Join us for the inaugural Moving Ecologies Summer School, facilitated by the Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledges Research Group (CPEK).
Over two days you’ll take part in an immersive, experimental, and informative learning experience, exploring intersections between embodied practice, deep ecology, somatic screendance, feminist new materialisms, and environment-based creative arts enquiry.
You’ll take part in:
– Movement practice outside and inside the studio
– Walking art practice and mark making
– Embodied mapping – capturing movement responses through creative cartography
– Creative writing responses to practical enquiry
– Theoretical lectures and discussions.
Set in the beautiful grounds of our Newton Park campus, close to the UNESCO Heritage City of Bath, the Summer School will include site-based workshops, reflexive writing and mark making, classroom-based discussion, and time for socialising.
Moving Ecologies Summer School is open to artists, researchers, scholars, practitioners and the public interested in embodied approaches to human-nature space enquiry. No previous movement experience is required – just a curiosity about the body and embodied knowledge as a mode of exploring human-nonhuman environment relations.
Convened by Professor Vicky Hunter, Moving Ecologies Summer School will bring together artists, researchers, creative practitioners, scholars, and students in embodied practical and theoretical explorations of human-nonhuman relations and ecological engagements.
You’ll engage in interdisciplinary exchange and collaborative learning in which themes of human-nonhuman agency, corporeality, embodied research methods and eco-consciousness intersect with wider socio-political themes of climate justice and environmental advocacy.
You’ll have space and time to engage with ideas and perspectives on Moving Embodied Ecologies and their implications for practice, research and scholarship, whilst having the opportunity to develop connections and networks with fellow participants from diverse disciplinary fields of practice and research.
This course takes place Monday 15 June, 2pm – 5pm and Tuesday 16 June, 9:30am – 4pm and costs £75 per person.
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Designed to support learners who are either new to data analysis, or would like to revisit core principles, this one-day Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Wrangling course combines presentation of real-life examples, discussion activities, and hands on exercises, to help participants manage, prepare, analyse and present data for more effective analysis.
You’ll explore the definitions and terminology surrounding data analysis and how to work with different data formats, as well as discover common errors when managing data and how to avoid them.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
– Describe the difference between data and information
– Access data using a range of different methods and formats
– Describe common data quality errors, how they arise, and how they can impact analysis
– Explore a dataset using summary statistics and simple plots
– Clean a dataset using one or more tools
– Analyse a dataset and present a conclusion.
It is essential for this course that you have:
– A knowledge of maths to GCSE level.
– Experience of using Excel, Google Sheets, or equivalent spreadsheet software.
Whilst not essential, it is useful to also have knowledge of basic statistical terms. You must have a personal computer with an internet connection capable of running standard Office software.
This course costs £235. If you also book onto Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Storytelling, you’ll be offered a discount which should be automatically applied at checkout. If you have any queries, please contact [email protected] .
Designed to support learners who have some experience in data analysis and would like to explore interactive data visualisation platforms, this one-day Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Storytelling course combines presentation of real-life examples, discussion activities, and hands on exercises, to help participants manage, prepare, analyse and present data for more effective analysis.
You’ll explore data storytelling and learn about the corridor pitch and principles of good data visualisation.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
– Describe the principles of effective data visualisation
– Identify examples of visual deception and bias in charts
– Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different visualisation tools and platforms
– Write a brief narrative to summarise a piece of analysis
– Create appropriate and effective data visualisations to illustrate the narrative.
It is essential for this course that you have:
– A knowledge of maths to GCSE level.
– Experience of using Excel, Google Sheets, or equivalent spreadsheet software.
Whilst not essential, it is useful to also have knowledge of basic statistical terms, a personal computer with administrator rights and prior experience of programming (Python R, Javascript). You must have a personal computer with an internet connection capable of running standard Office software.
This course costs £235. If you also book onto Data Analysis for Beginners: Data Wrangling, you’ll be offered a discount which should be automatically applied at checkout. If you have any queries, please contact [email protected] .
Over the past year I’ve had more than 100 one‑to‑one conversations with people across BaNES, and I’ve been to just about every event and meeting going. Those conversations have been honest, generous and full of insight. They’ve also been incredibly consistent. People want spaces that feel purposeful. People want to meet others they wouldn’t normally cross paths with. And people want the chance to turn good ideas into something real for our communities.
So we’re putting together a series of gatherings to share what we’ve learned and to explore, with you, how we build a network that actually does that.
These sessions will introduce the direction that has come from all this listening and give us the chance to shape how we work from here. How we bring people together. How we create momentum. How we support meaningful action across BaNES. They’re open to anyone who wants to be part of this, whether you already know us or you are hearing about us for the first time.
What makes this different is that we are not starting from scratch. We are backed by a university with deep expertise and long‑standing relationships in our communities. We have access to research, knowledge and people who understand this area and care about its future. That gives us an opportunity to build something thoughtful and well connected, grounded in what is actually needed rather than what looks good on paper.
These gatherings are not about signing anything off. They are not consultation in disguise. They are a genuine invitation to help shape how this next chapter comes to life. How we show up, how we connect people and how we turn shared ambition into action.
If you want something more than the usual networking circuit and you want to help build something with purpose behind it, I would really love you to join us.
Most agency owners know they should review their pricing. Few actually do it because the maths feels complicated, there’s always client work to prioritise, and the conversation with clients feels uncomfortable.
The result? Rates based on gut feel, margins that erode silently, and the nagging sense that you’re busy but not as profitable as you should be.
