Storying the Avon: From Freshwater Science to Folklore1 January 2025By fostering long-lasting individual and communal connections can you elicit care for and engagement with the River Avon? Against a backdrop of catastrophic river health in Britain, this project seeks to enrich, deepen and transform Bristolians’ perceptions of their local river, with the aim of recentring the river’s place in the public imagination.
Water Futures: Exploring the sociodigital spaces of rivers and their communities1 January 2024How does a qualitative, embodied approach to understanding/knowing water can be explored alongside the quantitative environmental data? How can we imagine and (re)-story water / rivers? What would a caring policy towards water look like? Is there a new space for policy within this affective domain between bodies and rivers?
Wasting Time: Anthropocene Stories and Practices1 January 2024How have different disciplines and creative practices approached the multiple temporalities of the Anthropocene? What creative techniques can we use to engage students and publics with the challenges of planetary environmental change?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2024How can researchers explore Caribbean storytelling and folklore as a social act of human self-possession, a means of sharing experiences, and a mode of affirming values? How have these storytellings been captured in archives and how are they told today?
Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling1 January 2023What can be learned from the way that Caribbean people tell stories and how this practice has evolved? How might we preserve these stories for wider audiences? And what is the most effective way to re-tell these stories in alternative formats for digital, potentially younger, audiences?
Cultivating Interdependence between Land and People1 January 2023How can people living in Britain today be supported to relearn interdependence with land? What is the role of humans as keystone species in landscapes? What does ‘indigeneity’ mean to different communities with different histories of relationship with land? And how do we ‘relearn’ practices of dwelling in and with land?
Research Trip to Colombia1 January 2023How will the Global North's net-zero 2050 transformations negatively affect communities in the global south? How can an international research group be established to begin exploration of this imminent issue?
Laundry Justice1 January 2023What 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?
Memory work and Migration: Exploring the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories1 January 2023How 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?
Growing Liveable Worlds: Ethical Encounters Between Human and Plant Life.1 January 2022What kind of future ethics will we have for living well with plants? How can technologically mediated encounters with plants be done ethically and sustainably? Will the future of space exploration require us to learn to live well with plants in novel ways?
Motherhood in a Climate Crisis1 January 2022What 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?
How does your garden grow?1 January 2022How can community creativity centering on communal gardening in St Pauls contribute to unmooring “traditional” Environmentalism from its white supremacist origins and on-going entrapping?
MEMPAZ – Truth Commission – Memories of Protest1 January 2022What are the final steps required to conduct a comparative analysis of the relationship between memory work and political protest in twenty-first century Latin America?
