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The mental health of farm wives
Abstract Objectives: Research on mental health in agriculture has increased in recent years; however, it remains largely focused on farmers themselves and is predominantly male-oriented. The mental health of farm wives and partners, many of whom play integral roles in farm operations, business management, and family life, remains difficult to characterise.
Throwing Ceramics
Experience the fundamentals of ceramics in a professional studio environment at Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook Campus during this Throwing Ceramics workshop. This hands-on taster workshop offers a relaxed and supportive introduction to working with clay on the potter’s wheel. Led by experienced Ceramic Demonstrator Louise Blois, you’ll learn essential wheel-throwing techniques and create your own pottery pieces to take home.
Experiencing modular adaptive decentralized water security systems in southern Pakistan and implications for public health and nutrition: a qualitative exploratory study
Abstract Introduction: This study attempted to explore the perception and experiences of facilitators and challenges in the implementation of modular, adaptive, and decentralized water infrastructure in the community. It also aimed to explore the association between social justice in the implementation of MAD water infrastructure and its potential in improving health and nutrition outcomes in vulnerable communities.
Lady Chatterley's Cover: The Book Designs of Stephen Russ
From the forties to the seventies, Stephen Russ produced dozens of dust jackets, from striking first editions of Graham Greene at Bodley Head to a wide range of titles at Collins, including nature books and the famous Collins Crime Club. He is perhaps best known for his work with Penguin, designing covers for the main orange series, the lesser-known music scores, and the highly collectible Penguin Poets series.
Doing Together 2026: Practice Research Symposium
doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.Workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Art Unpacked with Tony Weaver
Have you ever walked into a gallery and wondered if you were missing something? Questioned what the artist is trying to do, or how to find your own meaning in the work? Art Unpacked offers a welcoming space to slow down, look closely and explore contemporary art together. In each session, we focus on a small selection of works from the exhibition. Through guided discussion, we reflect on the themes they raise, the questions they ask and the personal responses they spark.
Part-time Artist Educator
You will lead Saturday art and design workshops for young people aged 13–16. You’ll plan and deliver engaging sessions across a range of disciplines, creating a safe, inclusive and inspiring environment where young people feel confident to express themselves. Working closely with Locksbrook Campus exhibitions, visiting artists, local schools and community partners, you’ll help enrich learning, support recruitment and connect the Saturday Club to wider Bath Spa University activities.
Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607
People living on the low-lying shores of the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary began their day like any other on January 30 1607. The weather was calm. The sky was bright. Then, suddenly, the sea rose without warning. Water came racing inland, tearing across fields and villages, sweeping away the homes, livestock and people in its path. By the end of the day, thousands of acres were underwater. As many as 2,000 people may have died.
Meet the Makers: Recipes for Making
Throughout the evening, there will be makers’ talks from graduating artists and designers, offering insight into their processes, ideas and practices. This year’s Meet the Makers speakers are Millie Duckworth (BA Fine Art), Beth Flanders (BA Fine Art), Tegean Hughs (BA Interior Design) and Elizabeth Royle (BA Creative Arts Practice).
Site Office by Adam Garratt
Adam Garratt’s practice is primarily based in sculpture, installation and print and has evolved around constraints of space, the use of material and repetitious making processes. His work is often made with reclaimed materials and is specifically made to expand into an installation when it is not neatly folded, stacked and rolled for storage and re-use in the garden shed.
Value of Artists: Launch of FREE Learning Resources
Bath Spa University warmly invites you to celebrate the launch of five innovative creative learning resources, developed by talented artists from across the West of England. Creative learning resources offer facilitators, educators, and carers valuable tools to help audiences engage with complex ideas, themes, and concepts in imaginative and meaningful ways.
Frontiers | From Cigarettes to Compulsions: A Longitudinal Study in De Novo Parkinson's Disease
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Psychol. Sec. Neuropsychology From Cigarettes to Compulsions: A Longitudinal Study in De Novo Parkinson's Disease Provisionally accepted 1Department of General Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy 2Universita degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento di Scienze Cardio-Toraco-Vascolari e Sanita pubblica, Padua, Italy 3Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.
HELSTON AND 'THE BATTLE OF THE STYLES'
Architectural historian and author Dr Julian Holder delves into the debate about architectural styles that raged in London in the middle of the nineteenth century and brings it home to Helston.
