Previous work has drawn connections between the professional experience of health visitors, early years educators, developmental therapists and doctors, the systematic review of quantitative and qualitative literature, the experiential and interactional world of migrant families in a British inner city, …

Farming has undeniable environmental costs. A recent article in The Guardian, reported how livestock farming consumes much more water than crop farming, with vegetables at the low end of the scale using 322 litres per kg and beef at …

This project aimed to develop a novel approach for engaging teachers-as-researchers in their own schools, assuring their views and experience is represented in debates around future educational policy and practice (at local and national levels). The researchers believed teachers’ voice …

What did the project involve? 

This project led to the development of the Future Places Toolkit. The current Future Places Toolkit demonstrator has developed out of a previous Uninvited Guests AR performance Billennium (2018-22), which asks audiences to reflect …

“Our garden in St Pauls is not only the patches of land that we are symbolically reclaiming from years of neglect as rubbish dumps and drug needle debris. It is the individuals and communities who daily engage in a fight …

The expectations of citizens ‘in an emergency’ are changing. Both at home in the UK and internationally, there is a growing realisation that the actions of normal everyday citizens in the first few moments of a health-related emergency are key.…

From tree-based climate solutions, green infrastructure or plant-based diets, to ecosystem services and biotechnological innovations, more hope than ever is being invested in plants to help address environmental, social and economic crises. At the same time, profound advances in plant …

The world faces unprecedented challenges of ecological sustainability, including climate change, biodiversity loss and depletion of natural resources. Educators and researchers are well-placed to engage with these issues by considering how our curriculums can respond to these challenges. Little research …

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 …