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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · 21d

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

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

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · 23d

🌿🤖 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

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

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 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...

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Ana Castro-Castellon, DPhil (Oxon) @acastrocastellon.bsky.social · Aug 2

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...

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Alice Would @alicewould.bsky.social · Aug 1

More here! www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/res...

2025/2026: Connections funding: Postcolonial natural history collections | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol

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Alice Would @alicewould.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

2025: Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices conne | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

2025: Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices conne | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jul 3

A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Jul 3

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....

Parading Memories

Discover how parades are used to celebrate the Bristol Irish community through the creation of Mother Ireland.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

Application Form Questions | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 20

We had an amazing ideation workshop for "Postcolonial natural history collections and museum and archive practices". Amazing energy and conversations!
Couldn't make it? You can still get involved through Connections funding!

Deadline for applications: 30th June
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/fun...

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Debbie Watson @profdebw.bsky.social · Jun 19

Such a fabulous opportunity to champion the importance of supporting all children to play in unstructured ways and enjoy the freedoms we assume come with being a child!

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hear Brigstow Director Debbie Watson speak on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour alongside Baroness Anne Longfield.
@profdebw.bsky.social, a professor in child and family welfare, speaks on the need for children to play out & how we can create the spaces for this to be done safely.

Listen: lnkd.in/dcW2Zf82

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 12

Do children in your neighbourhood take part in unstructured outdoor play?

In the wake of the #Play Commission report, this @theconversation.com piece uses Brigstow research to highlight barriers & suggest some solutions to engaging children in more unstructured outdoor play.

Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen

Finding ways to encourage children to play in places such as driveways, courtyards and on their streets can help with their independence in the outdoors.

theconversation.com

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hi @dudleymarianna.bsky.social we have a bibliography on textiles and activism / action from our co-stitch project. I will share it with you :)

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 9

Are you interested in our current funding? Do you have an idea? Join our drop in writing circle for space to write or to ask us questions. 17 June 9 - 5.
www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 9

Project ‘Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry’, funded by @hellobrigstow.bsky.social, investigates the interplay between creative writing and technology, and the possibilities and pitfalls of their co-existence.

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · Jun 9

Is this the dawn of bionic bardism!?

@lyrafest.com AI and Poetry: UK Symposium. 27th June. shorturl.at/kZHWe Featuring Q&A with industry experts, plus interactive poetry performances pairing artists with - and against - the AI for composition mastery.

#ai #poetry

AI and Poetry: UK Symposium at Watershed

Date: Friday June 27th 2025 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 10:00 - 14:00 Price: FREE (advance booking essential) Join Lyra Bristol Poetry for the UK’s first ever AI and Poetry symposium. Lyra’s project...

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 23

Is this the dawn of bionic bardism!? ‘Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry’, has been pairing poets with technologists to create new work exploring the ethical and creative dilemmas of our time.

Join them for a free AI and Poetry symposium. 27 June
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/wat...

AI and Poetry: UK Symposium at Watershed

Date: Friday June 27th 2025 Venue: Watershed (W3) Time: 10:00 - 14:00 Price: FREE (advance booking essential) Join Lyra Bristol Poetry for the UK’s first ever AI and Poetry symposium. Lyra’s project...

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 23

Be part of a lively discussion around what’s next for community-led design and making with Knowle West media Centre:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-of-st...

Made of Straw and Still Standing

A free evening of inspiration about community-led design.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 23

"Empty Shirts: lost childhoods", a poignant exhibition from a Brigstow Ideas Exchange.
The project amplifies young people's voices and experiences of youth violence.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a brilliant example of using creative methods in research to explore a sensitive subject.

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 23

Clean Slate WIP showing. #IdeasExchange 5 June

A woman’s domestic life crumbles as she is pushed to breaking point by her boyfriend’s relentless domestic incompetence – & you’ve been cast as the boyfriend.

Email [email protected] to participate AM R&D
www.tickettailor.com/events/clean...

Buy tickets – Clean Slate

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Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 21

Interested in our funding? Join our Ideation workshop!

Facilitated by the Brigstow Team, it will use methods that will help kick start your creativity. We’ll also have colleagues from Bristol Museum and Special Collections at the University of Bristol.

5 June: www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...

Brigstow Institute @hellobrigstow.bsky.social · May 21

How can I get involved?
You might already have an idea and be looking to extend your team or be interested in the topic and want to connect with people to build something fresh. We’d love you to join us at our Ideation event on the 5 June www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve...

Ideation Workshop

www.bristol.ac.uk