With care home residents and hospital patients spending much of their time indoors, how can we help them to re-connect with nature? (read more)

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The project hopes that these stories will help people to realise that the war on drugs has failed, and that global citizens can use these powerful stories to put pressure on our political leaders to make change. (read more)

What makes a place special and unique? What causes people to fall in love with an environment? These questions sat at the heart of this Brigstow Institute-supported project. Working together, researchers at the University of Bristol and key regional partners from the National Trust investigated ‘spirit of place’ at the Holnicote Estate in west Somerset. (read more)

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In linking academics in Law to members of the Disabled community, this project was able to establish Bristol Disability Human Rights Network. (read more)

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We’ve all been there: accidentally stepping in dog poo on while on the way to somewhere important is never fun. But for many children, it can present a risk of zoonotic disease, and the roundworm Toxocara can have devastating effects on cognitive development in young children. (read more)

The vast diversity of languages is an astonishing and rich part of cultural heritage. Language differences are a significant barrier to cultural diffusion. The fact language can contain and discover meaning is one of the mysteries, and one of the wonders, of the working of the brain. Teaching machines to translate between languages is an interesting and important contemporary challenge.  (read more)