With increasingly polarised narratives of migration – positioning migrants in opposing roles of victims or national security threats – how can we foster better narratives in order to shape better policies?
How can you design a project that incorporates humanities from the outset? Can ‘Blue Humanities’ refining or re-framing scientific research questions?
Can technologies of virtual and augmented reality re-inscribe historical sites with an alternative history and become a moment of celebration for the cultures that were damaged by this history?
How can the NGO PHASE update its central 'Theory of Change' to respond to the developments of the organisation and the communities they assist?
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?
What can life stories of Ken Pryce's sociological study teach us about living well in older age, living well with the past and living well with difference? How do they relate to the contemporary experience of young African Caribbean people and others racialised as black?
How can traditional farming techniques, honed over millennia, help enable substantial and sustainable increases in global access to food?
By visualising the sounds of marine wildlife and the way they are impacted by underwater noise pollution, can we draw attention to an otherwise invisible challenge?
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?
What perceptions do robots have of humans? What does it mean for us to live in a world increasingly inhabited by artificial and augmented intelligence? How can a network be developed that crosses artistic, scientific and engineering disciplines to explore how machines see us?
How do communities define, measure and experience wellbeing and resilience? How do community-owned spaces contribute to these characteristics? How can community-led regeneration thrive without being co-opted by commercial interests?
Are there new ways for citizens to visualise and interact with the data that are routinely collected about them in their everyday lives, e.g. to see the kinds of futures imagined or performed through data?
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 can researchers re-examine the relationship between global issues of agriculture-driven deforestation, poverty and unsustainable development?
