How can you create an innovative immersive experience which blends neuroscience, immersive technology, and movement, for an inclusive audience? This project seeks to explore the research landscape to give firm foundations for their multimedia installation.
This research team want to co-create guiding principles for an intervention to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). SMI includes schizophrenia, psychosis and bipolar disorder.
How do people living with chronic kidney disease want to tell their stories; who do they want to share their stories with; how do they want their stories told? This research consults the Welfare State International (WSI) Archive to scope out other ways to democratise health through public art.
This research will find out if creating purposeful, practical, and fun outdoors activities will help older men to build social connections and combat loneliness and isolation. Can it further encourage connection with settings of health, and care that can benefit their health and wellbeing?
What social and cultural significance does growing, brewing, and drinking hold for the residents of care homes? What role might activities orientated around growing, brewing and celebrating the cultural heritage of beer play in supporting wellbeing and social connection? How might such activities challenge and disrupt dominant cultural representations of life with dementia in a care home?
How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
How can health researchers, film researchers, charity organisers, and the south Asian community work together to promote inclusion of marginalised communities in healthcare research by using co-creation methods and visual media?
How do neurodivergent archive users use and experience archives? How do we make archives more accessible for neurodivergent users?
How might historical, ecological and artistic practices inform contemporary night-walking? What does the presence of a feminine nightwalker do to the city, and our notion of cities at night?
How can researchers co-create with with community members and "thought leaders" to explore philosophical questions on thought and consciousness?
How could brewing provide an opportunity for reminiscence and a connection to the natural world, the local community, and therapeutic horticulture in care communities?
How can creative techniques and artistry be employed to think about how a space can invite people to step forward and act in an emergency?
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?
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?
What is possible in relation to living well with our clothing and environment? How can underground (and often marginalised) networks and communities offer knowledge and examples of sustainable washing practices?
If non-professional actors can bring realism and authenticity because they have had similar lived experiences to those of their fictional characters, what is at stake when asking non-professional actors to work with such experiences, especially when they might be traumatic? How can such processes be carried out in an ethical, collaborative, and safeguarded way?
How can ethical storytelling be used to develop new drug policy, to inform how we can live well with drugs in our communities, and to destigmatise drugs and people who use them?
How can medical professionals and researchers coproduce scenarios with minority communities and draw on the lived experience of health concerns and attending health services through storytelling workshops?
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?
What care futures are envisioned by younger LGBTQ+ people? What can be learned from unorthodox spaces/places where caring relationships are practised by LGBTQ+ people? What are the different relationship care structures, for example within poly families compared to monogamous relationships, and the durability of these over time?
To what level does poor social media literacy impact mental health issues and the risk of self-harm in teenagers? How can we combine intervention development and evaluation to improve mental health outcomes at a population level with a media literacy focus in the context of secondary education curriculum development?
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?
How can researchers redress digital exclusion in digital health studies? How can children with ADHD and their families benefit from “just-in-time-adaptive-intervention”?
What can an historical approach bring to our understanding of people’s attitudes of and behaviour toward everyday healthcare? How can this contribute to clinical practice and the future delivery of primary care?
How does a perspective on the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories inform approaches to migration and memory? How can an embodied and creative approach to ‘memory work’ help uncover, archive, and work through such memories? And how can this type of ‘memory work’ help migrants themselves redefine a sense of identity to live a better life?
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?
What role can 3d medical technologies play in exploring one’s identity? What are patients’ perceptions of 3D medical models and the emotional implications that these can carry?
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?
What are women’s concerns and questions when contemplating motherhood in the climate crisis? What methods are effective in facilitating non-judgemental dialogue between women who have made different reproduction choices?
Can the discipline of engineering find ways to improve the quality of life for those affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa?
What is lived experience of “financial resilience”? How can we create community-led and – centered services to support them on that journey?
How can coproduction between researchers, dental professionals, and adult child sexual assault survivors lead to new approaches to dental teaching and training which makes healthcare accessible, inclusive, and responsive to all patient needs?
How can shared immersive environments facilitate the co-creation of fairer and more sustainable futures? How can communities at the margins be actively included using an immersive digital shared space?
How can participatory research can help us to further our understanding of how the sensory environment affects inclusive design and societal wellbeing?
How can we open up conversations about death and bereavement, in a manner that destigmatises grief and promotes compassion and understanding?
How do you create sensitive and authentic cinematic representations of grief? What can we learn from the process of creating films on grief? What can be learned from the different roles and positions involved?
How can children from diverse backgrounds communicate their connection with nature and biodiversity through art? In what ways are nature-based spaces important for children’s wellbeing? What are the diverse experiences of nature that children across the city experience?
In an emergency, how would you locate a defibrillator? How can we creatively consider ways to ‘signpost’ campus users and members of the public to the locations of live-saving defibrillators?
Are there any further ways that AD can improve game accessibility? What is the best way to make an audio described game available in a different language and culture? And how can we co-produce a game with visually impaired people that is accessible for all? How can we enhance game accessibility training?
