Can a collaborative filmmaking process provide an empowering space for refugees and asylum seekers? Can filmmaking be used as a critical tool in examining the current immigration system?
What are the forces that shape the structure our cities? How do pollution and slums impact urban development in the long run?
How can you source and generate content from languages and stories underserved by the wider publishing industry?
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.
In emergency flood disasters, what information is needed from scientists? How should data be presented and within what timeframe?
What is the value of local parks in lifting the wellbeing of local communities? How do communities relate to their green spaces?
How can medieval churches tackle longstanding issues of uncertainty in contemporary rural life? How can we draw on the roles of heritage sites to help develop place-based responses to this question?
Can active particles be used to create interactive tattoos? What mechanisms are needed in order to make functional tattoos for a variety of applications?
What support do young people of diverse backgrounds need to deal with the climate and ecological emergency in their own way? What types of knowledge and understanding young people feel they need in order to better deal with the issue, how they prefer to learn about these topics, and how the arts can facilitate this process?
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 digital tech empower online consumers to respond to environmental emergencies? Can we create a tool that can connect with consumer practices to give people the opportunity to make ethical consumer choices?
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?
