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An adult and young child play with a hand-held pricing machine in the Open City Lab at We The Curious. There are yellow shopping baskets with some food containers in them on the table in front of them.

Shopping trolley secrets help science

You’re in a local supermarket trying to choose what to have for lunch – what do you pick? If you picked a meal deal (the classic combination of a main, drink and snack), your choice could be useful to science.

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Community research funding 2025

Find out how to apply for £2000 to develop a question around health or wellbeing that matters to you and your community through our Research Collective programme.

An brightly lit open space with tables, boards and activities with the name 'Open City Lab' space illuminated above

Open City Lab

A unique research space dedicated to ‘open city research’ and democratising science.

A child laying on the floor, pressing a small round wheeled robot, within a football goal

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?

A child in a light green outfit pointing at a digital screen with lots of circular shapes

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.

A cheerful group of children in school uniform in front of a bright colourful mural on a brick wall. They're all smiling, with arms in the air and some mid-jump

Hannah More Primary School seagulls

We The Curious is helping to change attitudes to the thousands of seagulls in the city through a unique project co-created with east Bristol schoolchildren at Hannah More Primary School.

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