How might an engaging artwork help women to connect or understand our bodies and hormonal changes on a deeper level?
What are young peoples views on the constructions of gender within the school environment? How do these manifest themselves in everyday interactions with teachers and peers?
How much do the sounds around you affect your mood? How much do you need to alter a city’s soundscape to benefit its citizens? Much like air quality, the sounds of our cities affect our wellbeing and health. This project explored how noise pollution in the city can be mapped and the effect of noise on people’s wellbeing.
How can we build on existing research into the benefits of diary keeping to improve student wellbeing? Can diary keeping improve the mental health of secondary school students?
How can researchers use interdisciplinary artistic forms as an emotional distancing tool to developed a framework for creating a responsive, ethically-informed project to collect and curate anonymised stories?
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?
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?
How can researchers enable the public to experience a conversation in a different and more immersive way and to communicate concepts of support and kindness through visual, embodied language?
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?
How can we start the discussion and increase the field of research related to CSA survivors and dental health?
How can we expand current understandings of war and what makes war possible by focussing on ‘home’? Can photo-documentary research disrupt current representations and understandings of war to further the collective understanding of war, war-time and military life?
How can an supportive and informative conversation about menopause be started without embarrassing or putting off people?
Is audio description assisted game playing feasible? Can audio description be applied to game streaming? Can video games include audio description?
How can local policies about neighbourhood geography could take more account of the experiences of young people from ethnically diverse communities?
How can we consider walking as a form of exercise and cultural performance that is socially conditioned? Are we able to unite health and creative perspectives on walking? How can the regenerative benefits of walking be accessible to all Bristolians?
How can we create an effective discourse on legal protections and responsibilities in self-protective religious minorities?
Can soft-bodied robots help us to combat isolation and loneliness?
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?
How have women found information and advice about the menopause? Is it understood and discussed differently within different families or social and cultural groups? And how can creative activities and storytelling help people explore and communicate their experiences of the menopause in different ways, and improve wellbeing?
How can we explore the therapeutic potential of creativity? What is the most effective way to demonstrate the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss?
How can researchers use soft robotics to develop non-verbal communication aids for people with communication difficulties?
How can a new approach to diary writing be used to improve the wellbeing of teachers in the UK? Can effective policy be developed around this to impact government policy on teaching?
How is closeness and distance being renegotiated and navigated? What does it mean to ‘bump into someone’ in the context of home-working and social distancing?
How would care receivers like to experience care in the future? What does it looks like? What is it's materiality? What emotions will it bring?
Can our wearable devices such as pedometers, heart-rate monitors, and Fitbits be repurposed to challenge the relationship between the user, the quantified-self, and our understanding of the workplace and beyond?
What is the value of local parks in lifting the wellbeing of local communities? How do communities relate to their green spaces?
What can be gained from an international and interdisciplinary network, focusing on identifying communicative expertise in supervision meetings between children’s social workers and their managers?
How can we bring together community members and organisations interested in making Bristol a more compassionate city for those who are bereaved or grieving?
Can both productive stitch and subversive stitch be understood as therapeutic? How can researchers explore the role of sewing in 19th century asylums and its relevance to contemporary wellbeing?
What can people recall about their attitudes to, and how they managed, mild infections in the pre-antibiotic era? What is the relevance of pre-antibiotic era attitudes and strategies to the present-day management of mild common infections?
How might technology be used to deepen the connection between parents and their babies, while they are still in the womb? How can engineers and social scientists come together to explore the potential and challenges of using wearable robotics to enable in utero interactions?
How do families separated by UK Immigration Laws cope with uncertainty? How can they be supported? This research project seeks to experiment with new ways to provide support for those affected.
How can you stage Elizabeth Blackwell’s experiences as a disabled woman and a pioneering doctor? How can we explores embodiment of disability in performance while exploring what we might learn from such life stories?
Can diary writing improve wellbeing? Is it time to "reimagine" the diary? Are there ways for busy people to engage in diary writing? This project looks at the past, present and future of diary writing in relation to wellbeing. It explores ethical considerations, barriers and creative formats.
What kinds of collective care practices can nourish and replenish us emotionally and politically?
How can game developers and publishers, localisation service providers, game players, and researchers come together to address the issues faced by video game localisation?
What are Bristol Somali refugees’ experiences of journeys from adversity to resilience, from isolation to connectedness, and from constraining to facilitating environments? How might video narratives contribute to understanding and action to improve the opportunities for pre-school children in refugee families?
How can we reduce anxiety for older people transitioning into care? How can we co-create moments of connection with the people and spaces that will make up future residents' new homes?
How can you reduce barriers to participation in research about an illegal activity? How can researchers creatively explore the impact that presentation and perception of cannabis use has on individual attitudes towards drug use?
How can we explore different methods of engaging people with dementia in research? What do people with dementia think of diagnosis services?
