Research is difficult. Interdisciplinary, co-produced and collaborative research is even more difficult. Research involves risk as we ask new questions, of new data, using new methods. The novelty and originality that characterises researching is what attracts us to it, but …

Our research project Stitching-Obsession-Wellness seeks to explore the therapeutic role of sewing in 19th century asylums and its relevance to contemporary wellbeing. That relevance could not have been made more obvious by the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic many people …

When I cycled through London and I was able to recognise beauty for the first time again after a very long dark time it was so special. I could see it and I was aware that I hadn’t see anything …

Knowing that it’s Mental Health Awareness Week beginning the 10^th of May has brought to light an aspect of the project I’m working on that’s far more poignant than I first thought. I am one of three researchers involved …

Brigstow Funded Experimental Partnership “Experiments in Collective Care” has curated a lucky dip of resources to help you explore the subject of collective care.

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With mental health week coming up, I started thinking about my own association with mental health, from a personal perspective, having struggled from time to time over the years, from the perspective of a past volunteer with Samaritans and …