Building Inclusive Civil Societies with, and for, Young People in 5 Post-Conflict Countries
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Abstract
The legacy of internal conflict, violence, even genocide poses one of the most intractable obstacles to development in post-conflict states. The on-going lack of resolution of the past is often a very significant factor in the marked fragility of any development gains in such countries. Our project investigates the efficacy of civil society organisations (CSOs, including museums, heritage organizations, community participatory arts and activist groups) in promoting social reconciliation and respect for equality and human rights in the aftermath of conflict in 5 countries from across the DAC list of ODA recipients and from the OECD list of 'fragile states': Colombia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Kosovo and South Africa.
Over the last 40 years, these countries have had to confront the material consequences of their violent pasts. Each has a very different relationship to this past, from Colombia, where the processes of reconciliation are only just beginning, to Cambodia where the violence of the Khmer Rouge has passed into history and yet its memory continues to shape contemporary society. The international development community and donor states have invested heavily in the work of CSOs supporting reconciliation initiatives, particularly focussed on children and young people - a disproportionately large part of the population due to the effects of past violence on their parents' generation. This demographic imbalance is often exacerbated by the long-term impact of a wide range of social issues (e.g. HIV/AIDs in South Africa, on-going visa restrictions in Kosovo). CSOs are invariably considered 'an essential component of peace-building work' (Zelizer 2003). For example, the role of community theatre in Rwanda is often cited in efforts to support transitional justice, similarly the growth of inter-ethnic musical groups in post-war Kosovo. Such initiatives can have immediate, therapeutic impact for participants. They are also often considered to play an important role in the building of stable institutions, and stronger societies, raising awareness of human rights in the face of weak state structures. However, given the lack of resources generally available in CSOs and the focus of colleagues in international development on the frontline delivery of services to the communities they support, there is only a weak research evidence base for the efficacy of these interventions.
Building on our previous GCRF projects, we will deliver the first large-scale comparative study of CSO practice across a range of post-conflict societies, confronting the challenge of building strong institutions for the delivery of social justice for young people. We will begin by undertaking a critical review of current work by CSOs across these countries, in order to highlight innovative practice, as well as areas that require further investigation. This will lead to 5 'proof of concept' pilot projects, based on lessons learnt from this review. Our initial R&D phase will then lead to the commissioning of 2 rounds of projects, one aimed at ECRs, one at colleagues at all career stages.
Adopting quantitative and qualitative, co-production and action-research methodologies, we will work in partnership with researchers at HEIs and IROs across these 5 countries, locally-based CSOs, the British Council (BC) and its in-country network of partners, as well as other international development organisations (including UNICEF, UNESCO, Hope and Homes for Children, Plan International, Salzburg Global Seminar, PAX). We will develop new methods, case studies and practical toolkits, for engaging children and young people with the many ways that violent national pasts continue to impact on their communities and countries. In the process we seek to make a significant intervention both on the ground and at policy level across and beyond our 5 case-study countries.
Over the last 40 years, these countries have had to confront the material consequences of their violent pasts. Each has a very different relationship to this past, from Colombia, where the processes of reconciliation are only just beginning, to Cambodia where the violence of the Khmer Rouge has passed into history and yet its memory continues to shape contemporary society. The international development community and donor states have invested heavily in the work of CSOs supporting reconciliation initiatives, particularly focussed on children and young people - a disproportionately large part of the population due to the effects of past violence on their parents' generation. This demographic imbalance is often exacerbated by the long-term impact of a wide range of social issues (e.g. HIV/AIDs in South Africa, on-going visa restrictions in Kosovo). CSOs are invariably considered 'an essential component of peace-building work' (Zelizer 2003). For example, the role of community theatre in Rwanda is often cited in efforts to support transitional justice, similarly the growth of inter-ethnic musical groups in post-war Kosovo. Such initiatives can have immediate, therapeutic impact for participants. They are also often considered to play an important role in the building of stable institutions, and stronger societies, raising awareness of human rights in the face of weak state structures. However, given the lack of resources generally available in CSOs and the focus of colleagues in international development on the frontline delivery of services to the communities they support, there is only a weak research evidence base for the efficacy of these interventions.
Building on our previous GCRF projects, we will deliver the first large-scale comparative study of CSO practice across a range of post-conflict societies, confronting the challenge of building strong institutions for the delivery of social justice for young people. We will begin by undertaking a critical review of current work by CSOs across these countries, in order to highlight innovative practice, as well as areas that require further investigation. This will lead to 5 'proof of concept' pilot projects, based on lessons learnt from this review. Our initial R&D phase will then lead to the commissioning of 2 rounds of projects, one aimed at ECRs, one at colleagues at all career stages.
Adopting quantitative and qualitative, co-production and action-research methodologies, we will work in partnership with researchers at HEIs and IROs across these 5 countries, locally-based CSOs, the British Council (BC) and its in-country network of partners, as well as other international development organisations (including UNICEF, UNESCO, Hope and Homes for Children, Plan International, Salzburg Global Seminar, PAX). We will develop new methods, case studies and practical toolkits, for engaging children and young people with the many ways that violent national pasts continue to impact on their communities and countries. In the process we seek to make a significant intervention both on the ground and at policy level across and beyond our 5 case-study countries.
Planned Impact
This project has been designed in collaboration with our partners to ensure genuine, long-term sustainable impact at 3 levels:
1)Communities: Our most immediate impact will be on the communities we will support to directly effect change in young peoples' lives. In Cambodia our research will help DC-Cam to develop new tools to generate intergenerational dialogue between former victims and perpetrators of Khmer Rouge violence, as well as their children. Similarly, in Rwanda, our work with community-arts organisations will focus on the on-going process of reconciliation and dialogue between Hutu and Tutsi communities, and in Kosovo we will explore ways that artistic practice can facilitate understanding between the Serbian and Albanian community in some of the countries most rural communities. In South Africa we will work with the Bishop Simeon Trust and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation (SAHGF) to investigate how the lessons of the Holocaust and past genocides can be used to challenge xenophobia amongst young people today. Finally, in Colombia our project will develop new methods for CSOs to support the urgent need to reintegrate communities of young people, not least child soldiers, back into mainstream society. These initiatives will provide 'proof of concept' projects for two further sets of projects, to be commissioned during Strand 2, that will support further communities across and beyond these 5 ODA-recipient countries.
2)CSOs: The project is designed to support CSOs to reflect upon their practice, providing international networking and support opportunities for practitioners. The CSOs with whom we will be working have a wealth of area-based experience. However, opportunities are frequently limited for such organisations to learn from each other, or for them to undertake a longer-term review of their work, given their focus on the direct delivery of support to communities on the ground. Our particular focus, which has been identified as a key need by all our in-country partners, is on how CSOs have sought to deal with the legacy of past violence and its impact on the issues facing young people in these societies, be it the work of Stacion in Prishtina or the National Commission for Historical Memory in Colombia.
The British Council (BC) will be a key partner in this regard. Our project will allow BC to reflect upon its own practice in ODA recipient countries, aimed specifically at the development of civil society. It will also allow for the project's research findings, and the practical materials it will produce, to be disseminated across the BC's global network of community-based partner organisations, ensuring the project has a significant impact beyond the organisations we will be working with during Strand 1. This will further be enhanced by a number of international development organisations that will take part in Strand 2 of the project (e.g. UNICEF, UNESCO, Hope and Homes for Children, Plan International, Salzburg Global Seminar, PAX).
3)Policy Level: This will be twofold. First, one of the envisaged outputs of our research will be the development of new approaches to child-led advocacy, designed to help the children and young people we will support to have their voice heard within their local communities in order to improve the services designed to help them. Second, the project will enhance the efforts of our partners to engage regional and national policy makers. Through the government connections within our network of academic and CSOs (e.g. UK contacts with DIFID, the BC, the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at UFS, AEGIS Trust, Hope and Homes for Children, UNESCO etc.) and supported by a major event to be organised in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar, we will engage policymakers at a regional and national level. In the process, this will also give policymakers access to a substantial research base, significantly enhancing the effectiveness of their work.
1)Communities: Our most immediate impact will be on the communities we will support to directly effect change in young peoples' lives. In Cambodia our research will help DC-Cam to develop new tools to generate intergenerational dialogue between former victims and perpetrators of Khmer Rouge violence, as well as their children. Similarly, in Rwanda, our work with community-arts organisations will focus on the on-going process of reconciliation and dialogue between Hutu and Tutsi communities, and in Kosovo we will explore ways that artistic practice can facilitate understanding between the Serbian and Albanian community in some of the countries most rural communities. In South Africa we will work with the Bishop Simeon Trust and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation (SAHGF) to investigate how the lessons of the Holocaust and past genocides can be used to challenge xenophobia amongst young people today. Finally, in Colombia our project will develop new methods for CSOs to support the urgent need to reintegrate communities of young people, not least child soldiers, back into mainstream society. These initiatives will provide 'proof of concept' projects for two further sets of projects, to be commissioned during Strand 2, that will support further communities across and beyond these 5 ODA-recipient countries.
2)CSOs: The project is designed to support CSOs to reflect upon their practice, providing international networking and support opportunities for practitioners. The CSOs with whom we will be working have a wealth of area-based experience. However, opportunities are frequently limited for such organisations to learn from each other, or for them to undertake a longer-term review of their work, given their focus on the direct delivery of support to communities on the ground. Our particular focus, which has been identified as a key need by all our in-country partners, is on how CSOs have sought to deal with the legacy of past violence and its impact on the issues facing young people in these societies, be it the work of Stacion in Prishtina or the National Commission for Historical Memory in Colombia.
The British Council (BC) will be a key partner in this regard. Our project will allow BC to reflect upon its own practice in ODA recipient countries, aimed specifically at the development of civil society. It will also allow for the project's research findings, and the practical materials it will produce, to be disseminated across the BC's global network of community-based partner organisations, ensuring the project has a significant impact beyond the organisations we will be working with during Strand 1. This will further be enhanced by a number of international development organisations that will take part in Strand 2 of the project (e.g. UNICEF, UNESCO, Hope and Homes for Children, Plan International, Salzburg Global Seminar, PAX).
3)Policy Level: This will be twofold. First, one of the envisaged outputs of our research will be the development of new approaches to child-led advocacy, designed to help the children and young people we will support to have their voice heard within their local communities in order to improve the services designed to help them. Second, the project will enhance the efforts of our partners to engage regional and national policy makers. Through the government connections within our network of academic and CSOs (e.g. UK contacts with DIFID, the BC, the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at UFS, AEGIS Trust, Hope and Homes for Children, UNESCO etc.) and supported by a major event to be organised in partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar, we will engage policymakers at a regional and national level. In the process, this will also give policymakers access to a substantial research base, significantly enhancing the effectiveness of their work.
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- Victoria and Albert Museum (Collaboration)
- Salzburg Global Seminar (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Oxfam GB (Collaboration)
- Save the Children UK (Collaboration)
- PLURAL+ (Collaboration)
- Basilwizi Trust (Collaboration)
- ForumCiv (Collaboration)
- Ishyo Arts Centre (Collaboration)
- National Center for Historical Memory (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB) (Collaboration)
- Sana Initiative (Collaboration)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Collaboration)
- Benposta Nación de Muchachas (Collaboration)
- Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe (Collaboration)
- Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (Collaboration)
- British Council (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Katha Ghera (Collaboration)
- Government of Cambodia (Collaboration)
- City Museum of Mitrovica (Collaboration)
- Friends of the Children International School (Collaboration)
- Fundación Casa Tres Patios (Collaboration)
- NGO Aktiv, Kosovo (Collaboration)
- Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Tourism and Culture (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA (Collaboration)
- European Fund for Peace in Colombia (Collaboration)
- Uthando CBO (Collaboration)
- A Partner in Education (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- US Embassy in Cambodia (Collaboration)
- Leeds Film (Collaboration)
- Niyo Arts Gallery (Collaboration)
- EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Konrad Lorenz University Foundation (Collaboration)
- Association of Regional Development Agencies (Collaboration)
- Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds (Collaboration)
- Anibar International Animation Festival (Collaboration)
- Rwanda Polytechnic (Collaboration)
- University of the Andes (Collaboration)
- Stacion (Collaboration)
- Future Vision Acrobats, Rwanda (Collaboration)
- Kino ARMATA (Collaboration)
- Hope and Homes for Children (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UK National Commission for UNESCO (Collaboration)
- Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (Collaboration)
- Support Centre for Land Change (Collaboration)
- KANNUR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Universidad Claretiana (Collaboration)
- Kwetu Film Institute (Collaboration)
- Opera Circus (Collaboration)
- School Du Lac Muhazi (Collaboration)
- Pala Forerunners (Collaboration)
- Rwamagana Leaders’ School (Collaboration)
- Humanity in Action (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- British Overseas NGOs for Development (Collaboration)
- Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center (Collaboration)
- Thabo Secondary School, Soweto, Johannesburg (Collaboration)
- Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- Kigali Center for Photography (Collaboration)
- Cambodia Living Arts (Collaboration)
- Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village School (Collaboration)
- United Nations (UN) (Collaboration)
- Rwanda Education Board (Collaboration)
- Uravu Indigenous Science and Technology Study Centre (Collaboration)
- Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (Collaboration)
- Bishop Simeon Trust (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- National Association of Care and Support Workers (Collaboration)
- Colombian Truth Commission (Collaboration)
- Government of the United States of America (Collaboration)
- The Kohima Institute (Collaboration)
- South African National Department of Social Development (Collaboration)
- Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company (Collaboration)
- Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (Collaboration)
- Documentation Center of Cambodia (Collaboration)
- GS Munyiginya School (Collaboration)
- University of Pristina (Collaboration)
- Rwanda Arts Initiative (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- American University of Nigeria (Collaboration)
- Rearabilwe Ekurhuleni Community Care (Collaboration)
- Bournemouth University (Collaboration)
- Kigali Genocide Memorial (Collaboration)
- The Aegis Trust (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Collaboration)
- Government of Kerala (Collaboration)
- Del Rosario University (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Refugee Council (Collaboration)
- Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (Collaboration)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Collaboration)
- Mashirika (Performing Arts and Media Co) (Project Partner)
- South African Holocaust & Genocide Fdn (Project Partner)
- Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Arts (Project Partner)
- Rwanda Cinema Centre (Project Partner)
- PAX (Project Partner)
Publications
Brody, A.
(2020)
Youth, Voice and Development Policy Brief Nov 2020
Walsh A.M
(2021)
Youth art toolkit
Drencheva A
(2023)
Working For Impact, But Failing to Experience It: Exploring Individuals' Sensemaking in Social Enterprises
in Business & Society
Partis-Jennings H
(2021)
War art and the formation of community
in Critical Studies on Security
Walsh, A.M
(2021)
Voicing ambiguities in the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba co-creator collective.
in RIDE: Journal of applied theatre and performance
Walsh A
(2021)
Voicing ambiguities in the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba co-creator collective
in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
Robyn Gill-Leslie
(2021)
Transforming Conflict and Displacement through Arts and Humanities (Dec 2021)
Mkwananzi F
(2023)
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities
in International Journal of Heritage Studies
Walsh A
(2023)
Towards redress: The 'not-yet' future between harm and repair in Cape Town
in Futures
S.Nair
(2020)
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
S.Nair
(2020)
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
Nair. S
(2018)
The metaphor of circle: Stanislavski, phenomenology of roundness and High Yoga
in Stanislavsky Studies
Nair. S
(2018)
The metaphor of circle: Stanislavski, phenomenology of roundness and High Yoga
in Stanislavsky Studies
Blaisdell C
(2021)
The emotional relations of children's participation rights in diverse social and spatial contexts: Advancing the field
in Emotion, Space and Society
Mobile Arts For Peace
(2020)
Tackling Cultures of Impunity Among Authorities
Breed A
(2020)
Routledge Applied Theatre Reader
Manning P
(2024)
Reparative remembering for just futures: History education, multiple perspectives and responsibility
in Futures
| Title | "Total 15" Opportunities with Jacques Mashwani |
| Description | Jacques Mashwani is a committed young rugby coach. He matriculated in 2014 and went to study at the University of Free State in Bloemfontein before coming back to Graaff-Reinet, where he says he will stay until he dies! He believes in opportunities for young people, and is ommitted to helping young people work hard to maximise opportunities. His hope is that there could be more mobile libraries, to grow language abilities. Sometimes he feels they are fighting a losing battle without libraries, as problems of illiteracy grow greater. His big idea for development for young people is setting up a sports academy with local funding to channel young people into productive work and away from a variety of social evils. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/RKmynBpAQyw |
| Title | "Vrygrond" |
| Description | "Vrygrond" means free or empty land, and that's where Leon Lakay and Christine Louw have tried to make a home for themselves over the past ten years. All around them are people who have been thrown off land by farmers. They expect the councillors to fight for the people, because they are now supposed to be in charge of the land. Instead, they are left uncared for, surviving for days without water., with no taps and no toilets. The area is unsafe and unhygienic. They feel as if they are treated like animals, like rubbish. Christine lives between the pigs, she feels as if she actually lives in the pigsty. Why could they not put the pigs on the other side of the tracks? They wish there was some kind of employment project; without more employment for people, they don't see any chance of the high crime rate coming down... |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/QKNzYIJ5G38 |
| Title | #ImagingingOtherwise: Digital Storytelling for Social Change |
| Description | The ImaginingOtherwise Young people introduce digital storytelling for social change |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Used in socially engaged arts curriculum |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8y0LiJVLAk |
| Title | 'Behind the Bully' - by the Ncedo-Thuso Youth Committee |
| Description | The youth committee candidates from Ncedo Thuso wanted to explore the universal issue of bullying. Bullying is undoubtedly an issue that links the experiences of youths all over the world. However these youths wanted to acknowledge the other side of the story. They understand that although bullying cannot be justified, there are always two sides to the story. Therefore they chose to explore the home factors that can cause a youth to become a bully. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Ncedo-Thuso advocacy event as well as the final celebration event. It was also shared on social media through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook page. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/217641417 |
| Title | 'Discrimination: Nqobile's Story' - by the Repheleng Youth Committee |
| Description | This is one of the films that was created by participants after our discussions about discrimination and xenophobia in South Africa with them. This story is a representation of the real life experiences of one of the group members, which is why they chose to create a film about it. One of the key themes that came up in our discussions, was that of discrimination. However, it soon became obvious that discrimination is not singular, it does not only apply to one specific group of people. Our youths spoke about how they have witnessed the effects of racism, homophobia, gender inequality, xenophobia, (the list goes on...), in their community. Therefore this group felt that they wanted to create a film that would capture how easily discrimination can be felt, through creating a story about a girl with a skin infection. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Repheleng Advocacy event to an audience that was made up of community members as well as members of other Safe Parks. The main feedback that was received about the film was that the local community appreciated the youths ability to express their own opinion on certain issues. The film was also shared online through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook page. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/213831849 |
| Title | 'Dissecting Discrimination in South Africa' |
| Description | This film was created by Project Officer, Daniela Wegrostek, in order to summarise the South African project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was screened at the 'Voicing Hidden Histories' Event hosted by the University of Leeds. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/247496011 |
| Title | 'Introducing Leth'iThemba' - by the Leth'iThemba Youth Committee |
| Description | This film was created in order to aid the Leth'iThemba Youth Committee in generating community support for their Safe Park. It shows the work that the Safe Park does as well as it's importance to the undocumented children that are supported by it. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Leth'iThemba advocacy event as well as at the final celebration event. Many of the teachers as well as other community members that watched it noted that they found it informative as they had previously been unsure about the Safe Park's work and its importance. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/233276874 |
| Title | 'Jerry Maseko' - by the Leth'iThemba Youth Committee |
| Description | The youths from the Leth'ithemba safe park wanted to show how teenagers are often subjected to intense pressure from their parents. This is particularly the case in their community where their generation have higher chances of getting into university than their elders had. This film has a strong message for parents who can all too easily isolate their children through their high expectations and pressure to succeed. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Leth'iThemba advocacy event as well as the final celebration events. It was also shared on social media through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook Page. This film seemed to widely appeal to many youths in the audience that were in the same age group as they agreed that most of them felt the effects of 'parent-pressure' in some way. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/224487702 |
| Title | 'Provocation', IZAZOV! |
| Description | Opera Circus, a performing arts organisations in the UK worked with Changing the Story with a small project in Bosnia and Herzegovina called Izazov! (provocation/challenge). 4 films were made by 5 young people from BiH, UK and Italy which expressed their concerns about their lives, their families and their future. None of them were trained in the making of documentary films. Robert Golden professional photographer and film maker mentored the process which was researched by 3 academics from Kings College London and Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. This film captures some of that process. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film was screened in Sarajevo with support from the Changing the Story Mobility Fund and is available to watch via the Changing the Story YouTube channel. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teXvjXCuaJU |
| Title | 'The Born-Free Generation, Phendulani's Story and Me' |
| Description | Short participatory documentary about the life of a teenage boy living in a township in South Africa. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been screened in a number of locations, including: The University of Lincoln The University of Bournemouth The University of Leeds SM Online Film Festival, Docs without Borders Film Festival UK Monthly Film Festival, Nominated for the AHRC Research in Film Award Nominated for AHRC Best Social Media Film Award Winner of Best Global Impact Short at Move Me Productions, Belgium Gold Award Winner for Best Documentary Short, Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/257217658 |
| Title | 'The Journey of My Life' by the Lethi'iThemba Youth Committee |
| Description | This story touches on the issues of "Blessers", who are typically older men who sponsor young women with money and gifts mostly in exchange for sex. Young women are often drawn in by such characters, as they can offer a change in lifestyle and an escape from their current situations. However these relationships come with risk, as young women may mistake this exchange for true romantic feelings and end up getting hurt. "the Journey of My Life shows one such example and serves as a warning to young women to not be lured in by the charms of blessers. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Leth'iThemba advocacy event, as well as at the celebration events. It was also shared on social media through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook page. This is another film that was hugely on trend within the South African national narrative as the issue of "blessers"is becoming hugely problematic in society as it leaves many teenage girls as single mothers, infected with HIV and with very little job prospects. Therefore reactions to this seem to indicate a wide approval of the youth committee's desire to engage with this issue. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/228191626 |
| Title | 'Welcome to Bonisiwe' - by the Bonisiwe Field Project Youth Committee |
| Description | Bonisiwe was by far the least developed Safe Park we were working with. The Safe Park itself is situated on land that once belonged to a church, whose Pastor had allowed the Safe Park to run on the land before she passed away. She had also started the construction of a new Church building on the land, which she had promised could be used by Safe Park when it was completed. However, since her passing the construction has stopped, leaving a half completed building with no roof and the Safe Park operating out of a shack and a repurposed shipping container. Therefore the youth committee decided to host an event that would introduce their Safe Park to their community as well as their local Ward Councillor in order to gain donations and support for the building to be completed. In the lead up to the event, they created a short film that would provide this introduction which was screened alongside performances of traditional dance and singing. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was screened at the Bonisiwe advocacy event as well as at the final celebration events. The most notable impact of the advocacy campaign that this film was created for, is that it led to the Safe Park being granted it's own plot of land, so that they will no longer be situated on land that is borrowed from the Church and the children will no longer be endangered by the half completed construction and health and safety issues that come from learning inside a shack. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/234283149 |
| Title | 'When You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock' - by the Bonisiwe Field Project Youth Committee |
| Description | A Short film created by the Youth Committee of the Bonisiwe Field Project in Magagula Heights. These youths felt that sexual abuse is a pressing issue in their community, therefore they wanted to draw attention to it whilst also wanting to give victims the confidence to speak out about what has happened to them. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Safe Park's advocacy event as well as at the final Celebration events. It was also shared on social media through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook page. Feedback to this film indicates that this issue is hugely prevalent in their community (as well as throughout South Africa) and that the youths were on trend in trying to engage it as during our project there were frequently discussions about Intimate Partner Violence in the national media. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/214641326 |
| Title | 'Xenophobia: Shimoni's Story' - by the Bonisiwe Field Project Youth Committee |
| Description | Xenophobia is a highly contentious and prevalent issue in South Africa. The second group of youths from the Bonisiwe Field Project felt that xenophobia can particularly be seen in their community, so they wanted to create a story that drew attention to both sides of this story. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This film was shown at the Bonisiwe Adovcacy event as well as the final celebration events. It was also displayed on social media through the #ChangingTheStory Facebook Page. This film has revealed that the youths that we have been working with have a relatively superficial knowledge of xenophobia in South Africa, however it does also reveal one of the main underlying economic tensions between South Africans and other African nationals in South Africa - that of job competition. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/214825570 |
| Title | 9 x Live Illustrations from the Conflict and Displacement PRAXIS Nexus (November 2020) |
| Description | Live Illustration produced 9 live illustrations capturing the main discussions points from the PRAXIS Conflict and Displacement Nexus including Decolonial Perspectives, Movement/Change, the Arts as Method and Self-reflexivity. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Conference attendees fed back to the PRAXIS team how much they enjoyed seeing the illustrations. The illustrations were sent to attendees following the event. They were shared on social media and on the PRAXIS website. The illustrations will be included in the Conference report due for release 2021. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/nexus-events/conflict-and-displacem... |
| Title | A Dangerous Party Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. Vaupés is on the frontlines of Colombia's perpetual drugs war. The vast waterways of the region form new trafficking arteries for dissident factions of the now demobilised Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who ship cocaine and marijuana to Brazil. It is also where the young are disappearing and their elders are too scared to report it. There is no rumble of battle in the dense, pristine rainforest, but in the past three years, officials estimate that dozens of indigenous children and teenagers have been lured into dissident factions of the guerrilla. Some go by choice, brainwashed into thinking they are heading for a better life, others are ploughed with alcohol or simply abducted. Official statistics show that more children and teenagers are being forcibly recruited by armed groups in Colombia than before the signing of the peace deal with the FARC rebels in 2016. Almost 300 children were forced to join a guerrilla or paramilitary group in 2018, up 73% on the previous year. The United Nations believes these numbers are the "tip of the iceberg" because most cases go unreported. The animation explores how teenagers are ploughed with alcohol and drafted into war. A story of deception. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | A Gun Doesn't Make You A Man Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The armed conflict between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla goes hand in hand with the rise of cocaine production. The FARC engaged in drug trafficking to fund their struggle to overthrow the state. Many of those working on coca farms were integrated into the insurgency and the guerrillas provided security for the cocaine producers. During their insurgency, the FARC also relied upon a network of urban militias to provide intelligence and logistical support. These undercover operatives infiltrated state institutions, gathered information on potential kidnap victims and targeted youngsters for recruitment and indoctrination. In 1998, about 1,500 FARC guerrillas participated in the offensive on Mitú, the capital of Vaupés. 12 hours of intense fighting followed. The insurgents took over the city for 72 hours, taking advantage of the government's powerlessness to send reinforcements. Officially, ten civilians were killed, but locals say the real number was significantly higher. In 1994, the Colombian government began to encourage individual rebels to desert the FARC. Under the scheme, ex-combatants received housing, food, healthcare and clothing as part of an official reintegration programme. The FARC became significantly weaker during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe between 2002 and 2010. "Plan Colombia," financed by the United States, was a multi-million dollar programme, which created an anti-cocaine and counter-insurgency strategy. Cocaine production in Colombia dropped by 72% between 2001 and 2012 as a result. The success of Plan Colombia paved the way for successful peace negotiations. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | A Khmer Rouge Messenger |
| Description | Documentary | Khmer Rouge | Anlong Veng District | Ning The trainees of Prey Veng's Pedagogical Teacher Training Center were interning in Anlong Veng district and produced a short documentary about the historical dialogue between the next generation and the survivors of the war. Students receive basic training, video recording and short interviews taught by DC-Cam. Uploaded September 2018. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film was uploaded on to the DC-CAM YouTube Channel (8.77k Subscribers) and viewed 1012 times. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvw86hKDxvM&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | A Loyal Commander Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. Indigenous communities have suffered different waves of recruitment, some massive, but also selective. Many children and adolescents see participation in armed groups as an opportunity to respond to pressing problems such as hunger and the need for recognition, which they sometimes lack due to feeling abandoned or ignored. As part of the 2016 peace agreement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) officially became a political party, but some factions refused to give up their weapons, including the First Front, which operates in Vaupés as well as other regions. Dissident factions of the FARC are largely involved in organised crime, especially drug trafficking. The animation explores saving yourself and your friends from the horrors of war and how greed killed off ideology for one young guerrilla. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | A Political Blow Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores taking on the authorities to deny military service. A story of conscience in the middle of war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - ??????????? |
| Description | Review of performances by young writer following our 'Writing for Arts' workshop |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | giving opportunities to new writers - supporting an emerging (and lacking) arena of arts criticism in Cambodia |
| URL | https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/chetharom-write-myvillagetraditions/ |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - ???????????????????? (contemporary moving forward) |
| Description | Review of performances by young writer following our 'Writing for Arts' workshop |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | giving opportunities to new writers - supporting an emerging (and lacking) arena of arts criticism in Cambodia |
| URL | https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/kimheng-write-interactive-program/ |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - ????????????????????? (Find the light in the dark) |
| Description | Review of performances by young writer following our 'Writing for Arts' workshop |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | giving opportunities to new writers - supporting an emerging (and lacking) arena of arts criticism in Cambodia |
| URL | https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/2-report-living-arts-in-post-conflict-contexts-practices-partner... |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - ?????????????????????????????????? (Writing, Analysis, Dance Art from the local district) |
| Description | Review of performances by young writer following our 'Writing for Arts' workshop |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | giving opportunities to new writers - supporting an emerging (and lacking) arena of arts criticism in Cambodia |
| URL | https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/2-report-living-arts-in-post-conflict-contexts-practices-partner... |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? (The elaborate ancestral origins of dance from the lcoal district) |
| Description | Review of performances by young writer following our 'Writing for Arts' workshop |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | giving opportunities to new writers - supporting an emerging (and lacking) arena of arts criticism in Cambodia |
| URL | https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/2-report-living-arts-in-post-conflict-contexts-practices-partner... |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - Art and Environment Band |
| Description | Music performance combining traditional and contemporary forms, again with intergenerational dynamics |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | greater knowledge of different cultural forms among young Cambodians, an opportunity for younger and older musicians to share knowledge and experience of different musical forms (working in both directions), using the arts to raise awareness of environmental issues |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - Dark |
| Description | Contemporary dance piece exploring LGBTQ rights |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Realised in 2020 - new work - supporting an emerging choreographer - ability of young Cambodians to see the potential for art to contribute to civil society issues |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - My Village Traditions |
| Description | Performance of Kuoy ethnic traditional culture, adapted for a young audience, with intergenerational dynamics |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Greater knowledge of different ethnic minority cultures in Cambodia and sharing of knowledge/cultural heritage to a young generation |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - Root |
| Description | Contemporary dance piece exploring 6 different performance forms |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Realised in 2020 - new work created - further artistic development - sharing of knowledge and cultural heritage among young Cambodians whilst also adapting it for future |
| Title | Amanda Rogers - The Pillar |
| Description | Contemporary dance piece exploring grief |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Realised in 2020 - new work - supporting an emerging choreographer - ability of young Cambodians to use the arts for self expression |
| Title | Amazing Dog (Mobile Arts for Peace) |
| Description | Amazing Dog is a short film created by young people during a MAP workshop ran by Eric Kabera in April 2019. The film was recorded on mobile phones and edited using iMovie. The film was in contention for a mobile film submission for Eric Kabera's International Film Festival in August 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | In Autumn 2019, MAP were invited to submit Amazing Dog to the Hillywood Festival (Rwanda Film Festival). The film was accepted in the Panorama - Rwanda Special Visuals Category. The festival takes place 19th October to 26th October 2019. Rwanda Film Festival also known as Hillywood has established itself as the country's most important cultural event, but also one of Africa's most prestigious festivals. For 7 days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media will watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new local and international talents - http://rwandafilmfestival.net/theme-rff-2019/ |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4s7AaXX-M&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | A Memory of Romchek Village |
| Description | Pre-service teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center in Kampong Cham and students from Anlong Veng High School participated in the Anlong Veng Peace and Human Rights Tour. In this film created by participants, they interview people from Romcheck Village about their experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | This video has over 7,500 views across YouTube and Facebook. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-j7VP_fUWU |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | A Shattered Life Experience |
| Description | Pre-service teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center in Kampong Cham and students from Anlong Veng High School took part in the Anlong Veng Peace and Human Rights Tour. In this film, created by the participants, they interview elders living in Romchek Village about their experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed over 5,400 times across YouTube and Facebook |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbXGFpOo_98 |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | If We United |
| Description | Students from the Royal University of Law and Economics took part in the Anlong Veng Peace Tours and produced this short documentary to showcase historical conversations between the younger generation and the survivors of the war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed almost 5,000 times across YouTube and Facebook. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byalPKE80ek |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | Khmer Rouge History |
| Description | Short documentary discussing the history of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the collaboration between Changing the Story and DC-Cam in promoting inter-generational dialogue and reconciliation through participatory film. Extracts from films made by students as part of the Anlong Veng Peace Tours are included in the documentary. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has over 1,100 views |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Gffl0eUUI&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | Leader with two faces |
| Description | Students from The Royal University of Law and Economics (RUFA) took part in the Anlong Veng Peace Tours and produced this short documentary to showcase historical conversations between the younger generation and the survivors of the war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film was shared by the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, Cambodia on their Facebook page, with the following caption: "Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), funded by USAID Cambodia, provided genocide education to #Cambodian teachers and students. This project helps ensure that Cambodia's future generation knows its history and the importance of promoting national peace and reconciliation through the preservation of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge-era historical records." The video has 78,000 views on the Embassy's Facebook page. The video has been viewed close to 20,400 times across the rest of YouTube and Facebook, meaning it has a total of almost 100,000 views. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F99XpuyKb2s |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | The Least Survival |
| Description | Pre-service teachers from Regional Teacher Training Center in Kampong Cham and students from Anlong Veng High School gathered in took part in the Anlong Veng Peace and Human Rights Tour. In this film, created by the participants, they interview people living in Romchek village about their experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime and the impact it has had on their lives. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has around 6,100 views acorss YouTube and Facebook. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=401eG87NS1M |
| Title | Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | The Shrapnel Still in My Body |
| Description | Students from the Royal University of Law and Economics participated in the Anlong Veng Peace Tours. In this film created by the students, they interview people living in O'Angre Village about their experiences living through the Khmer Rouge Regime, especially focusing on love and marriage. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed close to 7,000 times across YouTube and Facebook |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3b2bHL8_jI |
| Title | Annie Arries |
| Description | Annie Arries is a primary school teacher who loves the Karoo and says she will never leave. She says here, children can still grow up as children. Her hope for small Karoo towns is more houses, more access to land, and more job opportunities for young people. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/fIAEPFkyZss |
| Title | Arts Activism Toolkit: Disruption, Disobedience, Creativity |
| Description | A 100 page toolkit for those engaged in activism, social movements or campaigns looking to increase creativity and engagement. With practical exercises and case studies. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Take up in at least 4 countries and campaigns beyond the CTS community: Indonesia, Nigeria, Chile and Zambia. |
| URL | https://www.tshisimani.org.za/wp-content/uploads/AA-Toolkit-Final-online.pdf |
| Title | Assad Serhal interview 2020 |
| Description | Assad Serhal, the Director General of Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon welcomes the University of Leeds to the West Bek'aa Country Club, inviting Praxis Principal Investigator Stuart Taberner to officially open the Homat el Hima International Center (HHIC). Recorded during the Heritage for Global Challenges Conference Feb 2020. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEHkbUUQlok&feature=emb_title |
| Title | At First They Don't Believe |
| Description | "At first they don't believe" tells the stories of two women who survived the violence of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Sieng Chantei and Leay Kimchhean. How have these women tried to confront their past traumas? What has the country done to help? How have they tried to make sense of their treatment by a paranoid regime that abused thousands of people like the two we meet in the film? And what does the younger generation make of their story? Building on the work of Changing the Story in Cambodia, a four year research project, and learning from, and with, the innovative work of Cambodian civil society organisations, the film illustrates the importance of young people learning about and acknowledging the stories of survivors. Directed by Paul Cooke. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The film has won seven awards including the Los Angeles Best International Short Documentary and Pinnacle Film Festival Best Short Documentary 2020. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/user16668579 |
| Title | At Home with Sylvia Lewis |
| Description | Syvia Lewis recently moved back to Graaff-Reinet after having been away for many years... She remembers her upbringing in the Karoo as being a time when "kids were still kids" and "things were still fine". She felt no need to be afraid of walking in the dark, and that neighbours were still like part of your family. Now she has come back to a different place. She worries that in the new order people don't develop the beauty of the Karoo. There are not enough parks, where people can go and enjoy themselves. She wishes there were more places for young people. At the same time, she is not a fan of talk of land redistribution: she says she does not believe in just giving people land. She says herself, she wouldn't know what to do with it! |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/f0EmQh0nKRQ |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: Amablesser - Nigel Caring Community |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: Choices - KATHA Day Care Safe Park (2019) |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: Choices 2 - KATHA Day Care Safe Park |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: Human Trafficking - Bonisiwe |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: I Kati Lilele Eziko - Uthando |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film: Malume Uya Lumana - Rearabilwe Tsakane |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film:Human Trafficking - Nigel Caring Community |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film:Twisted Souls - Reiger Park |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign Film:Zinhle - Rearabilwe Daveyton |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | BST Youth Advocacy Campaign film: Bad Boyz - Bambanani Safe Park |
| Description | This film was made by young participants of the Bishop Simeon Trust's and University of Leeds' Arts Based Youth Leadership Programme in Ekurhleni Municipality, South Africa. A central part of the programme involves training youth to use participatory filmmaking approaches to develop youth advocacy tools for themselves and their communities. During 2019 the Youth Committees advocacy campaign model ran on two six-month cycles. The Youth Committees supported within the Safe Parks launched their campaign films and performances at a central showcase event in Ekurhuleni, with all Youth Committees in attendance, along with key strategic stakeholders. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film showcase events within the Safe Parks were followed with showcasing of their films and performances in their own communities, with children from within their Safe Parks and broader community invited to attend. By doing so all 1,594 children and young people served by the Safe Parks were engaged in the delivery of the Youth Committee Advocacy campaigns, alongside other key stakeholders within their community. The films themselves will also be uploaded onto YouTube, providing the Youth Committees with the opportunity share with other young people in their community via social media. |
