Stories to connect with: disadvantaged children creating phygital community objects to share their life-narratives of resilience and transformation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Central Lancashire
Department Name: Sch of Education and Social Sciences
Abstract
This project is a collaboration between Barnardo's, children and young people who are active in Barnardo's services, academics from five disciplines at two universities, and well-known children's authors. The core group of Barnardo's young people will be trained as co-researchers to collect stories from other children and young people who access Barnardos services about their lives and experiences of overcoming adversity. The stories elicited from children will inevitably draw on their own 'funds of knowledge' (Gonzalez et al 2005), giving credence to their own experience and encouraging others to empathise. We expect the consequent building of social capital via authorship and dissemination to contribute to young people's capacity in accessing and improving services. This process will be carefully managed with input from trained care workers and community researchers. The stories will be refined and revised in workshops with well-known children's authors (Melvin Burgess and Adele Geras) who have agreed to participate in the project (Burgess has adopted a 'found fiction' approach in 'Kill All Enemies' 2011). The resulting stories will be inspirational for other children and young people and their families, some of whom would benefit from Barnardo's or other children's services. In order to connect with these other families, the stories will be transcribed, re-written, narrated, and placed in phygital (physical-digital) objects, designed by the young storytellers themselves in collaboration with digital design academics from Lancaster University Imagination Lab. The phygital artefacts, which might vary in size and take any form as determined by the C&YP (e.g. a hand-held animal, a life-size tree, a dustbin, a wizard), will be located in positions in the community identified by the participants and Barnardo's as having the most potential for impact on a wider audience. The stories will have the potential to be interactive, personalised and take the form of written and/or spoken language.
Working within an appreciative philosophy, the children and young people will generate their own stories and elicit affirmative stories from other CYP reflecting their resilience, strengths and achievements in negotiating the challenges of their particular and often difficult circumstances. These 'stories to connect with' will act as counter-narratives to those which usually circulate about children in contact with and 'on the edge' of engaging with children's social services and will challenge preconceptions and assumptions about people who access services, both in the media and in children's literature (Dahl 1993; Booktrust 2006). Placing these stories within bespoke objects which in themselves connect and challenge other people will enable the stories to travel outside of the social, geographical and political locale in which they have been produced and to connect more widely in both the virtual and physical world. It is our belief that being 'on the edge' creates a particular context and potential energy and that the CYP's phygital story objects can act as pores in the boundaries of the 'edge' through which communication can take place and lead to a softening of the boundaries between different elements of the same geographical community.
The phygital artefacts will be trialled and evaluated by members of the public in at least three different community settings: a school; a shopping centre; and a Barnardos centre. The refined artefacts will then be launched at a community event, before being located (semi-)permanently in areas considered by the whole team to be the most effective for disseminating the stories to diverse audiences within the community.
Working within an appreciative philosophy, the children and young people will generate their own stories and elicit affirmative stories from other CYP reflecting their resilience, strengths and achievements in negotiating the challenges of their particular and often difficult circumstances. These 'stories to connect with' will act as counter-narratives to those which usually circulate about children in contact with and 'on the edge' of engaging with children's social services and will challenge preconceptions and assumptions about people who access services, both in the media and in children's literature (Dahl 1993; Booktrust 2006). Placing these stories within bespoke objects which in themselves connect and challenge other people will enable the stories to travel outside of the social, geographical and political locale in which they have been produced and to connect more widely in both the virtual and physical world. It is our belief that being 'on the edge' creates a particular context and potential energy and that the CYP's phygital story objects can act as pores in the boundaries of the 'edge' through which communication can take place and lead to a softening of the boundaries between different elements of the same geographical community.
The phygital artefacts will be trialled and evaluated by members of the public in at least three different community settings: a school; a shopping centre; and a Barnardos centre. The refined artefacts will then be launched at a community event, before being located (semi-)permanently in areas considered by the whole team to be the most effective for disseminating the stories to diverse audiences within the community.
Planned Impact
The immediate beneficiaries of the research will be the participants themselves, in terms of increase in confidence and self-esteem, and their wider communities in terms of knowledge and understanding. We hope to increase knowledge about and participation in Barnardo's services specifically, and children and families with whom Barnardo's work will benefit directly from the artefacts produced. Through increasing the effectiveness of the charity's work, children and their families will benefit. We hope to increase empathy and understanding within and beyond the community involved in the research, and outputs will also be disseminated further to children in schools and libraries. During the research, a local school will take part in a workshop where the phygital artefacts will be trialled, providing an exciting educational experience. Similarly the general public at a shopping centre, and Barnardos users at one of their centres will benefit from taking part in evaluation of the phygital artefacts. At the end of the project the phygital artefacts will be 'liberated' at an event designed and organised by the whole team. This will take the form of a phygital story festival, a 'smart mob' style event, or an exhibition of the phygital artefacts in a community location, where members of the public will be able to interact with them. Thereafter, the artefacts will be physically located in the community according to the mapping developed by the CYP participants. This final stage of the project will have a lasting impact in that the artefacts will continue to influence the public, including those 'hard-to-reach' because of the strategic placing of the artefacts.
