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Brigstow Happenings

In this Brigstow Happenings.....
  • Project News:
    • Posed as a Woman: Work in Progress Artist Sharing
  • Events
    • Robotics and everyday life
  • Community:
    • Global Social Challenges Journal
    • Ageing Futures: Building an inter-disciplinary research agenda
    • Conversations in Nature
    • EBI Global Public Health: Workshops
  • Creative Industries
    • WECA launch business support programme for creative industries
  • Coproduction Corner

Project News

Posed as a Woman: Work in Progress Artist Sharing

#ExperimentalPartnership2021
Saturday 1 May 6.30pm, Online


Performance artist Tom Marshman shares "Posed as a Woman" at its early stages in order to gather feedback and mark the beginnings of an exploration into a life that we only know about through criminal records: the extraordinary character known as Jenny Moore.​

This Brigstow funded project explores questions of how to create a fully formed picture of someone from the past, particularly when LGBTQ+ and working class lives are largely documented through their often brutal encounters with the state. The research process incorporates historical and creative research with performance, writing and musical composition.

 
This event is BSL Interpreted and automated closed captions are available.

Events

Robotics and everyday life

 
Watch this space for an exciting opportunity coming soon! Brigstow is collaborating with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory to run a series of workshops around the intersection of robotics and everyday life. The workshops will focus on three themes: Autonomy and anarchy; Everyday elements – earth, water and sky; and Sense and intelligence. We’ll be looking for a mix of academics from a range of disciplines such as engineering, arts, social sciences, as well as community partners and those involved in creative endeavours. There will be a short application form to submit by 24th May and the introductory workshop will take place w/c 7th June. There will also be some funding available (probably six projects at around £12k each) to participants only for teams to take some of the ideas and collaborations forward following the workshops.
 
 
 

Community

Global Social Challenges Journal


"How can we re-imagine society in an era of climate change, pandemic, hunger, poverty and other pressing global societal challenges? Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities. This new fully open access, not for profit journal aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines."
 

Call for Papers

This journal welcomes global submissions from researchers and practitioners at all career stages. The initial call for papers has just launched. For more information, join the webinar: " Introducing the Global Social Challenges Journal" , Tuesday 11th May, 1pm - 2pm.

Ageing Futures: Building an inter-disciplinary research agenda


The pandemic has increased the urgency and desire to understand and take action around the many complex questions around futures of ageing.

The University of Bristol's Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (FSSL) Ageing research group would like to invite academics from across disciplines to join us in creating a strong, internal interdisciplinary ageing research community to explore and work together on the broad theme of ‘Ageing Futures’. 

Many academics in FSSL have been researching social aspects of ageing such as care, bereavement, housing, work, diversity and inclusion, intergenerational relationships, age-friendly environments and digital ageing, but we know there are also colleagues in the arts and humanities, in engineering and in physical and medical sciences with wide ranging interests in ageing futures too.

We are all by now familiar with the rhetoric of demographic ageing – the age of longevity, the 100-year life, the ‘contagion’ of loneliness and the ‘problem’ of adult social care. We would like to counter both deficit and individualistic conceptualisations and the instrumental focus on meeting needs in much of this discourse and instead adopt an asset based and relational approach to considering questions about later life.

The research group will be holding an inaugural (virtual) meeting on 17th June, 2-4pm and would like to invite you to attend to share your interests and to help us to build this new interdisciplinary community. They are interested in the broad areas listed below but are open to contributions on other themes related to Ageing Futures:
  • Pleasure, play and desire
  • Creative ageing
  • Digital technologies
  • Diversity and inequality
  • Age friendly communities and housing
  • Intergenerational
  • Death, dying and bereavement
  • Care relationships and ethics
They envisage that they would develop further activity which could include (but would not be limited to):
  • A seminar series to continue the conversation
  • Interdisciplinary conference symposia or writing together
  • Co-developing research bids
If you would like to attend could you please complete this online form by May 21st, 2021.

Event organisers: Matthew Lariviere, Karen West, Paul Willis and/or Helen Manchester with any questions.

Any queries or questions please contact:
helen.manchester@bristol.ac.uk or Karen.west@bristol.ac.uk

 

Conversations in Nature


In this mini series, Bristol City Fellow, Ben Carpenter explores six individuals different relationships with nature. View all six episodes of Conversations in Nature on youtube.

EBI Global Public Health: Workshops


The Global Public Health Research Strand at the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute is pleased to offer funding to enable University of Bristol academic staff to organise virtual or, when circumstances allow, face to face workshops focusing on research into global public health issues with a particular focus on Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) settings. £11,000 is available overall, with a maximum of £3,500 per application.

For full information and the application form please visit the
EBI website.

Closing date for applications: Friday 21st May 2021, 10am.
 

Creative Industries

WECA launch new business support programme for creative industries

As part of their regional recovery plan West of England Combined Authority are launching a new business support programme for SMEs working in the creative industries and freelance creatives who require support as a result of the impacts of Covid-19.

Find out more about WECA support.

Coproduction Corner

Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities



For some practical advice on how to change your life and impact on your community and world, this is a good read. It's about co-creating a post-capitalist world (or at least local community). It uses co-created approaches but is also about empowerment.

Gibson-Graham, J.K.; Cameron, J. and Healy, S. (2013) Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities, University of Minnesota Press. 
https://www.communityeconomies.org/take-back-economy
 
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