Practical Help Achieving Self-Empowerment (PHASE) is a group of organisations composed of PHASE  Worldwide, PHASE Nepal, and PHASE Austria. PHASE Worldwide (UK Registered Charity) was founded in 2005 to support PHASE Nepal’s (Nepali Non-Governmental Organisation/Community Based Organisation) programmes aimed at …

In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …

On 25 October 2020 Chileans voted by a large majority in a referendum to abolish its Constitution and to elect a new Constitutional Assembly, whose 155 members were elected on 11 April 2021. These people then had nine months to …

The Research Action Coalition for Race Equality (RACE) is an initiative designed to overcome barriers to data access among race equality activists in the South West. It uses approaches that recognise, value and respond to communities’ needs, preferences, lived experiences …

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This project sought to bring a group of city partners together to consider an identified knowledge gap around the role of citizen-to-citizen engagement in responding to the climate and ecological emergencies. In particular, this Ideas …

Bristol has a long history and connection with a wide range of psychoactive substances. From the transatlantic slave trade of tobacco and rum, the invention of nitrous in the late 18th century, the legal trade and subsequent banning of khat …

This project explores the effectiveness of Peasant Popular Feminism in supporting activism and agroecological (the application of ecological principles to agricultural systems and practices) transitions for women peasants in the Peasant Reserve Zone of Valle del Rio Cimitarra, Colombia.

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Shortly before the start of this project, the Financial Conduct Authority released its finding that the COVID-19 pandemic has left over a quarter of UK adults with low financial resilience (FCA 2021). The impacts of low financial resilience go beyond …