What did the project involve?

“Bristol Carescapes” was a project about care futures in Bristol. Encompassing experiential, explorative and collaborative approaches to exploring and envisaging care futures, the project drew together local creators and people with lived experience of different …

As the technological capabilities of video gaming have advanced over the last few years, video games have gradually been more geared towards an individual’s experience and also moved from public space to the privacy of an individual’s home. This has …

Grief affects everyone at some point; in the Bristol area, over 500,000 people suffered a bereavement in the last five years (Sue Ryder, 2019). While it is a normal part of life, it can be intensely painful, frightening and isolating. …

Adult CSA (child sexual assault) survivors face barriers accessing oral health care and performing oral self-care. This area was relatively unexplored in the UK but some research did exist which highlights cycles of shame, avoidance and retraumatisation when attending dental …

The need for cultural competence in the training for health professionals has been recognised for decades but remains poorly implemented. Covid brought into sharp relief disproportionate negative health outcomes for people of colour in the UK. As data capture has …

While using a washing-machine is a highly routinised domestic practice, its environmental implications have extensive detrimental environmental effects. Washing machines require high inputs of energy, water and detergents; leaching chemicals and microplastics into the environment through waste water effluent. At …

What did the project involve? 

This project was about women, by women and for women.

The research team were interested in key developmental stages, teenage, pregnancy and menopause – and how those hormonal shifts are perhaps undervalued and commonly underrated. …

Recent social movements #metoo, #timesup and #everyonesinvited, have catapulted the issue of men’s violence and harmful masculinities into the forefront of public consciousness. In the UK men’s violence is the biggest single health risk facing women and girls while male …

For many urbanites, the pandemic revealed how accessible – or inaccessible – many urban spaces can be. But around the world, different responses to the pandemic led to radically different experiences of access to active leisure and the outdoors.

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