| Title | Being Young Or the Way I Learnt to Dance by Francesco Piparelli |
| Description | From four poetry pieces I wrote about being young, with the support of the Izazov! team, I created a text. Probably a metaphor of what being young and feeling oppressed means, but at the same time, with irony, there's always the opportunity to smile, also while we're falling. If we dance while we enjoy the ride. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | to come |
| URL | https://izazov.org/films |
| Title | Born Again Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. In 1999, the Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia (FARC) pledged to the United Nations that they would not recruit children under 15, but the guerrillas did not keep their word. Even during peace talks with the government between 2012 and 2016, they admitted that they continued to recruit youngsters. Under international law, it is illegal for any armed group to recruit children and teenagers under the age of 15. However, several international treaties of which Colombia is a signatory raise this age to 18-years-old. The victims of sexual violence inside the FARC say forced abortion was a policy of the guerrilla to guarantee the rebellion and prevent their camps from being overrun with children. In 2016, a report from the Colombian state prosecutor said there were at least 214 cases of girls who were "subject to rape, forced sterilisation, forced abortion, and other forms of sexual violence" at the hands of FARC. The animation explores how violent and alone, a woman emerges from war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story - Boom 80's Animation |
| Description | The film is the final cut of the animation produced/created/edited by the young people involved in the Boom Zine Proof of Concept project following a workshop in April 2019. The animation depicts the rock and roll scene in Kosovo in the 1980s, focusing specifically on Boom Concerts and looking at the role these concerts played socially and politically. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The animation is a culmination of the research conducted by the Boom Zine project team. The final version has been shared on the CTS website. It is unknown how the video will be used by the project team. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXrRU8OPb04 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a Minute, Chaya Herman, University of Pretoria |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Dr Chaya Herman, from the University of Pretoria, talks about her work in Changing the Story, evaluating the international Human Rights Education programme 'The Change Makers' |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 77 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/304002606 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a Minute, Emily Morrison |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Emily discusses her involvement with the Changing the Story Project and our partnership with the British Council. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 306 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/298273994 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a Minute, Paul Cooke, University of Leeds |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Paul Cooke introduces the Changing the Story Project and describes the commissioning process that is underway to support early career researchers to develop new projects to explore the ways in which arts and heritage-based CSOs support young people in post-conflict settings. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 602 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/300348857 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a minute, Edam Agbem, Managing Director at Participatory Development Associates, Ghana |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. In this video, Edem discusses why he thinks its important for academics and development practitioners to have a shared language so that they can work effectively together. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 35 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/303153359 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a minute, Emraan Azad, Bangladesh University of Professionals |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Emraan Azad is an early career researcher, from the Bangladesh University of Professionals. He talks about why he wanted to take part in Changing the Story's project development workshop. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 187 times to date.The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/301396679 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story in a minute, Fiammetta Wegner, Recrear International |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Fiammetta Wegner is a specialist in participatory action research and works with Recrear International. She talks here about what she finds interesting about the Changing the Story project development workshop. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 95 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/301370402 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story, Lethi'themba Rocks |
| Description | Film made with young people from Lethi'themba Safe Park. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Screened in the Lethi'themba Safe Park to 40 young people on 24/05/2019 and to local councillors, and viewed 25 times to date online. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/271570072 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story, t Changing the Story: the Anlong Veng Peace Tours, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia and Participatory Video |
| Description | On April 18, twelve trainee teachers, including students from Takeo province and three from the local area, themselves children of former Khmer Rouge, participated in the tour. Preparing for the journey to Anlong Veng, the students from Takeo wondered what they would learn from the visit, and what to expect from the tour. Were the former Khmer Rouge residents living in Anlong Veng be so different in their beliefs, attitudes, and culture? Several students had little familiarity - or belief - in the history of the Khmer Rouge in general. The April 2018 Peace Tour also marked a particularly important moment within the wider Changing the Story project. While tour participants had previously been assigned research tasks to draft reports on the history and experiences of local residents, the April 2018 tour was the first deployment of participatory film-making methods as a means for students to explore the stories of local residents and former Khmer Rouge. Working in groups of four, the student-teachers were trained in the use of audio-visual equipment 'on-site', identifying key themes and questions for their films to explore, before conducting interviews and capturing footage of key sites in the area. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 127 times to date. The 'multiplication' effect of the participatory-film making approach is significant: the trainee-teachers will be able to incorporate their films within their own teaching as they return to their schools. The experiences of the trainee teachers on the tours, as they take ownership of the production of learning resources about the Khmer Rouge history, promises to be a fruitful avenue for promoting dialogue, intergenerational memory and understanding of the Khmer Rouge regime, especially as the perspectives and experiences of stigmatised lower-level Khmer Rouge are taken seriously. While sensitive to the need to avoid any moral equivocation of different experiences of harm, for DC-Cam and the Anlong Veng Peace Center, reconciliation involves, at least, understanding and acknowledging that lower-level former Khmer Rouge living in Anlong Veng also suffered, themselves experiencing evacuation, starvation, and separation from their family members and relatives at points too. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/268822879 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Changing the Story, the Kosovo strand |
| Description | Film made during CTS career development event at British Council, 25-26/10/2018. Dr Nita Luci from the University of Prishtina and Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers from Bournemouth University talk about the Kosovo project strand of changing the story, where they are exploring the potential of arts education as a tool to engage with the country's difficult heritage. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 168 times to date. The workshop facilitated the development of an international network of researchers and practitioners working in conflict-affected settings. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/300846491 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Mobile Arts for Peace video for International Women's Day 2019 |
| Description | Video promoting International Women's Day 2019 and #BalanceforBetter made by Mobile Arts for Peace, the arm of Changing the Story in Rwanda. Video showcases the achievements of gender equality in Rwanda. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The video was released on 07/03/2019, and so it is too early to gauge the impact. |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/MAPRwanda/videos/255930072027084/?t=0&_rdc=1&_rdr |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Mobilising Histories of Discrimination, Persecution and Genocide to make Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals |
| Description | Film produced disseminating the findings from CTS network meeting at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, May 2018. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Viewed 42 times to date. Film has disseminated the findings from the CTS network meeting at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, May 2018, including reflections on the usefulness (or otherwise) of of arts and heritage interventions with young people to confront traumatic pasts. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/274273036 |
| Title | Building Inclusive Civil Societies: Showreel for potential participants |
| Description | Showreel of the Changing the Story (Building Inclusive Civil Societies) project, giving an overview of the project for potential participants. It shows how the methodologies of the CTS project have been used to engage young people across the world. Features excerpts of films made with the CTS project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | 39 views to date. This film is used to explain what we've been doing with film in CTS. It shows how the methodologies of the CTS project have been used to engage young people across the world. This film has been screened in Hebden Bridge Town Hall (15 February 2019), the University of Leeds, during a session for the inequalities research group, 7 March 2019 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/316284194 |
| Title | Building Safeguarding into your Research Design (CTS Safeguarding Video) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video you will hear Dr Jessica Mitchell reflect on the approach she took to safeguarding when building a network cluster. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tBkMD0jH-g |
| Title | Building Trust Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. Building trust is central to the ethos of much participatory research. In the video, three young researchers from Kosovo discuss their feelings on disclosing personal concerns. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | CTS Blog: For a Different Today and Tomorrow |
| Description | Description and reflection on the work on YouthLEAD mid-way through the project, including the mural painting with the children. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | No notable impacts. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/06/for-a-different-today-and-tomorrow/ |
| Title | CTS Youth Research Board (edited by Paul Cooke) |
| Description | this video provides an overview of activities, development and impact of CTS' Youth Research Board on their own development and the project itself. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film helps YRB members showcase their work to others, supporting employability, and highlights the value a YRB has in participatory action research projects. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/742037094 |
| Title | Can the subaltern speak online? |
| Description | Video overview of Thea Pitman's seminar 'Can the subaltern speak online' edited by Prof. Paul Cooke & Dr. Thea Pitman |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The video has had 97 views and has been shared to further explain the topic by various partners involved. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTudoYtvnME |
| Title | Carrington's Graffiti Art |
| Description | Carrington, a young collaborator on the Phase 2 Early Career Research project Street Art to Promote Representation and Epistemic Justice among Marginalized Rural Zimbabwean Youth discusses his graffiti art creation, which was exhibited in museums and galleries across Zimbabwe. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | CTS website offers a platform for youth researchers to share their research outputs, talk about their process and contexts and increase the visibility of their work/amplify their stories. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdX4lJbJVKU&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Changing the Story Jazz and Peacebuilding PGR Workshop (Paul Cooke) |
| Description | Alongside Changing the Story's celebration event in June 2022, Researcher Sabrina White and Jazz Pianist Ben Gilbert brought together around a dozen post-graduate and early career researchers to reflect on what the jazz metaphor could offer to research on peacebuilding. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Video raises awareness of CTS' work and will form part of CTS public archive, acting as a resource for PGRs forming part of the work and byeond. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/740799888 |
| Title | Changing the Story Youth Research Board film |
| Description | This video introduces the work of the Youth Research Board and their contribution to the final Changing the Story event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film is available via the Changing the Story archive and was shared on the Changing the Story Twitter account. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/742037094 |
| Title | Changing the Story animation |
| Description | Animation produced by Limehouse productions for Changing the Story (June 2020). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Animation shared at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Roundtable Discussion to UN peacebuilders and at the June 2020 CTS steering group meeting. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/427491770 |
| Title | Changing the Story in a Minute: Inés Soria-Donlan |
| Description | Inés Soria-Donlan discusses her involvement with Changing the Story as Project Manager and as a Creative Producer. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed 13 times to date and has been incorporated in a longer film about the CTS conference in Cambodia (March 2019). It has been shared on the CTS website and via Twitter. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/328068932 |
| Title | Changing the Story in a Minute: Nub Raj Bhandari |
| Description | Nub Raj Bhandari discusses the opportunities he has gained through his involvement with Changing the Story as a Phase 2 project partner on the Kenya and Nepal strand. Uploaded May 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The short film has been viewed 18 times to date and has been shared on the CTS website. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/327817198 |
| Title | Changing the Story in a Minute: Wee Chan Au |
| Description | Phase 2 Co-Investigator Wee Chan Au (Monash University) highlights the opportunities social enterprises can provide and the lack of research into social enterprises in the context of Malaysia. Uploaded May 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 71 times to date. The video has been uploaded on to the CTS and shared via Twitter. The film has also been incorporated into a longer video about the CTS Cambodia conference (March 2019) which has been shared widely, including at the ECR workshop in May 2019. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/338292355 |
| Title | Changing the Story in a minute: Simon Dancey |
| Description | Simon Dancey (Co-Investigator of The Future is Unwritten) talks about his work with Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar in Colombia, emphasizing the need to link grassroots activity with a cultural policy in order to effect social change. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed 14 times to date. The film was shared via Twitter during the Peace in a Small Scale Conference (4-5 Sept) in Bogota, Colombia to promote the P1 Colombia project and CTS presence at the conference. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/358922034 |
| Title | Changing the Story: the Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | Khmer Rouge History |
| Description | Prof. Paul Cooke's film made during Prof. Cooke and Dr. Peter Manning's visit to the Anlong Veng Peace Center, after leading a participatory video workshop with DC-Cam and students from the Anlong Veng Peace Tours that took place in April 2018. The film features interviews with the staff, extracts from the student films and documentation of the filmmaking process. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been shared by all partner and was screened in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the international conference 'Mobilising Histories' (see events section). |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Gffl0eUUI |
| Title | Co-Op Foundation: Editing your Video |
| Description | Film made as training material for the Co-Op Foundation, who have taken up the CTS approach to participatory video as part of their approach to M&E for their recent commissioning round for projects on youth loneliness. This project was supported by the co-op and Leeds and did not use any GCRF funding. It represents the wider impact of the CTS methodologies on engaging young people. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 37 times to date. This video represents the influence of the CTS project on other organisations. It helped the Co-Op to develop a new evaluation strategy. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/308796897 |
| Title | Co-Op Foundation: Filming your Video |
| Description | Film made as training material for the Co-Op Foundation, who have taken up the CTS approach to participatory video as part of their approach to M&E for their recent commissioning round for projects on youth loneliness. This project was supported by the co-op and Leeds and did not use any GCRF funding. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 39 times to date. This video represents the influence of the CTS project on other organisations. It helped the Co-Op to develop a new evaluation strategy. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/308713739 |
| Title | Co-Op Foundation: Planning your Video |
| Description | Film made as training material for the Co-Op Foundation, who have taken up the CTS approach to participatory video as part of their approach to M&E for their recent commissioning round for projects on youth loneliness. This project was supported by the co-op and Leeds and did not use any GCRF funding. It represents the wider impact of the CTS methodologies on engaging young people. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Viewed 32 times to date. This video represents the influence of the CTS project on other organisations. It helped the Co-Op to develop a new evaluation strategy. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/308796829 |
| Title | Co-created film University of Leeds Students and Animators from Colombia (2021) |
| Description | In Leeds, as well as working with young people on her PhD project, Katie Hodgkinson ran a student engagement module, working with Leeds undergraduates to foster a greater understanding of global citizenship. We challenged the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Liberal Arts students to create two films that highlighted the themes reflected within the work created by young people engaged in Changing the Story projects. This second film is co-created with young researchers from Building Trust for truth-telling among former child soldiers (Colombia). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Participants reported a change in views and opinions |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/571289637?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=16668579 |
| Title | Co-created film University of Leeds Students x Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba |
| Description | In Leeds, as well as working with young people on her PhD project, Katie Hodgkinson ran a student engagement module, working with Leeds undergraduates to foster a greater understanding of global citizenship. We challenged the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Liberal Arts students to create two films that highlighted the themes reflected within the work created by young people engaged in Changing the Story projects. This first film is co-created with young researchers from Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba (South Africa). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Participants reported a change in views and opinions. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/571321618?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=16668579 |
| Title | Co-developing Indicators of Success - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. The video aims to support projects to monitor and evaluate their approach to safeguarding in a way that encompasses the different priorities of all the stakeholders in their project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Confidentiality and Reporting Structures - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. This video explores the limits of confidentiality, and what to do when they are reached. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Cornell George: A Teacher's Story |
| Description | Cornell George is a secondary school teacher at Spandau school in Graaff-Reinet who remembers a blissful childhood growing up in the beauty of the Karoo. He sees the benefits of fracking for development in the region - but worries that the costs would be much too high. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/r5yPqYZJcI8 |
| Title | Critical Comix for teens |
| Description | 3 comix on Meritocracy, disposable youth and the arts as a weapon |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Launch event and now distributed to 3000 young people across the Western Cape in SA |
| URL | https://issuu.com/bottomup/docs/imagining_otherwise_comix |
| Title | Culturally Appropriate Safeguarding - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. Two researchers' experience of living and working in local contexts. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | DCMS Interview |
| Description | Senior Policy Advisor (DCMS) shares her thoughts on Praxis first Nexus Event 'Heritage for Global Challenges' in this short film, recorded in Lebanon February 2020. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKol8U_aZU&feature=emb_title |
| Title | DRAFT Mobilising Histories of Discrimination, Persecution and Genocide to make Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals |
| Description | Video reflection and overview of the Mobilising Histories workshop, led by Prof. Stuart Taberner, the University of Pretoria (South Africa Co-I for Changing the Story), and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) took place 21-22 May 2018 at JHGC. It brought together a number of projects funded by the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), including the Changing the Story and the Mobilising Multidirectional Memory projects, that focus on arts-based interventions in building greater resilience and a human-rights culture in post-conflict societies. The video was filmed and edited by Prof. Paul Cooke, University of Leeds and is available on social media. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | TBC |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/274273036 |
| Title | Deborah Sutton Interview |
| Description | Dr Deborah Sutton was invited to Praxis first Nexus event in Lebanon ' Heritage for Global Challenges' because of their role as Principal Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF project 'Urban Heritage and Digital Humanities in India.' Deborah shares what she will take away from the nexus event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBBXfkowNus&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Decolonising Knowledge - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In the video two Co-investigators in Zimbabwe position safeguarding within the wider debate around decolonisation of knowledge in international development. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Digital Lecture Series - Heritage and Policy - Ian Baxter |
| Description | A recording of Ian Baxter's Keynote presentation at the Praxis Heritage and Policy Event in Dec 19. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and Youtube account. The idea was to make the presentation accessible to global partners and those that were unable to attend the event in person. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0M2VuuM7VM |
| Title | Digital Lecture Series - Heritage and Policy - Richard Hebditch |
| Description | A recording of Richard Hebditch' Keynote presentation at the Heritage and Policy Event Dec 19. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and Youtube account. The idea was to make the presentation accessible to global partners and those that were unable to attend the event in person. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MO1EWTCrq8 |
| Title | Digital Storytelling in ImaginingOtherwise |
| Description | Short video to introduce ImaginingOtherwise approach to digital storytelling in the project |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Used and shared in teaching socially engaged arts curricula |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMNmCG8788 |
| Title | Documentary Film entitled "A state of mental wellbeing through art" |
| Description | The creative product is a short documentary (16.54 minutes) on the topic of mental health. Directed by 27 year old researcher-filmmaker, Ms. Thepfuchanuo Kire, this film showcases four youth-focused CSOs in Nagaland led by mental health experts who share their experiences and thoughts on mental health and youth in Nagaland. The film has a special focus on artistic and creative activities provided by these CSOs for the welfare of local youth. The film features young Naga men and women who share their thoughts on how they are benefitting from their engagement with these activities and the general impact on their mental well-being. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | First screening was done on 18th December 2019. The audience consisted of youth organisations, CSOs, local leaders and mental health experts in Nagaland state, India. The film stimulated discussions among the audience members on the issue of youth and mental well-being. Audience feedback highlighted the need to explore related issues albeit on sensitive subjects such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and suicides. Further screenings are planned in the state (funding obtained through the CTS mobility grant), and the film is similarly expected to raise public awareness on mental health issues pertaining to young populations in Nagaland and future action. |
| Title | Documentary Film entitled "Striving for Survival" |
| Description | Directed by 27 year old researcher-filmmaker, Mr. Keduokuolie Pienyu, this short documentary film (14:55 minutes) focuses on youth unemployment in Nagaland state in Northeast India. The film showcases how CSOs are supporting youth in this post-conflict region to engage in various artistic pursuits, thereby generating opportunities for social enterprise and gainful employment. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | On 18 December 2019, the film was screened an audience of over 20 individuals representing local CSOs, faith-based organisations, student bodies, state officials and general public for their input and feedback for shaping the final film which is due to be screened at other locations in the state. The December screening also raised awareness locally about the work of the CSOs in empowering youth in Nagaland to be self-sufficient while pursuing creative careers in music, tattooing, hair styling, and culinary arts. Hence, also generating awareness about alternative career options available to young populations in Nagaland, outside the government sector which is often considered the only route to a reliable career. |
| Title | Documentary film entitled "My Story on Addiction and Recovery" |
| Description | Directed by 25 year old researcher/filmmaker, Ms. Benrilo Shitiri, the 15 minute film focuses on substance abuse among the youth of Nagaland in Northeast India. It is a story of five individuals who take us through their journey of how and why they became addicts. The film showcases how local CSOs in Nagaland are helping them channelise their energies into creative pursuits as the individuals make their way to recovery and rehabilitation. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | On December 18th, 2019, The Kohima Institute organised a film screening with over 20 representatives from local CSOs, faith-based organisations, student bodies, government officials and local community members. The film was well received and impactful both in raising awareness and generating dialogue about a taboo subject among audience members. Feedback from the audience will be incorporated into the edited final film which is due to have subsequent screenings in other locations in the state. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/214825570 |
| Title | Does the Education System Equip us for our Future? |
| Description | Creative Education Corner is a group within the Changing the Story Youth Research Board comprised of Samjhana, Arlinda, and Taahirah who are interested in arts-based methods and specifically the question of whether the current education system and curriculum prepares young people for the future they want. Samjhana, Arlinda, Taahirah argue the answer is no and call for more opportunities for creativity and critical thinking through the inclusion of arts-based pedagogical approaches. The group interviewed young people from two Changing the Story commissioned projects, ReSpace (Rwanda) and ¿Cuál es la Verdad? (Colombia), and drew on their research findings and own experiences to create a pocketbook. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Copies of the pocketbook have been printed and are available to read as part of the living archive based at the ImaginingOtherwise Library for Social Change in South Africa. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Title | Does the Education System Equip us for our Future? Animation |
| Description | IN THIS SECTION Overview Changing the Story Youth Research Board Overview Youth Research Board Campaigns for Change Overview Does the Education System Equip us for our Future? Creative Education Corner Campaign The Planet of No Memory (Youth Research Board Fanzine) You're not Alone Campaign on Youth Unemployment Young Changemaker Opportunities Young Changemaker Content Does the Education System Equip us for our Future? Creative Education Corner Campaign Creative Education Corner is a group within the Changing the Story Youth Research Board comprised of Samjhana, Arlinda, and Taahirah who are interested in arts-based methods and specifically the question of whether the current education system and curriculum prepares young people for the future they want. Samjhana, Arlinda, Taahirah argue the answer is no and call for more opportunities for creativity and critical thinking through the inclusion of arts-based pedagogical approaches. The group interviewed young people from two Changing the Story commissioned projects, ReSpace (Rwanda) and ¿Cuál es la Verdad? (Colombia), and drew on their research findings and own experiences to create an animation. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The animation was shared at the YRB launch event in Dec 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsBGR-QIXkg |
| Title | Dressed In Green Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. Many of the youths recruited by the guerrillas in the Vaupés region were taken from their schools, according to local authorities. The relentless landscape becomes an impossible commute to and from classrooms, so the vast majority of students in the region are enrolled in boarding school, which have become, and continue to be, hunting grounds for the guerrillas. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown. |
| Title | Early Career Research Case Studies |
| Description | Nine x Early Career Research project case studies. The case studies showcase the aims and outcomes of nine (out of 11) case studies and were promoted online during the week of International Youth Day 2020. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Showcased the completed research of nine early career research projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/ |
| Title | Early Marriage in Nepal: Prospects for School Girls |
| Description | Note: Not really a creative output the article wasn't recognised under publications. Journal article written by partner Nub Raj Bhandari. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The paper examines the causality and correlation between school attendance and child marriage in Nepal. Published in the Journal of International Women's Studies (MAR-2019). 209 Downloads since March 2019. |
| URL | https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2127&context=jiws |
| Title | Elizabeth Maarman: In Die Verdrukking |
| Description | Has apartheid ended? This is the powerful question posed by Elizabeth Maarman, who says she still lives "in die verdukking" - under oppression - making her living collecting rubbish for recycling. She remembers a youth in Adendorp where her family at least had enough money to put food on the table. Now she sees children growing up, going to school, and not getting work. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/bppu-Z-qdp4 |
| Title | Establishing Safeguarding Structures in a New Project (CTS Safeguarding Resource) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video you'll hear Changing the Story Regional Safeguarding Lead (South East Europe) reflect on the potential impact of setting up safeguarding structures in a new project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHP1px_coY&feature=emb_logo |
| Title | Event Report Cambodia Conference |
| Description | In March 2019, 90 people from 16 countries around the world came together in Phnomh Penh, Cambodia for a three-day international workshop "Learning from the past with and for young people: Intergenerational dialogue, education, and memory after genocide". The following report written by PhD candidate Katie Hodginson, describes, evaluates and outlines the key insights from the workshop. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/report-of-cambodia-conference/ |
| Title | Everyone Knew They'd Be Back For Me Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores the story of a woman saved by her neighbours, but forced to flee her home. How one girl escaped the grip of paramilitaries. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Examining Interpretations of Civic National Values - Kenya Documentary |
| Description | A short documentary produced by the project team which offers insight into the Kenyan strand of the project. The documentary features young people from the project and interviews with the core research team. The film was uploaded on to the CTS website in September 2019 and will be embedded into a blog written by the project team. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Unknown how the video will be used by the project team. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=253&v=bUyQw-uhDpg |
| Title | Examining interpretations of civic national values made by young people in post conflict settings (Nepal) |
| Description | This film provides an overview of the project workshops held in Nepal. It features footage from two schools: one urban; and one rural; their teachers, children and supporting CSO leaders that took part in the work. This film provides an understanding of their inputs and the initial impact of the project on children the teaching and learning methods of teachers and CSO supporters. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | On completion, this film was shown to both schools and children, teachers and CSOs involved in the work. CSOs and teachers (from the schools that took part) have begun to revise their approaches to pedogagy concering the teaching and learning of civic national values. These have now become more child-led. Teachers and CSO leaders are now applying Arts Based Methodologies as an alternative to rote-based teaching that was employed before. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Title | Exhibitions in Zimbabwe |
| Description | The graffitis produced by the youth have been exhibited in Bulawayo, Harare and Gweru. Midland state university hosted the exhibition in Gweru. Bulawayo exhibition took place at the National Art Gallery Harare exhibition took place in National Museum. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Through the multi-city exhibitions, awareness was raised on the challenges experienced by the Tonga youth, and other minority groups who are often segregated. Awareness was also raised of aspirations, youth potential, and the contribution they can make to the development of the country. During the engagement with various stakeholders at the exhibitions, youth expressed their desire to be accepted as part of the broader community of young people of Zimbabwe, raising the disadvantage of being geographically and structurally marginalised. Such engagements created opportunities for discussion on the challenges of policy and practice in providing opportunities to youth in disadvantaged and hard to access communities. The interaction among different stakeholders, including members of the community, contribute to epistemic justice and formation of public deliberation and dialogue on issues of youth marginalisation, and the need for inclusion and recognition, which was the objective of the project. The artefacts were useful in highlighting the major issues affecting the youth, and this created a dialogue with the audiences. The use of a creative arts method also allowed the youth the freedom of expression, and this confidence resulted from them working as a group and knowing that they are one voice. Therefore, the method adopted was useful in creating space for the youth, CSOs, researchers, and community to engage each other meaningfully. During the exhibitions, artists and managers of museums and galleries had also developed an awareness about what the indigenous youth like the Binga people can do, and they became more familiar and receptive to the idea of creating spaces for youth to be more engaged with the arts methods and representing indigenous people. |
| Title | Fake Friends Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores feeling threatened by those who are supposed to protect you. How the Army uses children for intelligence. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Flip Korkier |
| Description | Mister Korkier grew up in Willowmore, where he says he had a tough upbringing. Now he is a vegetable farmer specialising in tomatoes, which he farms using hydro tunnels. He loves the lansdcape of the Karoo, and its unique flora, which he says can yield lots of useful medicinal products. He is opposed to fracking, even though on balance he says there might be some good things about it. What made up his mind was that the Karoo has a water crisis. There is not enough water for everybody. Fracking will affect the land that is supposed to be used for agriculture. Due to poverty and unemployment in the Karoo, there has to be job creation, but at what cost? He says that the land issue should have been dealt with years ago, but it never was, so now only 25 years later do we finally start talking about it |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/OWp4eluz9hA |
| Title | Flip Pietersen Remembers the Baviaanskloof |
| Description | Flip Pietersen is a small scale farmer in his own back garden - but it wasn't always like that. He comes from a long line of farming families who were progressively pushed off land in the Baviaanskloof, until he was left in the township of Willowmore. He connects the sense of disconnection from the land to white dispossession - but he wants a future on the land for himself and his children. "The land was taken from us, and that's why it is important we must get it back" |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/7rN7R5U8acs |
| Title | Forbidden Love Khmer Rouge Crimes |
| Description | Documentary | Khmer Rouge | Anlong Veng | Ta Mok | Prey Veng trainees are interning in Anlong Veng district and produce this short documentary about the historical dialogue between the next generation and the survivors of the war. Students receive basic training, video recording and short interviews taught by DC-Cam. Uploaded Sept 2018. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Forbidden Love Khmer Rouge Crimes has been shared on the Documentation Center of Cambodia YouTube Channel (8.77K subscribers) and viewed 338 times. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-5jJkg4e0c&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Gavin Marlow |
| Description | Gavin Marlow is a small scale farmer who started out when he needed to take his son's mind off drugs, and wanted to pass on his passion for the land to him. He bought a pig and some small animals and saw his motivation increase. He says you need a focused mindset to stick it out as a farmer. Now, he worries that his farm could be contaminating water, and is seeking help to make it safer. He remembers the under white rule people were often driven from their own land on technicalities. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/0vBJYFc-DmM |
| Title | Hadiya's Story - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video a project team discusses a scenario adapted from materials produced by Bond. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Headphones (Mobile Arts for Peace) |
| Description | Headphones is a short film created by young people during a MAP workshop ran by Eric Kabera in April 2019. The film was recorded on mobile phones and edited using iMovie. The film was in contention for a mobile film submission for Eric Kabera's International Film Festival in August 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film has been shared on via MAP's official YouTube Channel and across social media. To date it has been viewed 19 times. Headphones has also been embedded in the latest MAP newsletter which is sent to partners across Rwanda and the UK. In Autumn 2019, MAP were invited to submit Headphones to the Hillywood Festival (Rwanda Film Festival). The film was accepted in the Panorama - Rwanda Special Visuals Category. The festival takes place 19th October to 26th October 2019. Rwanda Film Festival also known as Hillywood has established itself as the country's most important cultural event, but also one of Africa's most prestigious festivals. For 7 days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media will watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new local and international talents - http://rwandafilmfestival.net/theme-rff-2019/ |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrLfHxTaOU&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Hisham Elkadi |
| Description | Professor Hisham Elkadi was invited to Praxis first Nexus event in Lebanon ' Heritage for Global Challenges' because of their role as Principal Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF project 'Monitoring Object and Visitor Environments (MOVE).' Hisham discusses his project and what he will take away from the Heritage Nexus event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-6pAMxN84&feature=emb_title |
| Title | How They Tried to Buy My Brother animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation is a tale of one family's terrifying impotence to save their son. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | I Can't Go Home - Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation is about a miraculous escape from FARC dissidents. One girl's bravery and trek through the jungle. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown. |
| Title | I Got Lost In A Dark World Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores when you become good at violence. One former paramilitary battles with his conscience. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | I Grew Up Alone Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores when you have no family in a country of conflict. How one boy just wants to belong. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | I Was Leaving Behind Everything I Knew Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores when survival means you have to leave your home. How one teenager got caught up in conflict. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | IZAZOV |
| Description | Four films have been produced in collaboration with young activists from Bosnia, the UK and Italy, describing the problems facing the youth today. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Impact is in the produce of creative products that would otherwise not have been produced, and also in the visible change in the participants approach to creative work and society more generally. Planned next steps include dissemination of films to wider society. |
| Title | Ian Magadera Interview |
| Description | Dr Ian Magadera was invited to Praxis first Nexus event in Lebanon ' Heritage for Global Challenges' because of their role as Principal Investigator on the AHRC-GCRF project 'The Hugli River of Cultures Project, from Bandel to Barrackpore.' Ian discusses the project and what he will take away from the nexus event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQK-7vzldg&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba - Women's Conference Performance |
| Description | The Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba project team analysed the interviews with their stakeholders produced up to 23 August 2019, and workshopped a theatre performance lasting about 20 minutes with Dr Aylwyn Walsh. The performance picked out the key themes of the interviews, and reflected back to the highly engaged audience some of the affective and analytical narrative moments that the team had found relevant in their work, building it into a powerful integrated story of land loss, reclamation, and protection. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This performance cemented the relationship between Youth-in-Power, SCLC, and other activist groups (including the important rural rights organisation Tshintsha Amakhaya) in activism that works at the intersection of landlessness and gender. The Conference brought together women from across the Karoo, many of whom expressed a wish to have Ilizwi bring their model and performance to their area, and to start similar projects themselves. |
| Title | Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba: Heritage Day Performance and Workshop |
| Description | This was the final performance of the outcome of the Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba analysis process, where they took the insights and themes developed in their filmmaking and turned it into a performance for young people in schools in Graaff-Reinet. The themes taken up in this performance were similar to those at the Women's Conference, but also developed into points of discussion with the audience. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This performance would serve as a recruitment base for the future activist work of young people allied to Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba as the point was to get young people more actively interested and engaged in environmental justice issues. |
| Title | ImaginingOtherwise Digital Storytelling toolkit |
| Description | Young people create a digital storytelling toolkit for making mobile phone videos with a socially engaged message |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Used in socially engaged arts curriculum |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SxfdU-xbGw&t=88s |
| Title | Inclusion - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. Colleagues from Nepal and Rwanda identify opportunities and challenges when promoting representation for people with disability on participatory projects. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Interactive Web Site - YouthLEAD (Colombia) |
| Description | Spanish-language web site (http://amplivoces.com) with the history of the project, affiliations, creative outputs (e.g., Digital PhotoVoice Exhibit: http://amplivoces.com/la-exhibicion) and impact of the Mobile PhotoVoice Exhibit and Public Engagement Event (30 Sept-4 Oct) at Fundacion Universidad Konrad Lorez (http://amplivoces.com/impacto-de-la-exhibicion), including qualitative and quantitative responses to the children's experiences and images. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | See http://amplivoces.com/impacto-de-la-exhibicion; the Mobile PhotoVoice Exhibit also remains the property of the CSO partner, Gestores de Paz in Cuidad Bolivar, Colombia. |
| URL | http://amplivoces.com |
| Title | Interpretations of Civic National Values by Young People - The Kenyan Experience |
| Description | This film provides an overview of the project workshops held in Kenya. It features footage from two schools and their teachers, children and supporting CSO leaders that took part in the work. It provides an understanding of their inputs and initial impact of the project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | On completion, this film was shown to both schools and children, teachers and CSOs involved in the work. CSOs and teachers (from the schools that took part) have reframed their approaches to pedogagy concering the teaching and learning of civic national values. They are now applying Arts Based Methodologies as an alternative to rote-based teaching that was employed before. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Title | Introducing Safeguarding to Children - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In the video a young participant in Kosovo recalls how she was first introduced at the age of 12 to the subject of human trafficking. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Introducing... Jan Bostander |
| Description | Jan Bostander is the chairperson of the small stock association committee of Merweville. He is clear that "the Karoo is about agriculture": water and growing food for people are intimately linked to the future of the land and the people. He is convinced that fracking will make the droughts worse. What needs to be done, in his opinion, is that small farmers like those on his committee need to be able to be part of problem-solving, part of providing food security and passing on farming methods and traditions to the generations to come. He is also passionate about renewable energy as a solution for youth employment, and for farming in the future. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/roDOC2ipvlU |
| Title | Introduction to Safeguarding Video Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you with food for thought, and to help your project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in your context. In the opening video a member of the civil society organisation Galli Galli identifies some of the issues she needs to address in Nepal. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Introduction to the final Changing the Story workshop (Paul Cooke) |
| Description | Project Principal Investigator Professor Paul Cooke (University of Leeds) introduces the four key research strands to have emerged from this 4 year AHRC/GCRF Network Plus Project |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Wider understanding of CTS work for future audiences - video will be integrated into homepage of CTS archive. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/740452028 |
| Title | Isangizanyankuru: Sharing Stories |
| Description | The youth Mobile Arts for Peace facilitators, who were trained by the Connective Memories (Changing the Story Phase 2) project, in collaboration with Ubwuzu: Shaping the National Curriculum Through Arts project produced a film on their research project entitled Isangizanyankuru: Sharing Stories. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Some of the film was shown as part of the Changing the Story/Mobile Arts for Peace event: Arts-based Research for Education and Peacebuilding in a presentation given by the young researchers on the research project. The event was attended by policy makers, educators, civil organizations and young people in Rwanda, and participants from around the world, part of the Changing the Story and Mobile Arts for Peace networks. |
| Title | Issie Christoffels |
| Description | Issie Christoffels loves the people of the Karoo. She remembers a hard youth, with very few opportunities: very few things to do, very little positive going on Today she is against fracking in the Karoo because of the impact it could have on farming. She wishes for more projects and spaces for development where young people can find sustainable things to do with their creativity and energy. She says young people can shine where they are. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/us3vB1w428I |
| Title | Johannes van Rooyen - The Biogas Man |
| Description | Johannes van Rooyen is an agricultural entrepreneur who collects vegetable compost and animal dung to create biogas, which he says is the solution to sustainable land use in the Karoo. He explains to our team why he would rather see more biogas development than fracking in the Karoo - and it all has to do with water. He links the current struggles for land to historical dispossession by white farmers. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/Dd-ZiWfFyxk |