In this practical 30-minute session, Aggie Wojciechowska, founder of Rocksteady Finance and finance partner to agencies, will discuss the most common pricing mistakes she sees in agencies, and share the framework she uses with clients to calculate true costs and find the rate you actually need to charge.
What you’ll take away:
You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how to approach your rate card, and access to a calculator you can use straight after the session to find your own pricing gap.
Bristol Creative Industries members can register here
This webinar is exclusively for BCI members. It’s one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
This session is for owners, founders, and finance leads at marketing, creative, PR, and digital agencies, particularly those in the £500,000–£3m revenue range who are growing but find that profit isn’t keeping pace with revenue.
If you’ve ever set a rate based on what “felt right” or what competitors charge, this one’s for you.
Aggie Wojciechowska is the founder of Rocksteady Finance, the finance partner built exclusively for marketing, creative and PR agencies. With 20 years in accounting and finance, she’s helped founders turn their finance function from a necessary overhead into a growth driver. Aggie is on a mission to raise the standard of agency finance, helping owners price with confidence, scale with clarity, and stop leaving profit on the table.
> Connect with Aggie on LinkedIn
> See Rocksteady Finance’s BCI profile here
The online sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, and allow BCI members to share their knowledge with fellow members.
The webinars are a 15/20 minute presentation followed by a 10/15 minute Q&A. The sessions are a mix of expert tips and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
The webinars are exclusively for BCI members. They are one of many benefits you get by joining the community. Not a BCI member? Read more about the benefits and join here.
Please get in touch with Dan if you’re a BCI member and you’re interested in presenting on a future webinar.
The University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been creating change-makers for 10 years! Our 2026 Showcase and Runway Awards is your chance to celebrate with us and look forward to the future as we make the move to our new Temple Quarter Campus. Meet the brilliant minds of our 2026 graduating class and connect with entrepreneurs, businesses and innovators who are shaping the future.
Hear about our graduating students’ projects at the Showcase, tackling everything from fresh water scarcity to electric vehicle adoption and elite athlete recovery; ideas that will define the next decade.
Take your seat for the Runway Awards and see the Centre’s entrepreneurs pitch live for a share of £75,000 in funding.
With 2026 a milestone year for the Centre, this is the perfect moment to be part of the next chapter in Bristol’s innovation success story.
Your agency is established, you know the numbers matter, it is no longer enough to make decisions based on a ‘gut feeling’ and ignoring the numbers is becoming expensive.
What you don’t have is a clear picture of how strong agencies actually structure their finances, or what needs to change as they scale to a £2M+ turnover.
In our final 60-minute workshop in our 3-part series for agency founders, we won’t just explain the theory; we will share our Rocksteady Framework.
The complete system we guide our clients through to become a thriving, confident, strategic agency, and help you to define what needs to change for YOUR agency.
Founders and leaders of marketing, digital, PR, creative and communication agencies with a £750k-£2M+ turnover who want to scale deliberately, not reactively and build a financially mature business.
Brought to you by Rocksteady Finance – we’ve worked alongside 40+ agency finance functions and know exactly what it takes to successfully scale.
Great strategy can unlock the potential in any situation.
It takes rigorous research, creative thinking and a relentless hunt for competitive advantage.
But in the pacy whirl of day-to-day business and delivery, the power of strategy is easily weakened.
There is never enough time, always too much information, and So. Many. Questions.
Which is the right problem to solve? How to balance all these competing expectations? How to know you’re right? Which voices to listen to?
Everyone’s an expert, right?
But it’s still you in the hot seat.
So let’s take the pressure off.
How To Be Useful is a half-day session to help you approach the problem of strategy with confidence, and turn those voices into collaborators. We’ll look at strategy through the lens of the people you do strategy for, and with: clients, stakeholders, creatives, audiences. And we’ll cover tools and hacks to help you move forward with what you have, whatever stage of the process you’re at.
We’ll look at:
There will be ideas, tips and models to steal, and some exercises to try out on the day.
We’ll cover a lot of ground, so come prepared to work and give that imposter syndrome a good kicking.
This workshop is for junior-mid-level planners and strategists. You’re already doing the job but you’d love ways to make your contribution more valuable – and more valued.
> BCI member tickets are £125 + VAT
> Non-member tickets are £185 + VAT
James is a comms and creative strategist who has worked in London and Bristol agencies for 20 years. James teaches a course called Nailing Your Strategy for APG, and teaches the comms and media planning modules on APG’s flagship courses. He’s been head of strategy at True Digital, Prophecy and Edit in the south west, and worked for Isobar, Droga5, Wavemaker and Mindshare in London. He is currently strategy partner at WPP Media with responsibility for the UK Government’s comms strategy.
Bristol Sounds Good are partnering with the International Women’s Podcast Festival 2026 as part of their Global Voices Stream.
This free social event is for; Podcasters, Audio Producers, Presenters, Radio/Audiobook/Podcast Producers, anyone involved in creative audio that wants to meet new people in the industry!
We’ll be playing the Global Voices stream all evening- so feel free to pop by and join us for a drink! For more details/to check out future events, please find us on IG @BristolSoundsGood
We hope to see you there!
Researchers at the University of Bristol are recruiting participants for viewing sessions in the Smart Cinema. You’ll watch an experimental sci-fi short film and have your physiological responses recorded, followed by a questionnaire.
– Sessions run 22nd and 23rd April.
– Sessions will be 60–75 minutes.
– Participants will receive a Love2Shop voucher of up to £20
Participants must:
– Be 18+
– Be proficient in English
– Be able to arrange their own travel to the facility
– Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing
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