Recipes for Making
Over three ‘courses’, we will be introduced to each artist’s recipe for making through interactive presentations. During the evening, you will get to decipher codes, delve into history and use meditative techniques to explore creativity! About the speakers: Nahraine Al-Khafaji is a London born Iraqi-British artist, raised between England and the Middle East. This contrast in culture informs her study of ancient Iraqi history and its importance in the modern western world she resides in.
doing together 25: Practice Research Symposium
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Art Research Centre (Bath School of Art, Film and Media) in collaboration with Bath School of Design and the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries. doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.
'Revolution': A New Exhibit
Featuring the work of all seven international contemporary fine artists comprising FEIN Collections, ‘Revolution’ speaks to re-curating the gallery in this climate of worldly erratic change within the context of celebrating the own gallery’s dynamic continuum since the – almost – year since it has been open. ‘Revolution’ is here to learn from new works invited into the gallery that comment on or question serious challenges to the world’s varying types of oscillation today, February of 2025.
Embracing the Grey: Why the World Isn’t Just Black and White
Today, as we celebrate the International Day of Education, there is so much positive progress to reflect upon. However, today, we also find ourselves in a world that is increasingly pushing us to choose sides – right or wrong, good or bad, this or that. It’s easy to forget that most of life is more complete than that. The spaces in between, where absolutes blur, are where growth and understanding thrive. Yet, as a society we have a tendency towards leaning into binary thinking.
The Transformative Power of Physical Education: A Personal Reflection
By Dr Liz Durden-Myers In a PE Insights Podcast, I was asked why Physical Education is important to me. In the recording, I outlined a range of reasons, but I thought I would reflect on this question a little more. In this blog, I have tried to express just some of the reasons why PE is important to me.
VASW - Mapping Bath
Want to have your say about future programming for artists in Bath and North East Somerset? Join us for a forum and a mapping of Bath’s cultural resources! Participants will be paid £50 for their time to join the session.
Starting a Side Hustle
Starting a Side Hustle teaches you how to evaluate potential side hustle ideas for profitability and market demand. During this one-day course, you’ll learn to develop strategies to align personal passions with viable business opportunities and acquire the essential financial skills needed to manage budgets, cash flow, and pricing effectively. You’ll also explore how to utilise social media and digital platforms to reach and build a loyal customer base.
Realtime Trains | 1Z62 1753 Bath Spa to London Victoria | 30/11/2024
Salisbury [SAL] Pathed as Diesel locomotive, trailing load 455 tonnes at 95mph from here Petersfield [PTR] Service stops to drop passengers off only Haslemere [HSL] Service stops to drop passengers off only Guildford [GLD] Service stops to drop passengers off only Clandon [CLA] Service stops to drop passengers off only Effingham Junction [EFF] Service stops to drop passengers off only Leatherhead [LHD] Service stops to drop passengers off only Cheam [CHE] Service stops to drop passengers off...
DfE Call for Evidence Summary
Our submission covered many areas and points but we have selected the following as our headline themes. Physical education needs to reshape and relaunch its curriculum purpose. A contemporary offer should have physical literacy as its foundation, promoting holistic development and striving for wider inclusivity nurturing the foundations of a physically active life for all.
Holding Space: Creative Co-mentoring
Together, we will hold space for each other, offer a listening ear and be part of a facilitated conversation within a supportive environment. The session is designed to offer you an opportunity to collaboratively make art, whilst discussing and presenting your practice, your thoughts and your projects to other creative practitioners. The session will be facilitated by Stacey Pottinger and Simone Hesselberg.
Passage, an essay by Ellene Glenn Moore
Passage an essay by Ellene Glenn Moore Winner of The 2022 Orison Chapbook Prize *Available for pre-order.* Orison Books paper / $14.00 Print ISBN: 978-1-949039-54-2 E-book ISBN: 978-1-949039-55-9 Distributed to the trade by Itasca Books 952-223-8373 / orders@itascabooks.com Publication Date: March 4, 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK Unfolding over the course of a single day, Passage is an account of the author’s thirtieth birthday aboard a sailboat as it makes its way from Nantucket Harbor to Menemsha...
The Value of Artists: Training and Commission Opportunity
Learning resources developed by artists play a significant role in the offer galleries or museums make to their audiences either online or in print. As a resource, they can be vital and empowering tools for the facilitators, teachers and carers that use them, helping audiences to find creative ways in to interpreting or exploring ideas, themes and concepts in unique and inspiring ways.
