All young people’s well-being, regardless of where they live, their race, gender, or social class, is essential for personal and professional success. This ideas exchange pilot project brought together young entrepreneurs (creative, social, sustainable, financial, political) who face structural inequalities …

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This project sought to bring a group of city partners together to consider an identified knowledge gap around the role of citizen-to-citizen engagement in responding to the climate and ecological emergencies. In particular, this Ideas …

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 …

At the 2012 XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, much of the discussion was on the ‘end of AIDS’ and the prospects for an ‘AIDS-free generation’. While these headlines were phrased as aspirations, the lingering sense was that HIV/AIDS …

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The Bone Conducting Lollipop was an innovative confectionary that allows a person who has impaired to normal hearing, to hear music in their head through bone conduction. The project was born out of a project …

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This project involved a collaboration between a historian, and English scholar, and a community arts charity supporting people with learning disabilities to explore questions of capacity and consent through the story of Fanny Fust, a …

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 …

“Technologies for blind children, carefully tailored through user-centered design approaches, can make a significant contribution to cognitive development of these children” (Sanchez, 2008)

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The project’s initial research questions to explore were within the scope of …