Bristol by Heart – The Awards
The Metre and Memorisation Project, funded by the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol, announces the awards from the the Bristol by Heart poetry recitation contest in collaboration with Poetry by Heart The judges were much impressed by the range, enthusiasm, ambition and accomplishment of the different entries to the competition and would like… Continue reading→
Stories of local everyday actions: Enhancing a key area of environmental communication
Awareness of the climate and ecological crises has increased, with new patterns of behaviour emerging across the globe and ever-louder calls for even more action. Bristol is widely seen as a leader in this change. 86% of Bristolians are concerned about climate change, and levels are high across different ages, ethnicities and the city’s 34… Continue reading→
Could you be the next Director of Brigstow Institute?
The Brigstow Institute is advertising for a new director to take up the role from 1st August 2022. The Director will provide strong intellectual, creative and organisational leadership for Brigstow, and engage with a range of academic, creative and community partners. The role is open to University of Bristol academics. Closing date is 29th September. The… Continue reading→
Narratives and the Grapevine
The Narratives and the Grapevine project was an exercise in global literature creation and distribution funded by the University of Bristol’s Brigstow Institute. It brought together Grapevine’s Lily Green and Tim Kindberg with Prof Madhu Krishnan and Dr Edward King of the university. We wanted to explore the potential of Grapevine by working with artists and writers in three very different… Continue reading→
Metre and Memorisation call for participation
Brigstow Institute Experimental Partnership “Metre and Memorisation” will be exploring different ways of learning poetry. What’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? The research team are looking… Continue reading→
Bristol by Heart poetry recitation contest
The Metre and Memorisation Project, funded by the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol, announces the Bristol by Heart poetry recitation contest in collaboration with Poetry by Heart Deadline Extended to the 16th July. Details of the Prize Contestants are required to recite a poem from memory. Poems chosen should be poems or extracts… Continue reading→
Research is difficult.
Research is difficult. Interdisciplinary, co-produced and collaborative research is even more difficult. Research involves risk as we ask new questions, of new data, using new methods. The novelty and originality that characterises researching is what attracts us to it, but also can be a source of anxiety. What if it doesn’t ‘work’? And this can… Continue reading→
Engaged Beings
Over the last five years, Brigstow has brought together well over a hundred new diverse research teams that span disciplines and include academics, artists and creative technologists and community leaders to name just a few. All of these partnerships are characterized by bringing difference together: different knowledge, approaches, people. Difference lies at the heart of… Continue reading→
“Sewing-as-therapy” Past and Present
Our research project Stitching-Obsession-Wellness seeks to explore the therapeutic role of sewing in 19th century asylums and its relevance to contemporary wellbeing. That relevance could not have been made more obvious by the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic many people have taken up or returned to sewing as a means of coping with the stresses… Continue reading→
With a Human Mask
When I cycled through London and I was able to recognise beauty for the first time again after a very long dark time it was so special. I could see it and I was aware that I hadn’t see anything beautiful for months, that I couldn’t see anything positive, nothing good. It was as if… Continue reading→