ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood, causing serious impairment for around 5% of young people, with long-term impacts on physical and mental health. There are evidence-based treatments for paediatric ADHD, but families often find it …

Using Immersive Technologies to assist in improving outcomes when informing young people on the risks and consequences of social problems is as yet widely untested. There is however a growing consensus that immersing young people in the lives of those …

What did the project involve? 

This project was a collaboration of creative tech innovators in the South West led by Simple Things and working with one of the most boundary-pushing artists in electronic music Aisha Devi and their visual artist …

Harmful social media content has been implicated in exacerbating poor mental health in children and young people, perhaps most notably in the inquest of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who died by suicide following intensive interaction with content that ‘romanticised acts of …

People with hearing often assume that audible language is all that inter-human conversation offers. However, for over 200 years, a community of ‘visual humans’ – deaf people, or those who experience the world in a predominantly visual way and who …

There are over 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK and this is set to rise to over one million by 2025. This is putting a significant pressure on the care system, carers, and families. Agitation is common in …

People who have communication difficulties find it challenging to express themselves effectively. People can experience difficulties in communication as a result of a range of conditions; some acquired in birth or early childhood, such as cerebral palsy, others as a …

Social futures are frequently presented as digitally-driven, ‘predicted inevitables’, and draw on a narrow range of experiences and priorities. This framing often excludes the voices of communities at the margins, limiting the opportunities for people to shape their own futures. …

What if we all refused to buy anything that harms the environment, including goods and services that add to carbon in the atmosphere, impair our health, or impact upon wildlife?

In a previous Brigstow funded research project ‘I Didn’t …