What's the best way to learn a poem? Is silent rote learning effective, or is it better to repeat things aloud, to visualise the poem's content, or to move about when trying to memorise it? Do different memorisation techniques induce different psychological effects? This research project investigates the psychological effects of verse concentrating upon the effects of metre and memorisation. (read more)

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Can old, ephemeral items (like postcards) help us to establish a deeper connection with our homes and neighbourhoods? As a multidisciplinary team of historians, ‘adventure architects’ and archivists demonstrated, they certainly can. (read more)

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This research will revisit ‘Endless Pressure’ (1979), Ken Pryce’s ground- breaking sociological study into the effects of racism and discrimination of the lives and wellbeing of African Caribbean’s in St Pauls, Bristol. What can these life stories teach us about living well in older age, living well with the past and living well with difference? How do they relate to the contemporary experience of young African Caribbean people and others racialised as black? (read more)

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