Brigstow Institute
@hellobrigstow.bsky.social
An University of Bristol Institute for creativity, compassion, and co-created research.
Nurturing transformative partnerships from ideas to impact.
https://linktr.ee/hellobrigstow
Nurturing transformative partnerships from ideas to impact.
https://linktr.ee/hellobrigstow
From Harms to Harmonies: Ideation Workshop
Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
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Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-harms...
From Harms to Harmonies Ideation Workshop
Join Brigstow for an ideation workshop in preparation for our next funding call
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From Harms to Harmonies: Ideation Workshop
Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-harms...
Join us to explore how creative collaboration can transform harm into harmony. This workshop invites all to co-create research ideas that foster positive change.
📅 Date: 12 January
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-harms...
🌊 Currents for Change – a boat tour exploring the hidden histories of psychoactive substances and global systems.
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
Transform Drugs Boat Tour: Currents for Change | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
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November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🌊 Currents for Change – a boat tour exploring the hidden histories of psychoactive substances and global systems.
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
📅 3 Dec | 🕐 1:30 PM | 📍 SS Great Britain
🎟 Register: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
#CurrentsForChange #BrigstowInstitute #BristolEvents
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Over 150 came along to our webinar on creative and inclusive techniques in research on 6 November!
If you want to know how LEGO, sandboxing, Play-Doh or drawing could be used in research projects, read our news story, download the slides and watch the recording here
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/webinar-show...
If you want to know how LEGO, sandboxing, Play-Doh or drawing could be used in research projects, read our news story, download the slides and watch the recording here
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/webinar-show...
Webinar showcases creative and inclusive techniques in research - ARC West
More than 150 people gathered online for a seminar showcasing creative and inclusive approaches in research on 6 November. Chaired by ARC West’s Head of Communications, Zoe Trinder-Widdess, the webina...
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Over 150 came along to our webinar on creative and inclusive techniques in research on 6 November!
If you want to know how LEGO, sandboxing, Play-Doh or drawing could be used in research projects, read our news story, download the slides and watch the recording here
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/webinar-show...
If you want to know how LEGO, sandboxing, Play-Doh or drawing could be used in research projects, read our news story, download the slides and watch the recording here
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/webinar-show...
Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
We have now extended this deadline until the 27th November!
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
🚨 Funding Alert!
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
Exploratory Research Funding | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Guidance for exploratory research funding by brigstow.
bristol.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We have now extended this deadline until the 27th November!
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
If you are interested in Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices, have a look at our Exploratory Research Fund.
🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
materiality and museum extraction | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Funded by Brigstow Institute’s Seedcorn, these partnerships evolved during the Personal to Planetary Fellowship programme.
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell?
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov.
Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists.
👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#DecolonisingMuseums
🌍 Racism & climate crisis—what’s the link?
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
Bridging racial and climate | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
In 2025 the UK experienced the hottest summer on record, and an increase in racist violence on our streets. What do these things have in common? Who benefits from climate denialism and community divisions? And how can we tackle them both to ensure a safe and dignified life for us all?
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🌍 Racism & climate crisis—what’s the link?
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
Join Bridging Racial and Climate Justice at Easton Community Centre, 16 Nov, 1 PM.
Talks + conversations with Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien.
Free tickets: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice #RacialJustice
🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov.
Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov.
Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Join @hellobrigstow.bsky.social & @cabot-institute.bsky.social for The Joy of Activism – a conversation about finding hope & creativity in climate & disability activism with Polly Meyrick & Emma Geen.
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-activism/
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-activism/
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Join @hellobrigstow.bsky.social & @cabot-institute.bsky.social for The Joy of Activism – a conversation about finding hope & creativity in climate & disability activism with Polly Meyrick & Emma Geen.
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-activism/
📅 13 Nov, 6:30 PM | Bristol + Online
🎟https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/joy-of-activism/
Are you interested in our "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme?
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
SOMA SOCIAL VR Workshop | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Location: Docklands Community Centre, 29 Brigstocke Road, Saint Paul's BS2 8UA
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Are you interested in our "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme?
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
We are excited to share with you are first collaboration event!
Join Lisa May Thomas for SOMA SOCIAL VR an interactive workshop running twice - the 18th and 19th of November.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
Brigstow’s "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme is live!
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
From Harms to Harmonies | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
As we enter the Collaborate phase of this theme, we’ve connected with past funded projects to curate a series of events that help to stimulate research ideas and questions, bring together potential teams, and connect you with past projects that might fit under this theme.
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Brigstow’s "From Harms to Harmonies" funding theme is live!
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
Find out more and sign up for key collaboration events here: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...
If you are interested in this opportunity join us for a webinar to ask your questions and find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you are interested in this opportunity join us for a webinar to ask your questions and find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
🚨 Funding Alert!
