The need for cultural competence in the training for health professionals has been recognised for decades but remains poorly implemented. Covid brought into sharp relief disproportionate negative health outcomes for people of colour in the UK. As data capture has …

This project starts from a recognition that human separability from land and other species can be seen as one of the primary causes of our climate, ecological, mental and physical health crisis. The researchers will build upon the idea that …

Bristol has a long history and connection with a wide range of psychoactive substances. From the transatlantic slave trade of tobacco and rum, the invention of nitrous in the late 18th century, the legal trade and subsequent banning of khat …

This project explores the effectiveness of Peasant Popular Feminism in supporting activism and agroecological (the application of ecological principles to agricultural systems and practices) transitions for women peasants in the Peasant Reserve Zone of Valle del Rio Cimitarra, Colombia.

Peasant …

Supporting migrants in processing traumatic memories has been at the forefront of policy priorities since the beginning of the migrant crisis. Discussions tend to develop medicalized and pathologizing approaches to trauma, focusing on first generation migrants’ memories of life-threatening experiences …

While using a washing-machine is a highly routinised domestic practice, its environmental implications have extensive detrimental environmental effects. Washing machines require high inputs of energy, water and detergents; leaching chemicals and microplastics into the environment through waste water effluent. At …

How do you develop, conjure, and embody a believable yet mythical beast based on several points of reference?

The team behind Embodying a Mythical Beast: A Study of Becoming Dragon’ were interested in discovering what material constructions and bodily co-ordinations …

“One aim of the project was to make visible and tangible the flux between the material specificity of our labouring bodies and the immaterial world of data which represents their concrete abstraction.”¹

Work is the most highly valued time …

This project began with the Ideas Exchange ‘Living Well Through the Menopause’ which developed into the Experimental Partnership ‘The MenoMakers’ Handling Box’. In this project, the researchers wanted women to have a space for their voices to be heard and …