| Title | Juliana Román Lozano Interview |
| Description | Juliana Román Lozano is a feminist and former professional football player; a professional football coach and co-founder of La Nuestra Futbol Feminista. Juliana talks about the AHRC-GCRF project 'A Level Playing Field', La Nuestra and why applying a critical gender/feminist lens is vital. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5DF2bqqmY0&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Kosovo Project film |
| Description | Shot in Kosovo, the film features co-investigators Nita Luci and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers who explain their Phase 1 project (ACT) and their proof of concept project (Boom Zine), a qualitative research project that looks at the development of the rock and roll scene in Kosovo in the 1980s. The film features interviews with the young people leading on the proof of concept project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | To date the film has been viewed 353 times on Vimeo. It has been liked once and added to one collection. The film has been shared via the Changing the Story website and social media channels. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/339739790 |
| Title | Lekay van Wyk |
| Description | Lekay van Wyk is a vegetable farmer from Merweville in the Great Karoo, west of Beaufort West. He lost his parents as a young man. He says there is lots of land that small-scale farmers like him could use, but they don't have access to it. Hundreds of plots of land are controlled by a handful of white farmers, while no Coloured farmers have a single plot. Instead, people have to live off social grants, a soup kitchen, and a small and an unproductive local vegetable garden. He insists the municipality intervenes to make land available for farming. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/16ZZ6lBIneo |
| Title | MAP logo |
| Description | During a visit to Friends of the Children International School (January 2019) students created and presented drawings to the research team. One of those drawings was a flower by Ganza Daniella which was to became the new MAP logo. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Ganza Daniella's design is being used to brand the project as MAP expand through the provinces of Rwanda. The logo appears on MAP's official Twitter page, MAP's newsletter which is shared with partners across Rwanda and the Changing the Story website. Ganza Daniella was thanked officially by the MAP facilitators at an award ceremony on April 27th 2019. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/07/mobile-arts-for-peace-project-update/ |
| Title | Making of the Museum of Education |
| Description | The film sheds light on The Making of the Museum of Education' Phase 2 project in the words of Principal Investigator Linda Guisa. Linda takes the viewer on a tour of her former school, now the site of the museum. Uploaded July 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film has been viewed 19 times to date. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/332472858 |
| Title | Making of the Museum of Education, Kosovo |
| Description | Added on behalf of Linda Gusia: Documentary film, interactive webpage, animation, music. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | To be provided by Linda Gusia |
| Title | Meet Dicardo Jantjies |
| Description | Dicardo has lived all his life around the Eastern and Western Cape, from Caledon to Port Elizabeth. He has a background in agriculture and related industries, but wanted to work for himself: that's why he got into farming. He is quick to warn against hasty and "emotional" decisions about land. He says it is a mistake to put people on farms without education, passion, and the proper financing. He wants to see a real plan based on skills in order to get people to manage larger farmers. Dicardo considers fracking as a competitor for access to land - the frackers will get the land first and then ruin it, so when they get it it will not be farmable. He says that white farmers teach their children about farming from a young age, and this is something Black people should start doing too, in the aftermath of colonialism. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/mVZ5VVG17cs |
| Title | Mental Health Expertise (CTS safeguarding video) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video Changing the Story colleagues Linda Hoxha and Tony Cegielka discuss the extent to which individuals in designated roles need experience or training in mental he |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWEQUwHQ1Pw |
| Title | Mi Historia film and audio visual database |
| Description | Please see http://mihistoria.co for the multimedia content produced, which includes: 80 videos https://mihistoria.co/category/secciones/video/ 14 podcasts https://mihistoria.co/category/secciones/audio/ 5 photoessays https://mihistoria.co/category/secciones/fotografia/ 108 written articles and features https://mihistoria.co/category/secciones/leer/page/18/ 12 educational "how to" videos (for use in the classroom) https://mihistoria.co/category/periodismo-en-el-aula/ |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The films have had great reach and been taken up by other international websites, including the US Government. The project has also garnered a good deal of international and national press coverage (e.g. https://mihistoria.co/category/secciones/sala-de-prensa/ ) |
| URL | http://mihistoria.co |
| Title | Mina George - Home Farmer |
| Description | Mina George is a small-scale farmer with vegetables and chickens in Willowmore. She grew up on a farm, and her parents laboured on farms. They decided to move into town for her education. Her story of eviction relates to her own daugter, who also worked on a farm and was kicked off and came to live in Mrs George's tiny 2-room, while her furniture had to go into the chicken coop because there was no space elsewhere. She cannot understand how the postapartheid government thinks about the size of the houses, and programmes like the the CWP and the EPWP which she says only impoverish poor people further. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/IUFxrPONOqk |
| Title | Mini-museo (Mini-museum) in Potosi, Colombia |
| Description | YouthLEAD supporting the mentors of Gestores de Paz (Promoters of Peace) to host a community-event with the children using their initial photographs along with digital support. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Community attendance and support for the work of YouthLEAD. |
| Title | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Documentary produced by Kwetu Film Institute |
| Description | This film provides an overview of the MAP project in Rwanda including interviews with project partners, young people, educators, parents and school children. Primarily, the film documents the impact of the project on the wider Rwandan society in terms of how MAP contributes to peacebuilding and informs the National Curriculum. Running length: 22:20. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film is used to inform the larger public concerning the function of MAP and has been shown to CSOs, Schools, and Government Institutions involved in the work. Additionally, it has been used in scoping visits prior to the implementation of MAP Network Plus in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal. In particular, it was screened at UNESCO Jakarta for ministers, UN officials and CSO representatives. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxAESACA98o |
| Title | Mobile Film: Amazing Dog (2019), entered into the Panorama category of the Hillywood International Film Festival, Rwanda |
| Description | The MAP Mobile Films that were created during the MAP Mobile Filmmaking workshop (March 2019) under the direction of Eric Kabera and Rwanda Cinema Centre were selected for the Hillywood International Film Festival (October 2019). http://rwandafilmfestival.net/. Amazing Dog - How might a dog help to promote tolerance? Filmed from the perspective of a dog, a family has to come to terms with their own internal relationships to open up their arms and hearts to their furry friend. Created by MAP participants: Hassan, Dorcas, Elia, Sandrine. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The mobile films were one of the first projects conducted between the Ubwuzu/MAP project and Rwanda Cinema Centre to provide capacity building through the training of filmmaking within rural areas. The Ubwuzu award provided a three-day training conducted in the Eastern Province with six Master Trainers and ten young people. The films premiered as part of the international festival in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds |
| Title | Mobile Film: Headphones (2019), entered into the Panorama category of the Hillywood International Film Festival, Rwanda |
| Description | The MAP Mobile Films that were created during the MAP Mobile Filmmaking workshop (March 2019) under the direction of Eric Kabera and Rwanda Cinema Centre were selected for the Hillywood International Film Festival (October 2019). http://rwandafilmfestival.net/. Headphones - Music can create another world and reality. But, what happens when such a material object is lost and found? How does the original object owner and the object finder balance between the need for an escape and the reality of everyday needs and desires? Created by Florence, Leonard, Assia, and Samuel. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The mobile films were one of the first projects conducted between the Ubwuzu/MAP project and Rwanda Cinema Centre to provide capacity building through the training of filmmaking within rural areas. The Ubwuzu award provided a three-day training conducted in the Eastern Province with six Master Trainers and ten young people. The films premiered as part of the international festival in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds |
| Title | Mobile Film: Telephone (2019), entered into the Panorama category of the Hillywood International Film Festival, Rwanda |
| Description | The MAP Mobile Films that were created during the MAP Mobile Filmmaking workshop (March 2019) under the direction of Eric Kabera and Rwanda Cinema Centre were selected for the Hillywood International Film Festival (October 2019). http://rwandafilmfestival.net/. Telephone: The telephone has become central to our communication and connection to the world. Yet, it is increasingly the object of jealousy, vanity and miscommunication. How might mobile phones create conflict alongside the intended aim for communication? Created by MAP participants: Jean Marie, Erick, and Jeanette. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The mobile films were one of the first projects conducted between the Ubwuzu/MAP project and Rwanda Cinema Centre to provide capacity building through the training of filmmaking within rural areas. The Ubwuzu award provided a three-day training conducted in the Eastern Province with six Master Trainers and ten young people. The films premiered as part of the international festival in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds |
| Title | Mobile Film: The Plate at School (2019), entered into the Panorama category of the Hillywood International Film Festival, Rwanda |
| Description | The MAP Mobile Films that were created during the MAP Mobile Filmmaking workshop (March 2019) under the direction of Eric Kabera and Rwanda Cinema Centre were selected for the Hillywood International Film Festival (October 2019). http://rwandafilmfestival.net/. The Plate at School: A plate or object has a story of its own. What kinds of conversations are conducted over food? How does food shape our everyday encounters? Created by MAP participants: Esther, Reuben, Germain, Leonard. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The mobile films were one of the first projects conducted between the Ubwuzu/MAP project and Rwanda Cinema Centre to provide capacity building through the training of filmmaking within rural areas. The Ubwuzu award provided a three-day training conducted in the Eastern Province with six Master Trainers and ten young people. The films premiered as part of the international festival in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds |
| Title | Mr Menzi |
| Description | Mr Booi Yekile Menzi was born in 1939, nine years before the National Party came to power and started formalising existing South African white supremacy under the apartheid laws. His whole youth was suffused with farming, which he remembers as the basis of his whole life and value system. Forcibly removed to a cramped township, his family's stocks were decimated. Sixty years later, he spends all his energy showing young people that there can be a future in farming for them. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/QKb3plsUUSI |
| Title | Mr and Mrs Melapi Remember |
| Description | Mrs Melapi talks fondly of her and her husband's time on the farm, where they lived for many decades, working for a white family. When Old Man Retief died, his wife moved to Graaff-Reinet, taking Mrs Melapi with her as a servant. And when the farmer's widow retired to Jeffrey's Bay, Mrs Melaphi was left in Graaff-Reinet with no income except her small state pension. Now, all her and her husband want is some compensation in recognition of a lifetime of service. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/D3McENVgyB4 |
| Title | Mrs A. Jaftha from Ryneveldt Primary |
| Description | Mrs Jaftha was brought up in a strict home, to value the things they had, even the things they got for free. She remembers her childhood as a time of playing in the streets, a time of freedom. She loves the Karoo sunsets and sunrises. She has a lot of trust in the people of the town and the municipality. Still, she is against fracking because of impact she says it will have on water resources: she would rather see the land sustained than exploited, even if it creates work opportunities. She hopes for more recreation centres for young people. Wishes there were a Drive-In (like there used to be) - and space for a proper mall so that people don't have to drive so far to the cities. She also argues that subsistence farming and access to land adds to your value and your pride as a South African. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/66qwGfJBMao |
| Title | Music, Community and Environment workshop film |
| Description | Recording of Mr Klaje's (Colombia) Music, Community and Environment workshop, 29th April, University of Leeds. This 4hrs-workshop will promote collaborative work actions and intercultural scenarios among diverse students/participants, as a strategy of inclusion and promotion of Peace practices and environmental awareness. The workshop will be implemented through playful and participatory methodologies, through music, dance and the construction of instruments with reused materials. This will promote collectivism and reflections on the importance of implementing inclusive behaviours and recognising diversity as a fundamental practice for the promotion of Peace. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film is available to watch via the CTS YouTube Channel. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-OLuYh1FTI |
| Title | My Childhood Was An AK-47 Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores how how one boy's dreams of becoming a footballer were destroyed by war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | My Congo My Story Exhibition |
| Description | The 'My Congo My Story' Exhibition ran from 4th July to 6th August at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. My Congo My Story is a participatory exhibit that showcases the stories of ten individuals, displaced from the DRC and ending up in Johannesburg, in their own words with their own illustrations. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition was a South-South Collaboration between 10 participants from the Congo, a digital expert from the Philippines and a South African designer. According to the lead researcher, the experience provided an opportunity for those involved to reflect on the similarities and experiences of their particular experiences. The exhibition received national media coverage in South Africa, featuring an interview from lead researcher Ayesha Siddiqi. The opening event was attended by 60-70 people, including diplomats and staff from various NGOs. The research team put up two pin boards for people to "participate" in the exhibition through the questions and challenges they had put up on these boards. Both the boards had around 100 notes stuck on them by the end of the exhibition. 5-6 different school groups attended the exhibition. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AnHivXShg&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Neville van Rooy remembers the "Karretijie Mense" |
| Description | Neville van Rooy traces his heritage to the KhoeKhoe people who worked on settler farms, using donkey carts ("karretjies") to move on once the seasonal work, such as shearing, was done. They were the "Karretjie Mense" (cart people) of the Karoo. Neville's ancestors settled up in Murraysburg, where his parents made ends meet living and working on farms. Neville highlights that for his family self-worth never came from working for white people -- but from connecting with the land. They knew all the herbs and plants for medicine and food. Neville longs to go back to that lifestyle, to reclaiming the knowledge and the knowledge systems of the hunter-gatherers that colonialism attempted to erase through dispossession and genocide. "I am hungry to learn about those medicines" he says, and points to the importance of connecting the new generation to their KhoeKhoe heritage. Neville says: "Our culture is a culture of passing on stories from one generation to the next". |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/bL8d61toYLw |
| Title | New Toys Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation is a terrifying story of sexual abuse |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Noleen Fourie Remembers... |
| Description | When Noleen was young she would go hiking and swimming with her parents, and felt a deep connection with nature. To this day she loves the Karoo's lack of pollution, and the wide open spaces, even though the encroachment of city people has started to change it for her She believes you can still find old-time values in the Karoo, and says she prefers to raise her children here. You can still walk around, it is a protected environment. But, she says, it is not being developed properly! New housing developments pop up built far away from shops and transport, isolating poor people and making their lives harder. She wants a much stronger focus on a people's history of the Karoo that focused on the traditions and the knowledges that are not the "normal" ones that get highlighted. When it comes to fracking, she thinks it would be an advantage if it created jobs. But what about nature? What has research shown? Would the harms be greater than the benefits, and who would actually benefit? Would it again only be "certain people" who benefit? |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/PR6ChNYk-Yo |
| Title | Online photography exhibition of Apr 2017 Anlong Veng Peace Tours |
| Description | The Documentation Centre of Cambodia took a series of photographs documenting the week-long Anlong Veng Peace Tour in April 2018 in Anlong Veng, where Changing the Story members Prof. Paul Cooke, Dr. Peter Manning and Dr. Ly Sok-Kheang were combining this with a participatory video project for the tour students to support the ongoing tours. The tours are funded by USAID, the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The online exhibition (via google photos) was shared widely with funding partners. |
| URL | https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOcTqZRjbHPbrTPnQ4gUJA0TOgrX0Hp2PFIgajyQnEU7PdbOGgkVI8mXU55HCmU... |
| Title | Oom Piet Dolleys from Richmond |
| Description | Oom Piet Dolleys grew up on Ryk Meiring's farm near Richmond, and vividly remembers growing up quite literally between the goats. His familty was thrown off the land, because the farmer did not want oom Piet's father to work there any more. They landed up in a small house-for-rent in Graaff Reinet, and oom Piet has now been staying in the suburb of Mandela Park for 20 years, where he farms with merino sheep. While he says he has started his farm off small, with access to a limited pocket of land, he wants to expand in the future, including to farming pigs and cattle. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/1eyM6sF618E |
| Title | P1 ACT (Kosovo) blog, overview over ACT - Arts, critical thinking & active citizenship (P1 project, Kosovo) |
| Description | Introductory blog including film footage of participatory workshops delivered and artistic productions (animation films) |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, was called on the Kosovo ministerial commission which conducted a blind review of the Education textbooks (6th grade) in Kosovo and reviewed the new National Curricula textbooks from 2018 - 2019. She was also called as Senior Expert drafting the Human Development action plan for Kosovo's Programme for Gender Equality 2020 - 2024 (Agency for Gender Equality, Kosovo Government), which included a critical review of the situation of education, health, media, culture (i.e. objectives, activities, indicators for all field) in line with Kosovo's Development Strategy and the SDGs. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/act-kosovo/ |
| Title | P1 ACT (Kosovo), blog introducing Theory of Change |
| Description | This blog, written by Nita Luci and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, introduces the original Theory of Change and research design of ACT ('Arts, critical thinking and active citizenship'). |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, was called on the Kosovo ministerial commission which conducted a blind review of the Education textbooks (6th grade) in Kosovo and reviewed the new National Curricula textbooks from 2018 - 2019. She was also called as Senior Expert drafting the Human Development action plan for Kosovo's Programme for Gender Equality 2020 - 2024 (Agency for Gender Equality, Kosovo Government), which included a critical review of the situation of education, health, media, culture (i.e. objectives, activities, indicators for all field) in line with Kosovo's Development Strategy and the SDGs. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/05/18/act-arts-critical-thinking-active-citizenship-in-kos... |
| Title | P1 ACT (Kosovo), blog introducing Zine Boom (proof of concept) |
| Description | Written by Rina Krasniqi, artist name 'Lirindja', BOOM Concerts in 1980s Kosovo, this blog introduces the Zine Boom project including historical research, as commissioned, following an open call, as ACT's proof-of-concept project. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This project provided the basis for piloting innovative pedagogical methodologies including arts-based participatory methods. These now are further developed and tested in the P2 Kosovo ReSpace and Museum projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/04/29/boom-concerts-in-1980s-kosovo/ |
| Title | P1 Colombia: ASÍ VEN LA PAZ LOS JÓVENES DE LAS ZONAS EN CONFLICTO vídeo |
| Description | Film providing an overview of the project and how to work with young people to understand their approach to peace. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The film has been shared locally via Universidad de los Andes to raise awareness of the project and its learning, and also internationally via the CTS website, and has had 331 views on YOuTube. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Qcj3wFBO8 |
| Title | P1 Kosovo ACT: "This-is-how-we-ended-too-What?" |
| Description | As part of the Kosovo-Strand's CtS phase I, ACT, young Kosovoar artists and researchers Rina Krasniqi, Lura Limani and Bardhi Halit - in research collaboration with, and curated by - the Centre for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, exhibited their work on the BOOM Festival (1982-1987), as commissioned proof of concept project known as 'Zine Boom'. Called "This is how we ended too. What?", this exhibition featured selected archival material, film material and the showcasing of sung and written word - aimed at exploring the period that led up to inter-ethnic segregation and war in Kosovo during the 1990s, in relation to alternative spaces and critical voices available for young people and their social, artistic, cultural productions amidst escalating political developments in Kosovo during the 1980s. "This is how we ended too. What?" borrows its name from the verses of "Kajranfili" - the most popular song by BANKROTT (Text and melody: Leka; Arrangement: Bankrott; Solo guitar: Agron; Bass guitar: Valbon; Rhythm guitar and voice: Leka; Drums: Fatos, Cello: Antonio; Back vocals: Ardita). BANKROTT was created in 1983. The exhibition run from 26/06 - 26/07/2019; with visiting hours Tuesday - Friday, 16:00 - 18:00. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The exhibition was public and open, seen by an estimated 100 visitors, including visitors at the launch on 26th June; (for further impact, see Zine Boom workshop and book launch in March 2020). |
| URL | http://www.stacion.org/en/This-is-how-we-ended-too-What |
| Title | P1 Kosovo ACT: Critical Review |
| Description | ACT: Arts, Critical Thinking and Active Citizenship in Kosovo, Critical Review (report, 57pp), titled: "We are all drop-outs" Creating informal spaces of engagement in Kosovo. Written by the project's postdoc research assistants Lura Pollozhani and Hajrulla Çeku; edited by the co-Investigators (P1 Kosovo Strand leads): Nita Luci and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, was called on the Kosovo ministerial commission which conducted a blind review of the Education textbooks (6th grade) in Kosovo and reviewed the new National Curricula textbooks from 2018 - 2019. She was also called as Senior Expert drafting the Human Development action plan for Kosovo's Programme for Gender Equality 2020 - 2024 (Agency for Gender Equality, Kosovo Government), which included a critical review of the situation of education, health, media, culture (i.e. objectives, activities, indicators for all field) in line with Kosovo's Development Strategy and the SDGs. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/act-critical-review/ |
| Title | P1 South Africa: Travelling exhibition for Changemakers Programme |
| Description | The key aid of the CMP is a travelling exhibition about genocide in general as well as the case studies of the Holocaust and Rwanda. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | This exhibition has been used extensively in the different countries in libraries, schools and universities, and helped the success of the CMP, leading to its rollout amongst a number of African countries. |
| Title | P2 Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba project video |
| Description | Principle Investigator Scott Burnett of the Phase 2 South Africa Project presents the aims, context and team behind Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The film has been shared via the Changing the Story website and social media channels. Since being uploaded on 12 July 2019, the film has been viewed 22 times. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1VUJDBLso0 |
| Title | Papa Levi Speaks |
| Description | Papa Levi is a practicing Rastafarian. He explains how colonialism broke ancient connections with land, knowledge, ownership, and dignity, to separate Black people from what is rightfully theirs. He traces his lineage to his clan and family line, but now he worries that while his family has kept some traditions alive he must motivate young people to listen to him, as there is a danger of the chain of generations being broken now by a generation that "just wants to have fun". As a Rastafarian Papa Eli believes in living in harmony with nature, of preserving the balances of oxygen and water, and for those reasons he is opposed to plan to frack the Karoo. "We believe in keeping the world green, we are guardians of the Nature, we are disciplined in coming to Nature". He expresses suspicion of GMOs as a white agricultural technology contributing to the bad health of Black people: the future, he says, is in organic healthy food grown by Black people on their own land. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/GZ8w09oR25A |
| Title | Participatory Research and Safeguarding - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video an early-career researcher recounts a positive experience as a participant in a project using 'playback theatre' techniques, where safeguarding issues arise organically. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Phase 1 Critical Review: The Anlong Veng Peace Tours |
| Description | As part of Changing the Story's Phase One activities in Cambodia, this critical review and project reflection explores the use of arts within attempts to redress and remember experiences of the Khmer Rouge, with a particular focus on the varying participatory and educational methods employed therein. We necessarily and deliberately employ a broad definition of 'participation' in order to sensitise readers to the variety of ways participation has been integrated and mobilised in the work of both state and civil society led initiatives. The critical review then turns to reflect on the work of Changing the Story through our collaboration with the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Specifically, we seek to draw lessons from the introduction of participatory filmmaking approaches to DC-Cam's Anlong Veng Peace Tours initiatives from April to December 2018. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2019/09/CAM-critical-review-2.pdf |
| Title | Phase 1 Critical Review: The Arts of Survival (English Translation) Phase 1 Critical Review: The Arts of Survival (English Translation) |
| Description | Written by Alejandro Castillejo Cuellar and investigators Alex Sierra and Juanita Frankey, the following critical review of the Phase 1 Colombia project Tales of the Future: Senses, Creativity and the Arts of Survival in Colombia discusses the need to put forward itinerant methodological proposals centring on testimonial experiences as means of articulating possible futures. Translated to Spanish. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website and Twitter account as a resource. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/the-arts-of-survival-english-translation/ |
| Title | Phase 1 Critical Review: The Changemakers |
| Description | In March 2018, Prof Chaya Herman, Dr Charity Meki-Kombe and Prof Stuart Taberner conducted a critical evaluation and review of Changing the Story Phase 1 project 'The Change-makers.' The report comprises of three sections: The context around The Change-makers programme, critical evaluation and review report, and finally, the Change-makers programme roll out through 'train the trainer' workshops report, providing an in-depth and fascinating insight into, and evaluation of, one of Changing the Story's original projects. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/sa-critical-review-2/ |
| Title | Phase One Critical Review: Mobile Arts for Peace (Rwanda) |
| Description | As part of Changing the Story's Phase One Activities is Rwanda this critical review and project reflection maps out the work of the project taking place in both public and private spaces in relation to the use of art in fostering peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda. The aim of the critical review is to record convergences, synergies and challenges within the Mobile Arts for Peace project (MAP). The critical review is comprised of a youth report, teachers report and an artist report and outlines the methodologies used, as well as the influence and impact of the project on each group. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website and Twitter account as a resource. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/map-critical-review/ |
| Title | Phase One Critical Review: The Future is Unwritten (Colombia) |
| Description | Written by Dr Simon Dancey and Emily Morrison this critical review of the Phase One Colombia project explores what is known about social imaginaries in Colombia in existing literature and how the imaginary affects the practical projects of those working through culture to achieve social and cultural aims (with a focus on young people), analysed through the voices of an investigation interviewing cultural actors from across Colombia. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website and Twitter account as a resource. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/colombia-critical-review/ |
| Title | Praxis Digital Lecture Series - Heritage and Policy - Hana Morel |
| Description | Footage of the Keynote presentation from Hana Morel (UCL) at the Heritage and Policy Event in December 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and Youtube account. The idea was to make the presentation accessible to global partners and those that were unable to attend the event in person. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmGVHfoeJYY |
| Title | Praxis in a Minute |
| Description | Stuart Taberner (Principal Investigator) introduces Praxis: Arts and Humanities for Global Challenges. Watch Stuart talk about the project's aims, the four main research areas the project will be focusing on (heritage, conflict and displacement, resilience and global health), and the series of events Praxis will be hosting over the next 3 years. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website, YouTube and Twitter account. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/366607421 |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 1 |
| Description | This is part 1 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/uVF0ge4OjyQ |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 10 |
| Description | This is part 10 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 2 |
| Description | This is part 2 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/LqVY4SDmxSk |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 3 |
| Description | This is part 3 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/XNnlIhiazJk |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 4 |
| Description | This is part 4 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 5 |
| Description | This is part 5 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 6 |
| Description | This is part 1 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 7 |
| Description | This is part 7 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 8 |
| Description | This is part 8 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Process - Ideas - Rehearsals: Part 9 |
| Description | This is part 9 of a series of short films that give some insights into how we went about developing our creative ideas for the videos and for the final stage play. We include clips from training, from our rehearsals, from brainstorming, from meetings, from excursions and events, and also from the performances themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This product serves as input into the process of analysing the specific dynamics at work in applying arts methodologies to issues of land and environmental justice in contemporary South Africa. |
| Title | Public Untruth Artwork |
| Description | Public Untruth Artwork commissioned as part of CTS Festival (14-18 June): Co-devised with the CTS YRB and two artists based in Kosovo. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The flag was launched at the CTS InSide Out OutSide In Festival on 15 June 2021 and is displayed in the garden of the Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Title | Red and Black Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores how 'they' said it was a revolution, but really it was just forced labour. A story of deception. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Reflections on the Changing the Story Experience by the Youth Research Board (blog) |
| Description | The 11 members of the Changing the Story Youth Research Board were invited to share their reflections on their experience of Changing the Story and if/how their involvement has changed their story. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The blog will be available on the Changing the Story website/archive from Sept 2022. |
| Title | Renshord Christmas Remembers |
| Description | Renshord Christmas knows just about everything about nature and farming there is to know. Though he works now with a small garden and faces serious water problems, he knows the details of farming with cattle, cutting lucerne, checking on the animals, and preventing worms. He grew up on Manie Schoeman's farm at Vetlaagte, whose 7 camps and 9 fields he remembers in detail. As with many white farms, everybody staying on the farm was expected to work for the farmer or be evicted. When his grandfather could no longer work, the whole family had to leave the farm. The farmer loaded up their things and dropped them off at the crossroads. They had no plan for what to do. Mr Christmas remembers the pain of his siblings and grandparents. His hope for the future of the Karoo is that land reform will come in time for more farms to be given to "bruinmense" (so-called "Coloured" and Black people). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/y2Nfz3J60Go |
| Title | Safeguarding Issues Arising from Conducting Research - safeguarding resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In the video a colleague discusses his experience of conducting LGBTQIA-related research in the Global South. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Safeguarding Sexuality and Gender identity - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In the video a Principal Investigator discusses a case study in which LGBTQIA+ staff are advised by their institution to conceal their sexuality when working abroad. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Safeguarding during a Pandemic (CTS Safeguarding Video) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. Dr Jessica Mitchell discusses her approach to developing a safeguarding strategy for an international networking project she has been working on. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npBZZk5HONY |
| Title | Safeguarding the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Researchers (CTS safeguarding Resource) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video, Changing the Story colleagues discuss the issue of safeguarding the mental health of researchers. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj15rpjyQOo&feature=emb_logo |
| Title | School-Houses in Kosova during the 1990s |
| Description | Short documentary on the School Houses project. Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQUdMvqbADk |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Viewed by over 700 people since December 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQUdMvqbADk |
| Title | Searching for peace: art, genocide and memory in 2022 Ukraine and 1992-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Description | This video's creator - Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Glybchenko - uses visual artistic expression to think about and reflect upon the 2022 ongoing russia's genocide against Ukraine and its people as well as the memory of the 1992-1995 genocide against the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The video art explores the notions of distance and removal from one's country and its people, as Lisa - being Ukrainian - cannot safely return home because of the full-scale war and is experiencing its horrors through, among other lenses, the lens of digital media. Through a variety of art-making techniques, Lisa explores memory and memory-forward (preventing horrors from happening again, and the failure to prevent mass murders in Bosnia and Herzegovina from happening again elsewhere in the world - like Ukraine). The artistic techniques relate to and critique what is used in war. On the one hand, weapons - which Lisa references through carving pieces for lino-printing. On the other hand, citizen reporting as part of peace processes - documenting the war with a phone camera and shaky images to ensure justice during tribunals. Lisa references that by using her phone camera only for shooting footage within the video art. Of importance to Lisa was also to send a message of hope and fight for freedom through color-use. The video is full of blue and yellow - the colors of the flag of Ukraine, as well as black and red - colors of resistance to oppression and colors of some of the national cloth embroidery patterns. All the art-making, unless otherwise stated in the video, was done by Lisa. The project was supported by Changing The Story Mobility Fund. Special thanks: The Complete Freedom of Truth, including for making the soundtrack creation possible with the participating musicians. See the credits part for more information on contributions. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The film was premiered at CTS' Final Network event to a global audience and involved a range of activities in Bosnia & Herzegovina with young people. Making it had considerable impact on Lisa herself given the current challenges she is facing as a young Ukrainian. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudeb3rxaDQ |
| Title | Sidney Jafta: Far From Home |
| Description | Sidney Jafta is a small-scale farmer working with pigs, sheep, and goats, even though he does not own the land he farms on. He is negotiating with the municipal council to rent it officially and pay for water and rates. All he wants is for the land to be shared. He points out that the most profitable land was taken under white rule, and now white farmers sit on huge tracts of land while Black farmers are stuck in cramped townships without access to good farming land. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/-0dqcXg5Q_k |
| Title | Signposting - Safeguarding Resource |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. This video looks at options for advice and expertise when referring incidents beyond your project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/related-projects/safeguarding-project/safeguarding-re... |
| Title | Sinethemba Makanya music performance |
| Description | As part of our celebration event for the project, one of our key South Africa partners - musician and theatre practitioner Sinethemba Makanya - gave a short interactive musical performance prior to introducing their films. it was performed at The Carriageworks Studio Theatre as part of the event. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Audiences commented that the presence of live performance in the celebration event by the partners involved influenced the way they understood how and why the films had been made and the approach the project had taken. |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/pg/worldcinemasatleeds/photos/?tab=album&album_id=709512039243027 |
| Title | Sipho Mbotya |
| Description | Mr Mbotya was raised by his grandparents in Graaff-Reinet when the streets were just dust: he remembers a childhood in "kortbroekie en kaalvoet" (shorts and barefoot). Even in those dusty streets people were still herding livestock. Before and after school he was responsible for taking the goats out to graze and back. He remembers when the apartheid government started implementing the Group Areas Act in 1952, and they tried to separate "Coloured" people to Kroonvale and to leave Xhosa people in uMasizakhe township. His concerns have always been urban, as long as he remembers, as his was never a farming family. And today those are the things that bother him: the potholes in the road, the water wasted in leaking pipes, and the lack of nicely developed spaces for young people to have space to play and have fun. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/udaJw4RZdxY |
| Title | Smriti Haricharan Interview |
| Description | Dr Smriti Haricharan was invited to Praxis first Nexus event in Lebanon ' Heritage for Global Challenges' because of their role as Postdoctoral Researcher on the AHRC-GCRF project 'The politics of performance on the urban periphery in South India.' Smriti discusses the project and the Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus Event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drBAa9riO9Q&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Sreenath Nair - TEM Performance developed as part of the community engagement. TEM youth volenteers developed and perform among the community to educate the tribs in Wayanad about importance of safe guarding. |
| Description | The performance is devised on the basis on true stories on alcoholism, teenage pregnancy and sexual abuse against teenage girls. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | TEM youth volunteers developed the performance using Forum theatre methods. They performed it within 5 tribal communities, in 45 tribal hamlets. The performances are watched by 1000 youth learners, 100 educators and 3500 families. |
| Title | Sreenath Nair - TEM Toolkit is a teaching and learning resource made for the TEM educators and youth learners to help them with the integration of tribal heritage and performance in the curriculum. |
| Description | TEM Toolkit introduces methods and approaches to integrates tribal language and culture in the curriculum clearly suggesting how to organise material and plan a delivery of it. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | TEM tool kit has given an effective method of teaching in tribal schools. 5 schools are using it already. |
| Title | Telephone (Mobile Arts for Peace) |
| Description | Telephone is a short film created by young people during a MAP workshop ran by Eric Kabera in April 2019. The film was recorded on mobile phones and edited using iMovie. The film was in contention for a mobile film submission for Eric Kabera's International Film Festival in August 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | In Autumn 2019, MAP were invited to submit Telephone to the Hillywood Festival (Rwanda Film Festival). The film was accepted in the Panorama - Rwanda Special Visuals Category. The festival takes place 19th October to 26th October 2019. Rwanda Film Festival also known as Hillywood has established itself as the country's most important cultural event, but also one of Africa's most prestigious festivals. For 7 days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media will watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new local and international talents - http://rwandafilmfestival.net/theme-rff-2019/ |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEsHLsXcZ40&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | That was nice but so what? Participatory Arts and Sustainable Development |
| Description | The film was edited and produced by Prof. Paul Cooke and summarises the discussions, presentations and key issues raised in our Sadler seminar "Participatory Arts, International Development and National Cultural Identities". |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The film has been a useful tool in providing future prospective partners or collaborators with an overview of our projects and priorities with regards to this subject. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/221717410 |
| Title | The Anatomy of Murder Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores how killing others is also to kill yourself. A hitman sees the light. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | The Coca Business Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores how cocoa and death go hand-in-hand. How one girl found herself at the centre of a drugs war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | The Day I Saw The Light Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores using love as a tool of recruitment. One girl's lucky escape from the FARC. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | The Long Live Diversity workshop film |
| Description | The "Long Live Diversity" workshop is an experience that contributes to build a narrative of peace between sectors that have historically been separated by violence, inviting them to a collective construction encounter experience around the joy and display of the music. The workshops focus on the deconstruction of bias that divide them and fragment their territory. Cultural and artistic processes with young people are important because they represent the possibility of coming together around personal preferences and talents, they are a space of joy, expression, imagination and creation, that is, of transformation. In turn, the opportunity to meet makes it possible to weave other forms of relationship that invite to process conflicts from dialogue and respect for the difference. This film documents the workshop, which was funded by the Changing the Story Mobility Fund and designed and delivered by CSO partners Mr Klaje. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Discussions re plans for further workshops are taking place. The film is available to watch on the CTS YouTube channel. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1oQ04GaFc |
| Title | The Nahrein Network Interview |
| Description | Dr Mehiyar Kathem was invited to Praxis first Nexus Event 'Heritage for Global Challenges' to share their experience as a Research Associate and Coordinator of the Nahrein Network. Hear Mehiyar talk about the project, his role and what they thought of the Praxis event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNTFQ4a46DI&feature=emb_title |
| Title | The New Life Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores how grief and revenge led one teenager to take up arms. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | The Planet of No Name Zine |
| Description | The Planet of No Memory fanzine is a product of the groups arts-based research with three Changing the Story commissioned research projects: The Making of the Museum of Education (Kosovo), Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa, and Building Trust for Truth-Telling among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia. The fanzine imaginatively explores how young people working on each of these projects perceive memory through eyes of aliens on the fictional planet DATL who are viewing earth. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | CTS network and external partners supported the dissemination of the Zine. 80 printed copies of the zine have been distributed across Colombia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Kosovo. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Title | The Plate at School (Mobile Arts for Peace) |
| Description | The Plate at School is a short film created by young people during a MAP workshop ran by Eric Kabera in April 2019. The film was recorded on mobile phones and edited using iMovie. The film was in contention for a mobile film submission for Eric Kabera's International Film Festival in August 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | In Autumn 2019, MAP were invited to submit The Plate at School to the Hillywood Festival (Rwanda Film Festival). The film was accepted in the Panorama - Rwanda Special Visuals Category. The festival takes place 19th October to 26th October 2019. Rwanda Film Festival also known as Hillywood has established itself as the country's most important cultural event, but also one of Africa's most prestigious festivals. For 7 days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media will watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new local and international talents - http://rwandafilmfestival.net/theme-rff-2019/ |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciFOrH5eIzM&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | The Power of Art: Empowering Young People infographic |
| Description | The infographic is a visual representation of the achievements on the project 'Supporting Vulnerable Children to become Youth Leaders in South Africa', a collaboration between Changing the Story, the Bishop Simeon Trust and the National Association of Child Care Workers. The project worked with 8 safe parks and 500 children. 40 workshops were delivered and children reported an increase in confidence (7% on average). |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The infographic has been shared with the projects funders (GCRF) and via Changing the Story and partner social media channels. |
| Title | The Saviours Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores the super hero tackling forced recruitment. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | The Test Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores when staying alive means killing the girl of your dreams. A tale of bravery and love in the middle of war. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | Through Art, theatre and Dialogue, youngpeople are able to express their thoughts to the country |
| Description | Leonard Nyiringabo and Eric Ngabonziza, part of CTS' Youth Research Board, successfully applied to CTS' small Mobility Fund to deliver a pilot workshop for the NGO they are setting up as a result of the work they undertook as part of previous CTS commissioned projects. Uzabitwari project soon to be an NGO launched its first pilot workshops. With the help of headmasters of Le Paradis des angel and Nyarusange secondary school, Uzabintwari was able to recruit 25 young people who became part of the workshops. The project started with 13 young people in Primary school and 12 young from secondary school. This video is one of several outputs from the project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The workshops - around youth and heroism in Rwanda - were successful and are feeding into next stages of development of their NGO. The video serves as a promotional tool for the young NGO to showcase their work. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4mheK1ZlU |
| Title | Thyspunt: Khoisan Heritage |
| Description | With support from the Changing the Story Mobility Fund the team from Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba made the 4-hour journey down to the coast to meet with a Khoe (or Khoisan) community that has been fighting against a nuclear development on the Eastern Cape coast. This film presents key moments in that journey: starting the journey, being welcomed at Thyspunt, and listening to the heartbreaking stories of colonisation and loss that the people of Thyspunt told. After having discussed the history in the meeting house, the team went down to the Philip Irrigation Tunnel, one of the first large public works for irrigation in South Africa (1842-44) implemented by the son of the famous missionary James Philip. This tunnel was built with Khoe labour, but even to this day the achievement is presented as being the work of famous white men, and the Khoe labour that went into the tunnel, and its historic connections to the land and to shelter, is not acknowledged. The tunnel has become a site of pilgrimage for the local Khoe community. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film tracks how Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba came together in their work with Indigenous Rights and land struggles by forging a partnership with the Khoe community at Thyspunt. The impact of this kind of networking is hard to judge right now but it is an important first step. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/w0pKi8YmX1g |
