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

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