Barnardo's workers will benefit from further understanding of issues affecting children in their care, from the direct perspective of the child.
Other third sector workers will benefit from sharing the methodological and procedural insights gained in carrying out the project with disadvantaged children and young people in community settings. We will communicate these through ongoing updates and publicity about the project on Barnardo's and university websites, via conferences, and articles in practitioner journals.
Academics will benefit from understanding ways of working with children, young people and charities, communicated through university networks and the Connected Communities programme, as well as academic articles and conferences.
We will make recommendations to government departments regarding children's participation in shaping services that they access. As the government states: "Effective participation gives children and young people the opportunity to make a positive contribution to their communities and to develop the skills, confidence and self-esteem they will need for the future. (...)Involving children and young people in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services that affect their lives is not only likely to improve services, but also helps in developing confident, engaged and responsible citizens." (DoE website).
To this end we will communicate our findings to the Department for Education and the Office of the Children's Commissioner through written reports. We also intend to report to the National Literacy Trust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in relation to our findings concerning children's multimodal literacy and uses of stories.
Book and e-book publishers will be interested in our findings regarding understanding the current and future audience of stories, and the potential for using phygital design as a means of communicating narratives. We will make our findings available to the publishers of our consultant authors for the development of future projects.
Businesses wishing to exploit the possibilities of phygital design in a variety of contexts will benefit from the knowledge and understanding which we will convey through our impact activities.
Barnardo's workers will benefit from further understanding of issues affecting children in their care, from the direct perspective of the child.
Other third sector workers will benefit from sharing the methodological and procedural insights gained in carrying out the project with disadvantaged children and young people in community settings. We will communicate these through ongoing updates and publicity about the project on Barnardo's and university websites, via conferences, and articles in practitioner journals.
Academics will benefit from understanding ways of working with children, young people and charities, communicated through university networks and the Connected Communities programme, as well as academic articles and conferences.
We will make recommendations to government departments regarding children's participation in shaping services that they access. As the government states: "Effective participation gives children and young people the opportunity to make a positive contribution to their communities and to develop the skills, confidence and self-esteem they will need for the future. (...)Involving children and young people in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services that affect their lives is not only likely to improve services, but also helps in developing confident, engaged and responsible citizens." (DoE website).
To this end we will communicate our findings to the Department for Education and the Office of the Children's Commissioner through written reports. We also intend to report to the National Literacy Trust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education in relation to our findings concerning children's multimodal literacy and uses of stories.
Book and e-book publishers will be interested in our findings regarding understanding the current and future audience of stories, and the potential for using phygital design as a means of communicating narratives. We will make our findings available to the publishers of our consultant authors for the development of future projects.
Businesses wishing to exploit the possibilities of phygital design in a variety of contexts will benefit from the knowledge and understanding which we will convey through our impact activities.