| Title | Time-bound Projects and Inclusion (CTS Safeguarding Resource) |
| Description | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide projects with food for thought, and to help project team reflect on safeguarding policies and procedures that are appropriate in their context. In this video, Principal Investigator Aylwyn Walsh discusses the challenge of addressing issues around safeguarding and inclusion in time-bound projects. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The video resource has been shared with the CTS network and our wider network of informal partners including UKCDR, Bond and other GCRF Network+ projects. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyxgtQF6dtc |
| Title | Tom Schofield Interview |
| Description | Dr Tom Schofield was invited to Praxis first Nexus Event 'Heritage for Global Challenges' to share their experience as a Principal Investigator of Plurah Heritages of Istanbul: The Case of the Land Walls. Hear Tom talk about the project and share their thoughts on the Praxis event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cleZpPrkT0o&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Tommy Gerwer - Belongings Under a Tree |
| Description | Tommy Gerwer has persisted with farming even after retirement. Because stock theft is high, he farms lucerne. He was born on a farm in the 1950s that his farmer started working on in 1930. Mr Gerwer is clear that the idea that It's difficult to farm in the "vaal" (dun-coloured) Karoo is a "white version" of the landscape. He remembers how his father had secret places and gardens, and how there was no shortage of water if you know how to farm. He says angora goats, which need very little water, are the white gold of South Africa. He says it was a great experience to grow up on a farm and work on a farm. He left school in 1970, and worked with his father for five years until he passed away in August 1975. That December his mother and him were evicted from the farm. Exactly 40 years later in New South Africa he was again evicted. As a member of the ANC he understands why the idea of fracking would be attractive, but warns that it's a dangerous thing There might be job creation, but it won't be long-term jobs and the danger of fracking is outweighs the benefits. He says that the loveliness of the Karoo is what we have to work with, the health factor, our plants and our animals that's should be our main concern, not fracking. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/Ca5jQiNVLqQ |
| Title | Tuzla, City of Salt by Bahtijara Hodžic |
| Description | The film is about Tuzla, city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It used be a developed industrial city, proud of its multiethnic existence. Even during the time of overwhelming ethnic nationalist policies, Tuzla never accepted anything that separated people. The film is about the struggles of the city, and the question whether Tuzla maintained the spirit of openness in a country which is in a long-lasting crisis?! |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | to come |
| URL | https://izazov.org/films |
| Title | UKRI Interview - Heritage Nexus |
| Description | Jaideep Gupte is Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, at University of Sussex and the Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure Challenge Leader at the UKRI. Jaideep joined Praxis in Lebanon for the Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus Event - hear his thoughts on the event. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnydGs1VjJQ&feature=emb_title |
| Title | UNESCO interview |
| Description | Find out what James Bridge (UNESCO) thought of Praxis first Nexus event 'Heritage for Global Challenges' and his hopes for the projects next steps. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Amplify the impact of heritage research across the GCRF and Newton Fund portfolio. Evaluation of the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQ4f9LBv1o&feature=emb_title |
| Title | Umasizkhe Stories: Deon Kapel |
| Description | Deon Kapel is 36 years old and still lives with his grandmother. He feels cramped and frustrated without access to land. He wants to be able to make a living on the land. He was born and raised in uMasizakhe township in Graaff-Reinet, where he and his siblings occupy a tiny house where his grandmother raised them. He has been pushing the municipality for decent housing and land for years - and getting no response. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/6oGd9odsBfs |
| Title | Uzabintwari project film |
| Description | This film documents a workshop from the youth-led Uzabintwari project at Rwamagana Youth center, funded by the Changing the Story Mobility Fund. The project are art, theatre and dialogue to explore the theme of heroism. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4mheK1ZlU |
| Title | Uzabintwari project zine |
| Description | This zine showcases the artwork created during a workshop as part of the youth-led Uzabintwari project at Rwamagana Youth center, funded by the Changing the Story Mobility Fund. The project are art, theatre and dialogue to explore the theme of heroism. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact |
| Title | Voicing Hidden Histories: Participatory Filmmaking, Advocacy & International Development |
| Description | A short film providing an overview of the activities and outcomes that have happened with groups in South Africa, India and Brazil as part of the Voicing Hidden Histories project. Password for viewing (this will be made public in the New Year): VHH17 |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Film premiered at Leeds International Film Festival as part of the 'Activist Film conference' coorganised by LIFF, Radical Film Network and UoL which is listed in the official brochure. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/241709406 |
| Title | Voicing Hidden Histories: Participatory Filmmaking, Advocacy and International Development |
| Description | This film, which features footage from the films created by each group as well as interviews with project members, was edited by Prof. Paul Cooke to provide an overview of the Voicing Hidden Histories project and outputs. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | The film was screened at Leeds International Film Festival, and has also been screened internationally. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/241709406 |
| Title | Wild Horses: A film by Berina Porca |
| Description | Three stories of people coping with the absence of their loved ones, who left Bosnia to look for a better life. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | to come |
| URL | https://izazov.org/films |
| Title | Women in Arms |
| Description | This short film was created by the team at Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba to highlight the crucial role that women are playing in claiming space, dreaming new futures, and implementing militant action at the frontlines of land justice in South Africa. We created it for a collaboration between the Support Centre for Land Change (http://www.sclc.co.za) and Tshintsha Amakhaya (https://amakhaya.org/) where they brought women activists from across the Karoo to Graaff-Reinet for a conference on 22-24 August 2019. We also presented a piece of theatre that unpacked the themes and priorities. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This film was a crucial moment in bringing together the struggles of the various partners into a youth-driven narrative. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/aSetTyXxNpY |
| Title | Working Paper #5 Curriculum for Music, Dance and Drama in Rwanda Working Paper #5 Curriculum for Music, Dance and Drama in Rwanda |
| Description | This working paper examines the use of interdisciplinary arts-based approaches to peacebuilding through the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project in Rwanda. The authors of this essay will provide an overview of the project design and research methodologies of MAP; serving as a reflection of creative approaches in conflict transformation processes to strengthen individual and community-level tolerance for paradox and ambiguity. This reflection process is being used to inform our knowledge and understanding of how MAP might contribute to the subject of Music, Dance and Drama in the National Curriculum Framework of Rwanda. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Shared via the CTS website and Twitter account as a resource. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/transnational-justice/ |
| Title | Working Paper Mobilising Histories: Dark pasts - brighter futures? (Jan 2019) |
| Description | "Dark pasts - brighter futures? Mobilising histories of discrimination, persecution and genocide to make progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals". The legacy of traumatic pasts - including internal displacement, war and genocide - is one of the most serious obstacles to development in post-conflict states. The Mobilising Histories workshop, which was organised by the University of Leeds and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, and supported through the UK Global Challenges Research Fund, brought together academics and practitioners (from NGOs and civil society organisations), to learn from each other, and share their experience of devising arts interventions that mobilise 'dark pasts' to promote social justice agendas. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/mobilising_histories_final/ |
| Title | Working Paper. Arts based research practices and alternatives (June 2018) |
| Description | "Arts-based research practices and alternatives: Reflections on workshops in Uganda and Bangladesh" by Ruth Kelly and Emilie Flower. "In July 2017, two groups of academics, artists and activists held research workshops in Kampala and in Dhaka to explore how art could help us imagine and inhabit new ways of being, feeling and knowing, opening space to begin to articulate alternatives. We worked from the premise that imagination is not just something we have; it's something we generate together, through shared experiences, languages and ideas; through image, stories, dance, and music. Tapping into the rich cultural and artistic heritage of the places we come from, participants used art to experience the world differently and to dream up visions of a more just and sustainable world. [...] In this working paper, we (Emilie Flower and Ruth Kelly) situate, describe and reflect on the two three-day workshops in Kampala, Uganda and Dhaka Bangladesh. We explore whether and how arts-based research practices can disrupt dominant ways of knowing and performing 'development,' allowing activists and practitioners to explore different ways of knowing and to identify and articulate alternatives". |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wps3-kelly-and-flower/ |
| Title | Xolile Speelman |
| Description | Xolile Speelman describes the experience of growing up in the Karoo as "rewarding" - he says thgat as a young man he got his history from "illiterate" parents who were nevertheless much more informed than people of today. Compared to how he lived when he was younger, and where he is now, Xolile describes a history characterized by goodwill between people. Most of all ge describes a clean past, where he went swimming in clean, clean water... It was a subsistence society dependent on natural resources, where women collected dung to coat the floors of houses, ensuring a lifestyle that was clean and neat. Today, he feels that the government encourages people to dirty the land more and more, to teach children to play with the rubbish on street corners. He hopes that the founding principles of the country will eventually be implemented. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/U0wI23Kppxs |
| Title | YRB Digital Exhibition - Creative Resistance |
| Description | The CTS Youth Research Board were tasked with curating four digital exhibitions, using content from across the CTS commissioned projects, around core themes they identified through their work as part of the project. 'Creative resistance' was one of them. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The exhibitions will form part of the CTS digital archive and are an invaluable way of highlighting the value of arts-based approaches in our work, as well as the YRB's own impact on the project. The exhibitions will also be shared on 'mini museum' boxes, designed and recorded by the YRB, that will be shared across our 27 commissioned projects across 12 countries, to be used with other young people connected to these organisations |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/oNXpkMsyTh7JCIU4?ref=Link |
| Title | YRB Digital Exhibition - Participatory Arts |
| Description | The CTS Youth Research Board were tasked with curating four digital exhibitions, using content from across the CTS commissioned projects, around core themes they identified through their work as part of the project. 'Participatory Arts' was one of them. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The exhibitions will form part of the CTS digital archive and are an invaluable way of highlighting the value of arts-based approaches in our work, as well as the YRB's own impact on the project. The exhibitions will also be shared on 'mini museum' boxes, designed and recorded by the YRB, that will be shared across our 27 commissioned projects across 12 countries, to be used with other young people connected to these organisations |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/46WQmpmjdWuWUhJG?ref=Link |
| Title | YRB Digital Exhibition - Peace building |
| Description | The CTS Youth Research Board were tasked with curating four digital exhibitions, using content from across the CTS commissioned projects, around core themes they identified through their work as part of the project. 'Peace building' was one of them. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The exhibitions will form part of the CTS digital archive and are an invaluable way of highlighting the value of arts-based approaches in our work, as well as the YRB's own impact on the project. The exhibitions will also be shared on 'mini museum' boxes, designed and recorded by the YRB, that will be shared across our 27 commissioned projects across 12 countries, to be used with other young people connected to these organisations. |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/muu55QchcD3d02G8?ref=Link&loc=play |
| Title | YRB Digital Exhibition - Youth Leadership |
| Description | The CTS Youth Research Board were tasked with curating four digital exhibitions, using content from across the CTS commissioned projects, around core themes they identified through their work as part of the project. 'Youth Leadership' was one of them. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The exhibitions will form part of the CTS digital archive and are an invaluable way of highlighting the value of arts-based approaches in our work, as well as the YRB's own impact on the project. The exhibitions will also be shared on 'mini museum' boxes, designed and recorded by the YRB, that will be shared across our 27 commissioned projects across 12 countries, to be used with other young people connected to these organisations |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/qQksbxIhXwzbRMSc |
| Title | You Become Numb Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores when rape becomes routine, numbness is the only to way to survive. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | You Get Used To Violence Animation |
| Description | A Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia animation. The animation explores wow wanting friends and making money pulled one teenager into a world of violence. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Unknown |
| Title | You're Not Alone Poster Series |
| Description | he Daily Lives of Young People group within the Changing the Story Youth Research Board is comprised of Jesús, Eric, Jayden, and Rovithono who share a common interest in understanding the factors that underpin youth unemployment in India, Venezuela, Rwanda, and South Africa, and in advocating for more equitable and diverse employment opportunities for young people around the world. The group interviewed researchers working on two Changing the Story projects, Tribal Education Methodology (India) and Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia, to find out more about the experiences of young people on those projects. Building on their findings, the group developed and designed a series of flyers to offer a message of inspiration and hope, and to remind young people that they are not alone in the challenges that they are experiencing. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The group officially launched their flyer series at the Campaign for Change launch event on Thursday 6 December 2021, and they will be releasing their flyers periodically over the course of December 2021 and January 2022. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Title | Youth Art toolkit: ImaginingOtherwise |
| Description | Youth Arts toolkit sharing methods, approaces and outcomes for youth arts engagement in ImaginingOtherwise |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Shared in youth arts organisations across the globe - used locally in Mexico, Colombia, Kenya and beyond |
| URL | https://www.tshisimani.org.za/wp-content/uploads/IMAGININGOTHERWISE_WEB-toolkit-final.pdf |
| Title | Zamuxolo Matha - Youth Talks |
| Description | Umasizakhe born and bred social activist and co-founder of Youth-in-Power Zamuxolo Matha thinks that private ownership of natural resources if a form of blasphemy: to turn somegthing that is meant for everybody into a commodity, so that you can restrain others from using it, is exploitation. He also articulates the way this plays out in Graaff-reinet as a form of environmental racism: access to land and water translates into people's ability to take care of their personal hygiene, and other personal and psychological needs. Young people end up living with their parents, to the extent that there are houses wth 3-4 generations under one very small roof. The people of Masizakhe don't have access to the wide open spaces with their clean air, vegetation, and agricultural grandeur most people associate with the Karoo. Zamu wants to be an ever more active part of involving young people in improving their lives in the Karoo. Youth need to get more organised at all levels of civil society, getting into businesses, getting into the correct forum. Become entrepreneurs in order to leave a legacy for the next generation. As he says, the status quo is that 60 year-olds are deciding for 20-year olds: "These people had their own revolution it's done, it's over for them: now we need our own". |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/GXrmJGpalx4 |
| Title | Zuko Kedamile... Radical Narratives |
| Description | Zuko Kedamile is an activist and co-founder of Youth-in-Power who wants to draw people's attention to the untold history of Graaff-Reinet, the fourth oldest town in the country. He reminds us of 1985, when people were forcibly removed to Khayelitsha in Graaff-Reinet from Adendorp. They were moved from much larger plots to smaller ones, and into houses filled with asbestos in. Today it frustrates him to have to sit down and engage nicely with people who took the land without engagement, and pushed people into such terrible circumstances. He is very skeptical of the idea of the Rainbow Nation, which seems to have meant that South Africa has not having a proper conversation about reparations. People want the land, they need the land, and they are identifying land to occupy. Zuko stays passionate about the people of the Karoo, who he says are so unique. Every day they challenge him to think more and more about the town itself. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | All interviews contributed to amplifying the voices of poor and landless people telling the stories of the land. For our project team these stories served as the input for their analysis both in workshop and in theatrical form. |
| URL | https://youtu.be/bE622qqeCZ8 |
| Title | Šta onda? A film by Hana Hasanefendic |
| Description | The film is a youthful, rebellious and cynical critique of B&H's national mentality. From the very beginning the film criticizes the way our youthful generations were raised. The film ridicules the way generations have been raised in the country, however sincerely questions the outcomes of having a careless, and corrupted nation. Although the film begins as a critique, it ends with an open question left to be interpreted by every young individual in the country. Every generation has their own share of time, but one day our time will come, too! |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | to come |
| URL | https://izazov.org/films |
| Description | In Year 2 (October 2018- September 19) Changing the Story (CTS) has primarily focussed on selecting and supporting the delivery and implementation of 17 projects that build on the findings of our phase one research and proof of concept projects. This has led us to expand our work into 13 countries in total, distributing £810, 043.31 in grant funding. CTS' commissioned projects engaged over 700 workshop participants during this time, building links with 63 new partner organisations and, along with the core CTS team, producing 49 artistic products in the process. Other key outputs from year 2 included the publication of 5 critical reviews from Phase 1 of the project on our website, 1 co-edited book published by Routledge, Participatory Arts in International Development' (ed. by Paul Cooke and Inés Soria-Donlan) featuring chapters from CTS Co-Investigators amongst others, 25 blogs, and a range of other online resources. These digital outputs, as well as expanded capacity in the team thanks to additional funding, and a continued focus on developing our relationships with our growing network, have all contributed to the programme's increased visibility in the field of participatory arts and international development. This is reflected, inter alia, in our increased follower community on Twitter, the website and Youtube, positioning CTS as a key resource for the wider community. CTS activities have also been profiled on local and national TV and press in a range of countries. CTS has also supported its user community through the delivery of 6 CTS network events during Year 2, engaging with 1,031 attendees. These workshops have resulted in a range of outcomes, including increased interdisciplinarity engagement across the project, new partnerships and project ideas developed across the network, and unanticipated outputs (such as the development of a co-edited book organised independently by ECR grantees of CTS). As CTS' projects continue to evolve, we are also starting to see policy impact emerge from our Phase 1 projects, particularly with regards to the integration of informal education approaches into formal education structures in Rwanda and Kosovo. Proof of concept projects delivered in Rwanda and South Africa have also been successful in efforts to sustain approaches through increased scaling up their approaches; the South African 'Changemakers Programme' having now been delivered in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Gambia, Mauritius and South Africa, with plans to expand into Kenya, Namibia and Senegal in 2020. CTS has been acknowledged by partners as 'an excellent example of a Network running smoothly' and continues to support partners to proactively mitigate institutional challenges to project implementation wherever possible. Having started the year with a Leeds-based team of two people (the PI and PM, plus support from our post-award team), CTS has successfully integrated five new staff members into the core team - Praxis PI Stuart Taberner (already a Co-Investigator on CTS), Praxis Project Officer Lauren Wray, Praxis Post Doctorate Researcher Deena Dajania, Safeguarding Project Development Officer Tony Cegielka and CTS Postgraduate Researcher Katie Hodgkinson - helping to strengthen CTS' values-based approach in listening and responding to our growing network (currently at 129 partnerships) through our research and practice. One example of this has been the establishment of our Mobility Fund for Global South grantees (researchers, practitioners and young people). Praxis launched in January 2019. Since then and until the end of the current reporting period highlights include: Co-producing conferences organised by CTS in Cambodia in March 2019 and, in collaboration with another of Cooke's projects, CE4AMR, in Nepal in June 2019. Developing interactive exercises ("Engaging with Policy and Policymakers" and "Working in Communities") to generate new insight into project experiences and potential for scalability of impact. Publication of blogposts drawing on the learning from the Nepal exercises it facilitated. Consolidation of a programme and timeline for 2019-2021 that addresses the breadth of the AHRC-GCRF portfolio by identifying four thematic clusters: Heritage (December 2019-February 2020); Conflict & Displacement (September-November 2020); Resilience (January-March 2020); Health (September-November 2020). For each of the thematic clusters Praxis will host two Learning Events and one Nexus Event. Cohort-building for the theme Heritage. This was based on GTR searches as well as the support of Challenge Leaders and Portfolio Managers in identifying further projects that did not appear in GTR searches. Praxis contacted identified projects and scheduled interviews with 22 of them within the reporting period. Engagement for Heritage events by 31 GCRF projects and 11 Newton projects, showing the relevance of the project's priorities to the wider national portfolio. Supporting projects by connecting researchers across innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations. Two groups of researchers that Praxis introduced to each other (on heritage and mental health) have gone on to submit a bid for further funding together. |
| Exploitation Route | We hope our research will be of benefit to the communities with whom we are working and also to policy makers at regional, national and transnational levels. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk |
| Description | It is with great pleasure and sadness that we present our final report on Changing the Story: Building Civil Society with and for Young People in Conflict Affected Settings. It is, of course, great to be able to take stock of what our network has achieved over the last four years with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Global Challenges Research Fund and the Fraxinus Trust, as well as many, many other stakeholders. However, it is sad that the project itself is coming to an end. In the report we give an overview of the journey we have been on as a network, dealing, not least with the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had a huge impact on the ways in which we were able to undertake this work. COVID was undoubtedly a major challenge for the communities the network engaged with across the Global South. It did, however, present us with the opportunity to develop interesting new ways of working, the ramifications of which are only beginning to emerge now. The main focus of our final report, however, is on the key learning that has emerged from the 34 projects the network has run over the last four years. This ranges from new insights into the role the arts can play in supporting peacebuilding and youth development, to the need for more inclusive approaches to the building of new national narratives post-conflict, to the ways in which participatory projects can support particular policy goals around youth leadership and education. At the heart of all of this work has been the contribution that young people can, themselves, make to shaping post-conflict civil societies. Over each iteration of Changing the Story, young people have become evermore central to both project development and delivery. Here we might give special mention to the work undertaken by our Youth Research Board. This group of exceptional young people has provided invaluable critical reflection on the research insights to have emerged from our work. This is a group of young people who are already making a significant contribution to their local communities, and is one of the ways we hope to ensure the legacy of our project. We have, in fact, been concerned with questions of legacy and sustainability from the start of the project. We have always emphasised the need for our funding to be considered as a platform for the network to leverage further funding and support. With this in mind, we have always sought to respond to the training and development needs of our partners, creating, for example, a mobility fund to allow members of the network- whatever role they have played in Changing the Story - to travel to meet up with people they might previously have only seen on a Zoom call, in order to share learning, develop new projects and showcase their work. At the same time, the questions of legacy, sustainability as well as saleability have been an important research focus of the project. Throughout we have asked what these terms mean within the types of arts-focused projects we have supported as a network. This has also been an important question for our sister project PRAXIS with which we have collaborated- not least recently on a report looking at youth focused development projects from across the entire AHRC GCRF and Newton portfolio. Our network should be proud of what it has achieved. However, Changing the Story is only the starting point for this work. Much of the work supported by the project carries on, the insights generated by Changing the Story funding being embedded in the practice of the organisations we have worked with and who continue to work with the communities they support. In order to enhance this ongoing work, the project leaves behind itself an archive of resources and an online audiovisual exhibition designed to stimulate further discussion and provide practical materials for groups and individuals interested in developing further arts-based, youth-led programmes. We hope you enjoy reading this report and would be keen to talk with anyone interested in developing this work further. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | AHRC/FCDO Advisory Board for the Humanitarian Protection Research Programme |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/funding-call/ahrc-dfid-collaborative-humanitarian-protection-research-progr... |
| Description | Adoption of Youth Committee Model within the standards for 'Drop In Centres' within national policy by the South African Department of Social Development (DSD). |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Changing the Story, Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia: influence on teacher training |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The Cambodia strand of Changing the Story works in partnership with the Documentation Center of Cambodia on the delivery of the Anlong Veng Peace Tours. The Peace Tours have principally focused on engaging trainee pre-service teachers in Cambodia, to educated them about the legacies of genocide and issues of reconciliation, through engagement with members of a stigmatised Khmer Rouge community. Through Phase 1 of the CTS involvement, participatory film-making methods have been introduced as a learning strategy on the tours, training and encouraging participants to elicit and produce their own films about experiences of the Khmer Rouge regime from within the Anlong Veng community. The programme promotes critical reflection by teachers trained through the DC-Cam peace tours - where the introduction of situated participatory filmmaking has identified a need to improve the critical reflection skills of trainee teachers in the country, thereby allowing them to transfer these skills to the students they teach. The Tours have trained over 50 trainee teachers in new participatory film making approaches, producing learning materials that can be used to enhance genocide education as they 'multiply' their learning when they return to teach elsewhere in the public school system. One of the trainee teacher groups' participatory film outputs, Leader with Two Faces, was shared on the US Embassy of Phnom Penh's Facebook page as an example of good practice, where it was viewed more than 78,000 times. Overall, the Cambodia film outputs have to date reached digital audiences of over 132,000, demonstrating the relevance and interest in such projects and their stories. Our aim, over the next year, is to consolidate these resources and findings for use and uptake in packages of accessible classroom resources, as well as offering our findings to civil society organisations in Cambodia working on cognate themes of historical dialogue and youth engagement. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/268822879 |
| Description | Changing the Story, Mobile Arts for Peace: development of teacher resource manual |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) is a project of Changing the Story in Rwanda. Through a programme of activities, 10 cultural artists trained 25 educators through a 'Training of Trainers' event, who went on to train 62 teachers at their own schools. These teachers have impacted 526 young people through MAP activities. A key production was the MAP handbook of participatory arts exercises, produced in English and Kinyarwanda. This manual has been disseminated to partnering organisations and has been validated by the Rwandan Education Board (REB) |
| URL | http://www.irdp.rw/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAP-Stakeholder-pict.pdf |
| Description | Changing the Story, Mobile Arts for Peace: partnership with Rwandan Education Board (REB) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) is a project of Changing the Story in Rwanda. This has been created in response to a need identified by our main policy partner, the Rwandan Board of Education (REB), as well as artists and CSO practitioners, to scale up cultural, artistic and peace-promotion activities, in order to fill a gap in the national curriculum. MAP has influenced the national curriculum framework in Music, Dance and Drama. This has been achieved through curriculum and textbook development and MAP alignment with already existing REB training; schools now hold copies of the MAP manual in both English and Kinyarwanda, and the teachers who have been trained are training other teachers it is application. |
| URL | http://www.irdp.rw/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAP-Stakeholder-pict.pdf |
| Description | Changing the Story, Young Changemakers Programme: dissemination to other countries |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The Changemakers Programme is a project of Changing the Story in South Africa. It is a human-rights education programme, created in partnership with the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation and Aegis Trust, that uses a series of case studies, relevant to the particular context of delivery, to support youth-leadership development in order to promote pluralism and tackle extremism. The programme involves a number of arts and drama-based activities, including exhibition-making, role-play and poster design. The team developed three case studies to be used as part of the programme - the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the Holocaust (in each case using an example from outside the region to provide a different perspective on the histories that participants will know well) - to create a leadership programme for young people (aged 16-18). Through this programme learners acquire key vocabulary to describe issues around extremism and to develop critical thinking skills, all of which are rooted in using the past to cast new light on participants understanding of the present, to support youth-leadership development in order to promote pluralism and tackle extremism. As a result of the engagement with Changing the Story, versions of CMP are currently being developed in Mozambique (where the team is working with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) and in Nigeria (where it is working with the American University of Nigeria) and CTS has explored how the methodology can be adapted to Senegal and Gambia. |
| Description | Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme for MAP at Home |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Reach of impact included the training of mental health professionals from all of the primary hospitals across Rwanda. Validation from the leading mental health and education institutions in Rwanda to incorporate MAP at Home into mental health programmes. |
| Description | Delivered workshop for policy makers at the NACCW Biannual Conference, South Africa (BST) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | In July 2019 Professor Paul Cooke and Dr Lou Harvey from the University of Leeds joined four representatives of the Bishop Simeon Trust and its South African operational partner, One Child One Family , at the biannual conference of the NACCW in Durban . At a very well attended workshop we had the opportunity to share the leadership model with key policy decision makers, NGO leads and practitioners. This eventually led to the integration of the leadership model into the standards set by the National Department of Social Development for their 'drop-in centres'. |
| Description | Land provided to Bonisiwe Safe Park |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bonisiwe Safe Park is a partner organisation of Bishop Simeon Trust (and a fieldwork site for this project) based in the township Magagula Heights in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was by far the least developed Safe Park that we have been working with, in terms of facilities as well as general resource. The Safe Park supports around 100 children of all ages by offering them a nutritious meal and a space to do their homework after school. The Safe Park currently runs out of a makeshift shack and container that are situated on the outskirts of its community, on land that has been borrowed from the Church. Over 10 years ago, the Church began the construction of a small building on the plot of land that was to be for their use. The previous Pastor of the Church had promised Patricia, the founder and manager of Bonisiwe, that she would be able to have access to this building for the Safe Park. However the Pastor passed away shortly after the construction began, and after her passing the building was never completed. As the years have passed, the Church has become more eager to reclaim their land and the future of the Safe Park has become uncertain. As you will see, this was the main concern of the youths that we worked with. They felt that it was their right to have access to a safe space that they could attend for their daily meal and extra curricular support, without the fear that this space could be taken away from them at any moment. The films that they created in the first half of the project also touched on other issues that can be found in their communities that they decided they would like to speak out about. The young people we worked with there decided to make their films about this call for land and a space through which to develop the safe park and keep it open. They showcased their films at a public event they organised, where they invited members of the Church and local council. The result was that Bonisiwe Safe Park were allocated a plot of land to build a new youth centre on by the Ekurhuleni local council. The impact of this is various - economical improved services for the young people that access the safe park, further security of the safe park structure (and validation of its practices and value in the community) and significant impact for the young people who campaigned for the change in terms of their self-confidence and ability to effect change. (scroll down to section 3/4 of the Yarn link below for more details). |
| URL | http://yarncommunity.com/stories/538 |
| Description | Making of the Museum of Education, Kosovo |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Webpage would be part of the future Museum of Education, I was invited in Municipality of Prishtina to be part of the committee that will set the standards for design of Museum of Education. - provided by Linda Gusia *Please note Kosovo was not available as a country to choose from the list above so I had no option but to choose Serbia. This influence relates specifically to Kosovo. |
| Description | Martin Keat - The collaboration has informed the development of our youth leadership programme, providing us with the means to maintain support for children as their communities move in and out of pandemic lockdowns |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The new programme approach has helped us to equip 5 local community based organisations develop and deliver a remote programme of support with a potential daily reach to up to 2,000 vulnerable children in South Arica, providing them with an avenue of support for early identification of risk of abuse, as well as offering continued remote counselling, advice and referrals to other social, health and protection services. |
| Description | Member of Rights for Time Network Plus Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.rights4time.com/about |
| Description | National Association of Child Care Workers |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Through the advocacy campaings organised by the young people in the safe parks across Johannesburg, where they shared the films they had made and spoke of the main issues they wished to raise awareness and call for change, the Bishop Simeon Trust and University of Leeds are now working with the National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW) in South Africa, who are key lobbyists to the government for the provision of programmes like the Safe Parks programme and developed the Safe Park model currently being replicated across South Africa by over 20 organisations.. As the Safe Parks programme is re-evaluated every 4 years, the NACCW wish to use the films made by the youths to support their campaign to keep the safe parks going and expand them. A new HEFCE follow-on fund, with Prof. Paul Cooke and Dr. Lou Harvey, will be used to support the development of this partnership and shape the future of the Isibindi Safe Park Model nationally and internationally. |
| URL | http://www.naccw.org.za/isibindi/safe-parks |
| Description | New School Counseling Course to provide Teacher Training in Youth Counseling in Nagaland, India |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Mental health in post-conflict Nagaland, India remains an under-researched, but critical issue particularly among young people. This project both highlighted the problem, and attracted the attention of the State Council of Educational Research and Training in Nagaland (SCERT), which sent delegates to the film screenings. Following the film screenings, SCERT invited the Kohima Institute to partner with them in developing a teacher training course focusing on conflict and post-conflict related mental health problems specific to Nagaland state. In April 2020, the Kohima Institute intends to accommodate an initial batch of 30 teachers for a 6 month SCERT-certified diploma course, led initially by SCERT trainers, and gradually integrating a mix of public and private practitioners, as well as social science researchers working on mental health issues, in the teaching. |
| URL | https://scert.nagaland.gov.in/guidance-counseling/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) academic consultancy for the British Council on media independence and gender equality in the Western Balkans / Kosovo |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) contribution to Human Development Action plan (gender equality) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) discussed potential impact pathways with Ministry of Education, Kosovo |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Discussions in Ministry of Education, Prishtina, conducted by P1 (Kosovo) ACT's Co-Is Dr Nita Luci and Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, addressed possibilities of using pedagogical methodologies piloted through P1 (Kosovo) ACT's proof of concept project and currently further explored and tested through P2 'Museum' and P2 'ReSpace' in teacher training during secondary education teachers' training. This possibility is currently planned to be developed further. |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) review of civic education and text books on ministerial expert board in Kosovo |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Colombia's "Truth Commission" endorses "Territories of Listening" concept |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Colombia's "Truth Commission" now endorses the "Territories of Listening" concept (sound, testimony and itinerancy) developed via this project as part of their testimony-gathering methodology for 2020-2021 activities. We are in the process of signing a formal Partnership to this end. Territories of Listening not only informs the Commission's work with youth but also areas of pedagogy and peacebuilding. |
| Description | Sreenath Nair - Tribal Education: Government of Kerala has been working on developing various strategies and mwethodologies for tribal education to prevent school drop out among yout learners. However, an adequate method is yet to be identified. This is the context in which TEM Toolkit is developed to support the need. TEM project has already influenced the Department of education's approach to tribal education in the following ways: 1) TEM Toolkit will be introduced to all tribal schools in Wayanad 2) TEM Tool kit will be introduced to other tribal schools in Kerala 3) TEM educators will be conducting training sessions to other tribal educaters 4) Government of Kerala will be accepting TEM educational methodology as a key approach to be integrated in the state sylabus. |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The following short term impacts are identified: 1) introducing TEM Tool kit to tribal schools in Wayanad 2) Trainig the trainers to implement TEM Toolkit in the state of Wayanad. The following long term impacts are identified: 1) introducing TEM Tool Kit in the tribal schools across the state 2) training the trainers in tribal schools across the state 3) Integrating TEM Toolkit into the state syllabus. |
| Description | The MIDEQ Hub Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.mideq.org/en/about-us/our-team/ |
| Description | 'Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community' AHRC-Funded OWRI Programme |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/N004647/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | AHRC ADDITIONAL FUNDING NOTIFICATION: Research Grant, Large Grants |
| Amount | £19,465 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005354/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | AHRC ADDITIONAL FUNDING NOTIFICATION: Research Grant, Large Grants (additional funding stream 5) |
| Amount | £16,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005354/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| Description | AHRC: Research Grant |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/S005978/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | ATTUNE : Understanding mechanisms and mental health impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences to co-design preventive arts and digital interventions. |
| Amount | £3,899,086 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/W002183/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Arts and Humanities Research Council PRAXIS Short Extension |
| Amount | £179,405 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia |
| Amount | £142,207 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V004212/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia |
| Amount | £142,207 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V004212/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Changing the Story Additional Funding Stream - AMR Community Event |
| Amount | £50,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005354/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | Changing the Story Additional Funding Stream - Cross-Cutting GCRF Impact Proposal (PRAXIS) |
| Amount | £1,058,942 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005354/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | Changing the Story Additional Funding Stream - Safeguarding |
| Amount | £97,329 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/R005354/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Changing the Story Follow-on Fund: Promoting youth-led social entrepreneurship in partnership with communities and civil society organisations |
| Amount | £24,973 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Developing a Youth-Leadership Programme for Deaf Children in, and beyond, South Africa |
| Amount | £131,967 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V011626/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | HEFCE Allocation for Global Challenge Research, University of Leeds |
| Amount | £61,145 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | HEFCE Allocation for Global Challenge Research, University of Leeds |
| Amount | £99,209 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Land rights in rural South Africa: Creating a record of practice in an ongoing crisis |
| Amount | £88,468 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/T011815/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| Description | My Story - News for and by teenagers. Preventing the recruitment of teenagers by illegal armed groups through participatory journalism in Colombia. |
| Amount | £143,269 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/W006707/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Research England - University of Leeds QR funding |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Research England Allocation for Global Challenge Research: University of Leeds QR Funding |
| Amount | £99,997 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Safeguarding adolescent mental health in India: a co-designed feasibility study of a systems intervention targeting youth anxiety and depression. |
| Amount | £931,827 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/T040238/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Scottish Funding Council GCRF Global Impact Accelerator (University of Edinburgh) |
| Amount | £32,680 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Scottish Funding Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Supporting Vulnerable Children to become Youth Leaders in South Africa: Shaping the Future of the Isibindi Safe Park Model Nationally |
| Amount | £84,935 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/S005579/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | UNESCO-AHRC Conference Maximising the Impact of Heritage Research for the SDGs |
| Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Ubwuzu: Shaping the Rwandan National Curriculum through Arts |
| Amount | £86,399 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/S005978/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Title | Four Part Scheme of Work: Examining Interpretations of Civic National Values Made by Young People in Post-Conflict Settings (Nepal and Kenya) |
| Description | The Four Part Scheme of Work is shaped for young people to REFLECT on their life experiences - to RECORD their thoughts - to bring their thoughts to life through PERFORMANCE - to share these through CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGES as their interpretations of civic national values. This process is for young people to advocate their communication of the peacebuilding process in their post-conflict national contexts. During the processes of this knowledge production, the young people will use iPads as digital diaries to continuously reflect on and record their learning. Four lesson plans have been created to be facilitated by teachers/CSO leaders and performance arts organisations: Lesson one and Lesson two both encourage young people to reflect on their locality; to articulate and record their experiences of community; cultural and ethnic differences and similarities; and cultural identity and citizenship. These lessons develop thinking, discussion and shared articulation on values such as 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' at a micro community level. Lesson three helps young people to turn their ideas from Lesson one and Lesson two into action and performance facilitated by professionals from performance arts organisations. The performances generated by the young people are to be captured on film. Lesson four uses the film made in Lesson three as a basis of cross-cultural exchanges. The ideas from the films will be shared between young people in different parts of their country. This is to facilitate thinking, discussion and shared articulation on how young people's interpretations of civic national values can be advanced further towards a sense of connection and belonging with national identity at a macro community level. |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This tool has been applied by teachers and CSO in four schools: two in Kenya (urban and rural) and two in Nepal (urban and rural). In order to generate reach, inclusion and further impact for the use of the tool, it has been translated from English into three languages: Nepali, Swahili and Spanish. Dissemination of this scheme of work has taken place across schools in Kenya and Nepal. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Title | MAP Critical Review and Evaluation Report |
| Description | The seventy-two page critical review written by Dr Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo from the University of Rwanda provided a synopsis of peacebuilding approaches with and for young people in Rwanda alongside providing an evaluation of the MAP project that was conducted in the Eastern Province in Rwanda. The contents included: methods of data collection and analysis; practices and barriers of using arts for peacebuilding; MAP impact report; methods and findings; teachers report; methods and findings; youth report; methods and findings. Additionally, an artist report and appendix with relevant interview and survey questions. For the Training of Trainers and Youth Camp, a number of research tools were designed and delivered including: pre and post workshop surveys, reflection worksheets, reports and significant change questionnaires. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The development of this research tool has informed the overarching design and delivery of the Network Plus Changing the Story project alongside the evolution of the MAP project to continuously inform the project through monitoring and evaluation alongside its delivery. |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/map-critical-review/ |
