Can handling 'playful things' provide focus and relieve anxiety? Students are increasingly seeking mental health support – most commonly for anxiety disorders. This research will explore how touch can be a tool for relieving anxiety.
How can augmented reality, creative practices and immersive technologies be applied to problems identified by architects, councils and community groups around engaging a broader range of people with local planning?
What can be learned from a one-day conversation between academics, creatives, and city-council representatives based between the two cities with parallel histories?
Is audio description assisted game playing feasible? Can audio description be applied to game streaming? Can video games include audio description?
What 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?
How can teachers be enabled to collaborate together at scale as researchers? What barriers and opportunities exist for teachers and academics in the South-West/Wales to collaboratively develop a methodology for teachers to collect data on climate change within their schools?
Can animation be used as a research method to examine global challenges? Can animation be applied to promote forms of development?
How can researchers expand the multifaceted issue of slavery and the facets of enslaved people's lives to a wider number of disciplines?
How can you reduce barriers to participation in research about an illegal activity? How can researchers creatively explore the impact that presentation and perception of cannabis use has on individual attitudes towards drug use?
How can local policies about neighbourhood geography could take more account of the experiences of young people from ethnically diverse communities?
