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Finding the question

Meet the community leaders working to find the research questions around health or wellbeing that matters to their communities through our Research Collective programme.

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New funded schools' programme

BRISTOL educational charity and science centre, We The Curious, has received £149,101 from the John James Bristol Foundation towards a new funded schools' programme aimed at addressing educational inequality in Bristol.

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John James Theatre of Curiosity

We The Curious reopened with a bold new experience Project What If, which features the ‘John James Theatre of Curiosity’ – a central discussion space which encourages visitors to explore how science works.

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Project What If

Following 14 months of closure during the Covid19 pandemic, We The Curious reopened with bold new experience Project What If, which aims to leave people with questions rather than answers.

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Open City Research annual report 2025

What is research, and who gets to define what research looks like? What role can a science centre, and its audiences have in creating new knowledge?

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Can machines understand emotions?

How a visit to a science centre can be an opportunity to influence real ongoing research, and to explore how computers might help us to better understand human emotion.

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