The Brexit Workshop
How did Brexit exasperate new and old anxieties about immigration, racism, class, and the so-called 'left-behind'? How can the academic community and city partners collaborate to undo the damage this caused?
Projects
CSA Survivors and Oral Health Care
How can we start the discussion and increase the field of research related to CSA survivors and dental health?
Tackling uncertainty across the centuries: medievals and moderns in conversation
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?
Digital Tattoo: Designing interface for controlling smart ink in programmable tattoo
Can active particles be used to create interactive tattoos? What mechanisms are needed in order to make functional tattoos for a variety of applications?
Individual actions add up: Finding inspiration in everyday citizen actions to address inequalities in post-pandemic climate and nature emergency responses
How can the positive environmental actions of the community be properly recognized and learned from to enact future climate policy? How can this help address inequalities in post-pandemic climate and nature emergency responses?
Embodying a Mythical Beast: a Study of Becoming Dragon
Is it possible to design a ‘convincing’ puppet but wanted to discover if you can make an audience feel as though “a beast has life” even if “the being in question doesn’t exist”?
What it is to Be There: Exploring Grief, Place and Memory
How can we open up conversations about death and bereavement, in a manner that destigmatises grief and promotes compassion and understanding?
The Power of Waste: application of Microbial Fuel Cell Technology in Livestock Agriculture
How can researchers come together to explore the use of Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology to utilise waste in innovative ways?
Dementia Textiles
How can researchers develop a soft robotic device as a therapeutic product with intelligent sensing to support people living with dementia?
From Anxiety to Insight to Action: How can we best support young people from diverse backgrounds to make their own response to the climate and ecological emergency?
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?