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

Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA) 2025 Research Relay Event saw Doctoral Researchers from the Loughborough University Storytelling Academy present their research to colleagues across the School of Design and Creative Arts. It was an enjoyable, supportive and collegiate event with Doctoral Researchers participating in rapid fire three-minute presentations which highlighted the breadth and depth of research

The Loughborough University Storytelling Academy had a strong presence at the MISTRA Environmental Communication Conference in Uppsala, Sweden on 12th and 13th March 2025. The theme of the conference was ‘Storytelling for, and as, Sustainability’ and Professor Mike Wilson gave the conference keynote address, entitled ‘Stories are not boasts: Storytelling, Sustainability and Sustenance in the pursuit of community, hope and