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in Qualitative Research
Title | 43 co-created Stories to Connect |
Description | Written stories co-produced by the Stories2Connect team, disadvantaged young people, writers, and illustrators. The stories have been designed and printed as A5 booklets for distribution to charities, schools, colleges and universities. |
Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | The creation of the co-written stories has had a notable impact on the young people involved, as evidenced in the evaluation interviews we have carried out. The printed stories have been formatted and printed as storybooks as well as animated videos, available on the website. Audiences who have interacted with the stories have commented on how informative the stories are about issues faced by young people, and how useful the stories are for reading with children with learning disabilities. The stories have been used by charity workers, social workers and teachers who work with disadvantaged young people. The effect of the stories is to help young people see alternative futures for themselves, to feel as though they are not alone, and to improve self confidence and self esteem. The stories are also useful for improving literacy skills and social interaction. |
URL | http://stories2connect.org/our-stories-2/ |
Title | Accessible deaf education |
Description | An animation created with deaf young people in Indonesia. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Benefits for deaf children in Indonesia of seeing role model for themselves. Benefits for the public in understanding different cultural perspectives. |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/stories/akses-pendidikan-tuli-accessible-deaf-education/ |
Title | Interactive Stories2Connect Map |
Description | Interactive map designed by the S2C young people, and reproduced by an artist. The map is digitally interactive through use of an App on a phone or iPad, allowing stories embedded in different areas of the map to be viewed on the device. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | The map has been shown at various events, and trialled with schoolchildren. The reach will be significant when the app is made freely available later in 2018. |
Title | Moving Up |
Description | 8 minute Animation created in collaboration with Stories2Connect team, about moving from primary to secondary school for children with autism. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | The animation was shown in part at a conference in Vancouver, Canada, and led to a connection with researchers in Bristol, UK, which has since been followed up. |
Title | Our worlds are equal |
Description | An animated film co-created with deaf young people in Indonesia. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Deaf children in Indonesia being able to see a role model for themselves. General public in UK and elsewhere can see different cultural perspectives through an accessible short story. |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/stories/dunia-kita-setara-our-worlds-are-equal/ |
Title | Rizwan Story |
Description | A film of a deaf-blind boy, representing a day in his life at school. The film was created by Film students at University of Central Lancashire who researched the topic, visited the school, conducted interviews, and created the film as a project for their coursework. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | We have shown the film to groups of schoolchildren at the Science Festival 2017, and via phygital artefacts which contain the film at a range of events. The impact so far has been to raise awareness of life without sight or hearing in audiences of children and adults. The team of students who made the film remarked on how they had learnt about children with special needs and the importance of communication in all children's lives. This was repeated by others who have viewed the film so far. |
Title | Stories 2 Connect: a group game for children, young people and adults |
Description | This is group game designed to help people tell, direct and hear stories about children and young people's experiences of overcoming life's challenges. Players interact with the contents (character questions; challenges characters face; opportunities that help characters overcome challenges; people who help characters overcome challenges; ways characters help themselves overcome challenges and goals that characters achieve) to generate new stories. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Two stories from this game have been turned into mini books, available on our website. Workers who interacted with the game said it provided meaningful and safe ways for Young people to talk about difficulties without having to talk about themselves. The game is undergoing design so that it can be widely distributed through youth services and social servies, and impact on young people's wellbeing is anticipated. |
Title | Stories to Coonect With Rabbit in Hat |
Description | Animated elctronic rabbit in Hat which includes screen and NFC reader.Videos are triggered by toughing the rabbits nose which NFC magic wand |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | The Rabbit has been demonstrated at a number of the events listed in portfolio |
Title | Stories2Connect Games Machine |
Description | A digital arcade machine built to showcase stories from the project |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | This device was resident in a Barnados shop in Lancaster for 2 weeks, and had a number of users interact with it and watch the stories. |
Title | Stories2Connect Suitcase |
Description | This artefact detects different objects when they are placed onto a portal and then plays the associated story of that object. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | The artefact has been taken to several events where people have had the opportunity to interact with it and watch their stories. These events showed an appreciation for both the form and function of the artefact. |
Title | Stories2Connect: young people of Stories2Connect tell the story of the project |
Description | This is a co-created animated film, produced by and with disabled young people who were involved in the Stories2Connect project. It tells the story of the 3-year AHRC-funded research project and includes young people's contributions as well as comments from adult researchers. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The film has inspired other young people to become involved in research. The website UCMC2 is a forum for young researchers to come together and the film is available through that website as well as the Stories2Connect website. |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/ |
Title | Surely deaf people can! |
Description | An animation co-created with deaf Indonesian young people |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Deaf children in Indonesia being able to see a role model for themselves. General public in UK and elsewhere can see different cultural perspectives through an accessible short story. |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/stories/tuli-pasti-bisa-surely-deaf-people-can/ |