| Title | Mobile Arts for Peace Participatory Action Research Toolkit |
| Description | This toolkit is designed was an output of the Connective Memories (Changing the Story Phase Two) project designed to accompany the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) manual on arts for peacebuilding authored by Professor Ananda Breed. The toolkit provides guidance and suggestion on how to adapt MAP activities for a participatory action research (PAR) project, including how to design, undertake and disseminate the project. The toolkit includes additional activities and tools drawn from PAR approaches and arts-based methods to supplement the MAP methodology. The toolkit is for children, youth and adults collaborating to produce action research. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The toolkit was used to train the 10 young MAP facilitators and 6 MAP Master Trainers from the Ubwuzu: Shaping the National Curriculum Through Arts project in participatory action research and is now being rolled out in the GCRF Network Plus project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peace Building in Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Rwanda and Nepal to train youth researchers in each country. . |
| Title | Making of the Museum of Education, Kosovo |
| Description | Model used for collecting data was Participatory Action Reaserch.(provided by Dr Linda Gusia) |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | To be provided by Linda Gusia |
| Title | Pensamiento y libertad entrevistas |
| Description | Full, anonymised transcripts of the six focus groups carried out with young people in Caracas in August and September 2019, available for further analysis by other researchers. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not known yet. |
| URL | http://pensamientoylibertad.com/entrevistas/ |
| Description | A Partner in Education |
| Organisation | A Partner in Education |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Mobile arts for peace (Rwanda strand) have shared their methodology and training opportunities with A Partner in Education. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A Partner in Education attended the recent stakeholder meeting in Kigali with policy makers, education and schools representatives and CSOs. They are interested to integrate these approaches into their own curriculum to enhance self-expression, experiential learning and to promote discourses outside predominant government narratives. |
| Impact | English Bwiza article. Impact of participatory arts methodologies to pedagogic approaches to teaching and learning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | ADMA (African Digital Media Academy) Rwanda |
| Organisation | Rwanda Polytechnic |
| Department | African Digital Media Academy |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have invited our partners to attend the BFX festival - an industry facing animation and visual effects festival and specialist workshops at Bournemouth University to work with new VR technologies, and related software - with a view to consider the artistic possibilities emerging from these tools. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ADMA (Africa Digital Media Academy) are collaborators on the ReSpace Large Grant Project. They will offer the project use of their facilities including the animation labs, video equipment and access to specialist staff mentors for the purpose of the arts-based workshops that will be running on this project. |
| Impact | The partnership with ADMA, Rwanda has facilitated knowledge and exchange and capacity building through the specialist workshops. Participants from ADMA included young academy students who are seeking to grow their skillset in the creative sector. This collaboration is still ongoing - but will result in the production of creative outputs such as the VR experience. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ARDA, Kosovo |
| Organisation | Association of Regional Development Agencies |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | ARDA Kosovo are one of our local Civil Society Organisation partners in Kosovo. We will be sharing all learning with them and our other local CSO partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ARDA Kosovo have contributed to the literature review that we have undertaken to better understand the Youth CSO landscape in Kosovo. They have also provided media resources for use on our website. |
| Impact | Their knowledge has contributed greatly to the literature review and thus a deeper understanding of the CSO youth sector in rural Kosovo, results of which will be published in late 2019. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP), Government of Kerala |
| Organisation | Government of Kerala |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The partnership helps with the skill development and knowledge acquisition for the tribal youth to reintegrate them into the main stream society. ASAP offers various programmes that will help the young generation to achieve success in education and career. TEM used their network for skill development and career enhancement for tribal youth in Wayanad. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ASAP has wider networking within the state bringing together trainers, employers and various other stakeholders to support the young generation population in the region. ASAP joined as a TEM partner towards the end of the project and as a result, we could only established a strong collaboration with them but not much on activities. However, ASAP will be working with us in the F-O-F activities and the following areas are identified as potential areas of collaboration: - Offering language and presentation skills for the marginalised tribal communities in the state of Kerala - Creating training programmes for tribal youth enabling them to secure placement or job - Encouraging the tribal youth to continue higher education - Attracting employers and creating new job opportunities |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Aegis Trust, Rwanda & South Africa |
| Organisation | The Aegis Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PI Contribution | In the Rwanda strand, Aegis Trust were named as an official CSO partner in the original application. As MAP has developed, it has provided opportunities for Aegis Trust to reflect on and transfer learning to their existing Rwanda Peace Education Programme (RPEP), which they were looking to adapt by including new bottom-up approaches and a more sustainable and localised training model. The development of the MAP methodology has therefore been of great value to them. Aegis Trust has a Peace and Education programme and works closely with the government to influence policy. The evolving partnership with Aegis Trust provides opportunities to link with their Research Hub network of Rwandan early career researchers, to influence their existing Peace and Education curriculum with participatory arts methodologies, and to align training and research opportunities. In the South Africa strand, Aegis Trust have become active partners of the strands project 'The Changemakers Programme'. The project has allowed them to expand a new arm of the changemakers programme to Rwanda, and provided valuable reflection on their own peace education programmes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In Rwanda, a member of Aegis Trusts' research team was recruited as our PDRA for the project, helping to strengthen relations. Aegis Trust supports a Research Hub http://www.genocideresearchhub.org.rw. In this regard, MAP can work with the Research Hub to offer workshops on research methodologies, particularly in relation to practice-as-research and efforts to connect the views of young people to policy making bodies through policy briefs. Aegis Trust also financed the role-out of the changemakers programme in Rwanda. In the South Africa Strand, the pilot programme of their 'Changemakers Programme' was collaboratively developed by stakeholders from South Africa (the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre and the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, as part of the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation in South Africa) and Rwanda (Aegis Trust, an organisation working to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity worldwide).As a collaboration between the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, Rwanda's Kigali Genocide Memorial, the Aegis Trust and the Salzburg Global Seminar, 'Changemakers' trains its participants to become active upstanders, learning from difficult histories of violence and genocide to create cohesive communities.The programme's development was spearheaded by the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (through its 3 Centres), Aegis Trust, Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center in Rwanda. In 2018, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Aegis Trust became the implementing institutions to launch the programme in Africa. |
| Impact | In Rwanda, project partner Aegis Trust has expressed an interest to integrate the MAP methodology into their Peace and Values education trainings that they have planned for 2019. In south Africa, The Changemakers Programmes' pilot was delivered to high school students and teachers in Johannesburg (at the JHGC with Thabo Secondary School, Soweto) and Rwanda (facilitated by Aegis Trust at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village) in October and November 2017. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Amanda Rogers - Cambodian Living Arts |
| Organisation | Cambodia Living Arts |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have worked closely with CLA on a regular basis throughout the project - we have had regular dialgoue over how the research is progressing, emerging findings, and CLA have been very supportive in helping managing elements of the project that have been affected by covid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Facilitating research happening during covid, delivering on key outputs such as performances, hosting workshops and commissioning artists |
| Impact | artistic and creative products |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | American University of Nigeria, P1 SOUTH AFRICA |
| Organisation | American University of Nigeria |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Following the successful evaluation of the pilot programme in South Africa and Rwanda, various countries in Africa including Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, the Gambia, Kenya, Central African Republic and South Sudan expressed interest to roll out the programme. Before the roll out, the developers and facilitators of the programme revised the CMP based on the recommendations of the evaluation report. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In July and September 2018, the programme was rolled out in Mozambique (with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) and Nigeria (with the American University of Nigeria) through the "train the trainer" workshops. Dr Kombe, observed these workshops and conducted pre- and post-surveys. |
| Impact | Train the Trainers in Nigeria. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Anibar Animation Festival, Kosovo |
| Organisation | Anibar International Animation Festival |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Anibar are one of our local Civil Society Organisation partners in Kosovo. We invited them to contribute to our Kick-off workshop at University of Prishtina and will be sharing all learning with them and our other local CSO partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Anibar attended our Kick-Off workshop in Kosovo, providing invaluable local expertise. The main focus of the workshop was to introduce the project, discuss the challenges of working with young people in participatory co-creation, and introduce the concept of participatory action research (PAR). The workshop also served as an opportunity to discuss the proof of concept of the project and agree on the next steps for the implementation of the project. They have also provided valuable media resources for use in the Kosovo strand of our website communications. |
| Impact | Anibar's media has been used to create outputs relating to the Kosovo strand, including blogs like the URL above and have also been active engagers on Twitter. Anibar's knowledge has also contributed greatly to the literature review and thus a deeper understanding of the CSO youth sector in rural Kosovo, results of which will be published in late 2019. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Benposta Nación de Muchachas |
| Organisation | Benposta Nación de Muchachas |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Benposta Nación de Muchachas are a CSO partner on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Benposta Nación de Muchachas are a CSO partner on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Impact | Several animation outputs. See creative outputs section. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Bishop Simeon Trust |
| Organisation | Bishop Simeon Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The UoL team provided funding (through VHH) to allow for the trial and implementation of the film project, film expertise via Prof. Paul Cooke, logistical and facilitation support via the in-country Research Officer Daniela Wegrostek, marketing support via our social media channels and university blogs, and research support via publications and research into participatory video approaches. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bishop Simeon Trust enabled a vital connection with Themba Interactive, our on-the-ground delivery partners for the South Africa strand of the project. THey provided free venue hire and a work station for our research officer, and gave 200 hours of staff-time in kind. They provided invaluable expertise regarding the context on the ground, as well as experienced facilitators through which we co-delivered the project. |
| Impact | Formal Memorandum of Understanding signed by Bishop Simeon Trust with UoL at the Voicing Hidden Histories celebration event in November 2017. All South Africa outcomes related to this project would not have been possible without this partnership. Further partnership work as BST now also a partner in our newly awarded major GCRF fund 'Changing the Story'. BST are now increasingly using the films we have used (and commissioning Prof. Paul Cooke to create new ones) as part of their marketing and awareness campaigns, helping BST to generate more funds for their work. The film's have also raised awareness of the 'safe parks' that BST/Themba support in South Africa by regional lobbyists who are now keen to work with the films created and the young people that made them to lobby for the continuation of the safe parks in the next round of public funding. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Bishop Simeon Trust |
| Organisation | Bishop Simeon Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | In 2020 our continued collaboration with the University of Leeds helped us to develop a remote youth leadership programme to maintain support to vulnerable children in South African townships using digital hubs during extended COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. This is documented in the report submitted to the University and may be viewed via this link: https://bit.ly/3rg1Xt2 |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration in 2020 helped us to develop a new youth leadership model which has helped us to 'pandemic proof' our support for vulnerable children. This built upon the long term support provided by the University through our partnership which has helped us to develop our entire approach to youth leadership development in South Africa. |
| Impact | See answers above. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Bond Safeguarding |
| Organisation | British Overseas NGOs for Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Adaptation and use of Bond safeguarding materials for use 'on the ground' in CTS projects; materials and survey feedback to Bond Sector Safeguarding Adviser and Senior Adviser for Sector Safeguarding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sector Safeguarding Adviser participation in CTS webinar for CSO / NGO staff in sub-Saharan Africa. Liaison with SSA and counterpart at University of Liverpool on Modern Slavery project. |
| Impact | Adapted scenarios, response flowcharts, policies contextualised to various CTS audiences. Discussion platform for CTS responses to 'Safeguarding in International Development' questionnaire. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Bophana Center |
| Organisation | Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Peter Manning has been liaising and sharing practice with several domestic and international organisations, including the Bophana Center around the project's development of the pre-existing Anlong Veng Peace Tours spearheaded by Documentation Centre of Cambodia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bophana Center have provided advice and shared learning from relevant related projects. As the Cambodia strand moves into its second phase, Bophana Center are becoming a more central partner for sharing learning, led by our new Cambodia co-I's, Keo Duong's, close involvement with the organisation. |
| Impact | Outputs will be forthcoming in late 2019. This is a multidisciplinary partnership between academics and CSO Bophana Center, spanning sociology, justice & reconciliation and media studies. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Bournemouth University, Kosovo |
| Organisation | Bournemouth University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Bournemouth University is the UK Co-Investigator for the Kosovo Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has been provided relevant funding to complete this role. As a member of the wider network, we have also funded them to attend our capacity building events with global partners including in South Africa and the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr. Schwandner-Sievers is the UK Co-Investigator for the Kosovo Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has led on this strand of research and practice in all regards. Bournemouth University have also successfully received funding for and appointed two PhD Candidate's related to the project, one of which is also a local CSO partner from Kosovo, and their learning and research will be invaluable to wider application of research in the project. She has also lent an invaluable gender focus to the wider project because of the Kosovo strand work, which is encouraging us to focus more broadly on gender and other intersectionalities of youth in the project. |
| Impact | All Kosovo related activities. Multi-disciplinary across Social Anthropology, Gender studies, Arts and Media Studies. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | British Council - Ian Thomas |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | 12 December 2019 Meeting with Ian Thomas, British Council Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes and learnt from Ian about BC's Cultural Heritage Programmes. Discussed collaborating on two fronts: an event on evaluation of arts and humanities projects, and Ian attending the Heritage Nexus event. Ian attended the Heritage Nexus event in February 2020 and a collaborative workshop with BC on Evaluation scheduled for September 2020. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 12 December 2019 Meeting with Ian Thomas, British Council Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes and learnt from Ian about BC's Cultural Heritage Programmes. Discussed collaborating on two fronts: an event on evaluation of arts and humanities projects, and Ian attending the Heritage Nexus event. Ian attended the Heritage Nexus event in February 2020 and a collaborative workshop with BC on Evaluation scheduled for September 2020. |
| Impact | Ian Thomas facilitated a panel at the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon and will be taking part in a Praxis podcast episode about Heritage and Global Challenges. Plans to collaborate on a Evaluation workshop with Praxis in Sept 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | British Council Cultural Skills |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | British Council is one of our major partners on this project. We provide access for JGFC to an international research network and new research generated through the project, financial support through this grant for the Cultural Skills BC department to conduct new research in Colombia, expanding their research base. More contributions will be generated as the project progresses. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The British Council provide invaluable expertise in managing and nurturing international civil society organisation networks, and hwo to integrate research into practice. They are providing 10,000 of staff and administrative support and were instrumental in the development of this bid and other successful bids since submitted. They will be invaluable as a marketing and awareness tool as the project progresess through their global reach and offices, as well as of the Phase 2 commissioning projects via their country offices. More contributions will be generated as the project progresses. |
| Impact | BC's Research Manager Emily Morrison and Cultural Skills Director Simon Dancey presented a paper at our international conference in November 2017, and are currently drafting a paper for our book on our forthcoming participatory arts and international development. More outputs and outcomes will be added to RF as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Building Knowledge About Kosovo - CSO - academic collaboration working with young people from the region and beyond |
| Organisation | Kosovo Foundation for Open Society |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | 'Kosovo Strand' Co-I of Changing the Story, Dr S Schwandner-Sievers; Lura Lumani (one of three young researchers/artists co-creating the 'Zine Boom' project for ACT, the 'Kosovo Strand' flagship project); Donjete Murati (formerly of Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prishtina); and Dr Mary Drosopoulos, PGRA of CoLearnSEE have simultaneously collaborated closely under the umbrella of the KFOS project entitled "Building Knowledge about Kosovo", funded by the Open Society. The Foundation's has just created a a new "Kosovo Research and Analysis Fellowship (KRAF)" which, in continuation of this previous collaboration, identifies young and promising academics and policy analysts from the wider Western Balkan region and beyond, to support their research engagement with Kosovo as well as to facilitate the longer-term objective of forming a network of analysts that will advance better understanding of Kosovo's and the region's policy problems and engage in innovative forms of cooperation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fully funded Donjete Murati for co-created research (recently published). Enabled and funded the research on Kosovo of several young scholars, including Mary Drosopoulos and Francesco Trupia, who Dr S Schwandner-Sievers mentored (funded by KFOS) and with whom she co-published op-eds on the situation of young Kosovar migrants and the relations between young Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, respectively (blogs on CtS's web site forthcoming). |
| Impact | Murati, D. and Schwandner-Sievers, S. (2021), 'An Exercise in Legitimacy: Kosovo's Participation at the Venice Biennale', in: I. Armakolas et al. (eds), Local and International Determinants of Kosovo Statehood, vol II. Prishtina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society: 72 - 106. Armakolas, I., Schwandner-Sievers, et al. (2021), 'Introduction', in: I. Armakolas et al. (eds), Local and International Determinants of Kosovo Statehood, vol II. Prishtina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society: 13 - 29. Armakolas, I., Demjaha, A., Elbasani, A. and Schwandner-Sievers, S. (eds), 2021. Local and International Determinants of Kosovo Statehood, vol II. Prishtina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Available in print and online. ISBN 978-9951-503-06-8 Op-ed, Drosopulos, M. and Schwandner-Sievers, S. (2019), 'No more sad stories': Kosovar students negotiating reciprocal stereotypes in Thessaloniki', Koha Ditore and Koha.net, May 15. Op-ed, Trupia, F. and Schwandner-Sievers, S. (2019), '"Good Personhood": Local Serb Responses to a Citizenship Dilemma in Everyday Life', NGO-Aktiv, June 4. Armakolas, I., Schwandner-Sievers, et al. (2019), 'Introduction', in: I. Armakolas et al. (eds), Local and International Determinants of Kosovo Statehood, vol I. Prishtina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Prishtina: Kosovo Open Society Foundation: 17 - 33. Armakolas, I., Demjaha, A., Elbasani, A. and Schwandner-Sievers, S. (eds), 2019. Local and International Determinants of Kosovo Statehood, vol I. Prishtina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society. Available in print and online. ISBN 978-9951-503-05-1 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Cambodia Living Arts |
| Organisation | Cambodia Living Arts |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Peter Manning has been liaising and sharing practice with several domestic and international organisations, including Cambodia Living Arts around the project's development of the pre-existing Anlong Veng Peace Tours spearheaded by Documentation Centre of Cambodia. Cambodia Living Arts are also active members of our Arts & Development Evaluation Network, led by our PhD student. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cambodia Living Arts have provided invaluable advice regarding the practicalities of arranging international workshops in Cambodia with artists and researchers from around the world, and have also shared learning through their participation in our Arts & Development Evaluation network. |
| Impact | Shared learning across partnership has directly informed activities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Cambodian Ministry of Tourism |
| Organisation | Government of Cambodia |
| Department | Ministry of Tourism |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Our Co-Is Dr. Peter Manning and Dr. Ly Sok Kheang and PI Prof. Paul Cooke added additional value to the Ministry of Tourism part-funded 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' based at Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), which was the central focus of our Cambodia Phase 1 focus. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' programme, led by our Co-I Dr. Ly Sok Kheang (Documentation Centre of Cambodia) are part-funded by the Ministry of Tourism. Through this partnership, Ministry of Tourism shared resulting video outputs on their social media pages, helping us reach more than 100,000 views (one example of a film shared is below). |
| Impact | - Anlong Veng Peace Tour videos - Multidisciplinary (sociology, arts, film studies, heritage, history, justice & reconciliation) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica (CNMH) - Colombia |
| Organisation | National Center for Historical Memory |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Supported CNMH's regional diversity with the participation of the CSO (Gestores de Paz, Promoters of Peace) and the outputs from the PhotoVoice training-of-trainers approach. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CNMH staff accompanied the Training-of-Trainers of the Gestores mentors, providing capacity-building for how to reflect on historical memory as a community prior to the PhotoVoice workshops with children. |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary including photography, muralist, psychology and social work. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Changing the Story Bosnia |
| Organisation | Humanity in Action |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Working with CSO, Opera Circus, and ECR from the SSST University in Sarajevo, to convene and research as series of participatory filmaking workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants will be youth activists, and training designed to increase their voice within civil society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing practical expertise - film making - and contacts to networks of actors on the ground |
| Impact | Project only just begun |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Changing the Story Bosnia |
| Organisation | Opera Circus |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Working with CSO, Opera Circus, and ECR from the SSST University in Sarajevo, to convene and research as series of participatory filmaking workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants will be youth activists, and training designed to increase their voice within civil society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing practical expertise - film making - and contacts to networks of actors on the ground |
| Impact | Project only just begun |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Changing the Story Bosnia |
| Organisation | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Working with CSO, Opera Circus, and ECR from the SSST University in Sarajevo, to convene and research as series of participatory filmaking workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants will be youth activists, and training designed to increase their voice within civil society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing practical expertise - film making - and contacts to networks of actors on the ground |
| Impact | Project only just begun |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Claretiana University, Colombia |
| Organisation | Universidad Claretiana |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | For our Phase 1 Colombia strand, the team have been sharing learning with the team there. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We engaged via interviews and open conversations with the initiatives organized by the Catholic Church and the Claretiana University, on the banks of the Atrato River, on the Pacific Coast Region. We had the opportunity, in probably the poorest region in Colombia, to speak with local initiatives. |
| Impact | Blogs on the CTS website and the forthcoming literature review, to be listed in 2020. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Cohort Building (Praxis) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The partnership isn't with the AHRC specifically but with Principal Investigators (26) and Co-Investigators (22) from 22 GCRF projects in addition to challenge leaders from the AHRC and portfolio managers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The conversations informed the conceptualisation of the Heritage Nexus Event which will be held in Lebanon, February 2020. |
| Impact | *Cohort have been encouraged to register interest for heritage events. *Promotion of more equitable partnerships by requesting that all projects interested in attending the Nexus event in Lebanon recommend global partners to join. *Cohort building by introducing GCRF projects to new possible partners with whom they can submit funding bids with. One example is the introduction of Dr Adrian Evans and Dr Karina Croucher to Dr Anna Madhill which has led to them joining Anna's cluster bid. *Supporting arts and humanities research to engage in GCRF. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Basilwizi Trust NGO |
| Organisation | Basilwizi Trust |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have worked together in co-designing the research in a way that it speaks to the concerns of the youth. It was a learning curve for them as it was the first time they get to engage with arts-based participatory action research. They have noted that they will design more participatory activities with the youth and go beyond service-based activities (such as delivering trainings) |
| Collaborator Contribution | They were key to collaborating with us to recruiting participants and made a significant contribution to the research themes. |
| Impact | We have produced 13 pieces of graffitis. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Batonga Community Museum |
| Organisation | Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe |
| Department | Batongo Community Museum |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have worked together Batonga Community Museum to produce the graffiti together with youth. The workshops took place in the museum and the grafittis are now being exhibited in the museum, which increased the visibility of the Museum within the community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There was an equal partnership in terms of running workshops together with the museum and artists - their contributions to creating locally-attuned research design and contextually relevant pieces were of great help. |
| Impact | We have produced 13 Grafitti pieces |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Batonga Community Museum |
| Organisation | Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe |
| Department | Batongo Community Museum |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have worked together Batonga Community Museum to produce the graffiti together with youth. The workshops took place in the museum and the grafittis are now being exhibited in the museum, which increased the visibility of the Museum within the community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There was an equal partnership in terms of running workshops together with the museum and artists - their contributions to creating locally-attuned research design and contextually relevant pieces were of great help. |
| Impact | We have produced 13 Grafitti pieces |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with Fundación Casa Tres Patios (contemporary arts foundation in Medellin, Colombia) |
| Organisation | Fundación Casa Tres Patios |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely together to design the participatory research approach with young people, including identifying and addressing ethical and safeguarding issues; data management. Joint grant submissions (2 successful, 2 unsuccessful, 1 under review). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fundación Casa Tres Patios are contributing arts-based methodologies and participatory methodologies expertise. |
| Impact | Our project is just moving into its data generating phase. We have applied to two previous grants unsuccessfully (AHRC GCRF Changing the Story Early Career Grant; AHRC GCRF Networking Grant), two grants successfully (Edinburgh University LMIC Research and Travel Partnership Fund (£3,000) and AHRC GCRF Changing the Story Large Grant Scheme (£93,880) and one currently under review (Changing the Story, Learning Consolidation Grant). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with Fundación Universitaria Claretiana |
| Organisation | Universidad Claretiana |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint grant submissions (2 successful, 2 unsuccessful, 1 under review) with Fundación Universitaria Claretiana; capacity building of local Co-I; working together to design the participatory research approach with young people; identify and address ethical and safeguarding issues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fundación Universitaria Claretiana are key to collaborating with us to recruiting participants and identify and link up with local stakeholders (e.g. policymakers in Quibdo's Mayor's Office). |
| Impact | Our project is just moving into its data generating phase. We have applied to two previous grants unsuccessfully (AHRC GCRF Changing the Story Early Career Grant; AHRC GCRF Networking Grant), two grants successfully (Edinburgh University LMIC Research and Travel Partnership Fund (£3,000) and AHRC GCRF Changing the Story Large Grant Scheme (£93,880) and one currently under review (Changing the Story, Learning Consolidation Grant). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Connective Memories: intergenerational expressions in contemporary Rwanda |
| Organisation | Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Connective Memories is an interdisciplinary project, funded by the ECR phase 2 grants of Changing the Story. CM is working alongside Mobile Arts for Peace (CTS Phase One project) to learn from, and build on, the knowledge and capacities of local actors to extend, elaborate and reimagine responses to the legacies of violence by adapting the Mobile Arts for Peace methodology to a participatory action research project undertaken by youth trained in MAP. The project asks three questions. First, what are the characteristics and dynamics of memory among children and youth? Second, how are memories constituted and mediated intergenerationally? Third, how might arts-based methodologies open up possibilities for a) understanding and exploring memories and how these are mediated in transgenerational spaces and b) for creating more locally-grounded and culturally sensitive approaches to envisaging alternative futures in addressing past legacies of violence? |
| Collaborator Contribution | UCL Institute of Education is the lead institution for this project, where the PI, Dr Kirrily Pells is based. The Institute for Research and Dialogue into Peace (IRDP) is the lead research institution in Rwanda, where Co-I Dr Eric Ndushabandi is based. Uyisenga Ni Imanzi is the lead CSO in Rwanda, where Co-I Chaste Uwihoreye is based. University of Lincoln is where Co-I Professor Ananda Breed is based and Professor Breed has facilitated the connection with the MAP project, as well as contributing substantively. |
| Impact | This collaboration is interdisciplinary, spanning childhood studies, performing arts, political science, memory studies and psychosocial studies. There are 4 core outputs in progress from this award: a PAR research toolkit for children and youth; a youth produced film on the themes of the research; a journal article on psychosocial approaches to memories and healing in the Rwandan context; a journal article on the PAR project on memories. CM is also contributing to the production of policy briefs, produced in conjunction with the Mobile Arts for Peace Project. Other outputs include training workshops in research skills with youth and teachers and community intergenerational dialogues around issues in the community affecting children. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Connective Memories: intergenerational expressions in contemporary Rwanda |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Education (IOE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Connective Memories is an interdisciplinary project, funded by the ECR phase 2 grants of Changing the Story. CM is working alongside Mobile Arts for Peace (CTS Phase One project) to learn from, and build on, the knowledge and capacities of local actors to extend, elaborate and reimagine responses to the legacies of violence by adapting the Mobile Arts for Peace methodology to a participatory action research project undertaken by youth trained in MAP. The project asks three questions. First, what are the characteristics and dynamics of memory among children and youth? Second, how are memories constituted and mediated intergenerationally? Third, how might arts-based methodologies open up possibilities for a) understanding and exploring memories and how these are mediated in transgenerational spaces and b) for creating more locally-grounded and culturally sensitive approaches to envisaging alternative futures in addressing past legacies of violence? |
| Collaborator Contribution | UCL Institute of Education is the lead institution for this project, where the PI, Dr Kirrily Pells is based. The Institute for Research and Dialogue into Peace (IRDP) is the lead research institution in Rwanda, where Co-I Dr Eric Ndushabandi is based. Uyisenga Ni Imanzi is the lead CSO in Rwanda, where Co-I Chaste Uwihoreye is based. University of Lincoln is where Co-I Professor Ananda Breed is based and Professor Breed has facilitated the connection with the MAP project, as well as contributing substantively. |
| Impact | This collaboration is interdisciplinary, spanning childhood studies, performing arts, political science, memory studies and psychosocial studies. There are 4 core outputs in progress from this award: a PAR research toolkit for children and youth; a youth produced film on the themes of the research; a journal article on psychosocial approaches to memories and healing in the Rwandan context; a journal article on the PAR project on memories. CM is also contributing to the production of policy briefs, produced in conjunction with the Mobile Arts for Peace Project. Other outputs include training workshops in research skills with youth and teachers and community intergenerational dialogues around issues in the community affecting children. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Connective Memories: intergenerational expressions in contemporary Rwanda |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Connective Memories is an interdisciplinary project, funded by the ECR phase 2 grants of Changing the Story. CM is working alongside Mobile Arts for Peace (CTS Phase One project) to learn from, and build on, the knowledge and capacities of local actors to extend, elaborate and reimagine responses to the legacies of violence by adapting the Mobile Arts for Peace methodology to a participatory action research project undertaken by youth trained in MAP. The project asks three questions. First, what are the characteristics and dynamics of memory among children and youth? Second, how are memories constituted and mediated intergenerationally? Third, how might arts-based methodologies open up possibilities for a) understanding and exploring memories and how these are mediated in transgenerational spaces and b) for creating more locally-grounded and culturally sensitive approaches to envisaging alternative futures in addressing past legacies of violence? |
| Collaborator Contribution | UCL Institute of Education is the lead institution for this project, where the PI, Dr Kirrily Pells is based. The Institute for Research and Dialogue into Peace (IRDP) is the lead research institution in Rwanda, where Co-I Dr Eric Ndushabandi is based. Uyisenga Ni Imanzi is the lead CSO in Rwanda, where Co-I Chaste Uwihoreye is based. University of Lincoln is where Co-I Professor Ananda Breed is based and Professor Breed has facilitated the connection with the MAP project, as well as contributing substantively. |
| Impact | This collaboration is interdisciplinary, spanning childhood studies, performing arts, political science, memory studies and psychosocial studies. There are 4 core outputs in progress from this award: a PAR research toolkit for children and youth; a youth produced film on the themes of the research; a journal article on psychosocial approaches to memories and healing in the Rwandan context; a journal article on the PAR project on memories. CM is also contributing to the production of policy briefs, produced in conjunction with the Mobile Arts for Peace Project. Other outputs include training workshops in research skills with youth and teachers and community intergenerational dialogues around issues in the community affecting children. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Connective Memories: intergenerational expressions in contemporary Rwanda |
| Organisation | Uyisenga Ni Imanzi |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Connective Memories is an interdisciplinary project, funded by the ECR phase 2 grants of Changing the Story. CM is working alongside Mobile Arts for Peace (CTS Phase One project) to learn from, and build on, the knowledge and capacities of local actors to extend, elaborate and reimagine responses to the legacies of violence by adapting the Mobile Arts for Peace methodology to a participatory action research project undertaken by youth trained in MAP. The project asks three questions. First, what are the characteristics and dynamics of memory among children and youth? Second, how are memories constituted and mediated intergenerationally? Third, how might arts-based methodologies open up possibilities for a) understanding and exploring memories and how these are mediated in transgenerational spaces and b) for creating more locally-grounded and culturally sensitive approaches to envisaging alternative futures in addressing past legacies of violence? |
| Collaborator Contribution | UCL Institute of Education is the lead institution for this project, where the PI, Dr Kirrily Pells is based. The Institute for Research and Dialogue into Peace (IRDP) is the lead research institution in Rwanda, where Co-I Dr Eric Ndushabandi is based. Uyisenga Ni Imanzi is the lead CSO in Rwanda, where Co-I Chaste Uwihoreye is based. University of Lincoln is where Co-I Professor Ananda Breed is based and Professor Breed has facilitated the connection with the MAP project, as well as contributing substantively. |
| Impact | This collaboration is interdisciplinary, spanning childhood studies, performing arts, political science, memory studies and psychosocial studies. There are 4 core outputs in progress from this award: a PAR research toolkit for children and youth; a youth produced film on the themes of the research; a journal article on psychosocial approaches to memories and healing in the Rwandan context; a journal article on the PAR project on memories. CM is also contributing to the production of policy briefs, produced in conjunction with the Mobile Arts for Peace Project. Other outputs include training workshops in research skills with youth and teachers and community intergenerational dialogues around issues in the community affecting children. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | DCMS |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | 2 December 2019 Meeting with Harriet Hoffler, DCMS Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, and learnt from Harriet about DCMS's Cultural Protection Fund and its aims in the future. Discussed collaborating on a future Heritage and Policy event. Harriet also expressed interest in attending Nexus event on Heritage. She attended the Nexus in February 2020. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Harriet attended the Heritage Nexus event and delivered a breakout session around DCMS' Cultural Protection Fund. Harriet features in a short film interview about the event which will be uploaded onto the CTS website. Plans in place for a policy engagement workshop in the Autumn of 2020, possibly with a heritage and climate change focus. |
| Impact | Harriet attended the Heritage Nexus event and delivered a breakout session around DCMS' Cultural Protection Fund. Harriet features in a short film interview about the event which will be uploaded onto the CTS website. Plans in place for a policy engagement workshop in the Autumn of 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Departments of Social Development, South Africa |
| Organisation | South African National Department of Social Development |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The key features of the Youth Committee model as developed through this project with Bishop Simeon Trust in South Africa and University of Leeds has now been adopted within the standards for 'Drop In Centres' within national policy by the Department of Social Development (DSD). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Towards the start of the project there was a shift in national policy in South Africa which resulted in the ending of state support for the NACCW in delivering the Isibindi model. . Instead, the key features of the Youth Committee model as developed through this project with Bishop Simeon Trust in South Africa and University of Leeds has now been adopted within the standards for 'Drop In Centres' within national policy by the Department of Social Development (DSD). |
| Impact | The Youth Committee model has now been adopted within the standards for 'Drop In Centres' within national policy by the Department of Social Development (DSD). This shift did not diminish the necessity of youth led campaigns to promote and support the services provided by Safe Parks. Instead, the focus has shifted to engagement with the DSD to assure that they are accountable for supporting Safe Park services as policy now states, but also for including within their policies greater support for youth participation, leadership and voice. For this reason, representatives of the DSD attended each of the showcase events. The formation of the Youth Advisory Board has also been very important in this regard, the Board now being a key forum for engagement with the DSD at municipal level during the project, as well as moving towards provincial in the coming year. Given the status of Gauteng as a 'bellwether' for national policy making this will be a key route to advocating for continued and improved support for Safe Parks. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Documentation Centre of Cambodia |
| Organisation | Documentation Center of Cambodia |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) were our in-country Co-Investigator research organisation and lead Civil Society organisation for our Phase 1 strand, 'The Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia'. As grant partners, we funded a Research Assistant, research time for the DC-Cam Co-Investigator, travel for the Co-I to attend an international workshop in South Africa, and developed DC-Cam's 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' programme in collaboration with the team through adding a participatory video approach to the existing tours, training staff and participants and providing equipment and editing resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DC-Cam worked closely with us to share learning from the Anlong Veng Peace Tours programmes so far, providing staff time, leading programmes with young people on the tours (as per the project agreement), sharing audiovisual resources from their archive, sharing and publicising resulting film outputs from the tours and generally acting as the main research and delivery partner. |
| Impact | All DC-Cam training sessions, tour programmes and resulting videos as listed in the engagement section. Joint publications are forthcoming and will be detailed in the next RF submission. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Feminist activist groups in Nepal |
| Organisation | Katha Ghera |
| Country | Nepal |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support for activism to establish procedures to raise safeguarding concerns, and to develop a culture of positive disclosure. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cultural expertise in existing systems and attitudes in Nepal. |
| Impact | Better informed transfer of learning around safeguarding from CTS project in sub-Saharan Africa to Asian context. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Food and Heritage Learning Event |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Deena Dajani (Post-Doc on Praxis) has had multiple conversations with Dr Tahrat Shahid, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Challenge Leader for Food Systems at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). These conversations have shaped the Food and Heritage Learning Event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Food and Heritage Learning Event at the University of Leeds on 10th January 2020 is being hosted in Collaboration with Dr. Tahrat Shahid. Outcomes unknown |
| Impact | Unknown until after the event on 10th January 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Friends of the Children International School, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Friends of the Children International School |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Rwanda team have developed an arts curriculum with partners to be delivered in schools including Friends of the Children International School. Training and a manual have been provided to the school. A Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was introduced to Rwandan schools in 2016 with a three year roll out period. This new approach to teaching reduced class times to 40 minutes and introduced arts classes including Dance, Music, and Drama. However, due to short class sessions and high pressure to finish the advanced curriculum, teachers feel they don't have time to implement creative teaching strategies. The MAP methodology has directly influenced the delivery of the curriculum, providing creative approaches to address large class sizes, student-led initiatives and experiential learning both in the subject of Music, Dance and Drama, but across the curriculum as well.MAP trainers also hosted a parent information meeting regarding MAP activities and the upcoming youth camp. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The most successful case for MAP has been Friends of the Children International School which has provided a two-hour MAP slot for every week where all teachers participate in the MAP methodology with the full student body of 365 school children. The Friends of the Children International School evolved from a former grassroots youth association entitled AJDS. One of the former youth members of AJDS is now the Head Teacher of Friends of the Children International School, thus serving as a strong case study example of how youth-led participatory arts initiatives can lead to new pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning and influence the development of CSOs alongside national and international partnerships. They've also created a drama club of Primary 6 students with 27 participants. |
| Impact | MAP integration into their weekly classes for the whole school and establishment of a Year 6 drama group. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Fundacion Universidad Konrad Lorenz - Colombia |
| Organisation | Konrad Lorenz University Foundation |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fundacion Universidad Konrad Lorenz (FUKL); equality in the research partnership has been achieved through all correspondence in Spanish, capacity-building for the FUKL research assistant, grant submission of the FUKL Co-I (one unsuccessful, two decisions pending). |
| Collaborator Contribution | FUKL hosted the public engagement Mobile PhotoVoice Exhibit, providing the space and relevant security. FUKL continues to be an engaged and productive partner, taking the lead on a number of grant applications to the UK and within Colombia. |
