In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …

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 and opening the pores enabled the evacuation of superfluous humours, with profound physiological effects …

In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …

What did the project involve?

“Bristol Carescapes” was a project about care futures in Bristol. Encompassing experiential, explorative and collaborative approaches to exploring and envisaging care futures, the project drew together local creators and people with lived experience of different …

Adult CSA (child sexual assault) survivors face barriers accessing oral health care and performing oral self-care. This area was relatively unexplored in the UK but some research did exist which highlights cycles of shame, avoidance and retraumatisation when attending dental …

This is a development of an earlier Brigstow funded experimental partnership ‘AD4Games: making video games accessible for visually impaired players.’ That study was based on the premise that play makes us human. We play to have fun, to …

The need for cultural competence in the training for health professionals has been recognised for decades but remains poorly implemented. Covid brought into sharp relief disproportionate negative health outcomes for people of colour in the UK. As data capture has …

Bristol has a long history and connection with a wide range of psychoactive substances. From the transatlantic slave trade of tobacco and rum, the invention of nitrous in the late 18th century, the legal trade and subsequent banning of khat …

While using a washing-machine is a highly routinised domestic practice, its environmental implications have extensive detrimental environmental effects. Washing machines require high inputs of energy, water and detergents; leaching chemicals and microplastics into the environment through waste water effluent. At …