Storytelling Academy – Interdisciplinary Research at Loughborough University
Come Study With Us! We are delighted to announce that applications for our new round of PhD studentships are now open! We have four fully-funded studentships available for starting in October 2026, one is associated with the programme of the UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability and three are part of EM-SLAM (East Midlands Sustainable Living and Mental Well-Being),
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The Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University, is convening a Drawing as Storytelling series of online events. Deadline for submission: 31st of January 2026. This series of online events aims to explore the relationship between Drawing and Storytelling. Drawing begins where words cannot reach, and storytelling begins when images ask to be read. In an era where visual culture and narrative structures are
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As part of the MISTRA Environmental Communication project (on which the Loughborough University Storytelling Academy is a proud partner), a call for proposals for the first Biennial Environmental Conference has just been published on the MISTRA website (https://environmental-communication.org/news/critical-and-creative-approaches-to-environmental-communication-storytelling-as-and-for-sustainability/). The conference theme is ‘Critical and Creative Approaches to Environmental Communication – Storytelling as, and for, Sustainability’ and will take place in
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Co-developing a Framework for Adaptive Participatory Storytelling Approaches (APSA) Another paper just published from the DRY project, exploring how applied storytelling can support knowledge exchange and public engagement. Please, read the abstract below. The transdisciplinary Drought Risk and You (DRY) project aimed to interweave storytelling and science as a way of increasing the different voices and types of knowledge (specialist,
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The Leadership Summit on Applied Storytelling is part of a two-year plan of activities in UK and the US organised by the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Maryland, the Montgomery College, the Story Center, Patient Voices, among other institutions. This first online event brings together 5 international Fellows and a small
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