The project came about when Sabrina Shirazi was told by diners from Cuisine+Colour that her creative dining experiences helped them to overcome anxieties about eating. She initiated interviews with people in recovery from treatments for their eating disorder and consulted …

Research and writing about healthy food often focus on bad choices and bad experiences.  Health researchers consider what is wrong with what we eat, and why peoples make bad choices.  But bad food is often delicious and desirable and being …

Dhek Bhal, a community-based charity, has been working with the ageing South Asian population in Bristol experiencing social isolation and vulnerability. This project sought to build on their unique legacy of culturally responsive services to collaboratively explore the use of …

What did the project involve? 

The researchers were interested in working together to develop and design a digital storytelling platform on the effects of the war on drugs in Latin America.

Building on the lessons from the Quipu Project (an …

While working together on another project at Pervasive Media Studio, Peter Bennett and James Wheale made a surprising discovery: that they could create an app that was controlled by making a wine glass sing.

This quickly developed into controlling the …

We’ve all been there: accidentally stepping in dog poo on while on the way to somewhere important is never fun. But for many children, it can present a risk of zoonotic disease, and the roundworm Toxocara can have devastating effects …

The University of Bristol’s Dr. Martin Hurcombe (French Studies) assembled a focused team from the Universities of Bath, Birmingham, and Bristol, as well as an industry expert from Lesportif. Together, they brought expertise from French studies, Psychology, History, and the …

What did the project involve? 

This research is a project on self and collective care. It takes inspiration from the Women’s Liberation Movement and builds on their successful Ideas Exchange “What the Future Holds”. The team define collective care …

In 1929, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. The importance of this first antibiotic was not fully realised until the early 1940s, when large-scale manufacturing processes were developed. The impact is momentous: on top of saving millions of lives, it has added …