University of Bristol Public Engagement Team

🦋 Bridging Histories is a social enterprise which supports everyday people & communities to achieve they changes they want to see.

Led by Dr Joanna Burch-Brown (Philosophy), Bridging Histories hyper-local focus has had global impact, from Bristol to Bosnia & beyond

Watch the video 👉 bit.ly/4oCFh4c

Reframing Colonial Oil Industry Archive Imagery Join filmmaker Nariman Massoumi for a collaborative workshop exploring colonial-era oil company photographs and their legacies. Using images featured in his short documentary Pouring Water on Troubled...

Sat 15 Nov - Join filmmaker Nariman Massoumi for a creative workshop exploring colonial-era oil company photographs & their legacies. What do the images reveal & conceal & explore how they can be reused & reimagined as living records of history: tinyurl.com/5dxwzk53
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Action research: Playfulness in storytelling Event series

Looking for something to do with children this half-term? Come along to Playfulness in storytelling - Fri 31 Oct (3 sessions available) at Bristol City Museum. Free to attend. Further details and booking link here: tinyurl.com/57wxbrz2

A poster for the Reynard the Fox stop-motion animation with an Animalis Fabula Film Festival 2025 semi-finalist logo

The stop-motion animation 'Reynard the Fox' -- directed by Maddy Pull, and executive-produced by Dr Kristian Moen and our own Prof Ad Putter -- has made it to the semi-finals of the Animalis Fabula Film Festival, and will be shown in San Antonio in late Nov. 🎉 Huge congrats to all! #medievalsky

✨ COMING UP: Join Prof Justin Williams for a screening & discussion of a new documentary on Hip-Hop in Tanzania

Part of the Sounding East Africa project, the doc charts the development of hip-hop as part of East African musical history

📆 Thu 30 Oct, 6-9pm
📍 @wshed.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/42oG7Ja

Excited about helping with the Hannah More Herstory Walking tour from The Georgian House Museum and finishing at the M Shed’s new Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans Gallery. Such a great programme of different events planned in Nov @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

We are delighted to be taking part in this year's festival, get it in your calendar!

Bristol's forgotten street names revealed in map Names of roads either lost down the centuries or renamed are available on a new map.

'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️

Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beat the Snot: Woman blowing her nose

📢Event!📢We're excited to be part of Saturday's free Discovery Day 2025 @wethecurious.bsky.social. We aim to inspire a future generation of #PublicHealth researchers to stop future infectious disease outbreaks with our 'Can you beat the snot' game. Tickets ➡️ bit.ly/46PPbJt @engagebristol.bsky.social

Discovery Day Discovery Day is your chance to explore science and research in fun, hands-on ways – all for free!

What do a brick wall, bugs, mouldy bread & bean bags have to do with #eczema? 🧱🐛🍞🫘

Come & find out at Bristol's FUTURES Discovery Day! 👀

📆27 Sept 2025, 10am-4pm
📍We the Curious, #Bristol

More info & free tickets from: tinyurl.com/33vvx3rk

#FUTURES2025

@engagebristol.bsky.social

Putting the final touches on this exhibit!

Preparing my family-friendly activities for the @engagebristol.bsky.social Future’s Festival later this month.

#Experimentalhistory #futuresfestival #costumehistory #archivalhistory #universityofbristol #practiceasresearch #researchinaction #phdlife

Event Delivery and Top Tips Training 1 October 2025, 11:00AM-12:00PM

✨ Book onto our free online Event Delivery and Top Tips training on 1 October! ✨

Led by the Being Human team, and Susan Monkton (Cardiff University), we will cover topics such as coordinating your team, accessibility and inclusivity, and audience experience.

Find out more here: buff.ly/fcRO7dM

This is today! There's still time to sign up if you're speedy!
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Map of the British Indian Empire from Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. Gwalior is located in one of India’s Princely States, coloured yellow on the map, which were semi-autonomous territories.

