This taster session is hosted by the Research Culture Festival 2026 and is part of a larger Thinking Us project. It is open to a wider audience who want to know more about the GRIST methodology.
When: May 5, 09:30 – 12:30,
Where: SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DP
In this workshop, Professor Mónica Moreno Figueroa invites participants to reflect on the personal, political, academic, and emotional dimensions of living with and researching racism, classism, sexism, ableism, and other intersecting injustices. As scholars, practitioners, and activists, we often analyse these structures while also carrying the emotional weight of the histories and experiences they produce. This session creates a collective space to reconnect thought, feeling, and experience, recognising community building as shared processes that can strengthen ethically aware, engaged scholarship and social justice efforts.
The workshop combines collective listening and guided reflection with an embodied practice led by Bim Malcomson, a choreographer and educator who has developed inclusive dance practices for over twenty years with organisations including the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet School, Central School of Ballet, and Trinity Laban. Using movement as metaphor, participants will explore connection, collaboration, and risk-taking, inviting the body into processes of reflection and challenging habitual ways of thinking in order to deepen collective engagement.
Participants
Academic and professional staff and graduate students who work on themes of intersectional oppressions.
Global Racisms Institute for Social Transformation 