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→
Once upon a time, when we couldn’t climb the hill together.
Image credit: Scott Farlow Early in 2020, on a wet February morning, our research team got together to flesh out the plan for our project. In keeping with the place-based, experiential and co-produced focus of our research, the meeting took the shape of a walk to the summit of Robinswood Hill. We were led by…Continue reading→
Digital Tattoo
With the covid pandemic we have adapted our research because unfortunately we did not have access to a workshop to play with digital pigment in the way we wanted. But while we did not reached yet the stage of creating digital tattoos, we still looked at how to use the technology to create non rectangular displays…Continue reading→
I Didn’t Buy
It seems like a long time ago that our project team met for the first time in a crowded, very much un-socially distanced Boston Tea Party on Park Street. It was hard then to envisage a time when we would have a ‘minimum viable product’ available for testing. But here we are! Next week we…Continue reading→
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume
John Donne’s evocation of human connectedness across space and time is a fitting sentiment for our Brigstow-funded project “Medievals and Moderns in conversation”. Here, we’re asking how the long-history of our rural medieval churches might help us imagine new roles today for church buildings in their communities. As part of this work we’re developing an…Continue reading→
Roll with it: teamwork and research in a pandemic
Image credit: Michael Grieve Health issues started to impact on our project (Kept Apart: couples and families separated by the UK immigration system) before the UK locked down in response to Covid-19. Just before our first workshop, Katharine (the PI) was struck down by a nasty case of food poisoning. If we cancelled the workshop,…Continue reading→
Ken Pryce: His life, his academic contribution and his relevance today: from a historian’s perspective
I’ve always regretted not meeting Ken Pryce when he was in Bristol. He left in 1973 and I had only just arrived in the city in 1972. But his book Endless Pressure first published in 1979 was to be a great influence on me, so I was delighted when Jo Kontis came up with the…Continue reading→