Description | We have established the importance of working with children and young people using a participatory methodology, including peer interviews. In particular we have developed a method for writing collaborative fiction which reflects the lives of young people living with a range of disabilities and challenges. Through our peer-conducted interviews we have established sets of themes which represent specific challenges, barriers, and enablers, that young people face, from their own perspective. These themes have been embodied in fictional stories which are designed to be accessible to a wide audience, particularly including children and young people. The stories can therefore be used by professionals and practitioners working with disadvantaged groups, both to inform, and to provide a source of emotional support. The stories also form a learning resource for trainee social workers and teachers. The use of phygital artefacts - which are machines to enable the stories to be told in digital formats as animated films - has advanced understanding of how physical and digital design can be brought together with literature to create accessible stories for wide audiences. |
Exploitation Route | The Stories to Connect research team has joined with another Connected Communities project to share experiences and insights into collaborative fictional writing. The result was a guide for practitioners and researchers who aim to work in this participatory way. The findings can also inform other groups who would benefit from the uses of collaborative fiction as a way to make connections and help to ease problems encountered in everyday life. The uses of the stories is still being explored, with professionals and third sector workers, but are useful for teachers, social workers and charity workers to learn about the young people they work with. The stories are also useful as reading materials for children and young people. Because the stories are co-created by and with young people, the reader can easily identify with the protagonists and their narratives. The methodology has also been used in a related project working with deaf children in Indonesia to tell their stories using Indonesian Sign Language. The resulting filmed stories are being made available to younger deaf children as learning materials to motivate and inspire them. Two AHRC funded follow on projects which have been funded from January and February 2020 use a similar story-telling methodology with disadvantaged young people to contribute to decision-making about landscape. The participants are also being encouraged to think about the climate emergency through story-telling and the creation of artistic artefacts to convey their perspectives. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://stories2connect.org |
Description | We have engaged a number of disadvantaged young people in our research to date. They are from a variety of groups including youth clubs, children's charities, participation groups, colleges, schools. The core group of young people have been positively impacted by the research, resulting in increased confidence, communication skills, and independence, as verified by accounts from themselves and those close to them. We have exhibited the creative artefacts and stories in museum and library spaces, also a public cafe and railway station, all open to the general public. The stories have been produced as books and films and are being distributed in schools, colleges, universities, charities, and to professionals including teachers and social workers. The stories in book and video format have been used with schoolchildren and trainee teachers and social workers. The stories have now been uploaded to the website as readable print versions and have attracted more attention from the public and from researchers. The stories continue to be distributed in this way. A connected further research project has been conducted in Indonesia with Indonesian deaf young people making story-based films in sign language. The three films are now available on the Stories2Connect website. These films are being used as educational resources for younger deaf children in Indonesia, to enhance their communication skills and provide inspiring role models. The deaf community in Indonesia has also been encouraged to link with a deaf group in India, and the approach of storytelling with deaf children has been shared in this South-South relationship. Connections made with artists and community groups during Stories to Connect project have led to further impact through additional projects on Landscape Decisions, funded by UKRI. These projects have enabled young people and disadvantaged groups to experience being in natural environments and to engage in arts workshops to express their connections with nature and their perspectives on natural landscapes. In 2021-2023 the PI has worked with Natural England to progress the participatory research model of working closely with children and young people - we co-produced a set of survey questions for the Children's People and Nature Survey and now are recruiting a young Advisory Group to advise further on the survey. A report is available and published by Natural England. An additional project has built on all of this work, where children are co-creating stories about environmental issues and sharing them with peers across the globe. A new publication outlines this work and research funding applications are underway. |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Cath Larkins gave recommendation for storytelling as a methodology at Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe meeting on ending sexual violence |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Influence on Japanese Alternative Report to the United Nation's Committee on the Rights of the Child |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Membership of Advisory Panel for project at Bedfordshire University |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | AHRC Connected Communities Festival |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of East Anglia |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2015 |
End | 12/2015 |
Description | Bursaries for community member and student for C2UExpo |
Amount | $2,859 (CAD) |
Organisation | Simon Fraser University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Canada |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 07/2017 |
Description | Connected Communities Catalyst Funding Scheme |
Amount | £2,968 (GBP) |
Funding ID | R202080CF1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 05/2018 |
Description | Connecting disadvantaged young people with landscape through arts |
Amount | £79,890 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/T00634X/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2022 |
Description | Daiwa - Anglo Japan |
Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Daiwa Foundation Small Grants |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 07/2018 |
Description | Forming a young advisory group for the children's people and nature survey |
Amount | £14,900 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural England |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | Global Network for Young Disabled Researchers Co-creating Change |
Amount | £83,274 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/X00970X/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 07/2024 |
Description | Multisensory multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in changing landscapes |
Amount | £81,018 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/T012293/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 07/2022 |
Description | National Collaborative Outreach Programme |
Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 01/2019 |
Description | National Teaching Fellowship Award |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Higher Education Academy |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | QR-GCRF |
Amount | £8,100 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | UoA29 Bid Fund, UCLan |
Amount | £2,096 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 07/2017 |
Title | Collaborative Fiction methodology |
