From Harms to Harmonies
The 'From Harms to Harmonies' theme aims to gather research ideas, questions and projects that use objects, substances, or actions deemed 'harmful' and actively engages with their impacts to reframe narratives, build collective communities of care, and find commonalities in their causes.
That could be anything from building community from social division and inequality, exploring reparative justice, ensuring safety and care in digital spaces, reframing the narrative around youth violence or working with substance users to understand and mitigate risk. The aim is to explore journeys where harmony is found from harm in multiple corners of the University and beyond.
This will theme will follow our funding model.
Read full call details and apply for Connections Funding for "From Harms to Harmonies". Deadline: 12 March 2026.
To give an idea of ‘From Harms to Harmonies’, here are some examples of related Brigstow-supported projects:
- Building inclusive audiences - I am your Mirror
- Storytelling that informs new policies - Ethical Storytelling of Psychoactive Substances and Drugs Policy in Bristol
- Creating new networks to address gender-based violence prevention - Boys at the Crossroads
- Using craftivism to engage young people in messaging about youth violence - How Do We Talk About Youth Violence Without Focusing On Knives?
- Exploring a trauma-informed approach to dentistry practice - Improving Access to Oral Health Services for Adult Survivors of Child Sex Abuse (CSA)
- Authentically conveying the lived experience of grief - Interpretation vs. Memory: Creative Approaches to an Autoethnographic Depiction of Grief
- Challenging assumptions of older people and alcohol - Hoppiness: Brewing with care homes