Bristol has a rich, and much explored history of political, cultural and community activism. However, accounts of Disabled people’s own stories, contributions, and intersections and solidarity within the wider histories of activism have often been missing.

In response, Disabled activists …

Women who have had female circumcision/female genital mutilation (FC/FGM) often experience life-long consequences in relation to health, wellbeing, and sexual functioning. However, current policy in the UK tends to ignore these needs in favour of policies which seek to protect …

What did the project involve? 

This project sought to use Bristol’s Hatchling Event to take a distinctively Bristol look at migration, to widen the range of people that the University engages with, and to design a method for public engagement …

Social futures are frequently presented as digitally-driven, ‘predicted inevitables’, and draw on a narrow range of experiences and priorities. This framing often excludes the voices of communities at the margins, limiting the opportunities for people to shape their own futures. …

During the 2021 COP conference, a group of children’s authors and academics began discussing children’s stories that portray the climate crisis. For many years, and currently, these stories have been about heroism: the efficacy of individual actions to prevent disaster. …

Many studies conclude that, at an individual level, citizens have privacy and security concerns about sharing data with apps and online services but do it all the same – for reasons of convenience, inertia or an assumption about the existence …

Practical Help Achieving Self-Empowerment (PHASE) is a group of organisations composed of PHASE  Worldwide, PHASE Nepal, and PHASE Austria. PHASE Worldwide (UK Registered Charity) was founded in 2005 to support PHASE Nepal’s (Nepali Non-Governmental Organisation/Community Based Organisation) programmes aimed at …

What if we all refused to buy anything that harms the environment, including goods and services that add to carbon in the atmosphere, impair our health, or impact upon wildlife?

In a previous Brigstow funded research project ‘I Didn’t …

On 25 October 2020 Chileans voted by a large majority in a referendum to abolish its Constitution and to elect a new Constitutional Assembly, whose 155 members were elected on 11 April 2021. These people then had nine months to …