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Brigstow presents our 2022 Ideas exchanges

Posted on 15th May 2022 by hello.brigstow

We are delighted to present our 2022 Brigstow funded Ideas Exchanges. Brigstow Institutes Ideas exchange funding provides researchers the time and resources to connect with others and explore an idea’s potential together. It is designed to support emerging, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that are co-designed and co-run with external partners.… Read more

‘I summon up remembrance of things past’: responses to memorising poetry

Posted on 9th May 2022 by hello.brigstow

‘Metre and Memorisation’, a Brigstow institute project and a collaboration between English and Psychology academics, investigates how we learn poetry off by heart, and how it feels when we do. Along with psychology graduate Rebecca Jackson, I led a series of Zoom sessions last summer in which we asked participants… Read more

The creation of a performance about menopause

Posted on 8th March 2022 by hello.brigstow

As part of our Brigstow project, a Tricky Hat Productions and The Flames performance on the theme of menopause was to be put on by Yvonne and the OnFife team. This sounded like a huge challenge, especially during the pandemic and lockdown, but the process itself was amazing. Yvonne and… Read more

Brigstow presents our 2022 Seedcorn Experimental Partnerships

Posted on 7th February 2022 by hello.brigstow

We are delighted to announce that the following research projects have been awarded Brigstow Institute Seedcorn Funding in our 2022 funding call. Tim Cole, Director of Brigstow Institute says ‘The 2022 cohort of Brigstow seedcorn projects continue the tradition of drawing on interdisciplinary and co-produced ways of working to ask… Read more

Studentship Profile: Amy Smith

Posted on 20th January 2022 by hello.brigstow

University of Bristol Course: Phd Candidate, Department of History, Bristol University. Researching the roles and reputations of female ale sellers in C17th south west England. Studentship: We are Bristol History Commission Studentship Why did you want to take part in this opportunity? I had been following the work of the… Read more

Including the Excluded

Posted on 10th January 2022 by hello.brigstow

“…the number of fixed-term exclusions have definitely increased. It has gone up in the last five months…zero-tolerance policies have become the bane of our lives.” (teacher) Including the Excluded is a rapid project which aimed to co-produce knowledge on educational and emotional experiences of excluded pupils in Bristol during the… Read more

Resilience: Doing her business with her full chest

Posted on 10th January 2022 by hello.brigstow

Image: Environmental entrepreneur, Ogechi Nwonye, with other environmentalists at the unveiling of waste recycling fabricated bins at Unity Park, Enugu, Nigeria. The bins help to curtail the incessant littering of waste around the park and to encourage a clean and green environment. With about 83 million Nigerians living below the… Read more

Who’s at the table? Priorities after a year of food justice dialogue

Posted on 11th November 2021 by hello.brigstow

An artistic collaboration is stimulating discussion about who is at the table in (un)just food systems. Defining ‘Food Justice’ is not easy. When it comes to ‘fairness’ and ‘equality’ in relation to our food system, should we be concerned with questions of individual citizens’ access to sustainable sources of subsistence,… Read more

New Director for the Brigstow Institute

Posted on 11th November 2021 by hello.brigstow

We are delighted to announce that Professor Debbie Watson has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Bristol’s Brigstow Institute! Debbie will take over the role from Professor Tim Cole from August 2022 but will work in a limited capacity alongside him and the Brigstow team until… Read more

Why we need new stories of everyday climate action

Posted on 10th November 2021 by hello.brigstow

Whilst awareness of climate and ecological crises has increased, many are still unsure how they fit into the wider pattern of policy to address it. The question that many ask is ‘what can I do?’. Answering this question is tricky and for a number of reasons. The first is systemic.… Read more