Example of a letter envelope with Indian stamps consulted in Ellen’s latest research, courtesy of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

✍️ Dr @ellencssmith.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) introduces us to her Imperial Letters project which explores how the correspondence of British families in India shaped public opinion of empire in the 19th & 20th centuries

Find out more this South Asian Heritage Month 👉 bit.ly/45chAIX

Electric Wind talks and events in autumn 2025 (arranged by date)

Electric Wind talks in autumn 2025 arranged by place

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

📢 Last chance to apply to be part of the Ask-JGI cohort!

Deadline for Ask-JGI applications is tomorrow at 23:59. This is a great paid opportunity for @bristoluni.bsky.social PhD students to gain experiences that will be useful for future research or careers.

Details to apply in the post below 👇

Delighted to share the outcome of some #publicengagement following my doctoral fieldwork. | Pen Williams Delighted to share the outcome of some #publicengagement following my doctoral fieldwork. Last November Sam Church and I spoke to local year 12s to hear their views on #citizenshipeducation at pre and...

It's great to see the outcome of one of our Thinking Futures events in print! Many thanks to Pen Williams for sharing shorturl.at/mZc8R

Research Associate opportunity: Free bus travel, children and young people Brigstow Institute are recruiting one or two Post graduate researchers (PGR) students or research-experienced community members to help undertake a short-term and part-time research project from early...

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...

YouTube video by Cabot Institute for the Environment Diversity is not inclusion

Diversity is not inclusion. How can you make everyone part of the team? www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-zp...

Visit bit.ly/3TdlLxr for more info on the Changing Nature project and watch the animated educational shorts on YouTube at youtu.be/BVnaw0AIQ-o.

2025 Being Human Festival Programme Preview From beer tasting to horror film prosthetics – here is a glimpse of the Being Human Festival this November.

We're delighted to announce that a special version of our Think While You Drink talks series will be part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social. More details to follow but it will involve beer tasting

@goodchembrew.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social

www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/2025-be...

This year we're taking part in the national Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social – a festival all about showcasing how the humanities help us understand what it means to be human. There are hundreds of free events taking place across the UK this November: beinghumanfestival.org

Very enjoyable day talking roots, shoots and stomata @festofnature.bsky.social with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers 2025 Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

What do Researchers think about Public Engagement? - @royalsociety.org survey now open - Whether you engage with the public about your research or not, The Royal Society wants to know what you think! www.research.net/r/RS_public_..., the deadline for completion is midnight, Sunday 1 June.

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@festofnature.bsky.social this weekend 14/15 June in Millennium Square. Visit the University of Bristol Tent and find out how bats can find their insect prey by their superpower of echolocation, how carnivorous plants adapt to growing in wet boggy conditions & much more. Visit: shorturl.at/SDPQ3

Looking for something to do this weekend 14-15 June. Come and see our amazing UoB researchers @festofnature.bsky.social - Play “Hook a Duck” with magnetic pollutants, find out what composites are, investigate water using chemistry & visit Tide of Change: A Journey Through Ocean Grief & Hope exhibit

Visit our UoB tent @festofnature.bsky.social this weekend -14/15 June in Millennium Square - check out our interactive exploration of how plants have evolved to make the most of limited water availability @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @jimfouracre.bsky.social and much more............

Wild Weekend at Millennium Square | Festival of Nature 2025 Head to Millennium Square in Bristol City Centre on the final weekend of Festival of Nature for Wild Weekend 14-15 June 2025.

Celebrate Father's Day this weekend in Millennium Square!

Spend some quality time together at Wild Weekend, learning how to build a pond, exploring watery science experiments or sharing your best disco moves with live music on the stage.

Free entry, lineup here:

www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-...

Join Bristol Common Press to make your own nature-themed handprinted artworks. Discover amazing fossils from millions of years ago, and explore the world of biomechanics with some giant teeth with the Bristol Dinosaur Project @bristoldino.bsky.social - see all this & more this Sat 7 Jun: 10am-5pm

The talks line-up during Festival of Nature’s #CommunityEvents brings together wildlife experts, community leaders, conservation volunteers and project organisers, all working towards supporting the wildlife & natural environment of the West of England. 🎤

Learn more: www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-...