The title you have created for your project - we find short engaging titles work well.

Select "2025/2026"

Type in the full name and title of the team member who will be the budget holder. 

The nominated budget holder should have created a Worktribe budget for the proposed project. Here you will enter the Worktribe project ID.

On our Research administration and support pages you can find detailed instructions for creating a Worktribe budget for Brigstow Funding.

Enter the total amount of funding you are requesting

Give a breakdown of costs and justification of individual items. Please include VAT if applicable (creative and community partners should ensure they are costed in appropriately). Max. 300 words. 

This main body of the application form is free for you to frame but we strongly advise you do so around the following questions: Max. 2000 words (Any applications exceeding this limit will have the additional text removed prior to being assessed)

The research project

• Identify clear research questions about the area you want to explore and how you will go about answering them
• What new knowledge will the project create and why does it matter? Is the research novel? Does it address a gap in the research/knowledge landscape? Has this work been done before? From a broad disciplinary base, has the wider context for the research been explored and explained?
• Set out a clear, detailed and realistic plan for the co-produced research AND critical making elements in the design, delivery and the outputs (How will you do this? Who will you be working with, where from, how many people will you engage, how will you engage them?)
• How does your project help understand the complexities of our time?

The team

• Clearly explain the interdisciplinary aspects of the project
• What knowledge and expertise do the different members of your interdisciplinary and/or co-produced team bring? Why do you want to work together?
• Who will benefit from the outputs of the project?
• We welcome broad interdisciplinary teams that include a range of disciplines and approaches. Given the focus of Brigstow Institute we expect to see arts/humanities researchers and/or social scientists as key members of interdisciplinary research teams.

What will you be making together?

• Consider a good mix of both research and creative/community outputs. Will they be co-produced? How will the purely creative outputs be captured?
• Outputs can take any and many forms and we are keen that teams think creatively about how to communicate their findings, whether that be the process or a specific output.
• This is an opportunity to think creatively. Both research and creative outputs are all acceptable outputs for the research project but we strongly encourage all teams to make something and document the process, reflecting Brigstow’s requirement for ‘critical making’ as a team. Examples include: research papers, conferences, book chapter, case studies, blog posts, toolkits, artefacts, texts, performances, exhibitions, objects, workshops, interventions and applications for further funding.

Being equitable

• How does your team intend to be equitable in carrying out the research?
• How will your team deal with potential power imbalances, both within the team and/or between the team and participants?
• How you will ensure that decisions in the team are made in a timely and fair way?

From the following themes choose one to three options that best describe your proposed research project:

• Creativity
• Culture
• Health and Wellbeing
• Global
• Environment and sustainability
• Technology
• Social Justice
• Education and learning
• Stages of life
• More than human
• Senses

From the following challenges choose one or two options that best describe your proposed research project:

• Activism, policy and justice
• Creativity, heritage and culture
• Data and technology
• Equity in health and wellbeing
• Global and environmental challenges

Please enter the email address of the person who has filled out the application.

In turn, please add the details of each researcher that will be taking part in the project including the person submitting that application. 

Add all members of the core team, those working at the University and those from elsewhere. All members of the team are referred to as researchers.

 After clicking "Add Researcher" you will be asked for each individuals:

• Title
• Pronouns
• First Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Organisation type
• Organisation name
• Additional questions for University of Bristol Staff and Student members of the team:
  • Division (if not based in a school or faculty)
  • Job Title
  • Pathway (1, 2 or 3, student or professional services)
  • Employment status (full or part-time)
  • If part-time, will this researcher be paid with project funds for their work on the project.

Click "Submit" after entering each individuals details.