Description | We have worked in a participatory paradigm to create fictional story outputs with young people with disabilities. The methodology can be used for the benefit of other young people and different community groups. The creation of such fictional stories has provided resources for professionals in social work and teaching. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Enquiries from colleagues at conferences about our methods. Further funding was received from AHRC for a Catalyst event, bringing together academics and community writers from two Connected Communities projects. A 'guide' to the methodology for collaborative fictional writing was produced and published on AHRC website. |
URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/project_resources/collaborative-fiction-writing-with-com... |
Title | Collaborative film making with disabled young people |
Description | The film was made using a collaborative approach, whereby disabled young people helped to design, storyboard and contribute filmed and audio-recorded parts of the film. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Research teams and young people have been interested in the idea of working together in this way. |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/ |
Title | Steps 2 Stories |
Description | This is a research training tool providing an approach to peer-led interviewing, originally created by Cath Larkins, then adapted by young people involved in The Centre for Children and Young People's Participation. Through Stories to Connect with, the method has been refined further to include content on story elicitation. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This method has been refined to local contexts and used to train disabled young people in Japan. These young people are currently conducting their own research using this peer-led approach. This is the first reaserch of its kind in Japan. We anticipate that findings from it will be reported to the United Nation's Committee on the Rights of the Child in November 2018. |
Description | Barnardos |
Organisation | Barnardo's |
Department | Barnardo's Lancashire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Working with Barnardo's workers and young people - increasing participation of young people in research which is directly about them and their lives and experiences. We have provided training for the young people as researchers on the project. |
Collaborator Contribution | Helping us to understanding collaborative participatory working. Helping us to fulfil the aims of our research. |
Impact | Ongoing collaboration in collecting stories. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Erasmus+ |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Contributed to bid for Erasmus+ funding submitted Feb 2018 |
Collaborator Contribution | Joint research with LBHF |
Impact | Bid for Erasmus+ funding |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | J-UK |
Organisation | J. F. Oberlin University |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Cath Larkins, together with two of the young researchers who were trained through Stories to Connect with, delivered training in Tokyo to colleagues in Oberlin University and a speacial needs college. They are now collaborating, together with a further 6 of the Stories to Connect with researchers, to conduct comparative research on the rights of disabled Young people in Japan and the UK. Cath Larkins leads the programme of research and has delivered additional training on youth-led data analyis. |
Collaborator Contribution | Oberlin colleagues and young people from the special college have conducted 30 interviews with other young people. they have just attended further training in the UK (7-10 March 2018) and will now start on data analysis. |
Impact | The outcome to date has been to inform the Japanese report to the UN Committee on the Rghts of the Child. Social awareness of child led reseach and the potential for creative methods to enable children to name difficult issues has been raised with adults attending the training. The prject is multidisciplinary - Las (Oberlin University), politics and social work (UCLan) and graphic design (Independent Children's Illustrator in Japan). |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Rusland Horizons Trust |
Organisation | Rusland Horizons Trust Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We have worked with Rusland Horizons to work with children and young people in introducing them to rural locations and the Rusland Valley community. The original collaboration was in 'Stories to connect with', and led to a further collaboration in 'Connecting disadvantaged young people with landscape through arts'. We carried out a series of 4 full day workshops in settings provided by Ruslan Horizons Trust with young people from Furness College. The aim for Rusland Horizons and for my own research was to encourage more young people to experience the outdoors and natural environments. As a result the young people felt more connected with nature and their local environment, and learnt about potential job opportunities in the outdoors. |
Collaborator Contribution | Rusland Horizons have contributed their local knowledge and artistic expertise to allow us to work together with community groups in local natural environments. |
Impact | Two films - a longer one and a shorter one - have been created. The link provided above is to the shorter film. These films have been used to date for recruiting for another series of workshops. They have also been used to demonstrate to college staff the benefits of students accessing outdoor learning. The film has been exhibited at the UKRI Festival of Tomorrow 2022. The collaboration is multidisciplinary, covering environmental science, biology, creative arts and linguistics. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Title | App for Map |
Description | The app will eventually be freely available for download but is currently being updated. It will allow films of stories to be accessed via the map using a mobile phone or iPad. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Demonstrations of the app with audiences including members of the public, professional practitioners, and children and young people have elicited very positive reactions both to the effect of accessing stories in this way, and the stories themselves. |
Description | AHRC Wellcome Health Humanities Medal Award Ceremony - 11th September 2018. Shortlisted for Inspiration Award. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Awards ceremony at House of Commons. S2C was shortlisted for Inspiration Award section of AHRC-Wellcome Health Humanities Medal. Recognition of impact of research on health and wellbeing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Climate Psychology Alliance Annual Conference 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A keynote discussion with experts in US and Bath on children and young people's understanding of climate change. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Conference on Child Sexual Exploitation 20th November 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation of S2C resources to demonstrate development of resources for CSE project. Very large audience at Ribby Hall in Preston, composed of social workers, teachers, probation officers, police officers, third sector workers, all aiming to address CSE. Extensive feedback from the conference led to refinement of the storytelling resources. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Connected Communities Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion. Initiated meetings with other academics as a result - e.g. Profs Kate Pahl, Angie Hart, Sarah Banks. Sarah Banks asked me to write a case study based on the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Digital Literacies in Education UKLA at IoE, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation about S2C attended by practitioners and professionals interested in literacy and education. