Postmenopausal women make up 90% of cases of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), a temporary weakening of the left ventricle that causes an acute reversible heart failure. First described in 1990, this condition was named after a traditional Japanese fishing pot with …

This project was commissioned by Brigstow during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was designed in a time when distance and proximity had become part of daily life. It began from two fundamental research questions:

• How is closeness and distance being renegotiated

“Our garden in St Pauls is not only the patches of land that we are symbolically reclaiming from years of neglect as rubbish dumps and drug needle debris. It is the individuals and communities who daily engage in a fight …

In 2018, Amy King conducted a series of oral history interviews with former dockers who worked on the Bristol City Docks. She used sections of these interviews, and clips from existing interviews archived at Bristol’s M Shed, to create …

People living through the years 1940-1970 saw huge changes to healthcare in the UK through the establishment and subsequent embedding of provision through the NHS. Little is documented about their experiences of these changes to primary care, or their attitudes …

“It was the way Deeka told these stories, the events the same, the messages different every time” (Ross, 2008)

Storytelling and practices of orality are fundamental components to Caribbean cultures, both regionally and nationally. Folk characters like Anansi, Compere Lapin, …

During the 2021 COP conference, a group of children’s authors and academics began discussing children’s stories that portray the climate crisis. For many years, and currently, these stories have been about heroism: the efficacy of individual actions to prevent disaster. …

Academics are sometimes reluctant to admit that the takeaways from their research are more than factual. As a creative research process – rather than just a final output – storytelling is a way to explore the emotional, psychological, and spiritual …

What did the project involve? 

The aim of this project was to explore the therapeutic potential of creativity, demonstrating the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss. The project grew …