A series of coproduced creative workshops to improve access to dental services for adult survivors of child sex abuse
It is known that survivors of child sexual abuse have poorer oral health than the general population. This is from a combination of difficulties maintaining personal oral health routines and attending dental practices. This study included survivors, psychologist, sociologist, dentist, scientist among its team, and also had the input of service providers and dental professionals…Continue reading→
Reflections on ‘Lost Property’ and ‘Nothing Echoes Here’
Dr Lesel Dawson and Dr Jimmy Hay presented their films to an audience of peers, academics, practitioners of film, and enthusiasts of cinema. The films were the product of a series of practice-as-research Brigstow funded projects that sought to explore if it is possible to convey the lived experience of grief, loss, and bereavement in…Continue reading→
Motherhood in a Climate Crisis: Story so Far
Since March 2022 when the project team met in person for the first time around Brigstow’s recipients cohort meeting, Motherhood in a Climate Crisis officially moved from the conceptual into the practical. The aim of the project was to reduce isolation and stigma and stimulate ongoing conversation on the ways that Climate Change impacts women’s…Continue reading→
Developing a culture of radical care in our theatre and storytelling project, Motherhood in a Climate Crisis
Image credit: Ibolya Feher Motherhood In A Climate Crisis is an experimental partnership supported by Brigstow, which aimed to explore women’s thoughts, feelings and experiences around mothering in the climate crisis. Knowing that this was a topic which elicited very strong feelings, the project was explicitly designed with notions of care – for both participants…Continue reading→
Learning from each other – lessons from the “Living financial resilience” community research and design project
In 2022, we partnered with Boost Community, a collective of advice agencies (debt, benefits, housing and employment advice) at the Wellspring Settlement, and community researchers to explore lived experience of financial resilience and together develop ideas how to better support it. We were a diverse group of collaborators: for many of us English was not…Continue reading→
Brigstow presents our 2022/23 Seedcorn Experimental Partnerships
“This is the first cohort I will be supporting in my role as Brigstow Director and am excited to learn more about their plans and see how their research journeys unfold. We have a wonderful selection of eight projects that have been funded incorporating a wide range of disciplinary knowledges and community partners and artists….Continue reading→
Walking down Ladies Mile
Eleanor Rycroft is a Historian of walking & theatre. She documented a women-led night walk, taking a route that is historically associated with sex-work, connecting the walk, and its participants, to a lineage of night-walking women. Eleanor’s soundwalk is one of the shortlisted pieces in the Sound Walk September Awards 2022. Here, she talks about the context of their…Continue reading→
A View of Mars: HydroPoetics at the Martian House
As she pulled back the blue and green curtain that closed off a small sleeping pod built into the wall, with just enough room for some comfortable pillows and light bedding, we looked up to a screen – which served to represent a window onto a Martian landscape – with an image of red rock…
Reflections on Calming Cushion Project: A different perspective
Robotics and Everyday Life: Strategies for improving the sensing performance of personalised therapeutic products for people living with dementia My experience of co-working in this team has been very positive. It has been an excellent way to form connections within and outside of the university that you wouldn’t normally have the chance to make. This…Continue reading→
Reflections on Calming Cushion Project
Robotics and Everyday Life: Strategies for improving the sensing performance of personalised therapeutic products for people living with dementia Having the expertise of a broad range of researchers and creative partners has added great value to the project. With each person bringing detailed knowledge of their field more areas have been covered than if the…Continue reading→