We are delighted to announce that Professor Mike Wilson has been appointed to a prestigious UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability. He will be joining Richard Guilianotti and Qiuhua Laing as Loughborough’s third UNESCO Chair. Mike will also be joining a network of around 1000 UNESCO Chairs globally, senior professors who propose and carry out programmes of international projects

On 15th June, Dr Holly Turpin and John Tobin (past and present doctoral researchers with the Storytelling Academy) ran a digital storytelling workshop for doctoral researchers in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, as part of a day-long event on storytelling, hope and climate change, funded by the British Sociological Association. Here Dr Mark Doidge, who organised the

Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA) 2025 Research Relay Event saw Doctoral Researchers from the Loughborough University Storytelling Academy present their research to colleagues across the School of Design and Creative Arts. It was an enjoyable, supportive and collegiate event with Doctoral Researchers participating in rapid fire three-minute presentations which highlighted the breadth and depth of research