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Very successful Storytelling events to present SOLIS, FutureAbility and CREATIVITY

In early May, the MA students and researchers from the Storytelling Academy gathered at Bom Bom Patisserie in Loughborough to share the values of Storytelling that were explored through European-funded projects such as SOLIS, FutureAbility, and Creativity.  The event spanned several days and was hosted in a cozy coffee shop that quickly became comfortable and familiar for both the organisers and the community of various stakeholders in attendance. The Intellectual outputs produced by

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New publication: Participatory Action Research in Digital Storytelling

This chapter reflects on the outcomes of an ongoing transnational partnership between Hope Raisers, a youth-led NGO based in Korogocho slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom (UK). A group of researchers and artists explore the value of digital storytelling as a tool for participatory action research (PAR) through an exploration of the challenges and opportunities of applying this

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The SOLIS project at the e-methodology conference in Poland

On behalf of our 8 European project partners, Dr Antonia Liguori gave a presentation on “Digital Storytelling as a tool for peer learning. Reflecting on the European project SOLIS as a case study within formal and non-formal Education”. Digital Storytelling is a well-known workshop-based approach that, over the past 25 years, has been successfully applied in formal and non-formal Education

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Filming for CREATIVITY

The CREATIVITY project is now well underway. All 10 workshop have been delivered and are now in the process of being refined ready to be uploaded to the online platform and used in multiplier events next spring. The Storytelling team have been working on filming videos for the Digital Storytelling workshop. This workshop will support young people to develop skills

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