Christmas Lecture: What role does flavour play in our Christmas dietary choices?
This Christmas lecture is organised by IFST Western Branch Summary: The social and cultural significance of food is woven into every aspect of our dietary behaviour, and it contributes to our complex interaction with food. To find order within this complexity scientists often look for dietary 'universals' - phenomena or basic principles that guide our food choice and meal size, irrespective of the wider context.
Recipes for Making
Over three ‘courses’, we will be introduced to each artist’s recipe for making through interactive presentations. During the evening, you will get to make dumplings, echo the sounds of collective memories and free up creative blocks using explorative methodologies! About the speakers: Charlotte Aldridge’s practice is the extension of cooking and dining with an artistic context, presenting themes of gastronomy, Chinese culture, diaspora, and nostalgia.
Forensic Architecture: Post-Digital Testimony
How can data and technology be used to examine conflict or uncover hidden truths? Can the creative use of technology challenge and confront bad actors or state violence? Forensic Architecture’s innovative, tech-enabled approach to investigative journalism and event reconstruction has made a global impact, addressing some of the most urgent issues of our time.
Ukraine war: Putin is using Russian children to promote his version of history on Victory Day
On May 9, Russia celebrates Victory Day, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. Few people who watch international news coverage of Victory Day parades and events realise that Russia’s children are central to keeping the memory of the war alive, and that an important vehicle for children’s contribution to this process is the St George ribbon – a small piece of orange and black striped fabric that millions of Russians wear on Victory Day.
VASW - Inside Feelings
nside Feelings is a 6-day exhibition of brand new work from 17 professional Bristol-based illustrators. An opportunity for long-time friends to collaborate, the show will showcase multidisciplinary work that explores themes of hidden internal worlds, introspection and navigating owning a human brain! Curated by Clare Owen As well as the exhibited work, prints, cards and other illustrated goodies will also be for sale. Please follow @insidefeelings_bristol on instagram for more info and updates.
Gnash Comics and Field System Host a ‘Behind theScenes’ Exhibition…
Offering a unique and rarely seen look into their creative processes, this show is centred around the original three-part comic series ‘Gone’ which was created, written and illustrated by Jock, with cover art by Lee and Dom.
The Scale of Water
The Scale of Water invites us to explore different works by individual artists and investigate the variety of perspectives that each work holds. We encounter water as a timekeeper and a holder of deeply held secrets. We discover water as an artistic collaborator in one piece, while in another, it is a contested territory over which conflicts arise. The poetic and the political coexist alongside the alien and the familiar.
Celia Pym - Bags
Celia Pym is an artist living and working in London. Her work considers acts of care, primarily through exploring damage and repair in textiles, often attending to garments belonging to individuals. In this exhibition we present a collection of works, made over the past 3 years, in which the acts of care and attention are now found in mended paper bags. These works move away from a feeling of repair for use, instead becoming containers to hold and highlight damage and fragility. Celia Pym, Bags.
Film School In A Day
Stroud Film Festival Here’s a chance to make, as well as see films as part of the festival. Most of us are very experienced film watchers and have a very good understanding of how stories are told in film. Lots of people are very skilled using phones to shoot simple videos At the same time, lots of videos which are made on phones could be more engaging by applying a few of the approaches used by professional film makers. And to explore some of the apps which are on many phones.
Creativity in Environmental Crisis
The event marks the launch of a recent book, ‘Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide’ (Edited by Anna Pigott, Owain Jones, and Ben Parry, published by Bloomsbury 2023), which asks what the relationships are between creativity and repair in the face of escalating global environmental crises – both in conventional art settings and in daily life.
doing together 24: Practice Research Symposium
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts. doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.
SOLIDARITY: Mutual aid and collective survival workshop with Rachael…
This session will focus on fun, practical tools to support and nurture mutual aid, peer learning, collectivity and survival. TAFKAST Rachael Clerke is CEO of Art Business Ltd, a performance and real-life business exploring the back end of the art business, and what it means to make art under late capitalism. Find out more at www.artbusiness.ltd or www.rachaelclerke.com.
The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition review: a look at the art that made the kid’s books iconic
The Ladybird books, first published in 1914, helped millions of children learn and love to read over the decades. These hardback, pocket-size books, with bright and interesting artwork on the front, are pretty distinctive. You might have had one in your childhood, or seen one of the many spoofs put out by the original Ladybird publishers in recent years.
