To support and enable emerging, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that are co-designed and co-run with those outside the university (creatives, charities, businesses). 

• Ideas Exchange funding 2022 

• Ideas Exchange 2020-2021

• Ideas Exchange 2019-2021

• Ideas Exchange 2018-2019

• Ideas Exchange 2017-2018

• 2022 - 2023 Seedcorn Funding: This is an opportunity for mixed teams of researchers to carry out curiosity-driven, playful and exploratory projects to take the first steps in developing and pursuing new research. 

• 2021 - 2022 Seedcorn Funding: To enable research teams to carry out risky, experimental, co-produced and exploratory projects to take the first steps in developing and pursuing new research questions.

• Robotics and Everyday Life: Interdisciplinary conversations and making: A series of workshops will allow participants to take the first steps in understanding different disciplinary perspectives and develop early-stage impact collaborations and co-produced projects. After the workshops participants can apply for modest project funding to collaboratively explore an aspect of the Robotics and /Everyday Life theme.

• Exploring the politics of immigration and the politics of environment through planting: A call for proposals for the artist-led creation of a new University of Bristol garden space and living lab.

• Seedcorn Funding 2020-2021

• Brigstow Institute and Bristol Photo Festival Commission: An opportunity for one research team to work together on a short project that uses photography as a research tool/approach/method.

• Collaborative Fellowship Awards - Researching Structural Inequalities: This is a new call for two Brigstow Collaborative Fellowships focusing on researching structural inequalities.

• Seedcorn Funding 2019-2020

• Seedcorn Funding 2018-2019

• Seedcorn Funding 2017-2018

• Seedcorn Funding 2016-2017

• Who's in our food?: "Who's in our food?" are looking to commission an artist in residence. The artist will help them to explore food justice as a set of issues, and as a concept in its own right. The creative will help them to explore what food justice means and why it gathers the coalition of food researchers to explore the set of systemic problems that they are involved in tackling in their diverse research projects.

• Empowerment of teachers-as-researchers: "Developing a methodology for the empowerment of teachers-as-researchers in the context of Sustainability and Climate Change Education" are looking for a creative partner to give creative input into challenges faced, suggest novel approaches to collect information and data, and ways to share this with educators.

• Exploring the politics of immigration and the politics of environment through planting: A call for proposals for the artist-led creation of a new University of Bristol garden space and living lab.

• Student researchers 2023
• Student Researcher for Sust Project: The Sust Project is extending it's work on a digital platform for empowering consumers to shop sustainably.They have carried out user research and built a prototype for providing consumers with information related to the sustainability of products and brands as they shop online. This new project will focus on Fashion. It will investigate potential mechanisms by which the platform will enable users to crowd-source information about Fashion products’ and brands’ sustainability.

• 2022 Seedcorn student researcher opportunities:Ten roles that will work as part of research teams in our 2022 funded Experimental Partnership cohort. These are very varied opportunities, suitable for post graduate researchers across the faculties.

• Library Stories Studentships: A paid opportunity for PGR's that will contribute to awareness of the development of the New University Library. As well as researching into memories and encounters within University of Bristol libraries, this project will explore more deeply the intangibility of libraries and the wider role libraries play within people’s lives. 6 studentships are available.  

• 2021 Seedcorn Studentships: This was an opportunity for student researchers to work with one of our experimental partnerships as they carry out research on an interdisciplinary and co-produced research project.

• 2020 Research Internships: An opportunity for post graduate research students to work with our funded seedcorn projects.

• We are History Commission: Research Project Students: This was an opportunity to undertake research for the We Are Bristol History Commission.

• 2016 6x Student projects in collaboration with the South West Doctoral Training Partnership Student Research Cooperative. 

• Mapping interdisciplinary and coproduced research communities: An opportunity for students to work collaboratively to map interdisciplinary and coproduced research and analyse using qualitative, quantitative research methods and network visualisation.