Storytelling Academy – Interdisciplinary Research at Loughborough University
As part of Dr Sarah Jewett’s fellowship with the Storytelling Academy as a Fulbright Scholar from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Loughborough University’s Professor Mike Wilson recently contributed to UMBC’s ‘Retrieving the Social Sciences’ podcast with Dr Ian Ansom. In the conversation Ian and Mike talk about the wider use of storytelling in academia and the work of the
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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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Our latest Open Access publication is inspired by the panel we delivered at the International Digital Storytelling Conference in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore areas, US, in June 2023. Please, read the abstract below. A new, hybrid way of conceiving Digital Storytelling (DS) in applied research is presented here as an essential trigger to challenge, expand, and eventually re-frame the
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Delighted to see our work on Amplifying Community Voices for Sustainable Climate Adaptation. Future Yetu: A Digital Storytelling Project in the Nairobi Slum of Korogocho published on The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems.Always wonderful to work with the amazing artist and activist Daniel Onyango and the brilliant landscape architect Pia Jonsson! And this time we were also joined by Humphrey Otieno, whose
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Antonia Liguori, Pia Jonsson and Daniel Onyango are presenting this project at the AMPS Conference 2023 in Prague, a conference on Culture, History, Art and Design.The Listening City is a collaborative interdisciplinary project that aims to explore Digital Storytelling as a tool for place-making and as a community-building approach to inspire dialogue and mutual understanding across diverse groups within an urban context. As stories convey values and
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