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?
What can we learn from the collective care practices of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to create a care toolkit relevant to contemporary contexts?
What is the contemporary father’s role in early parenting? How attainable are feminist ideals of parenting equity and what the key barriers to them? To what degree can performance art capture/explore tensions in work-life balance?
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?
To what extent can cultural synaesthesia, through the union of sound and taste, allow people to experience their lives differently?
How can experiences of those with food anxieties be used to improve treatment for eating disorders? What types of creative activities, or without food, can help to reduce food anxieties?
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?
Can diary writing improve wellbeing? Is it time to "reimagine" the diary? Are there ways for busy people to engage in diary writing? This project looks at the past, present and future of diary writing in relation to wellbeing. It explores ethical considerations, barriers and creative formats.
How are some people able to be physically active in their daily lives while others are not? How can physical activity guidelines be made more relevant and accessible?
How can researchers re-examine the relationship between global issues of agriculture-driven deforestation, poverty and unsustainable development?