| Impact | We have applied to a number of grants, some of which have been unsuccessful, and one of which the decision is pending. 2020 - 2020 Co-Investigator, PeacePlayers: Young artists for memory, coexistence, and reconciliation, Changing the Story - Large Grants Scheme, Arts and Humanities Research Council / Global Challenges Research Fund (Submitted, not funded: £99,673) 2020 - 2022 Co-Investigator, Actores de Paz: construcción de memoria, convivencia y reconciliación a través de las artes escénicas, la realidad virtual y el cine, COLCIENCIAS, Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, Colombia (Submitted, not funded: 597,063) 2020 - 2020 Principal Investigator, Amplificando las Voces: Consolidation of Changing the Story Projects in Latin America, Changing The Story, Arts and Humanities Research Council / Global Challenges Research Fund (Submitted: £19,986) |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Future Vision Acrobat, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Future Vision Acrobats, Rwanda |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. There were four exemplary cultural artists who were invited to serve as Master Trainers during the training of trainers conducted for educators in the Eastern Province. These cultural artists were from partnering organisations Future Vision Acrobats, Music Mind Consult and Niyo Cultural Centre. Partnerships have been supported through the evolution of a manual that has been disseminated to partnering organisations and site visits conducted by the project manager. Additional activities include a dissemination event that will be conducted during the youth camp and a follow up training for additional Master Trainers who've been selected from the participating schools to administer the youth camp. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project created strong partnerships with cultural artists working for and with young people including Future Vision Acrobats, Music Mind Consult Ltd., Niyo Arts Gallery, and MindLeaps who created training materials as well as served as Master Trainers at the TOT. |
| Impact | Curriculum workshop March 2018, Training of Trainers, Creative Curriculum Manual and its eventual integration into the Rwanda national curriculum, and all subsequently delivered delivery of the MAP project in schools has been directly informed through this partnership. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GS Munyiginya School, Rwanda |
| Organisation | GS Munyiginya School |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rwanda team have developed an arts curriculum with partners to be delivered in schools including GS Munyiginya. Training and a manual have been provided to the school. A Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was introduced to Rwandan schools in 2016 with a three year roll out period. This new approach to teaching reduced class times to 40 minutes and introduced arts classes including Dance, Music, and Drama. However, due to short class sessions and high pressure to finish the advanced curriculum, teachers feel they don't have time to implement creative teaching strategies. The MAP methodology has directly influenced the delivery of the curriculum, providing creative approaches to address large class sizes, student-led initiatives and experiential learning both in the subject of Music, Dance and Drama, but across the curriculum as well. Schools like GS Munyiginya have strong support from the Director of Studies, and have been able to conduct teacher trainings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GS Munyiginya have strong support from the Director of Studies to deliver the MAP project, and have been able to conduct teacher trainings for 43 teachers. They also created a drama club with 49 regularly attending students. |
| Impact | Training of teachers at the school / establishment of drama club at the school. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Government of Kerala (Tribal Education Methodology Project) |
| Organisation | Government of Kerala |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The TEM has established a partnership with various departments within the Government of Kerala, India, including Kerala Development and Strategic Council (KDISC), Kerala Social Security Mission, Department of Education and the Department of Tribal Development. Through this partnership, the TEM project has shared research findings and received additional funding for a strand of work around COVID-19 to mitigate the challenges young tribal learners are experiencing in tribal hamlets due to COVID-19 restrictions and school closures. The project is hoping to influence the school curriculum to reduce school drop out rates of young tribal learners in the Kerala region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Government of Kerala has provided funding towards a COVID-19 mitigation strategy devised by the TEM project. |
| Impact | Young tribal learners received safeguarding training as a result of the COVID-19 collaboration between the project and the Government of Kerala. A tribal education methodology toolkit is being devised. Awareness amongst policy makers of the challenges young tribal learners are facing has increased. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Heritage and Policy Learning Event |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Post-doc on Praxis, Deena Dajani, has had several conversations with Hana Morel, AHRC Research Associate, Institute of Archeology at UCL. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Praxis first learning event on 6th December (Heritage and Policy) is being hosted in collaboration with Hana Morel. Hana is going to be introducing the role of research in evidence based policy production, chairing a panel involving 3 keynote speakers, facilitating a group work activity and participating in a podcast on the theme of heritage and policy. |
| Impact | Heritage and Policy Learning event at University of Leeds - 6th December. Possible responses to calls for evidence from workshop participants. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Hope and Homes for Children |
| Organisation | Hope and Homes for Children |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have provided opportunities for Hope & Homes to Children to connect with the wider Changing the Story network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hope & Homes for Children have supported CTS by providing informal advice on how best to deliver youth-centre programme development, and sharing our funding opportunities with relevant networks. |
| Impact | Our call for ECR research and practice projects was circulated to a wider audience. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Hyde Park Picture House |
| Organisation | Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We funded and co-organised with a Hyde Park producer the 'Film and Activism' event as part of LIFF, and brought international speakers for the event. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hyde Park provided free venue space for our 'Film and Activism' event, as well as an in-kind contribution to a curator to co-produce the event, and additional marketing support. |
| Impact | Increased engagement of local public in university events, and a more interdisciplinary programme of speakers, including academics and filmmakers from the UK and abroad. Academic event taking place in an inner city area outside of the campus or city centre. The partnership also allowed for Hyde Park to conduct their own research into public perceptions of their building, for which they are currently applying for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant for regeneration. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Implementation of the "Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba" Project |
| Organisation | Support Centre for Land Change |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Using the funding for training and equipment from the Changing the Story ECR project in South Africa, we were able to run two participatory workshops in applied theatre for social change, film and film editing, and organisational development for a group of young people (18-25 years old) led by relevant academics from Sweden and the United Kingdom, and organised under the auspices of the Support Centre for Land Change in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. We were also able to cover a limited amount of the administrative costs of these organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our participants devoted a significant amount of their time over a period of 6 months (June - December 2019) to ensuring that the project was a success. The Support Centre for Land Change devoted three staff members part-time to managing the project, even though salary payments were not included in the grant. They also provided transport, telecommunications, office, and other forms of support that was not costed 100% to the project. Youth-in-Power is currently a voluntary organisation with no funding, so all of their involvement was funded by the young people themselves, who brought their time and considerable energies to the project. |
| Impact | Currently, the outputs and outcomes of this collaboration have gone more-or-less according to our original plan: (1) Interview and Rehearsal Footage: The project has generated many hours of raw film footage of interviews with community members. The participants have produced a total 30 edited interviews (between 5-15 minutes long) and many hours of other footage from rehearsals, and other documentary projects. (2) Youth-in-Power Campaign Video: While we planned to produce 1 campaign video, we ended up with 2: one focusing on Women's Day celebrations, and another that was linked to the team's visit to Thyspunt. As the Principal Investigator, Scott is working with the team at the moment on a marketing video that will hopefully assist the project group in extending their reach on social media and building a more solid base for future funding. (3) Youth-in-Power Theatre Performance and Arts Festival: This was held on two occasions: at a Women'äs Conference in August 2019, and again at a schools heritage event in September 2019. The performances were recorded and might still be shared as part of the project group's marketing activities. (4) Peer-reviewed Academic Articles: Here, collaboration with the co-creator collective is on-going. No substantial co-authorship has yet been achieved with the project group; the co-investigators are however moving ahead with their own publication plan. (5) Youth-in-Power Theory of Change and Funding Proposal: The project team produced their own theory of change at the first workshop, and collaboration on using this as a support to future fundraising events is ongoing. (6) Skilled collective of 10-15 co-creators: By the end of the project, 11 young people were still involved. In total, 16 achieved some level of skills in applied theatre, media production, communication strategy and research. In terms of our planned outcomes, there has been significant progress: (1) We aimed to democratize the debate over the stewardship of natural resources. In the context of the on-going drought in Graaff-Reinet, the project participants in Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba (ILL) have taken on a prominent role, in partnership with SCLC, in challenging the way that public management of water, prospecting licences, and the public debate over these is controlled by vested interests. As is visible in their films, they have taken an active role at a local level. (2) We also aimed to grow the audience for young people's environmental activism. The team's social media strategy has gotten off to a slightly shaky start, but there are signs that ILL is working with SCLC to recruit more young people using social and traditional media, as well as community activation in Graaff-Reinet. The audience for the activism online has grown to include academics and activists from around the world in the Change the Story network. (3) The organisational profile of Youth-in-Power has been built substantially: they have a working, branded project, an established partnership with SCLC, and a much broader network of supporters. The next steps would be to translate this into actual fundraising. (4) Youth community involvement in environmental activism in Graaff-Reinet has been siginificantly improved through the course of this project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace, Rwanda (Connective Memories) |
| Organisation | Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | IRDP and Co-I Eric Ndushabandi have collaborated on the co-production and undertaking of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IRDP is the lead research institution in Rwanda for the Connective Memories and have guided the research design (especially in relation to ethics) and provided expertise on the politics of memory in Rwanda. |
| Impact | We are currently working on a paper on intergenerational memory in Rwanda |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Ishyo Arts Centre, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Ishyo Arts Centre |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations, including Ishyo Arts Centre, were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ishyo contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Impact | Kigali centre for Photography contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Kannur University (Tribal Education Methodology) |
| Organisation | Kannur University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Kannur University are a research partner on the Phase 2 project Tribal Education Methodology, India. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kannur University are a research partner on the Phase 2 project Tribal Education Methodology, India. |
| Impact | Project outputs include a tribal education methodology toolkit, series of workshops including bamboo theatre and storytelling walls, and influencing educational curriculum in Kerala. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Kigali Arts Initiative, Rwana |
| Organisation | Rwanda Arts Initiative |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations, including Kigali Arts Initiative, were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kigali arts Initiative contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Impact | Kigali Arts Initiative contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Kigali Centre for Photography, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Kigali Center for Photography |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations, including Kigali Centre for Photography, were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kigali Centre for Photography contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Impact | Kigali centre for Photography contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Kigali Genocide Memorial Rwanda |
| Organisation | Kigali Genocide Memorial |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | As a collaboration between the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, Rwanda's Kigali Genocide Memorial, the Aegis Trust and the Salzburg Global Seminar, 'Changemakers' trains its participants to become active upstanders, learning from difficult histories of violence and genocide to create cohesive communities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The programme's development was spearheaded by the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (through its 3 Centres), Aegis Trust, Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center in Rwanda. |
| Impact | The Changemakers programme's development was spearheaded by the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (through its 3 Centres), Aegis Trust, Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center in Rwanda. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Kino Armata, Prishtina P1 Kosovo ACT |
| Organisation | Kino ARMATA |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Kino Armata has benefited from being included in international arts and research network through CtS; it has also gained visibility, locally and benefited from the association with ACT(Kosovo). Two out of four events hosted by Kino Armata to date have been reimbursed with 300 Euro each (two were offered in kind). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kino Armata has hosted four events and workshops for P1 ACT (Kosovo) to date: 2018 Hosting film screening (CtS by Paul Cooke) and dissemination event 2018 Hosting proof-of-concept outreach event 2019 Hosting voice/text/space workshop day 1 (April) 2020 Hosting book launch Zine Boom (10th March) |
| Impact | In progress. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Kwetu Film Institute, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Kwetu Film Institute |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Kwetu film Institute were one of our original CSO partners for our Phase 1 Rwanda strand, and we have contracted them to film all of our outputs. We are also sharing learning from the MAP project with them as it develops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kwetu Film Institute have filmed all of the Rwanda MAP training activities. |
| Impact | Kwetu Film Institute have filmed all of the Rwanda MAP training activities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Kwetu Film Institute, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Kwetu Film Institute |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Kwetu film Institute were one of our original CSO partners for our Phase 1 Rwanda strand, and we have contracted them to film all of our outputs. We are also sharing learning from the MAP project with them as it develops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kwetu Film Institute have filmed all of the Rwanda MAP training activities. |
| Impact | Kwetu Film Institute have filmed all of the Rwanda MAP training activities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Leeds International Film Festival |
| Organisation | Leeds Film |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research-focused public programme as part of Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), creating a new element of event in the LIFF programme. Networks and knowledge of international filmmakers and practitioners who could contribute to activities, as well as financial support in bringing these experts to the festival. Curation and project managing of the events in collaboration with LIFF, as well as joint marketing. Catering for events. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our events featured on the LIFF website and in the official print brochures and catalogue. Social media marketing. Recruitment and coordination of participants for the protest film workshop. 3 films we featured listed in the official catalogue (and therefore eligible for BAFTA awards etc). Programming and project management support. Free venues for events. |
| Impact | Co-branded events as part of Leeds International Film Festival, which also meant inclusion in their brochure and catalogue. This provided much wider public awareness and attendance of events and a presence in one of the city's biggest cultural events of the year, and the UK's largest film festival outside of London. Continued partnership between Centre for World CInemas and Digital Cultures and LIFF means that future events will also engage with this wider audience. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Lycee du Lac Muhazi School |
| Organisation | School Du Lac Muhazi |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rwanda team have developed an arts curriculum with partners to be delivered in schools including Lycee du Lac Muhazi. Training and a manual have been provided to the school. A Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was introduced to Rwandan schools in 2016 with a three year roll out period. This new approach to teaching reduced class times to 40 minutes and introduced arts classes including Dance, Music, and Drama. However, due to short class sessions and high pressure to finish the advanced curriculum, teachers feel they don't have time to implement creative teaching strategies. The MAP methodology has directly influenced the delivery of the curriculum, providing creative approaches to address large class sizes, student-led initiatives and experiential learning both in the subject of Music, Dance and Drama, but across the curriculum as well. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lycee du Lac reviewed the Kinyarwanda translation of the MAP manual and recommended suggestions for clarity and Rwanda cultural adaptation, and identified 10 interested students (5 male, 5 female). |
| Impact | Lycee du Lac reviewed the Kinyarwanda translation of the MAP manual and recommended suggestions for clarity and Rwanda cultural adaptation, and identified 10 interested students (5 male, 5 female). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Making of the Museum of Education, Kosovo |
| Organisation | Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Added on behalf of Linda Gusia: Reconceptualizing Cultural Heritage: Cultural Heritage without Borders(CHWB) in Kosovo (not Sweden) Kosovo 2.0, Kino Armata, Forum ZFD, Fondacioni 17, Municipality of Prishtina. |
| Collaborator Contribution | To be provided by Linda Gusia |
| Impact | To be provided by Linda Gusia |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa - Grassroots development CSO partnership |
| Organisation | Pala Forerunners |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The research team supported Pala Forerunners in recruiting and training young community researchers to conduct intergenerational heritage interviews, to reflect on that process, to produce as an output a community heritage archive. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Pala Forerunners' director and lead community interviewer led the work on the ground in a community-driven way, conducting interviews, creating the archive, and reflecting and reporting on the process. |
| Impact | Published community heritage books distributed in Utha, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa Two project workshops Significant paradigm shift in the value of heritage in everyday life for young people Digital audio and video files of interviews Multidisciplinary: Historical and heritage studies; language and linguistics; development practice |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa - University of Pretoria Partnership |
| Organisation | University of Pretoria |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team collaborated with the University of Pretoria in supporting local grassroots CSO partner Pala Forerunners to conduct intergenerational heritage interviews in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Pretoria lecturer and co-investigator Glen Ncube contributed intellectual leadership; management of project activities in South Africa; and project workshop leadership at the University of Pretoria. The University of Pretoria oversaw the administration of Workshop 1. |
| Impact | Two project workshops One community heritage book Significant paradigm shift in the value of heritage in everyday life for young people Digital audio and video files of interviews Multidisciplinary: Historical and heritage studies; language and linguistics; development practice |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group |
| Organisation | Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Access for Mashirika to an international network of civil society organisations working in similar areas through the project. Financial support through this grant to evaluate and expand their 'Mobile Arts for Peace' project. Access to research resources through the literature review phase of the project. More contributions will be added as the project progresses. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In-kind rehearsal space and administrative support, as well as office space and support for the post-doc to be appointed. Kurtis Dennison from Mashirika attended our first network meeting in November 2017 and co-presented on the Rwandan context and Mashirika's work there with Prof. Ananda Breed as part of our international conference. More contributions will be added as the project progresses. |
| Impact | Kurtis Dennison and Prof. Ananda Breed presented a joint paper at our international conference in November 2017. They are currently facilitating the first phase of their pilot Mobile Arts for Peace project in Rwanda. More contributions will be added as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Millennium Challenge Corporation |
| Organisation | Government of the United States of America |
| Department | Millennium Challenge Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Meeting arranged between DCMS and Millennium Challenge Corporation Science and Technology Fellow for 13th July 2020 to discuss scope for further collaboration around climate change, environmental economics and culture. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Meeting arranged between DCMS and Millennium Challenge Corporation Science and Technology Fellow for 13th July 2020 to discuss scope for further collaboration around climate change, environmental economics and culture. |
| Impact | Outcomes unknown at the moment but the possibility of a joint event to be discussed. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Mozambique |
| Organisation | Ministry of Tourism and Culture |
| Country | Mozambique |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Following the successful evaluation of the pilot programme in South Africa and Rwanda, various countries in Africa including Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, the Gambia, Kenya, Central African Republic and South Sudan expressed interest to roll out the programme. Before the roll out, the developers and facilitators of the programme revised the CMP based on the recommendations of the evaluation report. |
| Collaborator Contribution | In July and September 2018, the programme was rolled out in Mozambique (with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) and Nigeria (with the American University of Nigeria) through the "train the trainer" workshops. |
| Impact | Event: Train the Trainers in Mozambique |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Museum of Mitrovica, P1 ACT (Kosovo) |
| Organisation | City Museum of Mitrovica |
| Country | Serbia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | P1 ACT (Kosovo) provided an artist residency opportunity in Moderna Galerija and +MSUM in Lubljana, which linked to capacity building, artist inspiration and female empowerment according to the beneficiaries draft blog (soon to be published on CtS web site). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Produced two draft blogs for CtS 'Kosovo Strand', soon to be published. |
| Impact | Blogs (forthcoming) |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | NGO Aktiv, Kosovo |
| Organisation | NGO Aktiv, Kosovo |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | NGO Aktiv are one of our local Civil Society Organisation partners in Kosovo. We invited them to contribute to our Kick-off workshop at University of Prishtina and will be sharing all learning with them and our other local CSO partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NGO Aktiv attended our Kick-Off workshop in Kosovo, providing invaluable local expertise. The main focus of the workshop was to introduce the project, discuss the challenges of working with young people in participatory co-creation, and introduce the concept of participatory action research (PAR). The workshop also served as an opportunity to discuss the proof of concept of the project and agree on the next steps for the implementation of the project. They also helped arrange local field visits in the North Mitrovica area, providing us with invaluable contact with local artists and youth. |
| Impact | Kick-off workshops and field visits as per above have resulted in increased knowledge and opportunities for collaboration with local artists and youth in Gjilan. Their knowledge has also contributed greatly to the literature review and thus a deeper understanding of the CSO youth sector in rural Kosovo, results of which will be published in late 2019. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | National Association of Child Care Workers, South Africa |
| Organisation | National Association of Care and Support Workers |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project delivered by Bishop Simeon Trust and University of Leeds developed and established an effective Youth Leadership model for the Isibindi Safe Parks (the NACCW were required to include a Youth Leadership programme for funding of the safe parks to continue). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Towards the start of the project there was a shift in national policy in South Africa which resulted in the ending of state support for the NACCW in delivering the Isibindi model. However, this does not mean that support for the model itself has ended. The NACCW has ownership of the Isibindi brand and as such the DSD may not use this. Instead, the key features of the model itself has now been adopted within the standards for 'Drop In Centres' within national policy by the Department of Social Development (DSD). |
| Impact | There are indications that the NACCW may continue to be a key point of reference in policy building for South Africa; potentially for training and development support for Drop-In Centres. This is dependent on clarification of where the 140,000 Child & Youth Care Workers trained with state support through the NACCW will fit within the social work supervision structures which apply to the Drop-In Centre policy. We are monitoring policy decisions in this regard but have remain engaged with the NACCW whilst also seeking to build a stronger relationship with the DSD who now make core decisions on policy and resources. In July 2019 Professor Paul Cooke and Dr Lou Harvey from the University of Leeds joined four representatives of the Bishop Simeon Trust and its South African operational partner, One Child One Family , at the biannual conference of the NACCW in Durban . At a very well attended workshop we had the opportunity to share the leadership model with key policy decision makers, NGO leads and practitioners. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | National Centre for Historical Memory, Colombia |
| Organisation | National Center for Historical Memory |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The National Center for Historical Memory were an original civil society organisation partner for the Phase 1 Colombia strand of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Whilst the NCHM have not been as directly involved in project activities as originally envisaged due to a change in project focus, official data from the NCHM fed directly into the critical review (which will, in turn, be available to practitioners) and members of the NCHM are also attending our forthcoming international workshop in Cambodia (March 2019). |
| Impact | Members of the NCHM working on other GCRF-projects are attending our wider network events, allowing NCHM to widen their learning and practice network not just via Changing the Story but via the wider GCRF portfolio as well. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University |
| Organisation | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NMMU was our original in-country Co-Investigator partner for the South Africa strand of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Whilst NMMU are no longer involved in the project due to a change in position and capacity of the NMMU Co-Investigator, NMMU Prof. Andre Keet provided valuable insight and expertise at the beginning of the project, as well as providing open access resources for our website. |
| Impact | resources available on the CTS website. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Niyo Art Gallery, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Niyo Arts Gallery |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations, including Niyo Art Gallery, were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Niyo Art Gallery contributed to the learning and development focus of the curriculum workshop, directly feed into the development of the resulting MAP methodoogy which has been taken on by several schools and integrated into the national curriculum by the Rwanda Education board. |
| Impact | Curriculum workshop March 2018, Training of Trainers, Creative Curriculum Manual and its eventual integration into the Rwanda national curriculum, and all subsequently delivered delivery of the MAP project in schools has been informed through this partnership. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Niyo Cultural Centre, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Niyo Arts Gallery |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Partnerships were forged through an initial scoping visit and three-day curriculum workshop delivered in March 2018. During the curriculum workshop, cultural artists and partnering organisations were invited to deliver a two-hour workshop that demonstrated how their discipline could be used for dialogic purposes with young people. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to learn about cross-disciplinary approaches and to build trust. Following the workshop, several organisations and cultural artists attended the follow up training of trainers. There were four exemplary cultural artists who were invited to serve as Master Trainers during the training of trainers conducted for educators in the Eastern Province. These cultural artists were from partnering organisations Future Vision Acrobats, Music Mind Consult and Niyo Cultural Centre. Partnerships have been supported through the evolution of a manual that has been disseminated to partnering organisations and site visits conducted by the project manager. Additional activities include a dissemination event that will be conducted during the youth camp and a follow up training for additional Master Trainers who've been selected from the participating schools to administer the youth camp. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project created strong partnerships with cultural artists working for and with young people including Future Vision Acrobats, Music Mind Consult Ltd., Niyo Arts Gallery/Cultural Centre, and MindLeaps who created training materials as well as served as Master Trainers at the TOT. |
| Impact | Curriculum workshop March 2018, Training of Trainers, Creative Curriculum Manual and its eventual integration into the Rwanda national curriculum, and all subsequently delivered delivery of the MAP project in schools has been directly informed through this partnership. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Norwegian Refugee Council, Colombia |
| Organisation | Norwegian Refugee Council |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Learning from our work in the Pacific Coast of Colombian region will be shared with the refugee council. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Support has been provided by the Norwegian Refugee Council, active in many under-reached areas of Colombia, in accessing indigenous and marginalised groups. In Cali, capital city of Valle del Cauca, particularly the Agua Blanca neighborhood, a section of it called Potrero Grande, the community is crowded with Colombian displaced communities and gangs. We met with transgendered dance clubs, collectives of performers, poets and urban dancers. It is important to say the Potrero Grande is itself the most complex place in Cali. We moved through the networks of youth closed to the research team. Part of the strength of the collaboration structure for the project has been to engage with youth - particularly potential youth leaders - in communities untouched by formal education or formal projects. |
| Impact | Blogs on website. Publications forthcoming in 2019. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Opera Circus (Bosnia & Herzegovina) |
| Organisation | Opera Circus |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Opera Circus are the partner in the delivery of Izazov, a phase 2 ECR project working with young changemakers in BiH and Europe. Opera Circus led the project management: recruiting the young changemakers, delivering the film-making and activism workshops, the mentoring of the young people and dissemination of their films (website and events etc). The research team supported the project management by preparing recruitment materials, working on project strategy and supporting the logistics and delivery of the workshops. Researchers took charge of research and monitoring and evaluation of the workshops and project activities as a whole including film dissemination. Project info: IZAZOV! combines filmmaking with youth activism. It is a project that aims to support young Bosnians to increase their visibility and engage with youth civil society networks. In the Bosnian context, where there are few opportunities for engaged young activists to amplify their voices, Izazov will build the skills of young people to extend their networks, communicate their concerns and in the long-term, to build solidarity with other young regional change-makers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Opera Circus are the partner in the delivery of Izazov, a phase 2 ECR project working with young changemakers in BiH and Europe. Opera Circus led the project management: recruiting the young changemakers, delivering the film-making and activism workshops, the mentoring of the young people and dissemination of their films (website and events etc). The research team supported the project management by preparing recruitment materials, working on project strategy and supporting the logistics and delivery of the workshops. Researchers took charge of research and monitoring and evaluation of the workshops and project activities as a whole including film dissemination. Project info: IZAZOV! combines filmmaking with youth activism. It is a project that aims to support young Bosnians to increase their visibility and engage with youth civil society networks. In the Bosnian context, where there are few opportunities for engaged young activists to amplify their voices, Izazov will build the skills of young people to extend their networks, communicate their concerns and in the long-term, to build solidarity with other young regional change-makers. |
| Impact | - 5 days of film-making and activism workshops - 4 short films - youth activism network between Bosnian and European young activists - links with Complete Freedom of Truth - 1 website - further workshops and screening events |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Opera Circus, Kosovo |
| Organisation | Opera Circus |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project team has established communication and is in the process of formalising cooperation with culture and youth organization Opera Circus, to showcase CtS and develop future cooperation with UP (in form of workshops, seminars and lectures, student practical placement, blog posts, etc.). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Opera Circus offered a residency to our main CSO partner from Kosovo (see below for more information). |
| Impact | The partnership with Opera Circus, Dorset has facilitated knowledge and exchange and capacity building; as well as sharpening our project vision. By offering a residency to our main CSO partner from Kosovo in Dorset, the learning included gaining insight into existing experience of concrete work of artists with vulnerable young people, but also the development of a critical gaze on arts-based work including a focus on therapeutic transformations in a UK context and the limits of transferability. The residencies in Kosovo sharpened better awareness of the need to include young people in project development at all levels. A field visit by Opera Circus' Artisti Director and others to Prishtina and arts-based CSOs across Kosovo's municipalities, hosted by Stacion, Centre for Contemporary Arts Prishtina and The University Program for Gender Studies and Research, UP were done in partnership with Varg e vi (Gjilan) and NGO Aktiv (North Mitrovica). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Oxfam |
| Organisation | Oxfam GB |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Co-badged Oxfam and Changing the Story Roundtable Discussion - 9th July. What does meaningful youth engagement look like in post-conflict settings? What are the specific challenges faced by young women and marginalised youth in civil society building? Oxfam and Changing the Story are co-organizing an online conversation on meaningful youth engagement, exploring these questions and more. Researchers and young activists will share findings from participatory researches on youth-led social change in post-conflict and fragile contexts. See details here: https://oxfam.box.com/s/q5hr7l7t4vzwpkied9bd22iamtaaxwog Three Changing the Story project to provide Critical Reflection in response to Oxfam's findings: Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, YouthLEAD and Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-badged Oxfam and Changing the Story Roundtable Discussion - 9th July. What does meaningful youth engagement look like in post-conflict settings? What are the specific challenges faced by young women and marginalised youth in civil society building? Oxfam and Changing the Story are co-organizing an online conversation on meaningful youth engagement, exploring these questions and more. Researchers and young activists will share findings from participatory researches on youth-led social change in post-conflict and fragile contexts. See details here: https://oxfam.box.com/s/q5hr7l7t4vzwpkied9bd22iamtaaxwog Three Changing the Story project to provide Critical Reflection in response to Oxfam's findings: Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, YouthLEAD and Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia. |
| Impact | A joint roundtable discussion - 9th July. CTS to respond to findings from Oxfam's Youth Engagement Project and feed into overall strategic development plan 2020-30. Two CTS co-investigators to be featured in Oxfam's Narrative and Civic Space publication - to be released Autumn 2020. Oxfam invited the Zimbabwe ECR project team to present alongside Mobilisation Lab at the online ISS - EADI conference (16th July 2020). Plans for a co-badged Narratives and Civic space webinar - September 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: European Fund for Peace in Colombia |
| Organisation | European Fund for Peace in Colombia |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The P1 Colombia team, led by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar have led on developing a formal Partnership to apply the methodology/product Itineraries of Meaning to the European Fund for Peace in Colombia project 'The Reincorporation of History'. We provided a team and the experience. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Incorporation of our methodologies into their latest project. |
| Impact | Incorporation of our methodologies into their latest project. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Forum Syd (Sweden) |
| Organisation | ForumCiv |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | https://www.forumsyd.org/int The P1 Colombia team, led by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar have led on developing a formal Partnership to apply the methodology/product Itineraries of Meaning to the European Fund for Peace in Colombia project 'The Reincorporation of History', led by Forum Syd and the European Fund for Peace in Colombia. We provided a team and the experience. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Incorporation of our methodologies into their latest project. |
| Impact | Incorporation of our methodologies into their latest project. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Universidad Claretiana |
| Organisation | Universidad Claretiana |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | • To continue "Narratives of the Future" we have a partnership with Claretian University/Mamau Cultural Center in Quibdó. We will be organizing neighbor activities, presentations in Quibdó. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Support with organizing neighbor activities, presentations in Quibdó. |
| Impact | Sustainability of the project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village School, Rwamagana district, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village School |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Delivered Changemakers Programme to their students - Thirty-one (31) learners in Senior 4, Senior 5 and Senior 6 in the age range of 16 to 21 participated in the programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to students and staff, venue space etc. |
| Impact | Delivery of the Changemakers Programme to Rwanda, helping to extend evaluation/learning and scale out to the wider region. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Thabo Secondary School, Soweto |
| Organisation | Thabo Secondary School, Soweto, Johannesburg |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Delivered Changemakers programme to twenty-three (23) Grade 10 and 11 learners in the age range of 15 to 18 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to students, venue space etc. |
| Impact | Successful delivery of Changemakers pilot project in SA, leading to expansion across the region. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique |
| Organisation | Eduardo Mondlane University |
| Country | Mozambique |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The CTS P1 South Africa team have partnered with the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo to extend their Changemakers Programme to Mozambique. CTS provided the methodology, expertise and training. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo provide support in identifying relevant groups and support with delivery/venues etc. |
| Impact | Extension of The Changemakers programme to Mozambique. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | PRAXIS collaboration with DCMS: September 2020 onwards |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | PRAXIS developed an initial collaboration with Harriet Hoffler at DCMS in 2019 (detailed in another entry). In September 2020 PRAXIS jointly convened a policy workshop with DCMS. In 2021 the collaboration continued with the development of a short 'lunch and learn' webinar series. These events are included as Engagement items. In late 2021 and early 2022 PRAXIS has continued to work closely with DCMS to develop a partnership between PRAXIS, DCMS and nine project funded by the AHRC & DCMS Cultural Heritage and Climate Change (CHCC) Cohort. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Harriet Hoffler has maintained a close relationship with PRAXIS and has facilitated attendance at joint events of DCMS staff and other government department staff from BEIS and FCDO. |
| Impact | PRAXIS has developed a 'lunch and learn' webinar series jointly with DCMS. More recently, PRAXIS received further funding from AHRC to continue to work with nine projects funded partly by DCMS. This extension was facilitated partly by the ongoing positive and active relationship between DCMS and PRAXIS. While Harriet Hoffler has now left her post, PRAXIS team members continue to work with DCMS staff such as Kate Snelson. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | PRAXIS collaboration with UK National Commission for UNESCO from April 2020 onwards |
| Organisation | UK National Commission for UNESCO |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | PRAXIS developed an initial collaboration with the UK National Commission (UKNC) for UNESCO (James Bridge, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary-General, and Helen Maclagan, Former Vice-Chair and Non-Executive Director in particular) in 2019. The details of the beginning of this collaboration are detailed in another entry. Following a series of fruitful meetings and the participation of James Bridge at the international workshop on Heritage for Global Challenges (24-26th February 2020, West Bek'aa, Lebanon), PRAXIS collaborated with the UKCN for UNESCO from June 2020 to March 2021 in the scientific programming and organisation of an international conference on 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future: Research, Practice, Policy and Impact' (online, 22nd February - 3rd March 2021). The conference was funded through 125000 GBP of additional funding (grant title: UNESCO-AHRC Conference Maximising the Impact of Heritage Research for the SDGs). The conference included 13 online sessions in total, each one addressing a specific global challenge (from climate change and unsustainable tourism to exclusionary approaches to development and heritage conservation), attracting over 1,500 participants from a large number of external worldwide organisations and a participation average of 300+ per session. The collaboration continued after the conference with the joint production of the 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future Report Series'. This series, authored by Dr Francesca Giliberto, consists in eleven brief reports with recommendations from each conference session for policy innovators, funding bodies, and practitioners on how to use heritage to address a variety of global challenges. The reports are published both on PRAXIS and UKNC for UNESCO website and widely disseminated on social media. See: https://unesco.org.uk/conference/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/research-practice-policy-and-impact/ And: https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis-publications/ The above-mentioned events and publications are included as 'Engagement' and 'Publications' items. Finally, in early 2022 PRAXIS has continued to work closely with the UK National Commission for UNESCO to co-develop a webinar on Cultural Heritage and Climate Change (planned for 12 April 2022) as part of a webinar series organised by the Institution of Environmental Sciences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The UKNC for UNESCO contributed to the organisation of the conference 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future: Research, Practice, Policy and Impact'. James Bridge, Helen Maclagan and Matilda Clark actively participated in chairing and facilitating some conference sessions. Our partners have contributed to the editorial and graphic design for the production of the 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future Report Series'. They have also widely communicated and disseminated conference events and outputs using their wide national and international networks. In addition, Matilda Clark, project officer at UKNC for UNESCO, coordinated the production and publication of a series of blogs related to various conference themes and created a conference Resource Hub with relevant materials. See: https://unesco.org.uk/conference/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/research-practice-policy-and-impact/ |
| Impact | - Global conference 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future (HOSF): Research, Practice, Policy, and Impacts' (22nd February to 2nd March 2021), including video-recordings of each session. See: https://nomadit.co.uk/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/ - Heritage and Our Sustainable Future Report Series (eleven short policy briefs). See: https://unesco.org.uk/conference/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/research-practice-policy-and-impact/ - HOSF Resource Hub. See: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19pHMLxeWHh-sgXq7HKYLTMEH1ZTQbnEk - Publication of blogs related to various conference topis on UKNC for UNESCO website. See: https://unesco.org.uk/conference/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/research-practice-policy-and-impact/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | PRAXIS collaboration with the University of Edinburgh on "Cultural heritage in the context of disasters and climate change" |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Geosciences Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Francesca Giliberto, with the support of Dr Luba Pirgova-Morgan, collaborated with the CRITICAL project based at the University of Edinburgh in the organisation of a series of workshops with the Cultural Heritage and Climate Change (CHCC) Cohort. The nine research projects of the cohort were funded by a funding partnership made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which is part of the UK Official Development Assistance (ODA). Dr Francesca Giliberto led on the organisation and strategic planning of two workshops with the CHCC Cohort and the preparation of a report on "Cultural Heritage in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change, which includes insights from these workshops and project-specific policy briefs prepared by the nine research projects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Rowan Jackson, university teacher in and programme director for environmental sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, co-designed and run the workshops in collaboration with the PRAXIS team. He also co-led the report planning and writing, and edited the final report together with Dr Giliberto. |
| Impact | Giliberto F. and Jackson, R. (eds.). (2022). Cultural Heritage in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change. Insights from the DCMS-AHRC Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort. LeedsEdinburgh: University of Leeds and University of Edinburgh. DOI: 10.48785/100/107. Dr Giliberto and Dr Rowan (University of Edinburgh) have been invited to co-run a workshop on how to write successful policy briefs and communicating research at the Heritage HUB of Queen's University Belfast (to be held on 8th March 2023). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in India |
