Storytelling Academy – Interdisciplinary Research at Loughborough University
For many academics and practitioners, storytelling is more than a means of communication; it is a body of lived experience that reveals how we come to understand the world and how we position ourselves within it. When these stories are shared, they also shape the lived experiences of others. In this sense, storytelling becomes a powerful force for shaping our
Read more
For the next academic year, the Storytelling Academy will be hosting an online reading group. The group will run fortnightly on Wednesdays for one and a half hours during the Autumn and Spring terms. For each meeting the group will read in advance a piece of writing relating to some aspect of storytelling theory and/or practice, which will then form
Read more
It has been a busy few weeks on the UNESCO front. Following the highly successful week at the beginning of the month, when we welcomed our visitors from India and South Africa and held a whole day of events celebrating Loughborough’s growing relationship with UNESCO, and in particular the new UNESCO Chair in Storytelling Education for Sustainability, Professor Mike Wilson,
Read more
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
Read more
In collaboration with Professor Neil Powell from Uppsala University, Dr Sara Holmgren from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Dr Marcus Bussey from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, Professor Mike Wilson will be co-convening a workshop on ‘Storytelling as, and for, Sustainability Thinking’, at the Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference, which takes place in Turku, Finland
Read more