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Taking a turn: mental health history of hospital gardens 'Taking a Turn' explores the mental health history of hospital gardens from 1800 to contemporary times, using historical archives as well as historical and contemporary patient narratives.

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'Nobody's Home' has been critically acclaimed for its imaginative staging and nuanced exploration of reintegration in both the USA and UK, and commended by military veterans for its sensitive and accurate treatment of the subject. Working with Salisbury Playhouse, we'll redevelop 'Nobody's Home' for a national tour, focusing on areas with high military and ex-military populations. The 'Science of Death' theme forms a key part of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's 'Death' exhibition 'Science of Death' focuses on topical debates in bio-medical ethics relating to death and dying. The assisted dying debate is uniquely explored through the re-creation of a room from the DIGNITAS house in Switzerland. Backed up with a lively public events and schools programme, 'Science of Death' delivers an investigative approach, which helps to reveal the complexities around these important issues.

Tom Isaacs

Suicide and Stigma in an Indigenous Ethnic Minority: Engaging Irish Travellers with Lived Lives Suicide is a significant public health concern, associated with stigma. Young men, mental illness sufferers, prisoners and indigenous ethnic minorities bear an increased suicide risk. Irish Travellers are an indigenous ethnic minority with social and cultural parallels with similar groups internationally (Inuits, Aboriginals, Maoris, etc). The Lived Lives exhibition, with artist and scientist, co-curated by communities, has facilitated dialogue and response, described as transformative. Outputs will include an interactive exhibition and learning materials about suicide and its aftermath among indigenous ethnic minorities such as Travellers. The project engages and stimulates the public through a thought-provoking garden installation and public talks at the Chelsea Fringe festival, and raises awareness in children through a touring schools workshop programme.

• [Opponents: Large development corporations seeking to build on protected land.]
• [Faces opposition from some local business owners fearing increased regulation.]
• [Certain councillors and political groups with pro-development or austerity agendas.]
• [National companies with local operations that conflict with environmental goals.]
• [Individuals and groups spreading misinformation about campaign motives and effects.]
• [Bureaucratic inertia within the local council delaying or blocking proposed changes.]
• [Apolitical residents who prioritize convenience over community or environmental needs.]
• [Transport companies resistant to changes that might affect their profitability.]
• [Media outlets with commercial ties to opponents, leading to biased reporting.]
• [Online trolls and detractors attempting to disrupt organizing and spread discord.]

Taking a Turn brings together medicine, history and horticulture in a fresh approach to facilitate learning and debate in new audiences about a little-known medical history. A genuinely user-led citizen science project, with a group not traditionally engaged with science - parents using reusable nappies. Volunteers choose questions they want to answer. Research questions to find out what is already known.

Design their own experimental protocols, and then run the experiments.

• [Future goals: Establish a community land trust to develop truly affordable housing.]
• [Launch a local energy cooperative to generate renewable power and reduce bills.]
• [Campaign for the entire borough to become a plastic-free community by 2030.]
• [Create a comprehensive network of safe cycling and walking routes across the area.]
• [Advocate for a universal basic income pilot to address poverty and inequality.]
• [Push for the council to declare a biodiversity emergency and adopt a action plan.]
• [Develop a community response team for climate-related emergencies and disasters.]
• [Build a physical hub for activism with meeting rooms, resources, and a café.]
• [Increase representation of campaign supporters on local committees and boards.]
• [Expand digital tools to include an app for reporting issues and mobilizing quickly.]

All of this is discussed and co-ordinated in a Facebook group.

• The website emphasizes the need for increased disability representation in media.
• It highlights the importance of accessible voting procedures.
• Campaigns include improving workplace accommodations.
• The platform discusses the impact of COVID-19 on disabled populations.
• It advocates for mental health support tailored for disabled individuals.
• The site strives to counter stereotypes and promote positive images.
• It encourages inclusive design in public and private spaces.
• The platform supports education reforms for greater awareness.
• It campaigns against disability hate crimes.
• The website provides statistics to underline the scope of issues faced.

Dark Future: mass market gaming with embedded science Auroch Digital is working with Games Workshop to reboot ‘Dark Future’ as a PC-based game.

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The programme includes live pitches, animated panel sessions, film screenings with Q&A, plus fantastic opportunities to network with some of the country’s leading thinkers. The Time Travelling Operating Theatre constructs three simulations from different eras of surgery;1884, 1984 and 2014 - during one audience viewing (a sequential simulation). Each two-hour event comprises a comparable re-enactment of surgery from each of these three dates, performed by medical professionals from our wide range of contacts. In-between each performance there are opportunities for discussion between the audience, the performers and a small panel of experts, including historians, ethicists and medical professionals. Scientists and the consumer press - Media Fellowships pilot This is a pilot extension project to the British Science Association's established and successful Media Fellowships programme, which sees scientists undertaking placements at the heart of mainstream consumer media outlets.

