It is well established that many members of Bristol’s Somali population are subject to a combination of stresses which make their lives particularly difficult. Communication between children, parents and grandparents about difficult emotional issues attending their adjustment to life in …

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Weekly attendance has increased in cathedrals in recent years. One factor in this may be the regular availability of a special experience of sound. The choral liturgy performed in cathedrals appears to be an appealing aspect …

The Afro-Asian Networks project investigates networks of Asian and African intellectuals, activists, writers, and artists moving within the global context of the early Cold War in the first decades of decolonisation. At the time of this study, this interdisciplinary research …

Biospheres pose not only scientific questions (is a functioning biosphere possible? And what would it contain?), but significant humanities questions: Why has the idea of a biosphere captured imaginations of the future? Does it offer insight into present understandings of …

“Art invites us and allows us to linger at the frontier of what there is, and it gives us an outlook on what might be.” Henk Borgdorff, The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research (2010) 

Taking Borgdorff’s maxim …

What did the project involve? 

The Bone Conducting Lollipop was an innovative confectionary that allows a person who has impaired to normal hearing, to hear music in their head through bone conduction. The project was born out of a project …

The project came about when Sabrina Shirazi was told by diners from Cuisine+Colour that her creative dining experiences helped them to overcome anxieties about eating. She initiated interviews with people in recovery from treatments for their eating disorder and consulted …

Leaders of the past, like those of the present, never act alone. An individual’s networks and what they do with them can help to explain how a person eventually comes to represent others in the public sphere. Mapping Intercultural Connectio…

There is a common assumption that neighbourliness and street–level interaction and connections have diminished, as contemporary society has become more mobile and individualised, and as residential streets grow increasingly diverse; particularly in …