Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from rising sea levels and the combined effects of storm surges, fluvial flood risk and increased rainfall. Society needs greater resilience at the local, national and global scale: estuarine communities and businesses must learn to 'live with water' in an uncertain future. Yet engaging diverse communities with water challenges is a significant problem for agencies and governments, with the most vulnerable in societies often the least well informed about resilience actions. Here we bring innovative arts and heritage solutions to bear on the problem of engaging these communities with flood risk and building resilience in one flood-prone city, Kingston upon Hull, UK. Hull is recognised globally for its vulnerability to flooding in the face of rising sea levels. It is one of five global cities selected to participate in the Rockefeller Foundation's and Arup's City Water Resilience Framework development programme. Yet international awareness of Hull's future flood risk finds little reflection in local communities. And this despite serious flood events in 2007, 2013 and 2015, as well as an 800-year history of living with water challenges in the city. Hull's excellent archival records and literary and dramatic works - combined with the University's expertise in flood science and modelling, environmental histories and literature, community engagement and cultural sector evaluation - offer unrivalled opportunities to explore histories of risk and resilience in the city and surrounding area. In this project, we develop research-informed learning histories to build resilience for the future, with the ambition of leveraging a year-on-year improvement in resilience to flood risks and uptake of resilience actions in and around Hull. Working alongside arts partners and practitioners, flood agencies, young people and local communities - who will contribute to the co-production of research agendas as well as academic and policy-relevant outputs - we employ these learning histories in community-based arts and heritage interventions and large scale productions by national arts organisations including Absolutely Cultured and the National Youth Theatre (NYT). Supported by three artists in residence, our research addresses three thematic clusters of questions (specified in the Objectives and CFS), and the research outcomes both inform and are in turn shaped by the engagement activities planned for the project. The substantial collaborations agreed with project partners leverage significant wider reach for our ambitious arts and heritage programme (see PTIs). Using a combination of social science methodologies and participatory tools for arts evaluation co-designed with community and youth groups, we interrogate the effectiveness of arts and heritage interventions to raise climate awareness and deliver an uptake in practical resilience actions, evaluating models for engagement and developing best practice that can be applied nationally and globally. In doing so, we aim to improve climate change awareness and flood resilience in risky cities in the UK and beyond. Outputs from the project include: a programme of combined arts and heritage engagement in schools, community and youth groups in 'at risk' wards; a flood festival; high profile, city centre artistic productions informed by our learning histories and created by community and youth groups in collaboration with national arts organisations, the NYT and Absolutely Cultured; a sound walk; articles in major international and interdisciplinary journals, some of them co-authored with arts practitioners and community members; a policy report and associated public policy brief launched at Westminster; a short film; a workshop; and a public facing website hosting podcasts, blogs and teaching materials.

Over the coming decades the world will face a wide range of complex, new and persistent public mental health challenges, exacerbated by disruptive events, many of which can be fully addressed only through strategies and investments that improve lifelong public mental health outcomes for everyone. 1 in 6 adults in England have a common mental health condition. Mental distress and ill health are associated with significant disability, sickness absence, unemployment, and suicide attempts. Three quarters of all mental health conditions have occurred in young people by the age of 24 years. Despite widespread acknowledgement that mental distress and illness make a substantial contribution to the global burden of disease, there is still a major gap in evidence to inform policy making for their primary prevention. We will establish the 'Prevention of Risks and Onset of Mental Health problems through Interdisciplinary Stakeholder Engagement' (PROMISE) Population Mental Health Improvement Cluster, which will create new opportunities for population-based improvements in mental health. We will focus on three challenge areas: 1. Children and young people; 2. Suicide and self-harm prevention; 3. Multiple long-term conditions. Challenge areas will be supported by four cross-cutting themes: 1. Partners in policy, implementation and lived experience; 2. Data, linkages and causal inference; 3. Narrowing inequalities; 4. Training and capacity building. We will work with stakeholders across public health, local government, voluntary organisations and interdisciplinary academic experts, and people with lived experience of adversities which impact mental health, to identify and rigorously evaluate population-level interventions which hold the greatest promise for the improvement of mental health. The structure of our cluster reflects the integration of academic, policy and lived experience in leadership and delivery, which will lead to systems change and the ability to work effectively across traditional silos which have held progress in this area behind. We will use a range of large-scale datasets, including representative studies which follow people over time, nationally representative studies of health, and data generated when people come into contact with health and other services, take part in census, alongside information from children in schools, and the linkages between these, for our investigations. We will use statistical methods in this data to understand which population-interventions benefit people's mental health and reduce inequalities. We will draw on the wide-ranging interdisciplinary expertise of our team to develop a unique suite of training (seminars/ tutorials/ short training videos) which will be freely available, the training will be entitled "New ways of working in population mental health" and will cover a range of topics useful to researchers, practitioners, and people with lived experience. Our cluster will foster methods to develop creative and innovative solutions by working with people who have not applied their expertise to improving population health before, through a range of approaches:1. We will work with arts-based practitioners to develop creative outputs (films, children's books/ comic strips, animations, infographics, public photography and art exhibitions), which will also ensure inclusive engagement. 2. We will convene a series of interdisciplinary 'sandpit' events to engage a wide range of interdisciplinary groups, to develop innovative projects across challenge areas. 3. We will convene policy roundtables with support from English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Government representatives, to bring together stakeholders, experts, policymakers, and the public to engage in discussion on cluster challenges to gather feedback, build consensus, and develop actionable recommendations. Our findings will be co-produced with people with lived experience.

