Connecting People: Creating a Culture of High-Risk Exploratory Collaborative Partnerships

Hello creatives! This is episode #3 of the podcast and it’s Thursday, the 14th of October 2021. In today’s show I am talking to Professor Tim Cole about radical inter-disciplinarity: bringing in academics and researchers from across the Arts and Humanities - STEM divide as well as people with different expertise from beyond the university. Tim shares with us his stories of success with high-risk, experimental collaborative projects and with ‘creating a radically different culture within the academy’ as he likes to say. 

Professor Cole is a historian whose interests range widely over historical geographies, social and environmental histories, and the digital humanities. He has also been involved in undertaking and facilitating interdisciplinary and co-produced research projects across the arts and sciences, and with creatives and communities. He is the founding director of the values-led Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol where he is also Professor of Social History. His latest role involves serving as academic advisor to the Dan David Prize to celebrate and support innovative research on all aspects of the past. His role has been to connect and support people to work well in teams especially across the divide between academia and the world outside it. In today’s show, he talks about the important interest in content / storytelling, technology, and audiences coming together within the fascinating space of creative industries for better user experience. 

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You can find out more about Professor Cole and the Brigstow Institute here:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/
https://bristolbathcreative.org/ (which is the follow up to REACT)