News in 2020
Scrutinising the Immigration System Through Collaborative Filmmaking with Refugees and Asylum Seekers
22 February 2020
Can a collaborative filmmaking process provide an empowering space for refugees and asylum seekers? Can filmmaking be used as a critical tool in examining the current immigration system?
Narratives and the Grapevine: New modes for literature and storytelling
1 February 2020
How can you source and generate content from languages and stories underserved by the wider publishing industry?
The Migrant Institute: Performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries
1 February 2020
With increasingly polarised narratives of migration – positioning migrants in opposing roles of victims or national security threats – how can we foster better narratives in order to shape better policies?
MAPHIS: Mapping History - What historical maps can tell us about urban development
1 February 2020
What are the forces that shape the structure our cities? How do pollution and slums impact urban development in the long run?
Tackling uncertainty across the centuries: medievals and moderns in conversation
1 January 2020
How can medieval churches tackle longstanding issues of uncertainty in contemporary rural life? How can we draw on the roles of heritage sites to help develop place-based responses to this question?
The Arts, the Sciences and the Seafloor
1 January 2020
How can you design a project that incorporates humanities from the outset? Can ‘Blue Humanities’ refining or re-framing scientific research questions?
European Network for Community Wellbeing and Resilience
1 January 2020
How do communities define, measure and experience wellbeing and resilience? How do community-owned spaces contribute to these characteristics? How can community-led regeneration thrive without being co-opted by commercial interests?
Farmers are Scientists: The Practice, Science and Movement of Agroecology
1 January 2020
How can traditional farming techniques, honed over millennia, help enable substantial and sustainable increases in global access to food?
Once upon a Hill: An action research inquiry into community engagements with Robinswood Hill Country Park
1 January 2020
What is the value of local parks in lifting the wellbeing of local communities? How do communities relate to their green spaces?
Alternative Narratives, Memory & Healing Through Dance and the Digital Civic Space
1 January 2020
Can technologies of virtual and augmented reality re-inscribe historical sites with an alternative history and become a moment of celebration for the cultures that were damaged by this history?
Endless Pressure 50 Years On: Revisiting Ken Pryce’s Study of West Indian Life-Styles in Bristol
1 January 2020
What can life stories of Ken Pryce's sociological study teach us about living well in older age, living well with the past and living well with difference? How do they relate to the contemporary experience of young African Caribbean people and others racialised as black?
Co-ideating new methodologies for citizen empowerment in the data economy
1 January 2020
Are there new ways for citizens to visualise and interact with the data that are routinely collected about them in their everyday lives, e.g. to see the kinds of futures imagined or performed through data?
Creating Compassionate Communities to Support the Bereaved
1 January 2020
How can we bring together community members and organisations interested in making Bristol a more compassionate city for those who are bereaved or grieving?
∆3 : Reading the Human through ∆rtificial, ∆ugmented and ∆rtistic Intelligence
1 January 2020
What perceptions do robots have of humans? What does it mean for us to live in a world increasingly inhabited by artificial and augmented intelligence? How can a network be developed that crosses artistic, scientific and engineering disciplines to explore how machines see us?
From Anxiety to Insight to Action: How can we best support young people from diverse backgrounds to make their own response to the climate and ecological emergency?
1 January 2020
What support do young people of diverse backgrounds need to deal with the climate and ecological emergency in their own way? What types of knowledge and understanding young people feel they need in order to better deal with the issue, how they prefer to learn about these topics, and how the arts can facilitate this process?
Becoming Elizabeth Blackwell
1 January 2020
How can you stage Elizabeth Blackwell’s experiences as a disabled woman and a pioneering doctor? How can we explores embodiment of disability in performance while exploring what we might learn from such life stories?
From Folk to Pharma: Unlocking the medicine cabinet to understand lay approaches for managing common infections in the past and present
1 January 2020
What can people recall about their attitudes to, and how they managed, mild infections in the pre-antibiotic era? What is the relevance of pre-antibiotic era attitudes and strategies to the present-day management of mild common infections?
Kept Apart: Making prose-poetry with people separated from families by the immigration system
1 January 2020
How do families separated by UK Immigration Laws cope with uncertainty? How can they be supported? This research project seeks to experiment with new ways to provide support for those affected.
Stitching - Obsession - Wellness: Reclaiming the therapeutic value of stitch
1 January 2020
Can both productive stitch and subversive stitch be understood as therapeutic? How can researchers explore the role of sewing in 19th century asylums and its relevance to contemporary wellbeing?
A critical examination of the practices of civil society organisations from the Global North and Global South: Understanding and Adapting an Organisational Theory of Change
1 January 2020
How can the NGO PHASE update its central 'Theory of Change' to respond to the developments of the organisation and the communities they assist?
Identifying communicative expertise in child and family social work supervision: interdisciplinary and international perspectives
1 January 2020
What can be gained from an international and interdisciplinary network, focusing on identifying communicative expertise in supervision meetings between children’s social workers and their managers?
Digital Tattoo: Designing interface for controlling smart ink in programmable tattoo
1 January 2020
Can active particles be used to create interactive tattoos? What mechanisms are needed in order to make functional tattoos for a variety of applications?
FirstTalk Introductions: Towards Enabling Mother-Child Interactions in Utero
1 January 2020
How might technology be used to deepen the connection between parents and their babies, while they are still in the womb? How can engineers and social scientists come together to explore the potential and challenges of using wearable robotics to enable in utero interactions?
I Didn't Buy: Empowering online consumer activism against environmental collapse
1 January 2020
Can digital tech empower online consumers to respond to environmental emergencies? Can we create a tool that can connect with consumer practices to give people the opportunity to make ethical consumer choices?
How can flood data be more useful?
1 January 2020
In emergency flood disasters, what information is needed from scientists? How should data be presented and within what timeframe?
Global Issues, Local Solutions: Sharing perspectives and learning on the root causes of and solutions to agriculture-driven deforestation in the context of the UK and West Africa: A UK-Togo ideas exchange
1 January 2020
How can researchers re-examine the relationship between global issues of agriculture-driven deforestation, poverty and unsustainable development?
Liquid Noise: Using cetacean cymatics to visualise and invisible issue
1 January 2020
By visualising the sounds of marine wildlife and the way they are impacted by underwater noise pollution, can we draw attention to an otherwise invisible challenge?