Ian Edwards

The programme has traditionally placed Fellows at national media outlets to work alongside science and environment correspondents and editors, or with specialist titles. This pilot project seeks to expand the reach and broaden the impact of the programme, increasing and improving the amount of biomedical content in consumer media outlets, by giving non-science journalists access to scientific expertise and thinking. Why You’ll Never Catch Smallpox – JAMES film primary school outreach A unique and innovative project to create a free package of teaching materials for primary schools to accompany JAMES, a short drama film funded by the Wellcome Trust, based on Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccination. Led by the film's producers and the Association for Science Education (ASE), the project brings together an exciting combination of organisations and individuals including filmmakers, science education professionals, pharmaceutical scientists, and museums to develop and trial a package of engaging teaching resources for Key Stage 2. Mayfest 2015: Developing Compassionate Communities - Death, Dying and Palliative Care The Fourth Annual Public Health and Palliative Care Conference ( (opens in a new tab)) takes place in Bristol in May 2015 with the theme Community Resilience in Practice, involving up to 600 international delegates.

Stuart Farrimond

MAYK leads a group of arts organisations in the city to present a cultural programme alongside the conference. Mayfest 2015 presents a series of performative and participatory artworks that engage the public and interrogate the social, biological and cultural aspects of death and dying. These artworks form part of the festival programme and are open to conference delegates and the general public. Nobody's Home - UK Theatre and Military Veteran community tour 'Nobody's Home' is a theatre production developed by Theatre Témoin in response to soldiers' homecomings and reintegration after combat. The piece was developed through consultations with Dr Edgar Jones alongside 4 American Vietnam war veterans who participated in forum -style scripting workshops as part of its first ed treatment drugs US tour. The game, originally from the 1980s, was a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk vehicle battling strategy game set against a backdrop of a world ravaged by environmental destruction yet which had still developed technologically.

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Get On discusses the scientific world around them with young people from deprived areas aged from 5 to 15, and uses the medium of radio to record and broadcast their experiences. The project works in age-appropriate ways with groups of children and on an individual basis, to encourage them to question why things happen in the world around them , with particular focus on biomedical topics. Group work includes children creating art works inspired by images from the Wellcome Collection and they record discussing their creations, the inspiration, and why they think the organism is important to our world. EnLightenment: build it, see it, show it 2015 is the UN International Year of Light, promoting the beauty, science, application and understanding of photonics. To mark this and build on our existing activities, EnLightenment designs, manufactures and supplies 'phone camera microscope (PCM)' kits to a wide audience of schools, alongside a national image competition, CPD teacher training and extensive public engagement. The grant will allow the formation of a group of advisers who are experts in appropriate science and medical topics alongside an experienced games writer, versed in using science to inspire game narrative. These advisers and the games writer will work closely with the developers to shape the core gameplay and story throughout its development.

The People Award will allow detailed engagement with biomedical sciences and related issues, such as synthetic biology and the health implications of climate change, and share this more widely with the sector.

Bio-boxes: an engaging biomedical science and health programme for children in hospital The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, in partnership with Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, will design and deliver Bio-boxes for children in hospital with chronic conditions.

Economy Futures Fund – The Investment Panel Meeting of 16th February 2021

And how are personal relationships affected by grief and loss? The play, involving puppetry, is touring to London, Buxton and Edinburgh alongside a variety of compelling public engagement events designed to ignite conversation. This project aims to provide participants and audiences with the information and research skills to explore relationships between their natural and cultural environment, and nutrition in the food they eat. Through public foraging, cooking and eating workshops in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the team are creating culinary experiments that explore processes of environmental change. Led by artist Fran Gallardo and environmental chemist and food scientist Mark Scrimshaw, this participatory investigation involving fishermen, wildlife enthusiasts and berry pickers, will culminate in a published 'recipe book'.

Sandra Ross

Rich Pickings: Inside Out is a programme of film and discussion events exploring elements of the human experience through science. The series includes eight events in partnership with high-profile festivals across the UK and Ireland, including London Comedy and Cork Film Festivals. Each event includes a programme of short film and moving image artwork curated around a single theme. This is punctuated by discussion from filmmakers and researchers who can offer a scientific perspective on the theme. For Richer, For Poorer, For Better, For Worse This award is supporting the expansion of the science programme across Latitude Festival, making it an integral part of the festival’s cultural offer.

Annette Hurst

From talks in the Literary Arena, to interactive workshops in the Faraway Forest and new work in the Theatre and the Little House, all explore this year’s theme ‘For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse’. This includes topics such as the science behind our impulses and needs, medical care, mental health and diet, as well as superfoods and food poverty. Doc/Fest Ideas & Science is a major programming strand within the UKs biggest Documentary Festival: Sheffield Doc/Fest. It is an inspirational programme of knowledge, ideas, forgotten archives, collections and curiosities. It is a seedbed of great stories and an exploration of compelling films.