Collaboration and innovation
We’re fostering collaboration and innovation across disciplines and sectors to drive high-quality, impactful research that benefits society.
Research culture funded initiatives
- Working Well TogetherSupported by Research Culture funding, Working Well Together aims to be a self-serve resource that supports research-enabling groups and teams to create and celebrate positive research practices and environments at local levels.
- The Department of ImaginationThe Department of Imagination project aims to introduce arts informed imagination practice into research cultures at UoB. The imagination team have been exploring the theory and practice of imagination with researchers and artists to better understand how imagination practices can help shape and support better research cultures.
Central links
- Public engagementOur Public Engagement team provides a bridge between the University's research community and people living and working in communities outside the University.
- CommercialisationThe commercialisation team helps the University of Bristol achieve real-world impact through executing licensing deals and forming spin-out companies.
- AlliancesThe University of Bristol is committed to building a global reputation in higher education and research. We will continue to improve our strong record of international collaboration and partnership across our teaching and research base.
List of recently funded projects
WWT has been co-produced with research professionals & academics to:
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support teams who work in an HE context to enhance their culture
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offer teams the tools and expertise to create, develop and maintain their own local culture that:
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can help its members face the evolving challenges of their work
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supports everyone to thrive
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enables high quality, reproducible research
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focuses on quick wins, but offers no quick fixes
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use an inquisitive approach, starting with where teams are, identifying approaches which are right for them, and continuing to ask questions along the way.
Overall Project Objectives:
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Collect qualitative data on PGR experiences of research culture and community
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Design a resource toolkit that addresses identified needs and can be adapted across different disciplines
By working with a MyWorld funded Artist in Residence and their cohort of creative practitioners within Bristol, we are supporting two PGRs (currently being recruited) to:
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provide different perspectives to inform operational methods to ensure that The Sheds are seen as an open and collaborative space for the relevant communities;
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evidence the possibilities of the equipment and facilities to deliver MyWorld’s inclusion and access aims;
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establish inclusive working and business models for The Sheds to ensure we can bridge access gaps in the creative technology sectors in the region.
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Use these models as best practice exemplars for TQ Research Campus and wider University hubs
(2024-25)
We are bringing community and university-based researchers together into a co-production community of practice. As part of this, we are co-developing training and support for both Community-Based Researchers (CBR) and University-Based Researchers (UBR) to facilitate more effective and equitable collaboration during research projects.
Our overall aim is to support and enhance diversity within the research workforce and strengthen future partnerships of community-driven and community-informed research.
Aims:
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To improve imagination skills in PGRs/ECRs to equip them to do RRI
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To identify sustainable ways for implementation of imaginative approaches/interventions in future cohorts
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To support mental health and wellbeing amongst PGRs and ECRs
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To implicitly create community and spaces for interdisciplinary dialogues
Develop interactive digital 3D tours to allow prospective and current UoB postgraduate researchers to virtually explore campus. This project continues work done in our 'Virtual Museum' to increase accessibility to spaces. It implements feedback from existing virtual museum users.
Researching methods for improved communication between PGR students and non-academic staff within the Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health and Care through surveys and interviews.