What did the project involve? 

The team of creative artists and researchers behind ‘Who’s in our food?’ sought to visualize the systems and inequalities that determine the food that sustains us as individuals and communities. The project focused on the …

This Ideas Exchange was prompted by the drive to share knowledge, inform, challenge, and create an alternative perspective and narrative regarding Bristol and its connection to Transatlantic enslavement and its legacy. The aim was to approach memorialisation, memory, and healing …

During the early modern period, to go for a walk was a recreational activity, but it was also to literally re-create oneself. Heating the body up enabled the evacuation of superfluous humours, with profound physiological effects on the Renaissance individual. …

How does ecological literacy affect the ability of humans to comprehend and interact with current crises? How does access to land affect the uptake of agroecology in the South West? What are the deep-set beliefs and behaviours of farmers and …

Cultural and community spaces, organisations and local initiatives have powerful impacts on the communities they are situated in. These spaces and movements are powerful yet vulnerable. Community-led regeneration can lead to gentrification when private landlords displace and take advantage of …

The Afro-Asian Networks project investigates networks of Asian and African intellectuals, activists, writers, and artists moving within the global context of the early Cold War in the first decades of decolonisation. At the time of this study, this interdisciplinary research …

Leaders of the past, like those of the present, never act alone. An individual’s networks and what they do with them can help to explain how a person eventually comes to represent others in the public sphere. Mapping Intercultural Connectio…

The Feminist Archive South (FAS), based in Special Collections at the University of Bristol, holds over 160 metres of material relating to the history of local, national and transnational feminism (1960-2000s). The FAS contains periodicals, books, newsletters, magazines, video, music, …

The original idea was conceived by Dr Sue Porter, a huge campaigner for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, who passed away in January 2017. When originally proposing the project, she stated the following:

“I co-ordinate the Disabled Staff network at the …