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… Read more

Collaborating on the Brigstow Metre and Memorisation Project

Literary research is, by and large, a solitary endeavour. Writing poems, which I also do, tends to be no more sociable.  In both cases,  the most important process of collaboration is a matter of second thoughts that happen when drafts are finished enough to be shared with peers and editors. … Read more

Using arts-based research for temperature, weather and climate.

In conversation: Dr Alan T Kennedy-Asser, Research Associate, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. Dr Clifton Evers, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. https://brigstowinstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/files/2022/05/Alan-and-Clifton-Interview-edit.mp3 Clifton: Let’s discuss your Temperature Life Stories project today and the use of arts-based research. For those of you who don’t know,… Read more

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… Read more