How are some people able to be physically active in their daily lives while others are not? How can physical activity guidelines be made more relevant and accessible?
How can VR and dance help us to rethink the human perceptual systems and the bias toward vision; the inherent nature of the relationship between perceptual systems and environment for wellbeing; and the ways in which we can re-centre the design for spaces away from visual conspicuity frameworks for sensing, movement and interaction?
Can handling 'playful things' provide focus and relieve anxiety? Students are increasingly seeking mental health support – most commonly for anxiety disorders. This research will explore how touch can be a tool for relieving anxiety.
How do you create sensitive and authentic cinematic representations of grief? Will multiple voices offer a balanced, holistic perspective or will it universalise and generalise the grieving process in an unhelpful way?
How do children conceptualise kinship? How do children from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds develop concepts of family and relatedness?
Can you apply narrative methodology to real life GP consultations and patient histories? This project will use storytelling to create a toolkit that will improve communication when giving and receiving medical histories.
Why social play is important? How might social video gaming impact the wellbeing of an individual? Is there a way to fulfil an individual's gaming purpose in a more social environment?
How can a creative event on the untold stories of disabled activism provoke discussion, exploration and creative responses to both the intersections and tensions of activism in Bristol and the South West of England?
How can we design a peer support service for people receiving a diagnosis of dementia?
How do pubs feature in older men’s life-histories? What role do pubs play in these men’s social lives? And how have these social spaces impacted on men’s social connections and networks in later life?
What is the contemporary father’s role in early parenting? How attainable are feminist ideals of parenting equity and what the key barriers to them? To what degree can performance art capture/explore tensions in work-life balance?
Which aspects of living with takotsubo cardiomyopathy cannot be captured by the label “broken heart syndrome”? Did participants experience their diagnosis as a “biographical disruption” and does that affect their self-representation?
How can we explore what are the barriers and facilitators to opportunities for play, social interaction, physical activity and healthy eating for children through neighbourhood walkabout and photovoice?
What resources could a multidisciplinary dialogue about ancient Greek and Roman religions discover for understanding, caring for, and cultivating forms of mental and spiritual wellbeing today? How could this same dialogue generate new perspectives on Greek and Roman religions?
How can an archive of primary care consultations be used across the disciplines and to engage publics?
What can we learn from the collective care practices of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to create a care toolkit relevant to contemporary contexts?
How can collaborative PD methodologies be adapted for individual visual impairment to empower stakeholders in the design process of an inclusive AR/MR learning solution?
Why have people written diaries, now and in the past? Can private diary writing help promote well-being? Is it time to ‘reimagine’ the diary for the contemporary era in an era where people publicly share life-stories on social media?
How can we explore what are the barriers and facilitators to opportunities for play, social interaction, physical activity and healthy eating for children through neighbourhood walkabout and photovoice?
How can the University work with the Somali communities in Bristol to improve wellbeing and outcomes for Somali young people? How can a migrant community use research evidence to support their development?
How can we draw together expertise from patients and their families, health service staff, Citizens Advice workers, academics and civil society organisations to develop an innovative scheme for providing a Citizens Advice Service within a District General Hospital?
To what extent can cultural synaesthesia, through the union of sound and taste, allow people to experience their lives differently?
Can soft, interactive textile controls in home furnishing or as a wearable help the elderly access useful technology? Does the added sensory experience of textured textiles, with simple controls, help an elderly person remember how to use them? Does the sensory experience help build an emotional bond with the object?
How do connections between the people and place where one lives affect and effect a sense of living well? Can collaboration and creative intervention positively impact upon the wellbeing of a street?
How can experiences of those with food anxieties be used to improve treatment for eating disorders? What types of creative activities, or without food, can help to reduce food anxieties?
How can co-produced participatory art practice, storytelling and ethnographic method benefit older populations from South Asian backgrounds, enhance their wellbeing and in what ways?
How can we use the playfulness that food affords, to experiment with misbehaviour and ‘bad’ food? What is the impact of cooking workshops on the skills, aspirations, and confidence of participants?
What does ‘eating well’ mean in the context of killing animals for food? What can a cultural approach can bring to animal welfare assessment?
Who was Fanny Fust and what can her life tell us about the experiences of people with learning difficulties in the 18th century? What conversations might such a history spark about disability and consent in the present day?
How can intergenerational dialogue within the Bristol Somali population be facilitated in order to address outstanding issues of mental well-being?
How has cycling shaped our understanding and relationship with our environment? And looking ahead, what changes can be made to improve the cyclist’s experience?
How can a Bristol Disability Human Rights Network be established by linking academics in Law to members of the Disabled community?
How can researchers re-approach support networks and information for fathers to safeguard and improve the wellbeing of fathers and their families?
With care home residents and hospital patients spending much of their time indoors, how can we help them to re-connect with nature?
In what ways can the process of creating video inform future planning of research into the roll out of the OpenUpMusic’s “Open School Orchestras” programme across the nation in 2017-2020?
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