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“We’re going on a butterfly hunt, we’re going to (digitally) catch a large one!”
In the childhood storybook ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen, a family stride through long grass, wade through a river and squelch …
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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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Welcome to the Menopause
It used to be a secret
But now…
It’s too big not to talk about.
[Nelissa Mendy, 2022].
The MenoMakers discussion and craft group has been running for two years in North Kensington, London. It has …
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#EmbracingEquity #IWD2023
One cold morning at the end of February in the privacy, warmth and safety of the Brigstow office I disclosed a poor wardrobe mishap that had given me a bumpy start to the day, and for my colleagues …
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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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The acoustics industry has long been focussed on the mitigation of noise to reduce annoyance and stress to hopefully ensure that citizens are in good health. Quiet spaces are needed and appreciated by people. Many hours of research have gone …
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The project took an interdisciplinary approach where audio describers, game developers, academics and participants with visual impairments worked collectively to produce and evaluate different styles of AD.
Interdisciplinary teams are fundamental to the design of new technologies and their efficacy …
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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 …
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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.
Clifton: Let’s discuss your Temperature Life Stories project today and the …
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.