Including the Excluded: Education and Wellbeing in the time of COVID1 January 2021How are these young people experiencing education now? How has expulsion impacted their mental health, social connectedness, and emotional wellbeing? What are excluded pupils’ educational and wellbeing needs now we’re returning to face-to-face learning?
Kinds of conversation: making the intangible tangible1 January 2021How can researchers enable the public to experience a conversation in a different and more immersive way and to communicate concepts of support and kindness through visual, embodied language?
Who's in Our Food?1 January 2021How can artists and researchers come together to create visualisations of injustice and resistance in contemporary food systems with the goal to explore disparities, inequalities, and the social/environmental problems inherent in industrialised food systems?
Creative Grieving1 January 2021How can we explore the therapeutic potential of creativity? What is the most effective way to demonstrate the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss?
Robotany1 January 2021How can engineers, artists and hydroponic growers come together to explore the use of recent robotics innovations from the University of Bristol as a means to advance automation of vertical farming?
The Hamlet Voyage1 January 2021How can theatre making and practice-as-research shed light upon possibly the first performance of Hamlet as well as the colonial history of the early voyages of the East India Trading company?
Bringing the War Home II1 January 2021How can we expand current understandings of war and what makes war possible by focussing on ‘home’? Can photo-documentary research disrupt current representations and understandings of war to further the collective understanding of war, war-time and military life?
CSA Survivors and Oral Health Care1 January 2021How can we start the discussion and increase the field of research related to CSA survivors and dental health?
South West Agroecology Network1 January 2021How does ecological literacy affect the ability of humans to comprehend and interact with current crises? How does access to land affect the uptake of agroecology in the South West? What are the deep-set beliefs and behaviours of farmers and academics preventing our food system from making an agroecological transition? What is the role of collaborative processes in supporting and promoting agroecological systems?
Constitutional Therapy1 January 2021How can we explore the creative processes behind our different voices? Can the popular media of podcasts and short films assist the political process of constitution-making? How can we tell the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them?
Metre and Memorisation1 January 2021What's the best way to learn a poem? Is silent rote learning effective, or is it better to repeat things aloud, to visualise the poem's content, or to move about when trying to memorise it? Do different memorisation techniques induce different psychological effects?
Temperature Life Stories: Feeling the Heat1 January 2021What causes us to experience temperatures differently? How can researchers facilitate an exploration of human experience of rising temperatures?
Dementia Textiles1 January 2021How can researchers develop a soft robotic device as a therapeutic product with intelligent sensing to support people living with dementia?
Access and Active Leisure in a Time of Pandemic: Tales of Two Cities1 January 2021How have people experienced access to the cities’ streets, thoroughfares, and green spaces during the pandemic? What’s different between Bristol and Bordeaux? What commonalities are there? And how do people experience different forms of lockdown?
Navigating Time in the Anthropocene1 January 2021How can culture, creativity and ‘critical making’ can promote better critical understanding of temporality in the Anthropocene?
While We Are Apart1 January 2021How is closeness and distance being renegotiated and navigated? What does it mean to ‘bump into someone’ in the context of home-working and social distancing?
Jenny: Posed as a woman1 January 2021How can we talk about trans lives by examining the life of a gender non-conforming woman from the past? How can researcher explore the life of Jenny Moore from the early twentieth century, and focus on how living outside the law shaped their identity and experience?
What is the best way to talk about menopause?1 January 2021How can an supportive and informative conversation about menopause be started without embarrassing or putting off people?
Resilience Through International Networks: A co-produced pilot project1 January 2021How can we support young entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Bristol to support new ventures through international collaboration? And how do we develop effective strategies and tools to bring international groups of young people together to collaborate?
Softly non-spoken1 January 2021How can researchers use soft robotics to develop non-verbal communication aids for people with communication difficulties?
We Are Still Here: Stories from the HIV & AIDS Community1 January 2021To what extent can visual representations of living spaces offer an insight into the lived experiences and mental well-being of people in the HIV/AIDS community in the UK?
Walking and Re-Creation1 January 2021How can we consider walking as a form of exercise and cultural performance that is socially conditioned? Are we able to unite health and creative perspectives on walking? How can the regenerative benefits of walking be accessible to all Bristolians?
Bristol Carescapes1 January 2021How would care receivers like to experience care in the future? What does it looks like? What is it's materiality? What emotions will it bring?
Living Well Through the Menopause and The MenoMakers’ Handling Box.1 January 2021How have women found information and advice about the menopause? Is it understood and discussed differently within different families or social and cultural groups? And how can creative activities and storytelling help people explore and communicate their experiences of the menopause in different ways, and improve wellbeing?
How to Open a Print Shop1 January 2021How can a wooden printing press offer an antidote to an isolated world which has become dominated by screens and by texts composed in haste? How can a common press allow people to connect off-line, encouraging mindful and embodied practices?
Research Action Coalition for Race Equality (RACE)1 January 2021What is the perceived value of developing a set of guidelines for co-production co-designed by a group of disparate communities coming together to seek racial justice?