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
Exploratory Research Funding | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Guidance for exploratory research funding by brigstow.
bristol.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🚨 Funding Alert!
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
We have an open call for exploratory research projects that are:
🎨 Creative
🤝 Collaborative
🌍 Equitable
🔬 Interdisciplinary
Theme: Postcolonial natural history collections & museum/archive practices
📅 Deadline: 20/11/25
🔗 bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/funding/exploratory-research
A fantastic showcase of our 2025 seedcorn projects this week. Each of them shared their fantastic outputs and learning.
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A fantastic showcase of our 2025 seedcorn projects this week. Each of them shared their fantastic outputs and learning.
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
A great celebration of the end of our Seedcorn funding!
How can Bristol communities support migrant families better?
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
Focusing on children’s first 1,001 days can build neighbourhood support for migrant families
Peer support can help parents build secure relationships and grow in confidence bringing up their children.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
How can Bristol communities support migrant families better?
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development.
📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-...
✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport
#CommunityHealth #PeerSupport
🌿🤖 Nature and AI Workshop
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
Nature and AI Workshop
A discussion about nature and AI – what they are, humanity’s place in relation to them, and the associated opportunities and risks
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🌿🤖 Nature and AI Workshop
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
📅 13 Oct |📍 Bristol
Explore how artificial intelligence and the natural world collide, collaborate, and co-exist.
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-and...
#BristolEvents #AIWorkshop #ClimateTech
📢 Join us for an Ideas Lunch on children’s engagements with digital technologies and media practices and the impact of these on outdoor play and mobilities.
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
August 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢 Join us for an Ideas Lunch on children’s engagements with digital technologies and media practices and the impact of these on outdoor play and mobilities.
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
We will be joined by Lois Peach from University of Wollongong, Australia.
16 Sept
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...
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Thrilled to Lead: “Exhausted lives: The bitter juice of the cane never tasted”. Exploring human and environmental exhaustion in Caribbean Nevis during rum production 17th & 18th centuries.
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
August 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thrilled to Lead: “Exhausted lives: The bitter juice of the cane never tasted”. Exploring human and environmental exhaustion in Caribbean Nevis during rum production 17th & 18th centuries.
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social
Projects description: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...
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Reposted by Brigstow Institute
I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 5 brilliant projects connections funding around the theme of ‘Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices’.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
2025: Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices conne | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’m very pleased to working on this new project seeking to embed silenced voices in the new Natural History GCSE curriculum. This is a fabulous collaboration with Rising Arts Agency, colleagues in the School of Education and Bristol Museum. Thanks to @hellobrigstow.bsky.social.
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 5 brilliant projects connections funding around the theme of ‘Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices’.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
2025: Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices conne | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded 5 brilliant projects connections funding around the theme of ‘Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices’.
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/new...
A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!
How have the Irish community in Bristol used parades as a way of exploring memory and history?
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) explores the creation and procession of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop....
Parading Memories
Discover how parades are used to celebrate the Bristol Irish community through the creation of Mother Ireland.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!
Our connections funding call for postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices closes at midnight!
If you have any issues with the application form please email [email protected]. If you are emailing after 3.30pm please do not expect a response until AM.
If you have any issues with the application form please email [email protected]. If you are emailing after 3.30pm please do not expect a response until AM.
Application Form Questions | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Our connections funding call for postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices closes at midnight!
If you have any issues with the application form please email [email protected]. If you are emailing after 3.30pm please do not expect a response until AM.
If you have any issues with the application form please email [email protected]. If you are emailing after 3.30pm please do not expect a response until AM.
Fantastic opportunity for a PGR to join us as a Research Associate! We are looking for someone to do short term research in response to the recent announcement of free bus travel for children across the WECA region this summer brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/research-ass...
Research Associate opportunity: Free bus travel, children and young people
Brigstow Institute are recruiting one or two Post graduate researchers (PGR) students or research-experienced community members to help undertake a short-term and part-time research project from early...
brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Fantastic opportunity for a PGR to join us as a Research Associate! We are looking for someone to do short term research in response to the recent announcement of free bus travel for children across the WECA region this summer brigstow-institute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/research-ass...
It was fantastic to see @hellobrigstow.bsky.social projects taking part in an exhibition this month as part of the International Symposium for Cerebellum & Emotional Networks: The Emotional Brain.
Fantastic and inspiring display! Well done to all involved.
#CEN_TheEmotionalBrain
Fantastic and inspiring display! Well done to all involved.
#CEN_TheEmotionalBrain
June 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It was fantastic to see @hellobrigstow.bsky.social projects taking part in an exhibition this month as part of the International Symposium for Cerebellum & Emotional Networks: The Emotional Brain.
Fantastic and inspiring display! Well done to all involved.
#CEN_TheEmotionalBrain
Fantastic and inspiring display! Well done to all involved.
#CEN_TheEmotionalBrain