The textile industry plays an undeniable role in the climate crisis; from overconsumption of fashion combined with limited environmentally friendly manufacturing methods and regenerative fibres, and few option for effectively recycling discarded materials. The industry needs to look beyond conventional materials to mitigate our demands on the planet. Historically, society has explored myriad material solutions in times of need and resource scarcity, making historical endeavours a fruitful starting point for material innovations. Investigating these approaches to the lack of textile resources, can inspire new innovations to our contemporary paradigm. With the advent of petrochemicals, many of these historical solutions were dismissed as 'failed ideas' making information on these emergent technologies hard to find. Before they can be applied to contemporary design, we must first find ways to identify and fully understand them. Museum and Archive collections across the UK and beyond unknowingly hold examples of these fibres. Developing a framework to identify and catalogue these fibres could suggest novels ways this technology can be applied in contemporary design to addressin current issues around sustainable textile design, specifically, focusing on techniques such as waste utilisation, and fibre spinning.

The interactions between humans and natural environments award identity to communities, build heritage, and project futures. However, they can also lead to unsettling scenarios. This research explores speculative and material design narratives as tools for creating sustainable future alternatives for socio-ecological metabolisms (i.e., the flow of resources between nature and society). The cultural and contextual component of these interplays, along with the complexity of socio-ecological systems nowadays, led to reducing the scope to a specific geographic area. This is the Mar Menor ecosystem in Spain, and the findings aim to be transferrable to other cases.

The research project will explore in-depth the social behaviours of road users in the UK transportation system, taking the cyclist's journey as its preliminary investigation area, to investigate the causes of accidents and fatalities in this dynamic complex environment. Statistics provided by the Department for Transport give details of when road accidents occur; day, times, months and seasons. The statistics also reveal data on the gender and ages of individuals involved in accidents. Data compiled on pedal cycling accidents show that the main contributory factors given are 'failed to look properly' and 'failed to judge a vehicles path or speed'. Despite a variety of traffic calming and management techniques, including the introduction of designated cycle lanes there continues to be an increase in the number of cyclists involved in accidents and fatalities on the road. The focus of the research will be to look specifically at the decision making process taken by a road user; be that pedestrian, motor vehicle or cyclist; that causes an accident to occur. The research project will aim to understand the behavior of the actor in the system at that split second before a high risk decision is taken, where judgment and care for the self and others seems to be forgotten. Research will be conducted into research findings by leading change behaviour experts By examining intervention methods used in desing and other areas, such as health and nutrition to persuade and change an individual's behavior for beneficial reasons, the research will investigate this and other areas of risk and safety to understand how a new framework could be developed that can test the behavioural change potential of this research.

This practice-led research investigates an emergent queer methodology presenting within interdisciplinary art practice - one that reconsiders unknowing as a 'leaning into dissonance' - a sideways move designed, in part, to address trauma in queer and racially 'othered' environments. This aims to creatively navigate the impact of traumatic events on corporeal agency, exploring the artistic capacity to give form to and shape the embodied experience of trauma. Necessitating a corporeal investigation, this research foregrounds bodily sensation through tangible interactions with clay within the palpable space of performance. This is bolstered with excavation of early Blues, in which the dissonance of living within the manifold conditions of abuse - queer, women, of colour - was leant into through the artistic expression of personal and collective trauma. This unique synthesis contributes an innovative and rigorous consideration of what is needed to creatively materialise and lift the weight of trauma. Simultaneously building upon and reconfiguring current approaches within critical race studies and queer theory (Rogers and Coutts:2023; Macharia:2019; Ahmed:2017; Sharpe:2016), philosophies of emergence (Nail:2022; Golding:2022; Lyotard:1993), and somatic approaches to trauma (Menakem:2017; van der Kolk:2014). The surge in abusive, oppressive practices has intensified amidst the rapid circulation of the digital age and ascent of alt-right populism. This exacerbates ongoing resonances of queer and racial trauma, further compounded by the erosion of essential sectors of care and critical thinking - health, education, arts, and artistic research - leaving us ill-equipped to mount effective response. In confronting these escalating challenges, this research underscores the urgency of leveraging the power of experimental art practice to creatively address and move-with the imprint of traumatic event. This aims to formulate an embodied, emergent path to address the profound impact of trauma on corporeal agency within the intricate weave of contemporary society and provide not only means for survival amidst struggle but creation of aliveness - pleasure, joy, togetherness. This research aims to: Creatively address and navigate the imprint of traumatic events, with focus on queer and racial contexts, exploring the artistic capacity to materialise and lift the embodied experience of trauma; Investigate the affective ecology of live performance and foster collective alliance to wrestling-with the trauma imprint; Articulate and develop the emerging queer methodology, readdressing 'unknowing' through engagements with dissonance.

At a time when access to lithium is deemed imperative, growing acts of prospection and extraction are imposed upon livelihoods around the world: new mining frontiers are erupting across the Global North, while violent extractivism thrives in the so-called Global South. Under the banner of the "green" transition, the mineral rush and its global extractivist apparatus systematically attempt to render superfluous any alternative models for human and other-than-human coexistence. Largely atomized, community and activist struggles across disparate geographies of extraction are firmly contesting such unfair transition and its violent implications: from Chile, to Portugal and Serbia. This research project unfolds the emancipatory potential of these socio-environmental assemblages, when rendered in plural. In doing so, it asks what tactics can rearticulate solidarity across difference, against and in spite of the expanding frontiers of extractive dispossession.