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Erasmus+ bid meeting London Borough of Fulham and Hammersmith 10th Sept 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A meeting with partners from Poland, Macedonia, Eastbourne, London and Portugal for Erasmus+ meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Future U Conference 14th December 2018 presentation about research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference to disseminate Future U work, which draws on S2C. Made connections with other researchers, especially those at Lancaster University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Keynote at Health Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Questions and responses after the event indicated interested in application of methods discussed in health contexts, including with elderly patients, children, and in international contexts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.evensi.uk/6th-international-health-wellbeing-research-real-impact-confence-uclan/3747442... |
Description | Lancashire Participation Network meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | I attended a meeting of the Lancashire Participation Network to publicise the Stories to Connect project, and to connect with youth workers and third sector workers with access to disadvantaged young people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Lancaster University Community Day May 6 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On May 6th 2017, Lancaster University held a Community Day to showcase research going on at the university. Two of the researchers on the project presented phygitals and stories produced for Stories to Connect as part of this event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Lancaster Words Festival 8th July 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lancaster Words Festival was organised by Lancaster University Creative Writing department. Stories to Connect was invited to run a workshop/publicity event to showcase the phygitals and stories. Members of the young researcher team attended, as well as academic researchers from UCLan and Lancaster University, and Melvin Burgess read a story he had written for the project. The audience of general public and students was very interested in the project, directed questions to the young researchers and other presenters, and sampled the stories and the phygitals. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancaster-words/ |
Description | Launch event for film |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | An event was held on a Saturday at the university, to which we invited young people, third sector organisations which supported those young people, academics, and the participants in the project. The event was attended remotely by a group of young people and their support workers in Japan, who have an existing relationship with the group of young people in the UK and who appear in the film. We showed the film and it was enthusiastically received by all those attending. The rest of the day was devoted to discussing new activities which could be led by young researchers. The film was a catalyst for these discussions and an inspiration for what could be achieved. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/ |
Description | Library event, Burnley Saturday 13th October 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Library event with disadvantaged families with children. Reading books, informal interviewing about reading practices. Family members joined the library and indicated they would come again. An excellent outcome since most families did not usually visit the library at all. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Literacy Research Discussion Group - Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation at the Literacy Research Centre discussion group, followed by a discussion with academics and postgraduate students from Lancaster University and other regional institutions. The audience was interested and wished to see more information and visit the installation at Lancaster Town Library which will take place in July 2017. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/literacy-research-centre/discussion-group/ |
Description | Meeting with ARTZ Centre, Skelmersdale |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Meeting with Artz Centre members to discuss potential collaboration in arts-based work with youth in Skelmersdale. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Meeting with SCBWI representative |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Meeting with SCBWI representative about the project, to initiate engagement of writers and illustrators from across the North West of England in writing and illustrating stories from the project. As a result of this initial engagement, approximately 15 writers and illustrators became involved in the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with Social workers and youth workers re content and distribution of phygitals 9.2.17. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The purpose was to consult with youth workers and social workers about the content of the stories being constructed, and the design and location of the phygital artefacts that will be produced. This consultation is crucial to ensuring that the outputs from the project - both stories and phygital artefacts - are suitable for the intended audiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with charity participation lead about stories and phygitals 7.2.17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | A meeting with the charity participation lead to discuss the content of stories and the placing of phygitals in order to ascertain the most suitable stories to tell and the best ways of telling them to have maximum impact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with children's author about possible expansion of team 1.2.17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | We met with a children's author to consider ways of distributing and co-constructing stories from the data already held.. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meeting with local authority participation lead about content of stories and design of phygitals 27.1.17 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The local authority participation lead was consulted about the stories under construction for the project, and the design of the phygitals to distribute the stories. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Meetings with Dukes Theatre from September 2018 - 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Connections with Dukes Theatre for CSE resources based on storytelling. Meetings in Lancaster and Preston to develop resources. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Narrative Matters Conference (Victoria, Canada) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I presented a paper on uses of narrative methodology and methods with young people with disabilities. The conference brought together many academics and students interested in narrative, and a discussion about methods of facilitating story-telling amongst young people about their lives ensued after the presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Participation in UK Network for Participatory Researchers meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The presentation was well received and stimulated much discussion afterwards. Other researchers shared their experiences of working in participatory ways and the ethical dilemmas that can arise from this. After the event, Candice Satchwell contributed to a guide to be published about dilemmas cafes and their facilitation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Participatory Arts Conference at UEA, Norwich |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Presentation at conference on participatory arts - working with communities using arts-based research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Playing the ARchive conference - UCL at British Academy. Attended as invited Advisory Board member. