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. It also included the role of production assistant over two days workshop with a group… (read more)

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 and a number of other areas. However, only a small number of studies have investigated… (read more)

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 strong feelings, the project was explicitly designed with notions of care – for both participants… (read more)

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 it. We were a diverse group of collaborators: for many of us English was not… (read more)

“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 have been funded incorporating a wide range of disciplinary knowledges and community partners and artists.… (read more)

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 of the shortlisted pieces in the Sound Walk September Awards 2022. Here, she talks about the context of their… (read more)

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 the chance to make. This… (read more)

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 person bringing detailed knowledge of their field more areas have been covered than if the… (read more)