy Conference in London, alongside Dr. Rose Ehemann and Dr. Nicole Ottiger.
By Angela Samata, 2025
Report Renegade Guides: The Places We Go, The Stories We Share
By Saira Niazi, 2023
Fellows' updates April 2025 Fellows' update: Tony Thompson
Tony Thompson (CF 2012) is co-directing CORNWALLIS CLOTH, a new immersive film installation commissioned by the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund.
By Tony Thompson, 2025
Fellows' updates April 2025 Fellows' update: Angela Samata
Angela Samata (CF 2017) has co-authored RESTORATION: Health and Wellbeing, a set of trauma-informed guidelines for museum and gallery staff, in collaboration with Manchester Art Gallery.
By Angela Samata, 2025