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Storytelling Academy at UNESCO Week

Between 13th-17th July 2026, Loughborough hosted a whole week of activities in relation to the University’s three UNESCO Chairs, culminating in the UK UNESCO Chair’s Conference on the Thursday and Friday of that week. Of course, the Storytelling Academy, which hosts the UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability, held by Professor Mike Wilson, played a central part in what

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STORYTELLING READING GROUP RETURNS THIS AUTUMN!

person reading book and holding coffee

Following on from the success of our first online Storytelling Reading Group last year, we are pleased to announce its return for a second year this autumn. The idea for the Reading Group began as a collaborative initiative, emerging from Dr Sarah Jewett’s Fulbright Fellowship at the Storytelling Academy in 2024, to link up doctoral researchers at the Storytelling Academy

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Storytelling Academy becomes a Loughborough University Research Centre of Excellence

In other exciting news, the Storytelling Academy has been awarded the status of Research Centre of Excellence, in recognition of our hard work and successes over the past decade. The designation is given by the University to its flagship centres of expertise that are internationally respected for the quality and real-world relevance of their research. We are now one of

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Storytelling Academy visits India

During the last two weeks of February, Mike Wilson, Fred Dalmasso and Rob Harland visited India for meetings, workshops and presentations with partners on the UNESCO Chair’s programme, exploring opportunities for collaboration. Arriving first in Kolkata, the team met with colleagues at banglanatak.com, a fantastic social enterprise, based in West Bengal, but working across India, using culture to promote inclusive

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Storytelling Academy Seminar Series

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, as a phenomenon is younger than the narratives that shape our understanding of it. Many older civilisations imagined entities that could operate by themselves, independent of human intervention, while resembling or using human consciousness. These narratives have influenced how we think about AI, from Western dystopian visions in which it takes over human roles to Japanese

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