Children’s connection with nature is considered important for improving wellbeing and encouraging pro-environmental behaviours at a time of planetary crisis. However, the impact of directives to ‘stay at home’ during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns over children’s health, development, …

This is a development of an earlier Brigstow funded experimental partnership ‘AD4Games: making video games accessible for visually impaired players.’ That study was based on the premise that play makes us human. We play to have fun, to …

In 2019, an Experimental Partnership project took place to explore ‘An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film’. It was undertaken to redress the fact at fiction cinema often relegates grief to a mere plot device. The …

This project was a development of a chain of related projects and research. The Brigstow projects ‘Anyone’s Child Mexico’ (2018, a collaboration with Mexicanos Unidos Contra la Delincuencia and Transform Drug Policy Foundation) and ‘Sound Stories’ (2021, a partnership with …

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This project explored how to work with person-centred approaches for representing experiences of gender based violence (GBV). Against the backdrop of mainstream media and public discourse, which tend to misrepresent GBV by conveying stereotypes of …

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This research explored how haptic technology can minimise ableist barriers to inclusivity in performance spaces by investigating disability through different lenses and models (including social, medical and cultural). The researchers sought to examine:

1. how emerging

The majority of the research in health care focuses on the treatment of disease that affect large numbers of people, so that engineering solutions for rare diseases receive less attention. One of these rare diseases is Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), which …

Microbes, Microplastics and Man takes as its starting point the role of diatomic life in the carbon cycle. Diatoms are ubiquitous and multi-species, single-celled, siliceous micro-organisms living in oceans, rivers, mudflats… everywhere. They are a major part of the ecological …

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As a result of the Covid pandemic, a substantial amount of research activity has shifted online. This includes filmmaking research which underwent significant methodological alterations as movement restrictions made it impossible to travel for filming.…