| Organisation | The Kohima Institute |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | As aimed, this project has built research capacity among indigenous young people in a post-conflict and underdeveloped region where research into critical areas including health has been severely curtailed. In terms of institutional support, this project has bolstered the work of The Kohima Institute through international exposure, contract management and delivery. At a societal level, by engaging and creating linkages between young researchers, local activist-filmmakers and CSOs on the front lines of addressing addiction, unemployment, and mental health problems, the project has provided a space for dialogue about problems affecting youth in the region including how problems are defined and understood. Over the course of the year, our 3-member team of young Naga researchers has been empowered to narrate their own stories and to collaboratively undertake and disseminate research in creative new ways. The films, produced by TKI researchers, have given local CSOs a platform to communicate their contextual realities and raise awareness of the kinds of health and welfare problems affecting young people in post-conflict areas such as Nagaland where awareness of these problems is very low amongst communities and policymakers. In summary, the project has had impact on project participants as well as wider impact at the organisational level through the development of institutional knowledge and technical skills (research, film production, collaboration and partnership). At a societal level, it has enabled dialogue, collaboration and public engagement on the role of arts-based community development interventions for health promotion through physical meetings with faith-based organisations, youth bodies, CSO representatives and young audiences. The RAs has applied for additional funds (CTS mobility fund) to continue the dissemination work begun through this project and use their films for advocacy and awareness raising among local communities as well as to young people in the region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Kohima Institute has provided a good space and work environment wherein the researchers were able to meet regularly, work together, access library and internet resources, and organise trainings and dissemination events. The Kohima Institute staff also ensured the smooth operation of the facilities, as well as project fund disbursements, salaries, etc. In addition, the Institute helped the project by opening up its network of partner institutions and community leaders, as well as experts such as in areas of mental health and addiction, and from the world of film and filmmaking. The Kohima Institute's strong anthropological focus also meant that the various forms and functions of 'civil society' in indigenous communities were always points of reflection, giving the researchers a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which local institutions fit within larger social patterns, and how young people best respond to these various and changing forms and functions. |
| Impact | (i) Recruited 3 Naga young research assistants (RA) to lead the project (ii) Delivered 3 technical filmmaking trainings to 3-member research team. 2 local film studios namely, Dreamz Unlimited and Richa Productions and also award winning documentary filmmaker Dr Piyush Roy (Jain University Bangalore India) ran the training in filming techniques. (April 2019); Ensured appropriate technical support for the RAs from local studios and camerapersons (Dreamz Unlimited, Richa Productions, Mesen Films) and international experts (Dr. Piyush Roy, Jain University Bangalore (India); Dr. Alison Kahn (Oxford Documentary Film Institute) (iii) Production and direction of 3 documentary films by indigenous young researchers. Led by TKI researchers and with ongoing support through weekly/fortnightly Skype calls with the PI and Co-I, fieldwork involved (a) pre-production and script-writing (b) filming and development of "rough cut" (c) post-production and development of "first cut". (iv) institutional capacity development (international project management, event organization and management) within TKI (v) Public engagement on the role of arts-based community development interventions for health promotion through two physical meetings (1-day stakeholder consultation April 2019 &1-day film dissemination Dec 2019) (vi) partnerships forged with local CSOs and filmmakers and development of an integrated network with faith-based and youth organisations (vii) youth capacity building (film-making skills, presentation and public speaking skills) (viii) Production and publication of 3 web-blogs on CTS website (ix) CTS Twitter takeover by TKI young researchers |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Partnership with Plural+ |
| Organisation | PLURAL+ |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Changing the Story is working with Plural+, republishing material from the Voices of Youth website Voices of Youth (VOY) was founded in 1995 as UNICEF's online place for young people to learn more about issues affecting their world. Today, VOY is a vibrant community of youth bloggers from all over the world, offering inspiring, original insight and opinion on a variety of topics. Everyone is welcome to write, film, comment and engage in discussions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Plural+ are looking to encourage young people from Changing the Story to share their participatory videos on the Voices of Youth website. |
| Impact | Blog post: My Story - Moiz Khan. This post talks about a short film which focuses 'on the Muslim world and the problems caused by the recent rise in Xenophobia' |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Praxis & The Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Organisation | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Praxis attended the V&A Culture in Crisis Launch in Dec 19. Following the launch, Praxis had two meetings with the Culture in Crisis team Jan/Feb 2020 (Laura Jones and Vernon Rapley). Laura and Vernon presented at the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon and have expressed an interest in attending future Praxis events. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Praxis attended the V&A Culture in Crisis Launch in Dec 19. Following the launch, Praxis had two meetings with the Culture in Crisis team Jan/Feb 2020 (Laura Jones and Vernon Rapley). Laura and Vernon presented at the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon and have expressed an interest in attending future Praxis events. |
| Impact | Laura and Vernon presented at the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon and have expressed an interest in attending future Praxis events. Laura and Vernon will feature in the report produced followed the Nexus event, a policy facing document that speaks to the funders and research community. Praxis invited to present as part of the V&A Culture in Crisis webinar series (summer 2020), hosted in partnership with DCMS and the British Council. Meeting on 06/07 to discuss ideas including 2-3 GCRF projects to present about their work in relation to digital innovation post COVID-19. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Rearabilwe - Daveyton CBO South Africa (BST) |
| Organisation | Rearabilwe Ekurhuleni Community Care |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | BST and University of Leeds delivered and developed their Youth Committee model in collaboration with this CBO (Community Based Organisation), engaging young participants from the safe park as part of the programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This CBO provided venue space for workshops and showcasing events, and access to their young participants, as well as expertise regarding the safe park system in South Africa and general support for the programme. |
| Impact | See all outputs relating to activities and workshops at this CBO's safe park location. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Rearabilwe - Tsakane CBO South Africa (BST) |
| Organisation | Rearabilwe Ekurhuleni Community Care |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | BST and University of Leeds delivered and developed their Youth Committee model in collaboration with this CBO (Community Based Organisation), engaging young participants from the safe park as part of the programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This CBO provided venue space for workshops and showcasing events, and access to their young participants, as well as expertise regarding the safe park system in South Africa and general support for the programme. |
| Impact | See all outputs relating to activities and workshops at this CBO's safe park location. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Rwamagan Leaders NGO School |
| Organisation | Rwamagana Leaders’ School |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rwanda team have developed an arts curriculum with partners to be delivered in schools including Rwamagana Leaders NGO School. Training and a manual have been provided to the school. A Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was introduced to Rwandan schools in 2016 with a three year roll out period. This new approach to teaching reduced class times to 40 minutes and introduced arts classes including Dance, Music, and Drama. However, due to short class sessions and high pressure to finish the advanced curriculum, teachers feel they don't have time to implement creative teaching strategies. The MAP methodology has directly influenced the delivery of the curriculum, providing creative approaches to address large class sizes, student-led initiatives and experiential learning both in the subject of Music, Dance and Drama, but across the curriculum as well. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Rwamagana Leaders NGO School trained 16 teachers in MAP methodolgy which has impacted three levels of study with MAP activities being used during 'crew' times. They've also created a drama club of 10 people (5 girls/5 boys). |
| Impact | Rwamagana Leaders NGO School trained 16 teachers in MAP methodology which has impacted three levels of study with MAP activities being used during 'crew' times. They've also created a drama club of 10 people (5 girls/5 boys). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Rwamagana A School, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Rwamagana Leaders’ School |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rwanda team have developed an arts curriculum with partners to be delivered in schools including Rwamagana A School. Training and a manual have been provided to the school. A Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was introduced to Rwandan schools in 2016 with a three year roll out period. This new approach to teaching reduced class times to 40 minutes and introduced arts classes including Dance, Music, and Drama. However, due to short class sessions and high pressure to finish the advanced curriculum, teachers feel they don't have time to implement creative teaching strategies. The MAP methodology has directly influenced the delivery of the curriculum, providing creative approaches to address large class sizes, student-led initiatives and experiential learning both in the subject of Music, Dance and Drama, but across the curriculum as well. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Rwamagana A School have used MAP resources and approaches to create a functioning drama club of 52 students (20 male/32 female). |
| Impact | Rwamagana A School have used MAP resources and approaches to create a functioning drama club of 52 students (20 male/32 female). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Rwanda Education Board |
| Organisation | Rwanda Education Board |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Ananda Breed and a host of in-country partners have together created a manual of participatory arts exercises (translated into Kinyarwanda), which has now directly influenced the national curriculum framework in Music, Dance and Drama through our partnership and signed MOU with the Rwanda Education Board. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partnership with the Rwanda Education Board (REB) and MOU illustrates a significant advancement of the project in terms of influencing policy. It has the potential to shape the national arts curriculum of Rwanda through curriculum and textbook development and MAP alignment with already existing REB trainings. The invitation to partner MAP trainings with REB trainings will assist in areas where funding is not available, while also delivering impact and sustainability. |
| Impact | Noted impact includes the inclusion of REB as a project partner and the inclusion of MAP methodologies into the national curriculum framework for Music, Dance and Drama. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Salzburg Global Seminar |
| Organisation | Salzburg Global Seminar |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Changing the Story will provide a range of outputs, speaker networks and new learning and research through its projects that Salzburg Global can then share as content for their global seminars. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Salzburg Global have committed to disseminate our work in Phase 3 through their prestigious global seminar series, which will also involve considerable online sharing. Through their extensive networks, Salzburg Global will also help us to raise awareness of our Phase 2 commissioning phase and identify potential candidates who can apply. |
| Impact | A representative from Salzburg Global is attending our HGRF Network event in May in South Africa, at which point we expect they can actively be involved in the design, marketing and delivery of Phases 2 and 3. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Sana Initiative, Rwanda |
| Organisation | Sana Initiative |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We've worked with Sana Initiative to develop our MAP methodology, providing opportunities for them to tailor their expertise to a new area, and generating additional income for them through this work. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The cultural artists in Rwanda have different ways of responding to painful pasts and potential symptoms of trauma that might emerge within the workshop or performance space with young people. In order to address some of these issues, we've partnered with Sana Initiative who has provided both group and one-to-one support during the training of trainers residential training from 27 August - 1 September. Additionally, we are enriching the curriculum to enhance trust building, listening, being present, being non-judgemental, and providing self-awareness and coaching. In particular, Iyaga provided a workshop based on sojourning to emphasise peer-to-peer support mechanisms. |
| Impact | Training or trainers and MAP methodology manual. Interdisciplinray: arts/psychology/mental health |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Sarajevo School of Film and Technology (Bosnia & Herzegovina) |
| Organisation | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Izazov project ran 5 days of film-making and activism workshops with young Bosnian changemakers in Sarajevo in July 2019. These workshops were held at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. The school provided Izazov with a workshop space and their technician ran a workshop session on film-making technique. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Izazov project ran 5 days of film-making and activism workshops with young Bosnian changemakers in Sarajevo in July 2019. These workshops were held at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. The school provided Izazov with a workshop space and their technician ran a workshop session on film-making technique. |
| Impact | - 5 days of film-making and activism workshops - 4 short films - youth activism network between Bosnian and European young activists - links with Complete Freedom of Truth - 1 website - further workshops and screening events |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology |
| Organisation | Sarajevo School of Science and Technology |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Izazov research team was made up of researchers from King's College London (Dr Tiffany Fairey and Dr Henry Redwood) and from Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) (Dr Jasmin Hasic). SSST supported the research collaboration by acting as the local research organisation supporting Dr Jasmin Hasic with the administration of the grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Izazov research team was made up of researchers from King's College London (Dr Tiffany Fairey and Dr Henry Redwood) and from Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) (Dr Jasmin Hasic). SSST supported the research collaboration by acting as the local research organisation supporting Dr Jasmin Hasic with the administration of the grant. |
| Impact | - 5 days of film-making and activism workshops - 4 short films - youth activism network between Bosnian and European young activists - links with Complete Freedom of Truth - 1 website - further workshops and screening events |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Save the Children |
| Organisation | Save the Children UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Praxis/Changing the Story co-organised a workshop alongside Save the Children and the AHRC (Dec 20). Concept: For many liberal commentators at the turn of the nineteen-nineties, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western liberal democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics. Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. And humanitarian multilateralism, previously promoted by the United States to consolidate its hegemony, seems to have lost strategic currency. What role has humanitarianism played in the consolidation of 'liberal order'? What are the implications of challenges to liberal order for the political economy of humanitarianism? As late liberalism produces precarity and inequality, might it also open space for the emergence of new emancipatory practices that supplant humanitarianism's Eurocentric and minimalist politics of survival? |
| Collaborator Contribution | Praxis/Changing the Story co-organised a workshop alongside Save the Children and the AHRC (Dec 20). Concept: For many liberal commentators at the turn of the nineteen-nineties, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western liberal democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics. Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. And humanitarian multilateralism, previously promoted by the United States to consolidate its hegemony, seems to have lost strategic currency. What role has humanitarianism played in the consolidation of 'liberal order'? What are the implications of challenges to liberal order for the political economy of humanitarianism? As late liberalism produces precarity and inequality, might it also open space for the emergence of new emancipatory practices that supplant humanitarianism's Eurocentric and minimalist politics of survival? |
| Impact | The Praxis team provided critical reflections on the guiding questions outlined above and feedback on the ideas presented by those set to contribute to a forthcoming volume on humanitarianism in the endtimes of liberal order. A follow-up meeting between Changing the Story and Save the Children in April 2020 took place April 2020 to discuss the prospect of a co-badged webinar. Plans to be confirmed. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation |
| Organisation | Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Access for JGFC to an international network of civil society organisations working in similar areas through the project. Financial support through this grant to evaluate and expand their 'Changemakers' project. Availability and funding of international partners to attend JGFC events as part of network activities. Access to research resources through the literature review phase of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JGFC have provided staff and administrative support to the SA strand of the project. They provide invaluable local expertise and a piloted project methodology from which to work from for Phase 1 project activities. |
| Impact | The JGFC are organising our second network meet 21-23 May 2018. It will be an invaluable opportunity for our network to meet with JGFC's network of civil society actors across Africa, as well as to share our project work with JGFC's public networks, who will be attending parts of the workshops. More information will be outlined in the next submission. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Arts |
| Organisation | Stacion |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Access for Stacion to an international network of civil society organisations working in similar areas through the project. Financial support through this grant to deliver a new youth-focused project as part of their programme. Access and financial support to attend UK and European network activities linked to the project for personal and organisational development. Access to research resources through the literature review phase of the project. More contributions will be added as the project progresses. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Stacion have provided staff and administrative support to the SA strand of the project. They provide invaluable local expertise and a piloted project methodology from which to work from for Phase 1 project activities. More contributions will be added as the project progresses. |
| Impact | Stacion's director, Albert Heta, attended the annual European youth-focused arts project 'The Complete Freedom of Truth' Bridport Residencey (12-16 Feb 2018) to talk about his work and the Changing The Story project with young people from the UK and Europe. In March 2018 Stacion, working in partnership with Dr. Luci and Dr. Schwandner-Sievers launch their first iteration of their pilot project in Prishtina. More outputs/outcomes will be inputted as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | TEM Collaboration with the Government of Kerala, India. The collaboration is ongoing helping the skill development and policy change with the tribal education and community development in Kerala. |
| Organisation | Government of Kerala |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The value of the TEM award is £100000.00. The award money is used to develop and deliver activities to empower tribal youth learners in Wayanad, Kerala. The key issue the TEM project was addressing was the significant level of school drop out among the tribal youth in Wayanad. Lack of recognition and integration of tribal arts, language and culture in the formal education was the main reason for the drop out. TEM emphasises a arts-based curricula for community integration and individual development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | KDISC as the think-tank for development and innovation strategic council to the Government of Kerala always influence the policy change. The main contribution of the partner organisation to the project was to provide Government support and facilitate the research among the hard-to-reach communities. KDISC has organised a consultation meetings with the high profile Government officials such as the Secretary of Education, Director of tribal development and social security mission to listen the voices of the tribal youth in the state. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary bringing various departments under the Government of Kerala into the activities of the TEM project such as Department of Education, Department of tribal development, Social Security Mission. The most important contribution to the project is the researchers access to the target communities that are the tribal communities in Wayanad. The tribes in Wayanad are the hard-to-reach communities, marginalised, detached from main-stream and scattered deep into the rain forests of the Western Ghats. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The Colombian Truth Commission |
| Organisation | Colombian Truth Commission |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Colombian Truth Commission are a partner on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Colombian Truth Commission are a partner on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Impact | Several animations. See creative outputs section. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation |
| Organisation | Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A co-badged online roundtable discussion around youth leadership (June 2020). The UN's network of youth peacebuilders were invited to join the discussion along with youth researchers, academics and CSO partners from CTS. The discussion aims to highlight diverse examples of how young people are engaging in and advancing peace and development efforts. Insights from the discussion will be used to inform efforts to conceptualise 'youth leadership' as a necessary component of peace building and sustaining peace, rather than as an add-on. The meeting will also allow participants to discuss leadership within their own work, and brainstorm how they can best work together across institutions to support one another in strengthening youth leadership, from the UN to grassroots initiatives. In particular, the meeting will allow for reflection on the role of the international community and the UN in advancing the meaningful participation and ownership of young people. Reflections from the meeting will be synthesised in a summary report and published as a blog post, the aim of which is to facilitate continued dialogue on what is needed to strengthen youth leadership.Participants are also encouraged to contribute with their own blog posts on what leadership means to them and how young people are demonstrating leadership in their communities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A co-badged online roundtable discussion around youth leadership (June 2020). The UN's network of youth peacebuilders were invited to join the discussion along with youth researchers, academics and CSO partners from CTS. The discussion aims to highlight diverse examples of how young people are engaging in and advancing peace and development efforts. Insights from the discussion will be used to inform efforts to conceptualise 'youth leadership' as a necessary component of peace building and sustaining peace, rather than as an add-on. The meeting will also allow participants to discuss leadership within their own work, and brainstorm how they can best work together across institutions to support one another in strengthening youth leadership, from the UN to grassroots initiatives. In particular, the meeting will allow for reflection on the role of the international community and the UN in advancing the meaningful participation and ownership of young people. Reflections from the meeting will be synthesised in a summary report and published as a blog post, the aim of which is to facilitate continued dialogue on what is needed to strengthen youth leadership.Participants are also encouraged to contribute with their own blog posts on what leadership means to them and how young people are demonstrating leadership in their communities. |
| Impact | Co-badged Roundtable Discussion, June 2020. Follow-up conversations between a youth peacebuilder at the UN and a CTS CSO partner (Opera Circus). A blog to be produced from the online discussion and shared via the CTS and the Foundations website. Further collaborations to be discussed Autumn 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | UNESCO |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Department | Education Sector |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We invited UNESCO's central Youth Development lead to attend our ECR Project Development Workshop as a policy expert and will continue to share learning and practice with her as the project progresses. |
| Collaborator Contribution | UNESCO's central Youth Development lead attended, and was highly engaged, during our ECR Project Development Workshop. In addition to the excellent learning she provided to the attendees as a policy expert, she also offered support to ECRs and their corresponding CSO partners in developing their applications. |
| Impact | Involvement of UNESCO expertise in shaping Phase 2 of the project, meaning more project applications aligned to the UN SDGs. Additionally, there are conversations with UNESCO to use the MAP methodology developed in Rwanda for young people to use the participatory arts as an advocacy tool to inform policy. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UNESCO - James Bridge and Helen Maclagan |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 10 February 2020 Meeting with James Bridge, UNESCO Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Deena Dajani. Followed up on conversations with a colleague of James who had attended a Praxis Learning Event in January 2020 on the basis of which James accepted invitation to attend the Praxis Nexus in February 2020. Meeting discussed James's participation in the Nexus as Keynote, as well as future collaboration between UNESCO and Praxis over Nexus like event that includes practitioners from UNESCOs World Heritage Sites. |
| Collaborator Contribution | 10 February 2020 Meeting with James Bridge, UNESCO Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Deena Dajani. Followed up on conversations with a colleague of James who had attended a Praxis Learning Event in January 2020 on the basis of which James accepted invitation to attend the Praxis Nexus in February 2020. Meeting discussed James's participation in the Nexus as Keynote, as well as future collaboration between UNESCO and Praxis over Nexus like event that includes practitioners from UNESCOs World Heritage Sites. 19 February 2020 5th Meeting of the Informal European Network of National Commissions for UNESCO (Cascais, Portugal) Attended by James Bridge (Chief Executive and Secretary-General of the UK National Commission for UNESCO). Praxis' Nexus Event on Heritage for Global Challenges was announced to the 30 countries and Secretary-Generals of National Commissions for UNESCO attending the meeting. The meeting showed a growing interest in this area. The event was also mentioned to the UK ambassador for UNESCO and UNESCO's ambassador to Lebanon who expressed their willingness to receive a copy of Praxis' report on Heritage for Global Challenges. |
| Impact | James Bridge delivered a keynote speak at the Heritage Nexus event in Lebanon. Discussions ongoing around future collaboration between UNESCO and Praxis over Nexus like event that includes practitioners from UNESCOs World Heritage Sites. James took part in a short film interview about the Nexus event which will be uploaded to the CTS website. UKNC and Praxis joint conference and report on Maximising the Impact of Heritage Research for the SDGs planned for January 2021. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | US Embassy in Cambodia |
| Organisation | US Embassy in Cambodia |
| Country | Cambodia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Our Co-Is Dr. Peter Manning and Dr. Ly Sok Kheang and PI Prof. Paul Cooke added additional value to the Ministry of Tourism part-funded 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' based at Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), which was the central focus of our Cambodia Phase 1 focus. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The sharing of one of the trainee teacher groups' participatory film outputs, Leader with Two Faces, was shared on the US Embassy of Phnom Penh's Facebook page as an example of good practice, where it was viewed more than 78,000 times. |
| Impact | The sharing of one of the trainee teacher groups' participatory film outputs, Leader with Two Faces, was shared on the US Embassy of Phnom Penh's Facebook page as an example of good practice, where it was viewed more than 78,000 times. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | United Nations Development Programme |
| Organisation | United Nations (UN) |
| Department | United Nations Development Programme |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Our Co-Is Dr. Peter Manning and Dr. Ly Sok Kheang and PI Prof. Paul Cooke added additional value to the UNDP part-funded 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' based at Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), which was the central focus of our Cambodia Phase 1 focus, by developing and adding a participatory video element to the workshops with partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 'Anlong Veng Peace Tours' programme, led by our Co-I Dr. Ly Sok Kheang (Documentation Centre of Cambodia) are part-funded by the UNDP. Through this partnership, UNDP shared resulting video outputs on their social media pages, helping us reach more than 100,000 views (one example of a film shared is below) |
| Impact | - Anlong Veng Peace Tour videos - Multidisciplinary (sociology, arts, film studies, heritage, history, justice & reconciliation) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Universidad de los Andes, Colombia |
| Organisation | University of the Andes |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ass. Prof. Alejandro Castillejo is the in-country Co-Investigator of our Phase 1 Colombia strand: Tales of the Future: Senses, Creativity and the Arts of Survival in Colombia. As grant partners, we funded a Research Assistant, research time for the DC-Cam Co-Investigator, travel for the Co-I to attend an international workshops, including in South Africa, UK and Cambodia. The other Colombia co-I is Dr. Simon Dancey at Creative & Cultural Skills. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ass. Prof. Alejandro Castillejo is the in-country Co-Investigator of our Phase 1 Colombia strand: Tales of the Future: Senses, Creativity and the Arts of Survival in Colombia. In addition to fulfilling this role in co-developing the literature review and proof-of-concept project, Alejandro has also provided numerous open-access resources for the Changing the Story website, shared learning with the active network, and will be cohosting an international workshop as part of the project in Colombia in September 2019. |
| Impact | All Colombia related blog posts on the CTS website / All spanish-language resources on the website and numerous open-access papers on the website. Forthcoming publications and event overviews will be provided in the next summary. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Universidad del Rosario |
| Organisation | Del Rosario University |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Universidad del Rosario are a partner institution on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Universidad del Rosario are a partner institution on the Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia project. |
| Impact | Several animation outputs. See creative outputs section for more information. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Bath |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Department | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr. Peter Manning, Lecturer in Sociology at University of Bath is the UK Co-Investigator for the Cambodia Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has been provided relevant funding to complete this role. As a member of the wider network, we have also funded Manning to attend our capacity building events with global partners including in South Africa and the UK. Prof. Paul Cooke has also acted as a Participatory Video mentor for Dr. Manning and partners at DC-Cam, and Manning and Cooke are now producing new films together as a result of this partnership. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr. Peter Manning, Lecturer in Sociology at University of Bath is the UK Co-Investigator for the Cambodia Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has led on this strand of research and practice in all regards. |
| Impact | All Cambodia related outputs listed, as well as involvement in all our international engagement events. Publications are forthcoming and will be listed in our 2020 submission. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Lincoln, Rwanda |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Ananda Breed, Professor in Theatre at University of Lincoln is the UK Co-Investigator for the Rwanda Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has been provided relevant funding to complete this role. As a member of the wider network, we have also funded them to attend our capacity building events with global partners including in South Africa and the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Breed has lead on all Rwanda strand activities. |
| Impact | All outputs and outcomes related to the Rwanda strand. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Organisation | University of Pretoria |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Chaya Herman, University of Pretoria is the in-country Co-Investigator for the Kosovo Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has been provided relevant funding to complete this role. As a member of the wider network, we have also funded them to attend our capacity building events with global partners. We also funded a PDRA from Uni of Pretoria as part of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Herman is the in-country Co-Investigator for the South Africa Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has led on this strand of research and practice in all regards in collaboration with Prof. Taberner (UK Co-I). |
| Impact | All South-Africa strand related outputs and outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Prishtina, Kosovo |
| Organisation | University of Pristina |
| Country | Kosovo |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ass. Prof. Nita Luci, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University of Prishtina is the in-country Co-Investigator for the Kosovo Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has been provided relevant funding to complete this role. As a member of the wider network, we have also funded them to attend our capacity building events with global partners including, where visa processes have allowed. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ass.Prof. Luci is the in-country Co-Investigator for the Kosovo Phase 1 strand of Changing the Story and has led on this strand of research and practice in all regards. She has also lent an invaluable gender focus to the wider project because of the Kosovo strand work, which is encouraging us to focus more broadly on gender and other intersectionalities of youth in the project. |
| Impact | All Kosovo related activities. Multi-disciplinary across Social Anthropology, Gender studies, Arts and Media Studies. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Uravu, Indigenous Science and Technology, NGO (Tribal Education Methodology Project) |
| Organisation | Uravu Indigenous Science and Technology Study Centre |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Uravu is a research partner on the Phase 2 Large Grant project Tribal Education Methodology (India). URAVU works with people, governments and businesses to facilitate initiatives with the prime motive of sustainable development and implements focused end-to-end programs in the bamboo sector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Uravu is a research partner on the Phase 2 Large Grant project Tribal Education Methodology (India). |
| Impact | Introductory Theatre Workshops at 5 tribal Model Residential Schools (MRS) in January 2020.The workshops consist of singing tribal songs, storytelling, games, voice modulation training, emotional expressions that are gathered from various tribal groups in Wayanad as well as from Applied theatre techniques. The participants are encouraged to explore their own cultural heritage through remembering and replaying traditional games along with improvisations on various situations/scenarios. The workshop had showcase some of the short performances, at the end of each day, developed through workshop activities, for educators, parents and public. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Uthando CBO South Africa (BST) |
| Organisation | Uthando CBO |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | BST and University of Leeds delivered and developed their Youth Committee model in collaboration with this CBO (Community Based Organisation), engaging young participants from the safe park as part of the programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This CBO provided venue space for workshops and showcasing events, and access to their young participants, as well as expertise regarding the safe park system in South Africa and general support for the programme. |
| Impact | See all outputs relating to activities and workshops at this CBO's safe park location. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (Connective Memories project) |
| Organisation | Uyisenga Ni Imanzi |
| Country | Rwanda |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Uyisenga Ni Imanzi are the civil society organization partner for the Connective Memories project who have been involved in its co-production and undertaking. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Uyisenga have provided psychosocial support to participants participated in the project and guidance on the adaption of tools to the cultural context. 20 young people who receive support from Uyisenga have been involved in the research project. |
| Impact | We are in the process of writing a paper on local approaches to psychosocial healing in the Rwandan context, based on learning from this project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Making of the Museum of Education, Kosovo |
| Description | Design of the webpage, with animation - provided by Linda Gusia |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | To be completed by Linda Gusia |
| Description | 'Aesthetic Approaches to IR', Round table at BISA ((I co-convened the roundtable)), London, UK. June 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a roundtable on the aesthetics of peace at BISA annual conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'Inequality in the arts is at crisis point' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CTS Project Manager Inés Soria-Donlan approached by The Stage for an interview regarding careers in artist development and info about changing the story. Article widely shared on social media and via university's own official PR pages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.thestage.co.uk/advice/ines-soria-donlan-inequality-in-the-arts-workforce-is-at-crisis-po... |
| Description | 'Re-thinking Reconciliation through the Arts: Artistic Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina.' Transitional Justice in the Balkans, Prishtina, Kosovo. Sept. 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a paper on alternative pathways to post-conflict reconciliation at a conference in Prishtina, Kosovo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Stop Infantilising': reflections on how to ensure meaningful engagement with young people (blog, April 2021) |
| 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 | Blog by Lauren Wray reflecting on the key points from a roundtable discussion co-organised by CTS and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. Connecting the missing peace: Youth leadership for Building and Sustaining Peace," brought together 30 youth peacebuilders, leaders and civil society organisations to discuss what practical actions are needed to ensure youth play a leadership role throughout projects and programmes, and what the international community can do to support efforts to advance youth leadership. The blog was shared on the CTS and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation websites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/04/30/stop-infantilising-reflections-on-how-to-ensure-mean... |
| Description | 'The Aesthetics of Peace', CEEISA annual conference (I co-convened the panel), Belgrade, Serbia. June 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided paper on the aesthetics of peace to an audience of around 25 academics and policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 10 February 2020 Meeting with James Bridge, UNESCO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Deena Dajani. Followed up on coversations with a colleague of James who had attended a Praxis Learning Event in January 2020 on the basis of which James accepted invitation to attend the Praxis Nexus in February 2020. Meeting discussed James's participation in the Nexus as Keynote, as well as future collaboration between UNESCO and Praxis over Nexus like event that includes practitioners from UNESCOs World Heritage Sites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 10th Network Meeting on Dealing with the Past in Kosovo (P1 Kosovo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The meeting will provide space to exchange on the production of narratives in Kosovo's recent history. We will screen a short documentary (12') called 'Changing the Story - The Kosovo Strand' and are glad to have with us Asst. Prof. Nita Luci from the University of Pristina to discuss on the project presented in the documentary and on narratives in general. Thereafter, an interactive part will allow participants to jointly reflect on what we remember and what we forget in Kosovo's more recent history. Number of attendees and impact unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 10x Community Based Workshops in Rearabilwe-Tsakane safe park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 11 Community Based Workshops in Bambanani Safe Park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 11 February 2020 Meeting with Harriet Hoffler, DCMS (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Deena Dajani. Followed up on earlier conversations between Deena and Harriet and discussed Harriet's participation in Praxis Nexus in February 2020. Also discussed Harriet's participation in Evaluation workshop being co-hosted with BC in September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 12x Community Based Workshops in Uthando safe park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 16 June 2020 Meeting with Anna Madill and Siobhan Hugh-Jones, GCRF Challenge Cluster on Mental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Esther Dusabe-Richards and Lauren Wray. Discussed possible ways forward for collaboration. Esther agreed to send Lebanon report and to keep Anna and Siobhan updated about Evaluation workshop. Anna also requested to meet at a later stage to discuss Praxis' structure in more detail. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 19x Community Based Workshops at Community Crisis Centre safe park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 21 Community Based Workshops at Nigel Community Cares safe park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 26 Community Based Workshops in KATHA Day Care safe park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 5th Meeting of the Informal European Network of National Commissions for UNESCO (Cascais, Portugal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended by James Bridge (Chief Executive and Secretary-General of the UK National Commission for UNESCO). Praxis' Nexus Event on Heritage for Global Challenges was announced to the 30 countries and Secretary-Generals of National Commissions for UNESCO attending the meeting. The meeting showed a growing interest in this area. The event was also mentioned to the UK ambassador for UNESCO and UNESCO's ambassador to Lebanon who expressed their willingness to receive a copy of Praxis' report on Heritage for Global Challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 8 community based workshops in Rearabilwe-Daveyton, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 9 Community Based Workshops in Bonisiwe Safe Park, South Africa (BST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Community-based workshops (CBWs) were delivered to support the development of the Youth Committees and their advocacy campaigns. This series of CBWs took place in one of 8 Safe Parks in Ekurhuleni Municipality in Gauteng Province that took part. The workshops were delivered dependent on the level of prior engagement with the Bishop Simeon Trust on arts-based approaches and Youth Committee development. The development models devised during prior collaboration with the University of Leeds were used as the basis for intervention. This progressed from an initial youth mobilisation phase, supported by the Child and Youth Care Workers / Auxiliary Social Workers within Safe Parks, to the implementation of the participatory arts-based advocacy model. Using this approach leadership development is participatory in nature, children are provided with space to contribute to the collective action as individuals in a safe space. The workshops across the 8 safe parks led to 189 children being supported to develop their skills as youth leaders through their membership of the Youth Committees and their involvement in the arts-based advocacy. The Youth Committees then engaged with 1,405 children supported by the Safe Park programmes within the community-based partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 9th July Oxfam webinar de-brief and areas for further collaboration |
| 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 | Meeting to discuss future collaborations. One idea is to run a series of three to four online seminars focused on specific questions and principles from the report. CTS will identify specific projects that align to those principles and demonstrate what those principles mean in practice and how they can be actualised. The online sessions will take place between Sept/Oct - December 2020. In January 2021, Oxfam and CTS will co-produce a report that captures the main conclusions and findings from the discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | A cross-discipline analysis of the Community Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance Conference - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of the series of blogs written by delegates who attended the CE4AMR conference in Nepal and part of the evaluation of the event covering a wide range of perspectives/ disciplines. In this blog, Jane Plastow, Emmanuel Tsekleves and Juan Carrique-Mas discuss their experience of the event from 3 distinct backgrounds and disciplines. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/17/a-cross-discipline-analysis-of-the-community-engagem... |
| Description | A reflection on the 'understanding of safeguarding' regional safeguarding webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Critical reflection written by a youth participant who participated in a webinar with Rajib Timalsina, the CTS safeguarding Regional Lead for Asia. Uploaded to the CTS website June 2020 and promoted via Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/06/01/a-reflection-on-the-understanding-of-safeguarding-re... |
| Description | A reflection on the graffiti training workshop held at BaTonga Museum, Binga (Blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of the CTS Young Changemakers blog series and was written by Willard Mutanga. The blog was used to launch the new Young Changemakers page on the CTS website featuring content and opportunities specifically by and for young people in the Global South. In the blog Willard reflects on his experience of participating in a graffiti art workshop and the opportunities learning these new skills afforded the youth in Binga, Zimbabwe. The purpose of the YCM series is to incorporate youth voice into central CTS communication, to provide a window into existing CTS projects from the perspective of the young people co-producing/involved and to amplify the voices of young people living in "post-conflict" settings and/or in the Global South. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. Willard (blog author): Thanks a lot. I appreciate the effort which you made towards the script. I feel empowered and inspired to hear such wonderful comments from you and Melis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/12/a-reflection-on-the-graffiti-training-workshop-held-... |
| Description | AHRC Steering Group Meeting |
| 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 | Praxis were invited to speak at the AHRC Steering Group meeting on 5 June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AHRC-DCMS Culture Heritage and Climate Change Workshop (4 May 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was organised in collaboration with AHRC and the project 'CRITICAL: Cultural Heritage Risk and Impact Tools for Integrated and Collaborative Learning (Highlight)' to bring together for the second time the nine research projects from the AHRC-DCMS Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort. The workshop facilitated the communication of projects results in a format that could be translated into a two-page policy brief for the AHRC and DCMS. Presentations were limited to seven minutes, five slides, four photos and three recommendations. The workshop allowed groups to add additional cross-cutting themes to the existing lists collected from workshop one. After the second workshop, a policy brief template was circulated to allow an easy translation of project data into the policy brief format. The policy briefs prepared by the nine research projects are presented in the report on 'Cultural Heritage, Climate change and Disasters', which will be published in September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | AHRC-DCMS Culture Heritage and Climate Change Workshop (9 February 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was organised in collaboration with AHRC and the project 'CRITICAL: Cultural Heritage Risk and Impact Tools for Integrated and Collaborative Learning (Highlight)' to bring together the nine research projects from the AHRC-DCMS Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort. The workshop was an opportunity to present PRAXIS activities on Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Disasters; share key learnings about methodologies, project achievements, lessons learnt and recommendations from the research projects; exchange ideas about research outputs; and co-design a strategy/template to collect project data for research outputs and draft future policy briefs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Academic Filmmaking: Modalities, Experiment and Decolonisation Workshop |
| 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 | Practice research (or practice-led research) has become a lively area of Film Studies, with exciting methodologies of video essay-making, participatory filmmaking and curation emerging over the last few years. In this event panelists were invited to discuss new developments in academic filmmaking and showcase the films made with or by researchers at the University of Leeds, Aarhus University, Birkbeck University of London and SOAS University of London. The film screenings and presentations are guided by several questions, including: - How can we use participatory arts methodologies to amplify others' (and "others'") voices? - What does it mean to decolonise filmmaking and film curation? - What place is there for experimental, or deformative, approaches to filmmaking in academic practice and film criticism? - What's next for academic filmmaking? Paul Cooke and Mat Charles were invited to present their latest animation Operación Berlín and participate in an Academic Filmmaking Roundtable: What Now? What Next? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/academic-filmmaking-modalities-experiment-and-decolonisation-tickets-13... |
