@hellobrigstow.bsky.social
An University of Bristol Institute for creativity, compassion, and co-created research. Nurturing transformative partnerships from ideas to impact. https://linktr.ee/hellobrigstow
From Harms to Harmonies: Ideation Workshop
Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-harms...
🌊 Currents for Change – a boat tour exploring the hidden histories of psychoactive substances and global systems.
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
Over 150 came along to our webinar on creative and inclusive techniques in research on 6 November!
If you want to know how LEGO, sandboxing, Play-Doh or drawing could be used in research projects, read our news story, download the slides and watch the recording here
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/webinar-show...
Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
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We have now extended this deadline until the 27th November!
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
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#DecolonisingMuseums
🌍 Racism & climate crisis—what’s the link?
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
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#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov.
Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
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Join @hellobrigstow.bsky.social & @cabot-institute.bsky.social for The Joy of Activism – a conversation about finding hope & creativity in climate & disability activism with Polly Meyrick & Emma Geen.
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-activism/
Are you interested in our "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme?
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Brigstow’s "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme is live!
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
If you are interested in this opportunity join us for a webinar to ask your questions and find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
17.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 Funding Alert!
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
A fantastic showcase of our 2025 seedcorn projects this week. Each of them shared their fantastic outputs and learning.
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
How can Bristol communities support migrant families better?
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
🌿🤖 Nature and AI Workshop
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
📢 Join us for an Ideas Lunch on children’s engagements with digital technologies and media practices and the impact of these on outdoor play and mobilities.
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Thrilled to Lead: “Exhausted lives: The bitter juice of the cane never tasted”. Exploring human and environmental exhaustion in Caribbean Nevis during rum production 17th & 18th centuries.
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
More here! www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
01.08.2025 10:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.
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We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 5 brilliant projects connections funding around the theme of ‘Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices’.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!
03.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Our connections funding call for postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices closes at midnight!
If you have any issues with the application form please email hello-brigstow@bristol.ac.uk. If you are emailing after 3.30pm please do not expect a response until AM.
Fantastic opportunity for a PGR to join us as a Research Associate! We are looking for someone to do short term research in response to the recent announcement of free bus travel for children across the WECA region this summer brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/research-ass...
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It was fantastic to see @hellobrigstow.bsky.social projects taking part in an exhibition this month as part of the International Symposium for Cerebellum & Emotional Networks: The Emotional Brain.
Fantastic and inspiring display! Well done to all involved.
#CEN_TheEmotionalBrain
We had an amazing ideation workshop for "Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices". Amazing energy and conversations!
Couldn't make it? You can still get involved through Connections funding!
Deadline for applications: 30th June
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
Such a fabulous opportunity to champion the importance of supporting all children to play in unstructured ways and enjoy the freedoms we assume come with being a child!
19.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hear Brigstow Director Debbie Watson speak on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour alongside Baroness Anne Longfield.
@profdebw.bsky.social, a professor in child and family welfare, speaks on the need for children to play out & how we can create the spaces for this to be done safely.
Listen: lnkd.in/dcW2Zf82
Do children in your neighbourhood take part in unstructured outdoor play?
In the wake of the #Play Commission report, this @theconversation.com piece uses Brigstow research to highlight barriers & suggest some solutions to engaging children in more unstructured outdoor play.
Hi @dudleymarianna.bsky.social we have a bibliography on textiles and activism / action from our co-stitch project. I will share it with you :)
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