Activism, policy and justice | Brigstow Institute

Co-designing sensitive, non-confrontational methodologies for gaining insight into ongoing sexual trauma for those living with FC/FGM 1 January 2023 How can academic researchers and community partner organisations explore multiple creative methodologies to overcome the barriers to seeking therapeutic intervention for victims of FC/FGM?

Erasing the Stain: Working together to challenge stigma towards people who use drugs and opioid substitution treatment in Bristol 1 January 2023 What interventions can be developed to reduce stigma towards people who use drugs and OST? How can a story-sharing workshop shed light on drug stigma and the necessary policy to prevent it?

Designing accessible, safe, and enjoyable spaces for autistic adults who are precariously housed or homeless 1 January 2023 What do accessible, safe, and enjoyable accommodation provision in the homelessness/supported housing sector look like for autistic people? How can artistic visualization and participatory methods help uncover the needs of precariously housed autistic people?

‘Find your village’ – collaborative community research to tackle health inequalities funding 1 January 2023 How can researchers, community organizations, and local artists/creatives come together to explore the best methods of employing cultural and organisational assets to promote culturally-coordinated understanding and to improve wellbeing, child development, as well as community connectedness and inclusion?

Exploring the Impact of Section 28 1 January 2023 How does the past influence the stories we tell about queer life in the present? What are the effects and by-products of living through and/or living in the aftermath of a moment of restriction and repression on sexual identity?

How do we ethically decolonise a rock and mineral collection? 1 January 2023 What research can be done into the practice of how to ethically decolonise rock and mineral collections? And how can we bring curatorial practice, poetry, academic thinking and art into the development of decolonising processes?

Climate Change Craftivism in the Classroom 1 January 2023 In what ways can the creative methods of craftivism support interdisciplinary climate change education in secondary schools? How might the creative methods of craftivism help young people to share, recognise and respond to climate change related emotion and anxiety? And how might involvement in craftivism improve secondary student voice and agency in responses to climate change?

Boys at the Crossroads: Insights and Innovations for Doing Masculinity Differently 1 January 2022 How can we form a network of practitioners, artists and academics to talk about boys, men and masculinity? What impact could this have on male based violence?

Walking and Re-Creation 1 January 2022 How can we ensure that walking is accessible to all? Can experimenting with different forms of walking change our view of society, health, and history?

Living Financial Resilience: A community research and design project with residents of Lawrence Hill. 1 January 2022 What is lived experience of “financial resilience”? How can we create community-led and – centered services to support them on that journey?

Once Upon a Hill: Follow on funding to support evidence-based policy making 1 January 2021 How can previous research and engagement with local communities through participatory methods be implemented in designing policy around community-assets and community-led economic development initiatives?

Research Action Coalition for Race Equality (RACE) 1 January 2021 What is the perceived value of developing a set of guidelines for co-production co-designed by a group of disparate communities coming together to seek racial justice?

Access and Active Leisure in a Time of Pandemic: Tales of Two Cities 1 January 2021 How have people experienced access to the cities’ streets, thoroughfares, and green spaces during the pandemic? What’s different between Bristol and Bordeaux? What commonalities are there? And how do people experience different forms of lockdown?

Developing a methodology for the empowerment of teachers-as-researchers in the context of Climate Change Education 1 January 2021 How can teachers be enabled to collaborate together at scale as researchers? What barriers and opportunities exist for teachers and academics in the South-West/Wales to collaboratively develop a methodology for teachers to collect data on climate change within their schools?

Including the Excluded: Education and Wellbeing in the time of COVID 1 January 2021 How are these young people experiencing education now? How has expulsion impacted their mental health, social connectedness, and emotional wellbeing? What are excluded pupils’ educational and wellbeing needs now we’re returning to face-to-face learning?

Who's in Our Food? 1 January 2021 How can artists and researchers come together to create visualisations of injustice and resistance in contemporary food systems with the goal to explore disparities, inequalities, and the social/environmental problems inherent in industrialised food systems?

Mind the gap: State directives, Orthodoxy, and living well in 21st-century Britain 1 January 2021 How can we create an effective discourse on legal protections and responsibilities in self-protective religious minorities?

We Are Still Here: Stories from the HIV & AIDS Community 1 January 2021 To what extent can visual representations of living spaces offer an insight into the lived experiences and mental well-being of people in the HIV/AIDS community in the UK?

Constitutional Therapy 1 January 2021 How can we explore the creative processes behind our different voices? Can the popular media of podcasts and short films assist the political process of constitution-making? How can we tell the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them?

Individual actions add up: Finding inspiration in everyday citizen actions to address inequalities in post-pandemic climate and nature emergency responses 1 January 2021 How can the positive environmental actions of the community be properly recognized and learned from to enact future climate policy? How can this help address inequalities in post-pandemic climate and nature emergency responses?