MIL-OSI Global: The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition review: a look at the art that made the kid’s books iconic
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Samantha Stewart, Lecturer in Publishing, Bath Spa University The Ladybird books, first published in 1914, helped millions of children learn and love to read over the decades. These hardback, pocket-size books, with bright and interesting artwork on the front, are pretty distinctive. You might have had one in your childhood, or seen one of the many spoofs put out by the original Ladybird publishers in recent years.
The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition review: a look at the art that made the kid’s books iconic
The Ladybird books, first published in 1914, helped millions of children learn and love to read over the decades. These hardback, pocket-size books, with bright and interesting artwork on the front, are pretty distinctive. You might have had one in your childhood, or seen one of the many spoofs put out by the original Ladybird publishers in recent years.
Collection Conversations - Rosalind Whitehouse
Talks & Seminars Join in our exciting new series of art talks at Chippenham Museum. Book your tickets via Eventbrite. Artists from the museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art collection will be talking about their work, providing insights into their inspiration and practice. This will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions with the audience encouraged to join in the conversation.
Tori Atherton In Residence
With focus on strawberries, slow moving cinema and disappearing, Tori is to conjure up a web of connections and proposals by producing sculpture and film with one short collaboration in her week’s residency at SVA. Tori is a visual media, installation and sculpture artist based in London. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2019, her practise explores the obscurity of being alive by building on her transcendental thoughts or experiences.
VASW - Make and Meet!
Make and Meet! sessions are weekly socials based at the Locksbrook Campus. Open for anyone to bring their projects, ideas, materials and tools, these sessions are an opportunity to keep creativity flowing through check-ins, networking, and community support.
With This Breath exhibition and book launched in memory of late student Finlay Mills | FE News
Bath Spa University has launched an exhibition and 100-page publication of work by late student Finlay Mills titled ‘With This Breath’ which runs until Thursday 16 November 2023 at the University’s Locksbrook Campus. Finlay was a graduate of the BA (Hons) Photography degree course at Bath Spa University who sadly passed away on 25 March 2022, following the diagnosis of a brain tumour in 2018, and this event will be dedicated to his life and work.
Funding workshop with Tessa Cobb
As an Arts Council support worker, and recipient of many streams of free-stuff since starting her children’s book illustration career in 2018, Tessa has first-hand experience of how partnering on proposals has the greatest chance of success. Drawing on examples of successfully funded collectives, Tessa will share the benefits of creative collaboration - not just for your bank balance, but also your well-being and flourishing as an artist.
Picture perfect mural unveiled as part of Adobe and Bath Spa University competition | FE News
Maria Stallmann, a part-time MA Nature and Travel Writing student and Recruitment and Events Officer at Bath Spa University, is celebrating after winning the University’s Adobe competition to design a mural to go on display at its Newton Park campus. The winning mural was unveiled on Monday 25 September to Bath Spa’s community of learners, colleagues and Adobe representatives during a ceremony held in Commons, its centrally located building rooted in the heart of the campus.
New Bath Spa University Chaplain welcomed with unique ceremony | FE News
On Monday 25 September, Bath Spa University formally welcomed its first full time University Chaplain and Chaplaincy Team Leader, The Rev. Dr Katy Garner. In order for Katy to take up her post, the Diocese of Bath and Wells must confer a Bishop’s License. Bishop Ruth, the Bishop of Taunton, led the ceremony on behalf of the Diocese.
Western Branch Regional Reception
Organised by IFST Western Branch The IFST Lecture is always one of the highlights of our year. As we normally do, we will host this in London, but we will also stream live to various receptions around the UK organised by our Branches.
Bath Spa University appoints new Professor of Fashion and Sustainability | FE News
As London Fashion Week draws to a close on Tuesday 19 September, Bath Spa University has announced the latest development in its plans for a National Centre for Fashion and Sustainability, and appointed Tamara Cincik as Professor of Fashion and Sustainability. Professor Cincik has over 20 years’ experience working in the fashion industry as a fashion editor, brand consultant and in the Houses of Parliament.
Bath Spa University wins Sunday Times University of the Year award for Social Inclusion | FE News
Bath Spa University has been named as the University of the Year for Social Inclusion by The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. The top place was awarded to Bath Spa in recognition of its commitment to empowering students from all backgrounds with the opportunity to study and thrive in higher education, helping people develop skills today that will set them apart in the future.
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