School Impact Projects

Project lead in Bristol: Dr Anna Havinga. This project, a collaboration between six academics from five UK universities, seeks to enhance the uptake and results in Modern Foreign Languages by introducing students to the study of linguistics. 

Project lead in Bristol: Dr Ruth Bush. AFRIUNI is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project that explores representations and lived experiences of four public university campuses in four multilingual African cities: Abidjan, Abomey-Calavi, Dakar and Yaoundé.

Project lead in Bristol: Dr Paul Merchant. This project, which ran from 2021 to 2022, asked how visual and audiovisual creative responses to ecological issues from Chile and Peru can help us to live well in changing coastal environments across the world.

Project lead in Bristol: Dr Xi Wang. This practice-led interdisciplinary research project explores ways in which smart software-enabled technologies could be used to enrich audio description and to enhance accessibility and visitor experience for blind and partially sighted visitors in museums and green spaces.

Project lead in Bristol: Professor Matthew Brown. MEMPAZ is a creative collaboration between grassroots activists working in some of the most geographically- and socially-marginalised parts of Colombia. Together we have used music, theatre, poetry, photography, film, cookery and conversation, to confront and work through the horrors of warfare.  

Project lead in Bristol: Professor Martin Hurcombe. FIAS addresses the ways in which women are underrepresented in sport. By engaging with stakeholders ranging from sports organisations to media and marketing, it is transforming the ways in which women are depicted in everything from sports magazines to promotional material. It is also empowering women to become more prominent in the sport.​

Project lead in Bristol: Professor Jo Crow. The aim of this ongoing collaborative project is to make the history of Mapuche political activism more visible and accessible. Together with museum practitioners, two secondary schools, Chile’s Ministry of Education, education specialists in Chile and the UK, and two creative technologists, we have created an educational toolkit to help open up debates about race and racism in contemporary Chile.

Project lead in Bristol: Dr Charlotte Faucher. The project addresses a priority region for contemporary UK foreign policy and international engagement, and contributes to the process of defining a shared vision and strategy for UK soft power.