How can we better understand audiences experiences of temporary monuments? What is the best way to collect and use audience feedback during a live performance? This research explores these questions through the performance of living statues. (read more)

Although grief is a universal, human experience, it still remains a taboo subject for many. By focusing on a personal, lived experience of disenfranchised grief, this research aims to open up conversations about death and bereavement, in a manner that destigmatises grief and promotes compassion and understanding. (read more)

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)