Collective Care: Curated Resources
Brigstow Funded Experimental Partnership “Experiments in Collective Care” has curated a lucky dip of resources to help you explore the subject of collective care. Click on the image of a question mark to be redirected to an online resource. Each question mark will send you to a different resource. What kinds of collective… Continue reading→
My Thoughts on Mental Health
With mental health week coming up, I started thinking about my own association with mental health, from a personal perspective, having struggled from time to time over the years, from the perspective of a past volunteer with Samaritans and from a work perspective. I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts with you. Sometimes, when you’re… Continue reading→
Unearthing Disciplinary Defaults
Brigstow’s seven new seedcorn funded projects have just begun working together. As usual, they bring together researchers from inside and outside the university, as well as radically interdisciplinary teams: Engineering Maths meets Education; Modern Languages and History meet Computer Science; English meets Psychology. As they began working, I read an article recently published by one… Continue reading→
Brigstow 2021 Ideas Exchanges
The Brigstow Institute has awarded Ideas Exchange funding to thirteen new interdisciplinary research partnerships. The Ideas Exchanges will explore the themes of: “Covid and Structural Inequalities”; “Research and the Creative Industries”; and “Living Well in the 21st Century”. We are delighted to announce that we have funded the following projects: Bristol Carescapes Involving Matthew Lariviere (Policy… Continue reading→
The Brigstow Institute launches new creative research to explore the politics of immigration and the environment through planting.
This initiative builds on, and brings together, two Experimental Partnerships that were funded by the Brigstow Institute in 2020 that both used creative methodologies and involved members of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB). Researchers from these projects (Prof Katharine Charsley from “Kept Apart: Making prose-poetry with people separated from families by the immigration system” and Dr Nariman Massoumi… Continue reading→
Brigstow Institute awards two Collaborative Fellowships
The Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol, has awarded two Collaborative Fellowship awards that seek to critically interrogate structural inequalities that have been particularly highlighted by the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Collaborative Fellowships have been awarded to: “Access and Active Leisure in a Time of the Pandemic: Tales of Two Cities” involving Dr…. Continue reading→
Brigstow presents our 2021 Seedcorn Experimental Partnerships
We are delighted to announce that the following projects have been awarded Brigstow Institute 2021 Seedcorn Funding: What is the best way to talk about the menopause? Involving Dr Vanessa Beck (School of Management), Yvonne Melville (Fife Cultural Trust), and Fiona Miller (Tricky Hat Productions). Posed as a Woman: Involving Prof. Josie McLellan (History), Dr… Continue reading→
Seasons Greetings!
Well what a year that was. It started so well, meeting all our newly-funded project teams for 2020 face to face (whoever thought we’d ever have to specify that!) and hearing all their exciting plans for research. We had a fantastic workshop looking at the Limits of the Law around Human Rights, funded some Ideas Exchanges… Continue reading→
Brigstow and the Bristol Photo Festival Research Projects
Brigstow is delighted to announce that our collaboration with the Bristol Photo Festival has awarded funding to two exciting projects that use photography as a research tool: “We Are Still Here: Stories from the HIV and AIDS Community” and “Bringing the War Home II”. Brigstow Institute and the Bristol Photo Festival have collaborated on a… Continue reading→
Seedcorn Funding: 2020-21 call now open
Closing date 3 February 2021 at 4pm. This is an opportunity for mixed interdisciplinary teams of researchers to carry out risky, experimental, and exploratory projects to take the first steps in developing and pursuing new research questions. We especially welcome applications from teams that might find it difficult to find early-stage funding because of the… Continue reading→