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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...
Project News
- Blog Post: Poetrishy
- Blog Post: A view of Mars: HydroPoetics at the Martian House
- Watch: Good Grief Youtube channel
Funding
- Open Call: Ideas Exchange
- Open Call: Seedcorn Funding
Events
- Improving Access to Dentistry for Adult Survivors of Child Sex Abuse
- Association of Unknown Shores presents "Part 9: Practise Assembly"
Community
- New studentships with Centre for Sociodigital Futures
- Participatory Research Fund
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Poetrishy
#2019ExperimentalPartnership #MathsPoems
Following the Brigstow Experimental Partnership Maths Poems in 2019 the team was awarded seedcorn funding by Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI) to develop their project "Poetrishy". Dr Rebecca Kosick, writes for BDFI's blogspot on how her project, Poetrishy has brought together the fields of maths and poetry.
"Poets, in particular, have been keen to explore the possibilities that new technologies enable for the creation and dissemination of poetry, from the typewriter to the mimeograph and the algorithmic computing. I expect this will continue and that there are surprises yet for us to discover."
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Watch: Good Grief Youtube channel
The Good Grief project, led by Lucy Selman, Associate Professor in Palliative and End of Life Care, has a new YouTube channel. Here you can find lots of useful videos on the theme of Coping with Grief in Winter including Julia Samuel’s 8 Pillars of Strength, Breathwork Techniques for Grief, Finding Your Grief Tribe and The Importance of Rest + Retreat in Difficult Times.
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Brigstow Institute currently has two funding calls open.
- Seedcorn Funding closing 15th December
- Ideas Exchange Funding now accepting proposals all year round.
If you have an idea for a research project and would like an informal conversation about it email hello-brigstow@bristol.ac.uk to arrange a chat.
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Ideas Exchange
- Do you have an idea for new research but need some time from partners and money to explore its potential?
- Do you need support to develop a new network of researchers, creatives and communities, either in the UK or globally?
Ideas Exchange funding is designed to support emerging, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that are co-designed and co-run with external partners. We welcome applications for Ideas Exchanges on any topic related to what it means to be human in the 21st century.
Up to £1000 is available per Ideas Exchange, although applications up to £2000 will be considered.
Read the full call details, eligibility and application guidance.
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Seedcorn funding
Closing date: Thursday 15th December 2022
This is an opportunity for mixed teams of researchers to carry out curiosity-driven, playful and exploratory projects to take the first steps in developing and pursuing new research. We especially welcome applications from teams that might find it difficult to find early-stage funding because of the novelty of the ideas, methods or approaches.
Funding limits: up to £9,000 per award, or up to £15,000 per award if employing a university researcher.
Read the full call details, eligibility and application guidance.
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Improving Access To Dentistry For Adult Survivors of Child Sex Abuse (CSA)
Tuesday, 22 November 6pm, Bristol Dental School
#2022ExperimentalPartnership
Join Dr Nilu Ahmed from Bristol Dental School and Viv Gordon CSA Survivor Artist Activist as they share early outcomes from “Improving Access To Dentistry For Adult Survivors of Child Sex Abuse”. Viv and Nilu have been working with a team of CSA survivors activists alongside academics and clinicians at Bristol Dental School to explore barriers faced by survivors accessing oral health care.
At this launch event they will share themes emerging from the research and extracts of creative writing by CSA survivor activists.
Full information and registration
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Association of Unknown Shores (AOUS) Presents
Part 9: Practice Assembly
St Stephen’s Church, Bristol, BS1 1EQ
25 November - 9 December 2022
#2019ExperimentalPartnership
Opening event – all welcome
Friday 25 November 2022, 5.30-8.00pm
Part 9: Practice Assembly is the latest action from Association of Unknown Shores. AOUS uses social and process-led practice to explore the relationships, places, and material traces arising from events that took place from 1576-78, when Martin Frobisher was commissioned by Elizabeth I to locate the Northwest Passage. Part 9: Practice Assembly brings together conversation, research, collective making, casting, instructions, and collage as expanded sculpture that assembles gifted and made objects responding to these histories. Within the exhibition space at St Stephen’s, materials, text, video, sound and performance take form as an imaginative assembly of practice.
AOUS invites you to encounter this work, to reflect on how objects relate to colonial legacies, to respond creatively in a series of speculative workshops:
- Assembling Our Sceptre, Saturday 26 November 2022, 11am-3.30pm
- Electrical Waste Basket Making, Sunday 27 November 2022, 12.30-5pm
- UnEmpire Me Nail Bar, Sunday 4 December 2022, 1pm-4pm
- Narwhal Casting
- Hydrophone Field Recording Concert, Date and time TBA
Find out more about the project Association of the Unknown Shores, their journey since their Brigstow funding finished and this event on their web page: https://a-o-u-s.org/
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New studentships with Centre for Sociodigital Futures
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Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF) PhD studentships
The ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF), which brings together world-leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore ‘sociodigital futures’, have announced five +3 (three year) PhD Studentships to commence in the autumn of 2023:
• Afro- and/or Indigenous- Futurisms and Educational Technology
• Researching ‘the digital’: exploring methods for sociodigital research
• Caring Futures PhD
• Futures Studio PhD
• Technical Affordances Projects PhD
A project descriptor is available for each of the studentships, however, these should be a starting point for applicants who should develop their own research proposals. Proposals will need to be directly relevant to CenSoF and connect to multiple workstreams of the Centre, namely: domains of practice, technical affordance projects, and the four threads of the Futures Studio. The closing date for applications is noon Friday 6 January 2023.
Further information about these opportunities, and details of how to apply, can be found on the CenSoF website. |
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Participatory Research Fund
The University of Bristol’s Participatory Research Fund is now open, and welcomes applications for participatory and collaborative research on the themes of climate and ecological emergency, social justice, education, health and wellbeing, and culture. Funding of between £3k-£15k is available and applications close on 15 December.
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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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