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The Brigstow Institute brings researchers from different disciplines together with a range of partners across the city and beyond to experiment in new ways of living and being.
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Brigstow Happenings
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In this months Happenings...
- Introducing Brigstow Ideas Exchange Funding Awards 2022
Project News
- Photo Essay: The Hatchling : Becoming a Dragon
- Blog Post: AD4 Games by Dr Xiaochun Zhang
- Blog Post: Urban Sound Pollution- Beyond the decibel by the research team of Building Instruments
- Online Exhibition, Podcast and Toolkit: Temperature Life Stories: Feeling the Heat
- Blog Post: ' I summon up remembrance of things past': responses to memorizing poetry by Meg Dyson (Metre and Memorisation)
- Paper: Evaluating Cognitive Enrichment for Zoo- Housed Gorillas Using Facial Recognition
Events
- Dear Home Office: Short Film and Q+A
Community
- The Festival of Enterprise
- Nuclear Robotics Symposium
- CALL: Connecting Through Culture As We Age
- Jean Golding Institute Bristol Data and AI Showcase
- Jean Golding Institute Bristol Data Week 2022
- Bristol Poverty Institute Showcase Event 2022
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Brigstow Ideas Exchanges 2022
We are delighted to present our 2022 Brigstow funded Ideas Exchanges.
Brigstow Institutes Ideas exchange funding provides researchers the time and resources to connect with others and explore an idea’s potential together. It is designed to support emerging, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that are co-designed and co-run with external partners.
This cohort of seventeen ideas exchanges range from dismantling ableist barriers in performance to creatively signposting the public to life saving medical equipment, from exploring the temporal imagination to the impacts of hormonal changes in women. We are looking forward to seeing these partnerships strengthen and research ideas developing.
Find out about the 2022 Ideas Exchange cohort.
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The Hatchling: Becoming Dragon
We here at Brigstow are so pleased to see the second outing of The Hatchling which will leading the jubilee parade on Sunday 5th June. We provided some initial funding for the collaboration with academics and the R&D in the early stages, and have kept involved since. Merle Patchett from the University of Bristol’s Geographical Sciences has written an excellent photo essay, Becoming Dragon, about this multi-discipline and multi-sited collaboration.
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Temperature Life Stories Feeling the Heat
#ExperimentalPartnership 2021
What causes us to experience temperatures differently? The impacts of climate change will be widespread but will not be felt equally. This research facilitated an exploration of human experience of rising temperatures.
The research team carried out creative workshops that asked participants to use poetry to explore and reflect on subjective questions such as ‘how hot do I feel today?’, ‘when was the last time I felt too hot?’ and ‘what was the hottest day I remember?’ The produced personalised temperature graphs using climate datasets to track the temperature experienced throughout their life, with all the variability of weather, seasons, movement and climate change. Then together they explored and reflected on the crossover, interaction and contradiction between the poetry and graphs.
You can view the results of the workshops in a mixed media online exhibition coproduced and curated by participants in order to tell their temperature life stories. The research team has also produced an interactive online toolkit that includes prompts for creative activities, questions to encourage inter-generational thinking. These and more information about the project can be found on the Temperature Life Stories website
Read or listen to the researchers in conversation about research journey at Using arts-based research for temperature, weather and climate.
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Evaluating Cognitive Enrichment for Zoo-Housed Gorillas Using Facial Recognition
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Dear Home Office: Short Film + Q&A
2pm, Wednesday 22 June 2022. Watershed, 1 Canons Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
#ExperimentalPartnership2020
"Produced as part of Subject to Scrutiny, a collaborative project between Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol and Bristol Refugee Rights, Dear Home Office shines a light on the UK asylum system through the lived experience of recent asylum seekers and refugees.
Created through a series of workshops and conversations during the first lockdown in 2020, human conversations with those directly effected by the UK asylum system were developed into a script in the form of a letter, then brought to life with the aid of ideas and discussions that emerged from the workshop.
The original aim of the research project was to find ways of moving beyond a familiar mode of representing asylum seekers, one which relies heavily on intrusive and traumatic experiences of forced migration and personal suffering, and instead to use filmmaking as a critical tool to scrutinise the UK asylum system itself.
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with the filmmakers, project team and participants on the process, as part of Subject to Scrutiny.”
Book tickets to Dear Home Office: Short Film + Q& A through the watershed.
Find out more about 2020 Brigstow funded Experimental Partnership “Scrutinising the Immigration System Through Collaborative Filmmaking with Refugees and Asylum Seekers” on the Subject to Scrutiny web page.
