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I was appointed as a seedcorn Research Associate for the second stage of the Brigstow Project Laundry Justice. My role involved carrying out a literature search of grey and academic literature about circus, including circus as part of academic research. …
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An increasing number of studies have promoted the meaningful involvement of children and young people in research focusing on various topics such as the lived experiences of young refugees in exile or the mental health benefits of childhood play space …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Brigstow brings researchers from different disciplines together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being.