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference attended because asked to join advisory group for expertise in research with children and young people, with an emphasis on 'play' and arts-based methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at Burnley conference, UCLan, 26th November 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation of S2C and related projects to an audience of researchers and health practitioners, to showcase research undertaken at UCLan and to find synergies across arts and sciences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at LitCom1 Conference, Norwich |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I gave a paper at a conference about literature in the community. People attending included third sector organisations, writers, workshop leaders, academics. The paper led to a discussion around literature in the community, co-construction of fiction, the uses of literature in the community, and participatory research. Another conference, meeting, and publications are planned. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://connected-communities.org/index.php/events/event/litcom-1/ |
Description | Presentation at seminar at Sheffield Hallam University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A seminar in the School of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, presenting to academics and postgraduate students about Stories to Connect. The focus was on the different uses of literacies in story-telling, and enabled links to be made with work in Sheffield (at both universities) and further afield. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Preston Linguistics Circle |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A talk to Linguistics students at UCLan, and others in the region interested in linguistics. The talk was about Stories to Connect research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Roma conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A Roma storyteller, Richard O'Neill used two stories from Stories2Connect to demonstrate the possibility of a university-Traveller community collaboration. The stories were very well received by the audience of Travellers, third sector workers, students and lecturers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | S2C project celebration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | We held a celebratory lunch and afternoon of showcasing phygitals, stories, and the progress of the Stories to Connect project on Saturday 10th March 2018 at UCLan. The celebration followed on from a linked research event in the morning from 10-12am, with visitors from Japan who stayed for the event. The participants also included parents, carers, charity workers, friends of young people. After the lunch we collected evaluation forms which included the following comments: 'I have grown in confidence and I feel like I can tell people my story better.' (young person) 'It has changed my life in multiple ways, such as hearing stories I never thought I would hear so soon.' (young person) 'I think it improved my social skills in a BIG way.' (young person) 'I gained more confidence for reading.' (young person) 'She's gained in confidence, pride and achievement. She has been able to talk more freely to peers and learnt new skills relating to story writing. She has been able to talk about her feelings through her story.' (parent) 'She's becoming more independent and was able to talk more about her feelings re life events.' (parent) 'He has just loved coming. He feels important and that he is doing something of value that will do good.' (parent) 'He is more confident. More tolerant of others and their ideas.' (parent) 'His confidence and belief in himself has changed dramatically and also his interest in other people.' (parent) 'It has helped him feel independent.' (parent) 'The training to interview other people helped him become more confident with interacting with others. He has become more interested in having conversations with others. I think the project has boosted his self-esteem and enabled him to see what he is capable of.' (parent) 'He felt listened to, valued. He loved interviewing people, he also enjoyed explaining what the project hoped to achieve. The idea of telling and sharing stories, it increased his confidence. He felt part of something important.' (parent). The participants also suggested new ways forward for the outputs and future projects. For example, the stories have been recommended by parents and workers as stories that are 'just right' for teenagers or young adults with learning disabilities. One parent said: 'They are all age appropriate, use language that is easily accessible and have themes that would be good to discuss. There is little of this kind available for young adults.' We therefore hope to produce books of collections of the stories for disseminating in schools and colleges. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Skype meetings with Contextos, Portugal, Hannover University and Slovenia about EC bid for funding. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meetings to develop bid for funding for further work with children and young people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Stories to Connect Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Activities and workshops at the Festival informed ways of working with the public, and ways of engaging people in thinking about how stories connect. Participants at the Festival provided written and oral feedback to say they had enjoyed the activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://stories2connect.org/about/and-so-the-project-begins/ |
Description | Stories to Connect team workshops |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The workshops have been held regularly since the beginning of the project in June 2015. They are held regularly fortnightly or monthly, and are attended by 10-15 young people associated with Barnardo's, charity workers, postgraduate students who volunteer to help out, research team members. We also have visitors from other third sector organisations, children's authors, film-makers. The workshops have been used for training the young people as interviewers, collecting interviews from other young people, creating stories using art, drama, and other methods, including visits from children's authors. We have also designed phygital artefacts and discussed where to place them, trialling prototypes and advising on improvements. We discuss a wide range of issues as they arise on the project in the spirit of participatory research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.stories2connect.org |
