Training a new generation of change makers: Utilising the power of storytelling to help people lead more sustainable, healthy, and meaningful lives  Loughborough University will be launching a new doctoral researcher training centre that will utilise the power of storytelling to tackle two of society’s most pressing challenges: the climate crisis and mental health.  The East Midlands Sustainable Living And

Join Jisc’s digital research community for their next group meet up online titled Becoming a storytelling researcher, on 9 July 2025  at 11:00-12:00 GMT.emy In this participative workshop, they will be exploring how stories can be a really powerful way of engaging people with the outputs and processes of research and how you can develop the skills to become an

Listening Deeply, Acting Creatively: Joining the Storytelling Academy There’s a quiet power in the way a someone tells a story. Not just the words, but the gestures, drawings, sounds, and silences. In my work, I’ve sat with children in flood-affected neighbourhoods, watched women sketch their hopes in notebooks by mountain streams in Vietnam, and co-created climate zines and co-authored a

The Loughborough University Storytelling Academy had a strong presence at the MISTRA Environmental Communication Conference in Uppsala, Sweden on 12th and 13th March 2025. The theme of the conference was ‘Storytelling for, and as, Sustainability’ and Professor Mike Wilson gave the conference keynote address, entitled ‘Stories are not boasts: Storytelling, Sustainability and Sustenance in the pursuit of community, hope and

One of the new friends we made at the International Digital Storytelling Festival in Zakynthos in September 2024 was Kristy Wolfe, a Digital Storytelling Facilitator based in Alberta, Canada. Kristy is also host of a regular podcast, Co-Created, and shortly before Christmas she invited Professor Mike Wilson to join her to discuss his work on storytelling over the years and