adapting research – Brigstow Institute

Brigstow integrates academic practices and creative ingenuity fostering research collaborations to unravel the complexities of our time, paving the way for inventive, socially impactful futures.

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

Digital Tattoo

Posted on 10th October 2020 by hello.brigstow

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… Read more

I Didn’t Buy

Posted on 5th October 2020 by hello.brigstow

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… Read more

Roll with it: teamwork and research in a pandemic

Posted on 29th September 2020 by hello.brigstow

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.… Read more