Description | Stories to Connect workshop June 15 2917 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Stories to Connect workshop. Evaluation of stories with young people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk given at Burnley College |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk given by Dr Candice Satchwell at Burnley College, attended by approximately 80 students and staff members. The group engaged in discussion with the issues relevant to the project, and contributed data in the form of short questionnaires. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | The Discovery Trail |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 140 adults and young people attended an ESRC festival of social science event in community venues throughout Preston at which the Stories 2 Connect Phygitals were demonstatrated. Young people at the event gave positive feedback on their understanding of story telling. An artisit reported being inspired to create permanent story telling trail in community venues. Children who engaged with the suitcase phygital artefact as part of a briefing event on Brexit contributed question and concerns about their community and Europe, which were subsequently taken to the European parliament and presented to a MEPs and a member of the Brexit negotiating team. The feedback from the Brexit negotiator was that children's views were passed on to the whole negotiating team. AN MEP reported passing their questions on to the British Ambassador to the EU. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/20809/1/20809%20We%20are%20still%20waiting%20for%20answers.pdf |
Description | Trust and Mistrust Conference (Durham) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was asked to present a paper about the place of trust and mistrust in participatory research for the event: Exploring issues of Trust and Mistrust: Ethics in Participatory Research, Design, Democracy and Action at Durham University on 17th February 2017. The audience responded with many questions about this type of research, and I made connections with both academics and other practitioners during the day which will lead to future events and collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/socialjustice/events/currentevents/trustandmistrust/ |
Description | UK Literacy Association Conference (Bristol, UK) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A conference paper delivered to academics and school teachers about different kinds of literacies engaged in by young people in collecting stories about others' lives. There was a discussion afterwards, and contacts made with a children's author, and two academics at Nottingham University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UKLA Conference 30 June to 2 July 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at UKLA International Conference on 1st July 2017 and attendance at 3 day conference. Engagement with Digital Literacies Special Interest Group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://ukla.org/conferences/event/ukla-53rd-international-conference-2017#sthash.kYwX4RiW.dpbs |
Description | UKLA/BERA Research Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UKLA/BERA Research Symposium at Sheffield Hallam University. Candice Satchwell gave a talk about Stories to Connect and engaged in discussion with other delegates. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://ukla.org/conferences/event/ukla-research-symposium-2017#sthash.upvif2DK.dpbs |
Description | University seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 20 academics and postgraduate students attended a talk at Stirling University. I began by spending an hour discussing students' research in relation to my own, and then gave a more formal presentation to a wider group of academics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Valuing the Visual - Literacies conference, Sheffield University July 4th and 5th 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I presented a paper on Valuing the Visual in Stories to Connect. Also attended several papers by other delegates, and engaged in discussion with colleagues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research/csnl/conf |
Description | Vancouver conference C2UExpo 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Two researchers and two young people - one who accesses a third-sector children's charity and one who is a post-graduate student - attended a conference about Community-University partnerships in Vancouver, Canada 3-5th May 2017. The young people were involved in the project, and played a major part in the presentation we gave about the research. The presentation was very well received and we had many questions from the audience afterwards and during the following events at the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://stories2connect.org/about/proud-moments-from-across-the-globe/ |
Description | Visit to Rainbow House - children with disabilities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Two members of the research team attended Rainbow House to trial stories and phygitals with some severely disabled children. The school was interested in the project, and the team learnt about the requirements for disabled children to access stories and phygitals. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Visit to Youth Club in Blackburn |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Members of the Stories to Connect project team visited SLYNCS youth club to share progress in the project, and to do story-telling activities with the young people. We created stories with the young people using a variety of activities and took the stories to be written up. At the second workshop we shared the stories, collated reactions and rewrote the stories to reflect their preferences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Website creation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A dedicated website for the project was created with the aim of connecting and communicating with a wide variety of audiences, including other researchers, practitioners, students, schools, and participants and their connections. The URL for the website is distributed where possible, and has links to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.stories2connect.org |
Description | Workshop to review film |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The workshop allowed the young people to review parts of the film and to think back over their experiences of both making the film, and the Stories to Connect project that the film is about. It was also close to Christmas and there was an element of celebration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop with animator and young people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | We held a workshop with Barnardo's young people and charity workers to discuss with the film-maker the best ways to convey their messages. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Workshop with young people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Workshop with young people and animator to begin to design film about Stories to Connect project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop with young people and animator |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Filming with young people. The group from Barnardo's came together to give their responses to the impact of the Stories to Connect project. The session was filmed and an animator was present. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Write-away event at Midland Hotel with colleagues |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A bid writing event to which I contributed expertise on participatory work with young people, particularly using arts based methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Young people networking workshops |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Two workshops held as networking activities for young people involved in action and research. The Stories2Connect film was shown as part of the engagement with the new groups and facilitated the sharing of other activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://stories2connect.org/ |