What did the project involve? 

This project sought to explore the role libraries have played, and play, in people’s lives: Life with books, but also the wider role libraries have played in terms of encounters with books/people/ideas, belonging, stimulating the …

“Our garden in St Pauls is not only the patches of land that we are symbolically reclaiming from years of neglect as rubbish dumps and drug needle debris. It is the individuals and communities who daily engage in a fight …

Social futures are frequently presented as digitally-driven, ‘predicted inevitables’, and draw on a narrow range of experiences and priorities. This framing often excludes the voices of communities at the margins, limiting the opportunities for people to shape their own futures. …

During the 2021 COP conference, a group of children’s authors and academics began discussing children’s stories that portray the climate crisis. For many years, and currently, these stories have been about heroism: the efficacy of individual actions to prevent disaster. …

In 2018 an Ideas Exchange between Lucy Kelly and Grace Huxford called ‘Writing and well-being for busy people’ looked at why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Whether private diary writing could help promote well-being? …

This project builds upon the Brigstow funded An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film (2019) – which led to the production of the short practice-as-research films Lost Property (Dawson, Hay, Rosling, 2022) and Nothing Echoes Here (Hay, 2022) …

The world faces unprecedented challenges of ecological sustainability, including climate change, biodiversity loss and depletion of natural resources. Educators and researchers are well-placed to engage with these issues by considering how our curriculums can respond to these challenges. Little research …

What if we all refused to buy anything that harms the environment, including goods and services that add to carbon in the atmosphere, impair our health, or impact upon wildlife?

In a previous Brigstow funded research project ‘I Didn’t …