Brigstow brings researchers from different disciplines together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being.
There is a growing number of people in the UK for whom climate change is now an important consideration when deciding whether to have a child. In 2020, a survey of US-Americans who were factoring climate change into their reproductive …
This research sought to explore patient perceptions of 3D models and the emotional implications these carry through the lens of congenital heart disease, where 3D heart models have been shown to play important roles in …
Brigstow Institute Collaborative Fellowships focus on structural inequalities in Bristol and beyond. In the Including the Excluded project, this meant looking at the experiences of pupils who had been excluded from school during the pandemic.…
This research asked how can we talk about trans lives by exploring the life of Jenny Moore. Jenny lived in the early 1900s, and was an outsider both in terms of gender non-conformity, and the …
Feelings of belonging are a vital aspect of wellbeing, generating emotional, social and cultural connectedness, while displacement – a state considerably heightened in the process of migration – can severely disrupt such feelings. Belonging plays a key role in defining …
The Anthropocene names a new epoch: an age in which humans are leaving an indelible mark on the fabric of the planet. It is an essentially temporal concept, based on a geological sense of ‘deep time’ which cannot easily be …
Around one million GP consultations happen in NHS England every working day, addressing multiple problems. Despite this, studies of what goes on during these encounters are uncommon. The One in a Million archive is a unique dataset of high quality …
The Feminist Archive South (FAS), based in Special Collections at the University of Bristol, holds over 160 metres of material relating to the history of local, national and transnational feminism (1960-2000s). The FAS contains periodicals, books, newsletters, magazines, video, music, …
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 …