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Brigstow Institute
@hellobrigstow.bsky.social
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An University of Bristol Institute for creativity, compassion, and co-created research.
Nurturing transformative partnerships from ideas to impact.
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🔍 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
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
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🌍 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
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
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
🌍 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/
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November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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/
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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...
SOMA SOCIAL VR Workshop | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Location: Docklands Community Centre, 29 Brigstocke Road, Saint Paul's BS2 8UA
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November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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...
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.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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
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🚨 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
Exploratory Research Funding | Brigstow Institute | University of Bristol
Guidance for exploratory research funding by brigstow.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
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!
October 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
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
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
🌿🤖 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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September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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📢 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
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August 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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...
August 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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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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August 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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alicewould.bsky.social
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.
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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August 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
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
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A fantastic post by @erikahanna.bsky.social about the creation of Mother Irish within her @hellobrigstow.bsky.social seedcorn project!
historyworkshop.org.uk 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
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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 hello-brigstow@bristol.ac.uk. 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
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
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...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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
June 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
hellobrigstow.bsky.social
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...
June 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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profdebw.bsky.social
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!
June 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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
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June 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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
June 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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...
June 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM