Projects

We are involved in a number of initiatives that look at the role of storytelling in today’s digital world and how it might be applied to bring new voices into the public debate around major challenges facing society.

The work has grown out of Professor Mike Wilson’s long-standing research into various aspects of storytelling and, in particular, Project ASPECT, a major AHRC-funded project, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and Climate Change, that explored the potential of digital storytelling to support wider public engagement in the climate change conversation.

When Dr Antonia Liguori joined Professor Mike Wilson at Loughborough University in 2014 to work on the DRY – Drought Risk and You project, an interdisciplinary research project, funded by NERC, ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC and AHRC (2014-2019) under the RCUK Drought and Water Scarcity Programme, she brought her additional experience in leading Digital Storytelling EU funded projects.

See here a full list of Research Projects:

UK-based Projects

BRANCHING OUT 2021-2025

INTERACT MADE SMARTER NETWORK+ 2021-2025

BRANCHING BEYOND 2023-2024

IMPROVING PUBLIC ENGAGAMENT FOR MAXIMISED BENEFITS OF FOREST AND WOODLAND EXPANSION AND CREATION 2023-24

NHS STORIES PROJECT 2023-2024

DRY – Drought Risk and You 2014-2019

ENDOWS: Engaging diverse stakeholders and publics with outputs from the UK Drought and Water Scarcity programme 2018-2019

CASCADE – Increasing Civil Society’s capacity to deal with changing extreme weather risk: negotiating dichotomies in theory and practice 2016-2019

LiDA – Loneliness in the Digital Age 2014-2018

EMoTiCON – Empathy and Trust in Online Communication 2014-2018