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 …

Dhek Bhal, a community-based charity, has been working with the ageing South Asian population in Bristol experiencing social isolation and vulnerability. This project sought to build on their unique legacy of culturally responsive services to collaboratively explore the use of …

Support for fathers is essential: both for the fathers themselves, as well as children and mothers. Resources for mothers, while not always adequate, are more readily available than those for fathers.

Attempts to engineer support for fathers have often failed, …

What did the project involve? 

The researchers were interested in working together to develop and design a digital storytelling platform on the effects of the war on drugs in Latin America.

Building on the lessons from the Quipu Project (an …

As we move through the city, it is not always clear whether the spaces through which we pass are public or private, but this issue impacts upon the daily lives of citizens. Public space is a rather inchoate concept and …

As the UK population ages, the number of older people at risk of social isolation and loneliness is on the rise, which can have a detrimental impact on physical and mental health outcomes for older adults. Despite this, evidence for …

In the 1960s, Totterdown, a Victorian suburb in Bristol’s south inner city, had been devastated by the demolition of 500 houses, and the relocation of 5,000 Bristolians, in order to make way for an ‘outer ring road’ and ‘transport interchange’ …

In 1929, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. The importance of this first antibiotic was not fully realised until the early 1940s, when large-scale manufacturing processes were developed. The impact is momentous: on top of saving millions of lives, it has added …

With the profound changes brought by industrialisation to the nature of urban living came powerful forces that altered the way our cities are structured and shaped the course their development took over the decades. Industry brought pollution, which in turn …