On 11th June 2025, Rebecca Coleman led a creative methods workshop. Rebecca is Professor in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at Bristol University. She led academics and researchers in a creative exercise of building utopias as part of a teach-out at Newcastle University. Against the backdrop of a Higher Education sector that is in crisis, with UCU strikes at Newcastle, people gathered in the local pub to create a space where it might be possible to engage in alternative utopian worldbuilding.

You can read about the workshop on the AHRC Utopia and Failure network blog: Practical utopias: A creative methods workshop | School of Social and Political Science