At their best, social workers support children and their families to overcome the biggest challenges in their lives, but in order to do this, social workers need to be effectively supported by their organisation, for example through supervision. Our understanding …

Many studies conclude that, at an individual level, citizens have privacy and security concerns about sharing data with apps and online services but do it all the same – for reasons of convenience, inertia or an assumption about the existence …

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 …

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. …

This Ideas Exchange was prompted by the drive to share knowledge, inform, challenge, and create an alternative perspective and narrative regarding Bristol and its connection to Transatlantic enslavement and its legacy. The aim was to approach memorialisation, memory, and healing …

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With increasing public attention to how and whether we might trust intelligent robots in future societies, this project offered an intriguing and playful way to flip this question by imagining how robots might regard us…

Feelings of belonging are a vital aspect of wellbeing, generating emotional, social and cultural connectedness, while displacement – a state considerably heightened in the process of migration – can severely disrupt such feelings. Belonging plays a key role in defining …

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This research team envisaged the creation of a wearable device for pregnant mothers that will interpret their baby’s movements to create patterns of light, colour changes and sound. How could such a device enable a …

What did the project involve? 

Bringing the War Home II aimed to disrupt current understandings of war as ‘over there,’ time limited, and contained within overtly military spaces and practices. Instead, this project sought to further collective understandings of the …