This follow-on proposal will provide significant additional impact by empowering young people to engage directly and creatively with research developed during the AHRC-funded "French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era" project (2013-2017). In performing a new play about the Caribbean Revolutionaries held at Portchester Castle in 1796, members of the National Youth Theatre and local Hampshire community groups will bring that research to both a live audience and a global virtual one. A recording of the production will be the centrepiece of a range of educational resources to help English Heritage tell a forgotten part of Black History. The original research showed how important theatre was in shaping debates about nationhood and political legitimacy during the First Empire and how prisoner-of-war theatre fostered cultural exchange, themes that will be echoed in the new play. In 1807, French prisoners of war on board the prison hulk The Crown, moored in Portsmouth Harbour, opened a Theatre of Emulation (the name comes from one of the popular Boulevard theatres in Paris) and premiered a 4-act historical drama, The Revolutionary philanthropist or Hecatomb on Haiti, which tackled the incendiary topic of the Haitian Revolution. A manuscript of the play survives and it shares a number of themes with the only other known surviving French prisoner-of-war play manuscript of the period, Roseliska, which premiered at Portchester Castle in 1810. Ideas of freedom, imprisonment, resistance, patriotism and loyalty suffuse both texts but, unlike Roseliska, the Revolutionary Philanthropist is unperformable in a 21st-century context because it reproduces 18th-century notions of racial difference that are wholly unacceptable today. In 2019, sound artist Elaine Mitchener subverted the intention of the anonymous author of the Revolutionary Philanthropist to highlight Black agency in the struggle for emancipation by using extracts from it in a Warwick-commissioned sound installation, 'Les Murs sont témoins /These Walls Bear Witness' at Portchester Castle. This has revealed the potential for working creatively with the play as a means of exploring the Revolution in the Caribbean and Portchester's role in global history: over 2000 Black revolutionaries from St Lucia, St Vincent, Guadeloupe and Haiti, including women and children, were captured by the British in 1796 and sent to Portchester. Their lives mirror those of the on-stage rebels in the Revolutionary Philanthropist. Heritage Lottery Funding has already paid for me to work with a director, Mumba Dodwell and a playwright, Lakesha Arie-Angelo since July 2020, and for 2 weeks of R&D [research and development] workshops under English Heritage's flagship youth engagement programme Shout Out Loud. Two powerful work-in-progress performances have been transformational for those involved. The NLHF money was never going to be enough to cover a full production and it is clear that the legacy of the project will now fall short of its full potential unless the new play is performed on site at Portchester to engage meaningfully with decolonising Portchester's history as a prison-of-war depot. Follow-on funding would enable us to continue to work with playwright and director and record the production to use as the focal point of a range of educational resources. A live streaming of the play will be broadcast simultaneously on the EH and NYT YouTube channels, which between them have 1.3 million subscribers. The new play, written in conjunction with young Black actors from NYT, explores fundamental questions about human rights, discrimination, identity and power. It moves beyond traditional narratives of the enslaved as victims and celebrates the role of women in Revolution. Bringing it to production would allow us to reach new audiences, especially in the Caribbean, significantly enhance the value and wider benefits of the original research project and enable young people to take ownership of history.