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When older, white, middle-class researchers are not right for the job

A diverse team of young researchers told an audience at Impact 2021 how their ethnicity helped them understand the experiences of a respondent “better than an older, white, middle-class researcher” in a project that was not just “about young people, but with and for them”.

Ben Bold

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How Bristol’s Colston Hall rebrand celebrated its roots rather than dwelling on its namesake

Last September, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, music venue Colston Hall changed its name to Bristol Beacon. No mere rebrand, it made an emphatic statement about culture, ethnicity and some troublesome aspects of Bristol’s history. The venue’s marketing head and research partner told the MRS Impact 2021 conference about how research helped drive that process.

Ben Bold