News in 2022/2023
- 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?
- Developing a proposal to examine the role of social media literacy in self-harm prevention 1 January 2023 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?
- Telling and Re-telling Tales: Caribbean Folklore and the Art of Storytelling 1 January 2023 What 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?
- Up the Feeder Down the Mouth: Voices and Silences in the Archive 1 January 2023 How can researchers create a layered and polyphonic soundscape that voices the process of selection and omission inherent in the creation of historical narratives and archives?
- Peasant and Popular Feminism: Co-constructing sustainability and peace in Colombia 1 January 2023 How does the concept of Peasant Popular Feminism influence socio-political roles within regional peasant organisations? How does it support women farmers in agroecological transitions? And how does it connect to peace-building?
- Cultivating Interdependence between Land and People 1 January 2023 How 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?
- 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?
- Research Trip to Colombia 1 January 2023 How 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?
- Digital health to support children (and their families) living with ADHD: exploring digital exclusion 1 January 2023 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”?
- 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?
- Laundry Justice 1 January 2023 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?
- 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?
- Always More Than One: How Can Puppetry/Robotics Help Rework an Ethics of Relation? 1 January 2023 How do humans relate to one another in contexts mediated by the technological, the artificial, and the re-embodied? And how can puppetry and robotics inform a new ethics of relation?
- Ideas Exchange for Hoppiness: Brewing in Care Homes 1 January 2023 How could brewing provide an opportunity for reminiscence and a connection to the natural world, the local community, and therapeutic horticulture in care communities?
- Artistry & Emergencies 1 January 2023 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?
- Remembering everyday healthcare c.1940-1970: Testing a novel interdisciplinary methodology 1 January 2023 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?
- The Wounds We Keep: Youth, Trauma And Otherness In The 21st Century 1 January 2023 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?
- Knowing plants: Practicing vegetal curiosity in arts and social sciences 1 January 2023 How can we co-create knowledge with plants? How can academic researchers and art practitioners collaborate to consider practice-based approaches to studying plants?
- 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?
- Queer Communities of Care 1 January 2023 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?
- Memory work and Migration: Exploring the body as a living archive of intergenerational memories 1 January 2023 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?
- HipHopHumanities: Artist–Academic Collaboration and the UK City 1 January 2023 What can we learn from hip hop culture to put collaborative practice at the heart of humanities research? And how can knowledge from hip hop practitioner communities help to inform a more equitable model of participation in academia?
- Ethical Storytelling of Psychoactive Substances and Drugs Policy in Bristol 1 January 2023 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?
- Coproducing Culturally Competent Scenarios for the Teaching and Training of Health Professionals 1 January 2023 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?
