Previous work has drawn connections between the professional experience of health visitors, early years educators, developmental therapists and doctors, the systematic review of quantitative and qualitative literature, the experiential and interactional world of migrant families in a British inner city, …

This project aimed to develop a novel approach for engaging teachers-as-researchers in their own schools, assuring their views and experience is represented in debates around future educational policy and practice (at local and national levels). The researchers believed teachers’ voice …

This project was commissioned by Brigstow during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was designed in a time when distance and proximity had become part of daily life. It began from two fundamental research questions:

• How is closeness and distance being renegotiated

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 …

Vertical farming is the practice of growing plants, indoors, under controlled conditions in stacked layers, often without solar light. Hydroponics is a subcategory of vertical farming, where the roots are submerged in water containing nutrients for growth. Benefits of such …

This project was founded due to a series of recent controversies in the UK which signaled a gap between urgent state directives and their uneven implementation in religious communities, which revealed that language, which is intentionally non-specific, coupled with an …

What did the project involve? 

The project explored the role of Robinswood Hill, identified as a core community asset, in supporting the wellbeing of local people living in peripheral and deprived urban housing estates in Gloucester. The research team worked …