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The Festival of Enterprise
Monday 27 June, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, BS8 1RJ
You are warmly invited to register for the Festival of Enterprise, an event for research and academic staff from all faculties and career stages and professional services staff with enterprise-related roles.
The Festival will showcase the University’s enterprise activities, featuring inspiring presentations and a panel discussion with external partners. Confirmed speakers include Prof Moin Saleem, Dr Lilly Liu, Prof Genevieve Lively, Prof Dek Woolfson and Dr Matt Butcher.
There will be bookable 1-2-1 surgeries with experts in research commercialisation, intellectual property, consultancy, enterprise, and entrepreneurs in residence. The exhibition area will feature Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, Barton Hill Microcampus, QTIC+, SETsquared, Science Creates, our URIs and Faculty industry offices, the National Composite Centre, Policy Bristol, Public Engagement, Partnerships Team and the Commercialisation Team
The Festival of Enterprise is led by Professor Michele Barbour, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Enterprise and Innovation), and organised by a cross-Faculty and RED team.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Wills Memorial Building on the 27th June.
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Nuclear Robotics Symposium
16th June, at Fenswood Farm, Long Ashton
The University of Bristol and our partners are having a 4-day Symposium in June to show off our robots, facilities, and nuclear research projects.
The University of Bristol's symposium is on the 16th June at Fenswood Farm. Please see attached the poster below and this is the sign-up sheet: Mailchimp Survey (list-manage.com)
There will be a robot wars, talks, robot demos, free food, drink and more!
Please sign up via this link today.
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CALL: Connecting Through Culture As We Age
The deadline for applications on June 13th.
In collaboration with Pervasive Media Studio, the Connecting Through Culture As We Age project has just launched a call for expressions of interest, inviting those interested in co-designing digital cultural products or digital experiences with and for older people, to participate in a set of workshops leading to the opportunity to work in a team to develop an idea to prototype stage.
The deadline for applications on June 13th.
Find out more on the Connecting Through Culture As We Age webpage
@CTCAsWeAge
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Jean Golding Institute Bristol Data & AI Showcase
Tuesday 7th June, 10:00-17:00
We are pleased to announce that the Bristol Data & AI Showcase will be taking place in the beautiful exhibition suite at the M Shed on Tuesday 7th June. We will be exploring the positive impacts of working together to do good with data and welcoming guest speakers Hannah Fry and Neil Lawrence. Join us to discover how communities use data to tackle key issues like climate change, equality, and misinformation and interact with some exciting exhibitions for all ages from virtual reality to robotics. Find out more here and register here.
Jean Golding Institute Bristol Data Week 2022
Monday 13 to Friday 17 June
Following on from the Bristol Data & AI Showcase, we invite you to join us for Bristol Data Week 2022. Each year the Jean Golding Institute run Bristol Data Week, a week-long event of interactive talks, training, and workshops, open to all and completely free of charge. This year we will be holding a mix of events in person and online from training on how to use Python and R, workshops to discuss ethics, and a special film screening to announce the winners of the JGI Data Science and AI Film Prize. To find out more about last year’s Bristol Data Week, view our infographic and recordings of some of the sessions, please click here. Find out more about this year's Bristol Data Week here and to sign up to sessions click here.
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Bristol Poverty Institute Showcase Event 2022
Registration Open and Call for Posters
Thursday 30th June 13:30-18:30, The Bristol Hotel, BS1 4QF
The Bristol Poverty Institute are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our ‘Poverty Research Showcase’ on the afternoon of Thursday 30th June 2022. Registration is open to all and free via Eventbrite.
This will be our first in-person event for over two years, bringing together friends, colleagues and associates from a wide range of organisations to showcase, celebrate and explore poverty-relevant research at the University of Bristol and beyond. Join us for an engaging afternoon of presentations, posters and networking opportunities. There will be opportunities to meet with the core BPI team, our Advisory Board Members, and our Research Cluster Leads, as well as our wider research community. Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment.
We are also now inviting University of Bristol academics to submit concepts for posters to display in the refreshments space at this event. Applications should be submitted via email to bristol-poverty-institute@bristol.ac.uk by the deadline of 5pm on Tuesday 7th June. More information is available on our website.
We hope you can join us! If you have any queries please contact bristol-poverty-institute@bristol.ac.uk.
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Do you have any items for inclusion in our next Brigstow Happenings? Please let us know at hello-brigstow@bristol.ac.uk.
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