@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
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.
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✒️ @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
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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
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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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Are you interested in our current funding? Do you have an idea? Join our drop in writing circle for space to write or to ask us questions. 17 June 9 - 5.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Project ‘Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry’, funded by @hellobrigstow.bsky.social, investigates the interplay between creative writing and technology, and the possibilities and pitfalls of their co-existence.
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Is this the dawn of bionic bardism!?
@lyrafest.com AI and Poetry: UK Symposium. 27th June. shorturl.at/kZHWe Featuring Q&A with industry experts, plus interactive poetry performances pairing artists with - and against - the AI for composition mastery.
#ai #poetry
Is this the dawn of bionic bardism!? ‘Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry’, has been pairing poets with technologists to create new work exploring the ethical and creative dilemmas of our time.
Join them for a free AI and Poetry symposium. 27 June
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/wat...
Be part of a lively discussion around what’s next for community-led design and making with Knowle West media Centre:
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"Empty Shirts: lost childhoods", a poignant exhibition from a Brigstow Ideas Exchange.
The project amplifies young people's voices and experiences of youth violence.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a brilliant example of using creative methods in research to explore a sensitive subject.
Clean Slate WIP showing. #IdeasExchange 5 June
A woman’s domestic life crumbles as she is pushed to breaking point by her boyfriend’s relentless domestic incompetence – & you’ve been cast as the boyfriend.
Email cleanslatetheplay@gmail.com to participate AM R&D
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Interested in our funding? Join our Ideation workshop!
Facilitated by the Brigstow Team, it will use methods that will help kick start your creativity. We’ll also have colleagues from Bristol Museum and Special Collections at the University of Bristol.
5 June: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
How can I get involved?
You might already have an idea and be looking to extend your team or be interested in the topic and want to connect with people to build something fresh. We’d love you to join us at our Ideation event on the 5 June www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
What is the scope?
We are keen to engage creative ways of thinking and working which may include museum practices but not exclusively. Your work could focus on what’s in the collections themselves, or how we present, study and care for natural history collections that exist.
Who is this for?
Whilst this might particularly appeal to people in earth science, environmental humanities, animal studies, botany or post-colonial studies, we are keen to also include expertise from across all disciplines both within and beyond the University.
The theme for our funding pilot will be: Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices.
Find out more and get involved: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
This year we have been reviewing our support for interdisciplinary & co-produced projects, and considering how we might also better prepare projects to apply for larger-scale funding. We are piloting a new funding model.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨
There's still time to apply but you'll need to get your skates on as the deadline is the 25th of May. More details here: bit.ly/4j3sAfi ✨