| Description | Activist Film Conference - 15 Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A day of screenings, panels and discussion bringing together activist filmmakers from across the UK and beyond. Hosted by the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at University of Leeds, and working with the Radical Film Network, this event seeks to ask why and how we make activist films, from conception to dissemination, and asks what we can learn from each other to keep producing change. Event in partnership with Leeds International Film Festival. Featured films from across UK and Latin America. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.leedsfilmcity.com/whats-on/voicing-hidden-histories-day-2-activist-film-conference/ |
| Description | Additional journalism training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In addition we conducted additional journalism training with 100 "special correspondents" in: Mitú, Vaupés (14-18 Feb 2022 with 20 youths); Algeciras, Huila (16-19 March with 20 youths); Yopal, Casanare (10-12 August 2022 with 25 youths); Tumaco, Nariño (13-15 July with 20 youths) and Valencia, Córdoba (14-17 Sept with 20 youths). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | African perspectives Safeguarding Webinar June 2020 |
| 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 | The sixth webinar in the safeguarding series explored African perspectives. The webinar was held on 24 May 2020 and was attended by 15 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Amanda Rogers - Showing of dances/public talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | To share a new image of Cambodia from young artists. I presented a short introductory talk followed by a screening of two works from the project, and a Q&A with the artists in Cambodia. The intended purpose was to showcase contemporary Cambodian culture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/JoEj1B5-1cc |
| Description | Anlong Veng Peace Tours - April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On April 18, twelve trainee teachers, including students from Takeo province and three from the local area, themselves children of former Khmer Rouge, participated in the Anlong Veng Peace Tour, part of the Phase 1 Cambodia strand of Changing the Story. The April 2018 Peace Tour also marked a particularly important moment within the wider Changing the Story project. While tour participants had previously been assigned research tasks to draft reports on the history and experiences of local residents, the April 2018 tour was the first deployment of participatory film-making methods as a means for students to explore the stories of local residents and former Khmer Rouge. Working in groups of four, the student-teachers were trained in the use of audio-visual equipment 'on-site', identifying key themes and questions for their films to explore, before conducting interviews and capturing footage of key sites in the area. The 'multiplication' effect of the participatory-film making approach is significant: the trainee-teachers will be able to incorporate their films within their own teaching as they return to their schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/05/16/changing-the-story-whose-stories-and-why/ |
| Description | Anthropology students workshop 27 Oct 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof Paul Cooke taught a Level 3 Anthropology class - designed to draw on the learning from the Voicing Hidden Histories project, in particular the work in South Africa. The class had around 30 students and consisted of a half day workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Art, AMR and Global Health - Getting Creative with Superbugs |
| 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 | Written by Jess Mitchell and uploaded 4 June 2019, the blog launches the CE4AMR project public and the conference set to take place in Nepal in July. The blog outlines the partnership with CE4AMR, CTS and HERD International and lets readers know what they can expect from the event in Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/06/04/arts-amr-and-global-health-getting-creative-with-sup... |
| Description | Article in Yorkshire Evening Post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online/Print Article in Yorkshire Evening Post 'Leeds University Academics using arts to help conflict-torn countries build better futures.' The article was published on 13 May 2019. The article focuses specifically on CTS P1 projects and features quotes from P1 Co-Investigator Stuart Taberner. YEP readership average readership 100,000 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/288412/yorkshire-post-newspaper-readership-trend-uk/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/leeds-university-academics-using-arts-to-help-conflict-t... |
| Description | Article on Izazov Project in Al Jazeera BiH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Blog appeared on Balkans Al Jazeera website on 25 April 2019. The blog, written to project partner Tina Lee, documents the events of the CTS P2 BiH project and features a web link to the CTS website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://balkans.aljazeera.net/blog/changing-story-bih |
| Description | Arts & Development Seminar at LIFF |
| 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 day-long seminar hosted by the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds and in partnership with Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), reflecting on learning, opportunities and challenges regarding the relationship between participatory arts and international development. The seminar featured an international, interdisciplinary mix of panels with distinguished academics, policy makers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Funded by the AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund. Project partners from both 'Voicing Hidden Histories', 'Challenging Xenophobia' and 'Changing the Story' presented papers and engaged in discussion and networking, along with other practitioners, academics, activists, postgraduate students and general public members in attendance. A full programme can be found in the link below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.leedsfilmcity.com/whats-on/voicing-hidden-histories-day-1-academic-seminar/ |
| Description | Arts Emergency Intern Creative Reflection (blog) |
| 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 | In September 2021, Changing the Story provided a week-long work placement as part of the Arts Emergency work experience scheme, to offer an insight into International Development Research Project Management. Over the course of the week, Rachel engagement with the Changing the Story and PRAXIS team, and the wider network of researchers and young artists. As part of Rachel's Twitter Takeover, Rachel wrote a reflective poem based on her week long internship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2021/09/Rachels-Creative-Output.jp... |
| Description | Arts Emergency Internship Placement 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In September 2021, Changing the Story provided a week-long work placement as part of the Arts Emergency work experience scheme, to offer an insight into International Development Research Project Management. Over the course of the week, Rachel engagement with the Changing the Story and PRAXIS team, and the wider network of researchers and young artists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/student-engagement/ |
| Description | Arts Emergency Twitter Takeover |
| 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 | Curated by Rachel, Arts Emergency Intern for CTS, the Twitter Takeover documents Rachel's placement at Changing the Story (what Rachel learnt over the course of the week and Rachel's take/critical reflection on the project. The Twitter Takeover made 1168 impressions and received over 70 engagements in the space of 2-3 hours. Rachel ended the takeover with a poem reflecting on experience with Changing the Story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Arts for thought - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog by Faith Mkwananzi about the activities Faith undertook following the Mobility Fund Award. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and shared by project partners. The blog will be used to encourage the network to apply to the fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/03/09/arts-for-thought-i-am-a-changemaker-so-are-all-of-us... |
| Description | Arts-based Methods and Digital Technology for Peacebuilding during the time of COVID-19 (Blog Sept 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Ananda Breed (University of Lincoln). Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Changing the Story (CTS) hosted a three-day conference that focused on 'Education and Art for Peacebuilding' from 5 - 7 August with the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) as a co-host in Rwanda. The blog captures reactions to the event from those that attended and was shared on the CTS and MAP websites, as well as via Social Media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/09/03/arts-based-methods-and-digital-technology-for-peaceb... |
| Description | Arts-based workshop and community dialogues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | We held a a three-day arts-based workshop led by the 10 young people and 6 adult facilitators as part of the Isangizanyankuru (memories) PAR project. The workshop was conducted with another group of 20 young people from marginalised backgrounds, supported by Uyisenga Ni Imanzi. The young people created pieces of Forum Theatre to explore stories from their communities. We then had a day of community dialogues where the young people performed the Forum Theatre and community dialogue facilitators from IRDP facilitate group intergenerational dialogues between young people and the adults (mostly parents) on the issues raised. A further 19 women and 8 men participated in the community dialogues alongside 7 community dialogue facilitators (three male and three female). The Forum Theatre performances generated considerable discussion among community members who reported a greater understanding of children's experiences and perspectives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended launch of Culture in Crisis portal at the V&A (Praxis) |
| 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 | Praxis attended the launch of the portal and the V&A as potential avenue of maximizing Heritage projects' impact. Made introductions to Praxis to Laura Jones and scheduled follow-up meeting to discuss Praxis-V&A collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | BOOM Concerts in 1980s Kosovo |
| 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 | Written by Rina Krasniqi (Lirindja), the blog describes the Phase 1 Kosovo proof of concept project 'Boom Zine' and the project teams interest in analysing Boom Concerts in Kosovo from the 1980s. The blog was shared via the CTS website and Twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/04/29/boom-concerts-in-1980s-kosovo/ |
| Description | BST Showcase Event & Child Parent Self Reflection Session: Bambanani, Dukathole |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Child Parent Self Reflection Session are a third level of showcase event limited to the sharing of the campaign message / film of the Youth Committees with the parents and guardians of children supported by the Safe Park. The children featuring in the films attend 'in character' and ready to respond to questions from the audience as such. These sessions encouraged greater cross generational dialogue between the children and their parents / guardians, to help promote trust and safeguarding of children. They also helped engage adults in the work of the Safe Parks, as they can in turn support through their own connections with a broader range of stakeholders in their communities, helping establish the community partner organisations as more than just Drop-In Centres. This in turn helped them to reduce the stigma that may be attached to their work and enhance their role as a focal point of child focussed services and other relevant stakeholders in their communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BST Showcase Event & Child Parent Self Reflection Session: Community Crisis Centre, Reiger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Child Parent Self Reflection Session are a third level of showcase event limited to the sharing of the campaign message / film of the Youth Committees with the parents and guardians of children supported by the Safe Park. The children featuring in the films attend 'in character' and ready to respond to questions from the audience as such. These sessions encouraged greater cross generational dialogue between the children and their parents / guardians, to help promote trust and safeguarding of children. They also helped engage adults in the work of the Safe Parks, as they can in turn support through their own connections with a broader range of stakeholders in their communities, helping establish the community partner organisations as more than just Drop-In Centres. This in turn helped them to reduce the stigma that may be attached to their work and enhance their role as a focal point of child focussed services and other relevant stakeholders in their communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BST Showcase Event & Child Parent Self Reflection Session: KATHA Day Care, Katlehong |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Child Parent Self Reflection Session are a third level of showcase event limited to the sharing of the campaign message / film of the Youth Committees with the parents and guardians of children supported by the Safe Park. The children featuring in the films attend 'in character' and ready to respond to questions from the audience as such. These sessions encouraged greater cross generational dialogue between the children and their parents / guardians, to help promote trust and safeguarding of children. They also helped engage adults in the work of the Safe Parks, as they can in turn support through their own connections with a broader range of stakeholders in their communities, helping establish the community partner organisations as more than just Drop-In Centres. This in turn helped them to reduce the stigma that may be attached to their work and enhance their role as a focal point of child focussed services and other relevant stakeholders in their communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BST Showcase Event & Child Parent Self Reflection Session: Nigel Caring Community, Duduza |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Child Parent Self Reflection Session are a third level of showcase event limited to the sharing of the campaign message / film of the Youth Committees with the parents and guardians of children supported by the Safe Park. The children featuring in the films attend 'in character' and ready to respond to questions from the audience as such. These sessions encouraged greater cross generational dialogue between the children and their parents / guardians, to help promote trust and safeguard |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BST Showcase Event: My Safe Park, My Home, June 2019 in Duduza, Nigel 1494, South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two stakeholder engagement showcase events were held over the course of the project, the first in Duduza on 28th June 2019 and the second in Katlehong on 22nd November 2019. Each of the events were organised by one of the Safe Parks engaged in the project: Duduza by Nigel Caring Community and Katlehong by KATHA Day Care. This allowed them to build on their local social capital and connections, allowing us to keep costs low whilst also engaging with a broader range of stakeholders than possible had it been externally organised. The proceedings of the events themselves were organised and hosted by a youth advisory board of young people selected by each of the Youth Committees. This helped to promote youth leadership and youth voice at the heart of the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BST Showcase Event: My Safe Park, My Home; Tsolo, Katlehong, 1431, South Africa. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two stakeholder engagement showcase events were held over the course of the project, the first in Duduza on 28th June 2019 and the second in Katlehong on 22nd November 2019. Each of the events were organised by one of the Safe Parks engaged in the project: Duduza by Nigel Caring Community and Katlehong by KATHA Day Care. This allowed them to build on their local social capital and connections, allowing us to keep costs low whilst also engaging with a broader range of stakeholders than possible had it been externally organised. The proceedings of the events themselves were organised and hosted by a youth advisory board of young people selected by each of the Youth Committees. This helped to promote youth leadership and youth voice at the heart of the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Be Curious 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event provided an opportunity to showcase research taking place at the UoL and to inspire interest. Platform for researchers to connect with local community. To demonstrate social responsibility of research. CTS stall at the Be Curious event - attended by 1200. 45% of visitors were under 18. 75% of visitors were from Leeds. Coverage from BBC Radio Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog catching images from a graffiti art exhibition (ECR Zimbabwe Project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Street Art to Promote Representation and Epistemic Justice among Marginalized Rural Zimbabwean Youth is a Changing the Story Phase 2 ECR project, which focuses on rural Binga, a significantly underdeveloped rural district located in Matabeleland North in Zimbabwe. The project sought to document the experiences of the Tonga people who have been subject to marginalisation, social violence and exclusion through participatory street art with the aim of encouraging social cohesion. To this end, graffitis produced by the youth were exhibited in the National Art Gallery in Bulawayo, the National Museum in Harare and at the Midland State University in Gweru. The blog documents the art exhibition and was uploaded to the CTS website April 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/04/07/street-art-to-promote-representation-an-exhibition-s... |
| Description | Blog sharing project updates from the TEM project (India) |
| 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 | The blog features photos and videos from TEM project theatre workshops and a note about the impact of COVID-19 on the project and the region of Kerala. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/07/24/project-update-tribal-education-methodology-tem/ |
| Description | Blog titled 'Six ways heritage research contributes to sustainable development' |
| 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 | The blog, written by Dr Francesca Giliberto, presents key findings from the PRAXIS report on 'Heritage for Global Challenges' and highlights six ways heritage research contributes to sustainable development. The blog is published on website dedicated to the Newton Fund and Global Challenges Research Fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/data-insights-blog/six-ways-heritage-research-contributes-to-sust... |
| Description | Blog: The power of youth participation in times of crisis November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog article written by Alyson Brody. The blog draws on the findings of a collaboration between the British Council and Changing the Story (CTS) and was shared on the CTS and BC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-policy-insight/insight-articles/positive-youth-participation... |
| Description | Blogpost by Atish Indrekar as part of Changing the Story's #YoungChangemakers series |
| 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 | Budhan Theatre member and Director of film outputs of this project, Abhishek Indrekar, wrote a blogpost for Changing the Story about his work as a young activist filmmaker in India and why he felt art and young people's voices were important in creating change. The blogpost was shared via Twitter, Facebook and via the university's social media networks too. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/02/13/sharing-indias-hidden-history/ |
| Description | British Council Heritage of Future Past Conference March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'The Cultural Protection Fund is hosting a three-day event 'Heritage of Future Past' from the 29 - 31 March to celebrate cultural heritage work. The celebration will be made up of six curated events, with the afternoon session of the second day focusing on research, policy and practice. The British Council invite PRAXIS PI Stuart Taberner to participate as panellist to discuss the work of Praxis in regard to the research aspect, particularly about connectivity, complementarity and sharing of research on Tuesday 30 March. Description: With a focus on research, policy and practice, this interactive session asks a simple question - what works? The session will be facilitated by Bob Palmer, an expert consultant in Cultural Heritage and the Arts who has worked on projects with the British Council for over 40 years. The workshop will aim to stimulate debate, generate creative approaches, and identify recommendations for a What Works approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.britishcouncil.org/arts/culture-development/our-stories/heritage-future-past |
| Description | British Council event The Missing Pillar: Common Sense and Community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to share findings from the Cual es la Verdad project, specifically the role of arts for contributing to sustainable development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Dissemination event (round 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination workshop: Participants used the animations to share their experiences and create recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict to be submitted to Colombian Truth Commission. 40 children at risk of being recruited by armed groups attended the dissemination workshop in Cáceres, Antioquia on 12/12/20. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Dissemination workshop (round 1) |
| 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 | Participants used the animations to share their experiences and create recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict to be submitted to Colombian Truth Commission. The workshop took place in Bogotá with 20 former child soldiers on 28 November 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Dissemination workshop (round 2) |
| 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 | Participants used the animations to share their experiences and create recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict to be submitted to Colombian Truth Commission. 60 former child soldiers participated in the workshop in Bogota (Nov 2020). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Dissemination workshop (round 3) |
| 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 | Participants used the animations to share their experiences and create recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict to be submitted to Colombian Truth Commission. The workshop took place in Mitú, Vaupés Colombia on 5 Dec 2020 and was attended by 20 former child soldiers;10 community leaders and 10 ex-combatants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Storytelling Workshops (second round) |
| 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 | Participants wrote their stories and created scripts for short animations. 5 participants took part in the workshop across a 5-day period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Storytelling workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Survivors of Operation Berlin shared their stories and created animation script. 4 participants attended the virtual workshops over a 6 day period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Storytelling workshops (round 3) |
| 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 | Participants wrote their stories and created scripts for short animations in partnership with student animators. 15 former child soldiers and 15 student animators took part in the virtual workshop series Aug-Nov 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust For Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Storytelling/animation 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 | Participants wrote their stories and created scripts for short animations. They also learned basic animation techniques. 15 teenagers age 14-18 took part in the series of workshops every Monday and Thursday from July- November 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - Launch of Mi Historia: 24 animated shorts by former child soldiers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Launch of Mi Historia: 24 animated shorts by former child soldiers were launched and shared with the Colombian Truth Commission. The event and associated animations have been seen by more than 300,000 people online. The virtual event tool place Dec 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers - production meetings (weekly) |
| 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 | Research team and student/professional animators (25 people) met weekly from July - Dec 2020 for production meetings about the animation films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CBRL Newsletter February 2020 (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Praxis featured in the Council for British Research in Levant February Newsletter. Text: Welcome to our February newsletter. This month our directors have been participating in workshops both in the UK and across the Levant. Earlier this week CBRL's director, Carol Palmer, attended a three-day workshop in Lebanon for a workshop on 'Heritage for Global Challenges', hosted and funded by Praxis: Arts and Humanities for Global Research, a project based at the University of Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://cbrl.ac.uk/search |
| Description | COP26 Resilience Hub Virtual Event: Exploring the potential for arts, culture & heritage to tackle gender and diversity in climate resilience and adaptation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | PRAXIS, in collaboration with AHRC GCRF projects led a virtual event at the COP26 Blue Zone's Resilience Hub as part of their programming on Arts, Culture and Heritage. The event was held on 9th November 19:15-20:15. Brief: Entrenched social inequalities and injustices such as those related to gender, race, and class remain persistent; sometimes perpetuated in the name of cultural traditions, and overlooked in international conversations about climate change and adaptation. However, these inequalities-exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic-profoundly affect the impact of and response to the climate emergency on marginalised groups. This session explored the potential for arts, culture and heritage research and practice to include and address gender and diversity in the climate resilience conversation, including examples of reducing the carbon footprint of arts-based research projects. The session was chaired by Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy from the University of Leeds. Agenda: 19h - 19.05: Opening remarks by Chair; 19.05 - 19.25: Short film and presentation on film-making to support energy infrastructure decision-making in low-income housing (AHRC GCRF project) by PI Minna Sunnika-Blank and South African research partner Adi Kumar;19.20-19.35: Case study on addressing racial inequalities in the 'race to resilience' by PI Pat Noxolo, CARISSC/CARIUK (AHRC); 19.35-19.50: Maternal health lullabies featured in case study on Arts & Culture for net zero resilience by PI David Swann, with songs featuring research participants in Zambia (AHRC GCRF project); 19.50-20.00: Closing remarks by Chair. https://cop-resilience-hub.org/ . Recording shared with participants, AHRC and via LinkedIn, uploaded to the Resilience Hub YouTube channel (176 subscribers on 16.11.21), the PRAXIS YouTube channel (84 subscribers 16.11.21) and the PRAXIS website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmXy0IQQgzc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/learning-events/cop26/ |
| Description | COP26 Resilience Hub Virtual Event: Food, Agriculture, Climate Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 6th November 19:00-20:00 GMT PRAXIS, in collaboration with Climate Heritage Network and the Resilience Hub hosted the virtual event: The Critical Role of Arts, Culture, and Heritage in Building Food and Agricultural Resilience, as part of the Arts, Culture and Heritage theme at the Blue Zone's Resilience Hub. This session drew on real world examples from across the globe to explore ways that Arts, Culture and Heritage can address issues of food and agricultural sustainability and resilience while also considering the needs of marginalised groups and transforming social inequalities. Agenda: 19h - 19.10: Opening remarks in Spanish and English; Angélica Arias, Executive Director, Metropolitan Institute of Heritage-Quito, Equador; 19.10 - 19.20: Three short narratives from the community about what the problem of climate change represents culturally to them; Sofía Fonseca; Pablo Ortiz; Mónica Maruri Castillo; Pre-recorded and subtitled (languages will be Portuguese and Spanish); 19.20 - 19.40: Case study: Fishing and farming in the desert'? A platform for understanding El Niño food system opportunities in the context climate change in Sechura, Peru (in English); Nina Laurie, University of St Andrews, UK; 19.40 - 20.05: Case study from Equador about food resilience and culture. This session will include theatrical performances and the preparation of a traditional dish (in Spanish), Mishky Lab, Equador; 20.05 - 20.20: Case study: Learning from the Past: Nubian Traditional Knowledge and Agricultural Resilience, Crop Choices, and Endangered Cultural Heritage (in English), Philippa Ryan; 20.20 - 20.30: Closing remarks in Spanish and English, Angélica Arias. A recording from the event was shared with the COP26 organisers, AHRC and via LinkedIn, and uploaded to the Resilience Hub YouTube channel, PRAXIS YouTube Channel, uploaded to the Resilience Hub YouTube channel (176 subscribers on 16.11.21), the PRAXIS YouTube channel (84 subscribers 16.11.21) and uploaded to the PRAXIS website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhmTTk3RvIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhmTTk3RvI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/learning-events/cop26/ |
| Description | COP26 Resilience Hub Virtual Event: Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Working in collaboration with British Council, PRAXIS co-led this virtual event at the COP26 Blue Zone's Resilience Hub, on Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience. With keynote contributions from representatives of Indigenous communities from across the globe, this event drew on real world examples to explore two critical facets of Indigenous Peoples' experience and practice: the growing impact that climate change has on Indigenous communities and their livelihood; and the often overlooked role of Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices as a resource for addressing climate change and increasing climate resilience. Agenda: 7.00 - 7.10am: Film from the AHRC GCRF project 'Enduring Connections: coastal erosion in Kiribati'; 7.10 - 7.20am: Opening remarks: Shaq Koyok, artist, activist from the Temuan tribe of the Orang Asli Indigenous community (British Council); 7.20 - 7.30am: Real-world Case Study: AHRC GCRF People's Palace Projects; 7.30 - 7.40am: Short films from Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth - Colombia (British Council); 7.40 - 7.50am: Reflections from GCRF PIs Paul Heritage (People's Palace Projects) & Krystyna Swiderska (IIED); 7.50 - 8am: Closing Remarks. The session was co-chaired by Dr Francesca Giliberto (PRAXIS) and Ms Rosanna Lewis (British Council). A recording from the event was shared with the COP26 organisers, AHRC and via LinkedIn, and uploaded to the Resilience Hub YouTube channel, PRAXIS YouTube Channel, uploaded to the Resilience Hub YouTube channel (176 subscribers on 16.11.21), the PRAXIS YouTube channel (84 subscribers 16.11.21) and uploaded to the PRAXIS website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhmTTk3RvIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhmTTk3RvI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/learning-events/cop26/ |
| Description | CTS Colombia projects featured in British Embassy brochure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CTS was approached by British Embassy Colombia to contribute towards a brochure in which they expected to collect the main data of each of the past or current GCRF projects in the country. this is part of a wider strategy through which they expect to build a bilateral bridge for communication around the projects funded by the GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund) in Colombia. Another objective of this strategy is to bring GCRF projects PIs closer to the Embassy in order to be in a better position to support them and their teams when necessary. . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CTS Film Festival Featured in LCS Newsletter 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CTS film festival featured in University of Leeds Languages, Cultures and Societies end of year newsletter 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CTS Film Festival Featured in University of Leeds Alumni Newsletter (June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | CTS Film Festival Featured in University of Leeds Alumni Newsletter (June 2020) - Alumni network over 49,000 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CTS Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | CTS Newsletter to share news, opportunities, reflections and partner work on a monthly basis to a growing subscription of members, started July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/YPrESwxpw5alyGxW?ref=Link |
| Description | CTS Webinar Series 2020 |
| 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 | Attendees: Katie Hodgkinson, Paul Cooke, Lauren Wray, Lianna Merner, Tony Cegielka, Sree Nair, Ally Walsh, Tina Lee, Andreana Drencheva, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Wee Chan Au, Katie Brown, Marlies K, Faith Mkwananzi, Nita Luci, Tendayi Marovah, Rajib Timalsina. Episode 4 of the CTS Webinar series was designed and moderated by Katie Hodgkinson on the theme of engaging youth participants. The webinar was held via Zoom on 03/07 and was attended by 18 of the network (PIs, Co-Is and CSO partners). Webinar blurb: With the lock-down, in some form or another, looking to continue into the foreseeable future, (how) can we continue to engage young people as participants in research projects? How can we get young people interested in participating in ongoing research and compensate them for their time? What are the ethical implications of this - for example of interviewing young people via videoconferencing when they are in their own homes and not necessarily in a private space? How can we as researchers respond to these ethical issues? How should we respond to the fact that using online technologies may exclude already marginalised young people from participating in the research? Building trust online was discussed along with whether it is ethical to pay youth for participation in research. Participants reported a change in views around whether projects without a sustainability plan are the right projects to be funded. A blog will be produced from the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CTS Webinar Series 2020: Going Digital (ep 1) |
| 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 | 27.03.20, 12:00 - 13:00: Going digital? Changing the Story webinar on online 'fieldwork.' Co-led by Kirrily Pells and Nita Luci Blurb: Many of us are having to re-think how to continue our research (and/or support research students) at a time when we can no longer conduct face-to-face fieldwork. This is both a challenge (on top of the many other concerns we might have in our lives right now) but also encourages us to innovate methodologically. It also prompts questions on how we can maintain ethical relations with our research participants and what new considerations or concerns may emerge. In this webinar we will: start to collate resources that we have found useful in thinking through these challenges (for a start please see some links below); exchange learning on online and digital methods; discuss how we might adapt our methodological approaches; and explore how we might address ongoing and new ethical considerations. List of attendees: Paul Cooke, Lauren Wray, Amanda Rogers, Alejandro Cuellar-Castillejo, Ananda Breed, Duong Keo, Kirrily Pells, Linda Guisa, Marlies Kustatscher, Melis Cin, Nita Luci, Paula Callus, Simon Dancey, Sree Nair, Stephanie Schwander-Sievers, Tim Prentki, Tony Cegielka, Katie Hodgkinson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/03/31/going-digital-a-changing-the-story-position-on-onlin... |
| Description | CTS Webinar Series: Decarbonising Research |
| 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 | The first of the CTS webinars co-hosted by Praxis (May 2020). GCRF Network+ projects were invited to attend a webinar about decarbonising research. From the discussion a blog was produced and uploaded to the CTS website. Blurb: As people talk about 'returning to normal' or, more realistically, suggest that we must get used to a 'new normal' following the coronavirus pandemic, can we use this period of reflection to think about what 'normal' means in the context of the climate change emergency. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research that addresses challenges faced by people in developing countries. Close partnerships between academics and institutions in the Global North and Global South are at the heart of attempts to identify equitable solutions. But the carbon emissions resulting from short and long-haul travel are a major contributor to climate change - and the costs of environmental breakdown impact most heavily on those least able to bear them. Recognising that the old 'normal' was not a sustainable or equilibrium state, we would like to use this opportunity to examine our work, partnerships and travel practices and consider the sorts of changes that researchers, Universities and the UK Research Councils must make in order to address rather than exacerbate runaway climate change. Is there a way to do this that enables solidarity with scholars and activists in the Global South rather than undermines them? Next steps: Praxis and Richard Axelby to have a discussion with Alison Phipps about sharing the blog with the AHRC Steering Group and the possibility of an online workshop, co-badged Praxis and Global Parliament Project. Attendees: Richard Axelby, Emma Crewe, Ananda Breed, Ally Walsh, Alex Ndibwami, Eric Ndushabandi, Giovanni Fasetta, Isabel (Surname), Katie Hodgkinson, Katya Daniels, Lauren Z, Lauren Roberts, Lianna Merner, Mariangela Palladino, Melis Cin, Nub Raj Bhandari, Tendayi Marovah, Lena, Berit, Rana, Rajib Timalsina. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/06/30/decarbonising-research/ |
| Description | CTS Webinar Series: From Grassroots Participation to Policy |
| 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 | The second in the CTS webinar series hosted by Tim Prentki - (24/04) at 12:00-13:00 British Summer Time (GMT+1) Attendees (total 27): Alex Balch, Alex Ndidwami, Alex Sutherland, Melis Cin, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Ally Walsh, Alyson Brody, Ananda Breed, Ashley Visagie, Francesca Giliberto, Helene R, John Mwangi, Katie Hodgkinson, Katie Brown, Kay Tisdall, Kirrily Pells, Lianna Merner, Linda Guisa, Linnea Renton, Maggi, Marlies, Nita Luci, Simon Dancey, Tim Prenki, Tony Cegielka, Marlon Moncrieffe. Blurb: The questions presented for your response through the webinar on April 24th represent my attempt to combine an intention to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from blowing our research projects off course, with a desire to react with imagination and invention to the realities and limitations currently imposed upon all participants. It is, therefore, important to distinguish between areas where we can adapt to the present and those where we can only await 'normal' times. I suspect there is little doubt that the current circumstances will lead to the creation of ways of researching and of influencing policy that were not envisaged when our projects were born. Equally, the principles underpinning the whole project must not be jeopardised through short-termism or panic. Questions: · Who needs to know about your research findings and how will they be reached? · How can Co-Investigators and Civil Society Organisations distil community research into digital formats for transmission to policy-makers? · How will young people connect with policy-makers? · What are the strengths and weaknesses of digital connections? · Can Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators use this 'lock down' time to investigate relevant power structures through available platforms and how change might happen in their specific contexts? · How can the virtual build a frame for later live interactions with change-makers? · Are there models for bottom-up dissemination? · How can participatory arts practices engage policy-makers through online platforms? · What are the strategies for holding policy-makers to account? · How will impact on policy-makers be assessed? · What are the emerging strategies for our project teams to engage with and influence Foreign Commonwealth Office /Department for International Development and the British Council? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/05/07/from-grassroots-participation-to-policy/ |
| Description | CTS Workshop in Cambodia: Reflections as an Early Career Researcher |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Early career researcher Wee Chan Au (Monash University, Malaysia) reflects on her experience of the Changing the Story project workshop in Cambodia on 15th-17th March 2019, Learning from the past with and for young people: Intergenerational dialogue, education, and memory after genocide. The blog features take home messages from the workshop and serves as further event evaluation. The blog was shared via the CTS website and Twitter account and particularly resonated with other researchers that attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/04/30/1214/ |
| Description | CTS and British Council Mapping Connections Workshop 1 May 2020 |
| 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 workshop to map connections between CTS and BC as part of the Youth, Voice and Development Project. This session was held 20 May 2020 and was attended by 14 participants across the CTS and BC networks. The discussion centred around the following questions: - What are some successes and challenges associated with your youth-focused work? (including any interesting stories of change) - What are some of the key themes and messages arising from your work? - What are some lessons that have been learned? - What do you feel are the value and limitations of participatory approaches in relation to the work you have been doing? - What do you feel are desirable outcomes of this collaboration between CTS and the British Council (eg, policy influence, raising awareness, programme development...); what would be the most useful outputs; who should the target audiences be and how should/could the information be disseminated most effectively? - What do you feel are potential implications of Covid 19 for your research and for the young people you have been working with? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CTS and British Council Mapping Connections Workshop 2 May 2020 |
| 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 workshop to map connections between CTS and BC as part of the Youth, Voice and Development Project. This session was held 21 May 2020 and was attended by 10 participants across the CTS and BC networks. The discussion centred around the following questions: - What are some successes and challenges associated with your youth-focused work? (including any interesting stories of change) - What are some of the key themes and messages arising from your work? - What are some lessons that have been learned? - What do you feel are the value and limitations of participatory approaches in relation to the work you have been doing? - What do you feel are desirable outcomes of this collaboration between CTS and the British Council (eg, policy influence, raising awareness, programme development...); what would be the most useful outputs; who should the target audiences be and how should/could the information be disseminated most effectively? - What do you feel are potential implications of Covid 19 for your research and for the young people you have been working with? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CTS: Blog posting on partnership with Opera Circus, 'Storytelling in Film and Youth Activism' |
| 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 | Blog posting on the partnership between Changing the Story and Opera Circus, shared on Opera Circus's website and social media channels, reached 100,000+ people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.operacircusuk.com/blog/storytelling-in-film-and-youth-activism-changing-the-story |
| Description | Call for Evidence INTRAC and Recrear International |
| 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 | Changing the Story were invited to provide evidence around a call on Youth CSO funding and resource patterns shared by INTRAC and Recrear International. The CTS team spoke with Gioel Giacchino who is leading on the work. Possibility of a future collaboration between CTS and Recrear. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cambodia | Peace and Human Rights Study Tour April |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Twelve trainee teachers participated in the Peace and Human Rights Study. This was the first tour that utilised the participatory film-making methods to allow students to explore the stories of local residence and former members of the Khmer Rouge. Participants worked in groups of four and were trained in the use of audio-visual equipment 'on-site'. They identified key themes and questions for their films to explore, and then conducted interviews and captured footage of key sites in the area. The 'multiplication' effect of the participatory-film making approach is significant: the trainee-teachers will be able to incorporate their films within their own teaching as they return to their schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/05/16/changing-the-story-whose-stories-and-why/ |
| Description | Case Study 'The Happiness project: Reflecting on my journey |
| 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 | Case study by Benrilo Shitiri, Changing the Story filmmaker, Nagaland. The case study was promoted on International Youth Day 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/08/11/case-study-the-happiness-project-reflecting-on-my-jo... |
| Description | Case Study: A State of Mental Wellbeing Through Art |
| 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 | Case study by Thepfuchanuo Kire, a Changing the Story filmmaker from Nagaland, India. The case study was shared on International Youth Day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/08/11/case-study-a-state-of-mental-wellbeing-through-art/ |
| Description | Central Panel - Peace on a Small Scale Conference (4-6 Sept 2019) |
| 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 | Four Changing the Story Co-Investigators were invited to participate in a panel chaired by Co-I Alejandro Castillejo-Cuellar at the Peace in a Small Scale Conference (Bogota, Colombia - Sept 2019). The panel explored the theme of skepticism (for Development Funders and Agencies) and disillusionment of peace processes. Each panelist had 15 minutes to speak which was then built into a 40-minute group dialogue. The number of people who witnessed the panel unknown. For one panelist it was the first time he had participated in a panel - contributed towards the professional development of CTS researchers/Grantees. The panel was filmed and broadcast live online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changemakers in Film Event 1 (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Changemakers in Film Summit is a youth event curated by Jacqueline Adjei (Laidlaw scholar) and a panel of film directors from across the CTS network discussing the perspectives and issues explored within their films. Event 1: 'Exploring Social Advocacy through a Youth Defined Dens', featured panellists Tahn-Dee Matthews and Junaid Oliephant (Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, South Africa), Angel David Hurtado Orozco, (Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers, Colombia), and Emilie Clark, Libi Sears, and Megan Valentine (University of Leeds). 25 attendees joined the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/cts-and-praxis-events/changemakers-in-film-summit... |
| Description | Changemakers in Film Event 2 (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Changemakers in Film Summit is a youth event curated by Jacqueline Adjei (Laidlaw scholar) and a panel of film directors from across the CTS network discussing the perspectives and issues explored within their films. Changing the Story's second online event in the Changemakers in Film Summit series 2021, 'Health is Wealth: Revisiting the influence of Arts organisations in helping the youth in post conflict societies'. The event features panellists Achabu Kire (Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in North-East India), Prof Ananda Breed (Mobile Arts for Peace), and Martin Keats (Bishop Simeon Trust). 12 attendees joined the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/cts-and-praxis-events/changemakers-in-film-summit... |
| Description | Changemakers in Film Event Three (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Changemakers in Film Summit is a youth event curated by Jacqueline Adjei (Laidlaw scholar) and a panel of film directors from across the CTS network discussing the perspectives and issues explored within their films. Event 3 was called Changemakers in Film Summit: Dissecting the gender issues surrounding social advocacy in post - conflict societies and was held on 21 July 2021. Two young people working on the CTS project ILL, South Africa joined the panel alongside PRAXIS Youth Engagement post-doc Alyson Brody. 10 attendees joined the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/cts-and-praxis-events/changemakers-in-film-summit... |
| Description | Changing the Story & Voicing Hidden Histories selected for UoL Research Brochure representing the Culture theme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story and Voicing Hidden Histories were selected to be featured as part of the representation of the #Culture strand research theme in UoL's 2018-19 postgraduate research brochure. The brochure is still in print. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Changing the Story Celebration Event |
| 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 | From 30th June - 1st July, Principle and co-investigators from across Changing the Story's projects came together in Leeds, UK to draw out the key findings from CTS and celebrate the work that has been achieved. The event included academic roundtables around key themes that have developed from CTS, the findings of which were presented to the CTS Youth Research Board and post-graduate researchers. It also included a discussion of what comes after the SDGs. The PIs and CoIs joined the youth-led unconference, attended an exhibition curated by the Youth Research Board, and all participants shared in final reflections of CTS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Changing the Story Exhibition Workshop |
| 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 | The Changing the Story Youth Research Board participated in a workshop with Seth Deacon (Visual Artist and Curator) from Tshisimani. Seth provided feedback to the group on their exhibition outputs to help refine the work they have already done. Seven participants were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Changing the Story Graaff-Reinet: Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | From 6-11 June 2019 the first workshop was run for recruited co-creator collective in Graaff-Reinet. We held it at the NG Kerk hall in Kroonvale and at various other venues around Graaff-Reinet. This workshop included training in video production, applied theatre methodologies, media and publicity, and basic research skills. Extensive video footage of this workshop, as well as all of the training materials, are available on request. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changing the Story Graaff-Reinet: Workshop 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The second workshop took place on two consecutive weekends in Graaff-Reinet: from 16-17 and then from 23-24 August. This workshop focused on developing the applied theatre components of the project into a play that could be performed for a larger audience. It also focused on refining some of the film outputs of the project, and on sharing insights on analysis with the broader group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changing the Story Online International Film Festival 2020 |
| 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 | Film Festival took place on 1-5 June. The idea behind the online event was that several CTS projects had produced film outputs/youth-led film outputs, from the Izazov project in BiH, Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in India, Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, connective memories (Rwanda). The film festival is a way of bringing those films out puts together, celebrating film as a medium for advocacy/activism. Submissions were open to the GCRF portfolio. To submit the film each filmmaker was asked to submit a short film introducing their film, why they made it and who they wanted to see it - useful so that we could get the dissemination of the films right. 30 films submitted from across the AHRC-GCRF portfolio. Films were submitted by filmmakers based in India, Cambodia, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, Kosovo, Ghana, Lebanon, UK, Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Colombia, Rwanda. Films about heritage, conflict, displacement, mental health, substance addiction, education, sexual violence, LGBTQI+, historic and modern slavery, human trafficking. The festival was shared widely online and Twitter was a particularly effective tool to promote the festival. The Festival was retweeted by BBC Arts (over 45K followers), ARHC (45K followers), MEP (26K), Hyde Park Picture House (16K), LIFF (16K), Culture Action Europe (16K), UNESCO UK (6K), Bradford City of Film (9K), the British Ambassador and Italian Ambassador to BiH, film director Javier Osuna, organisations working across the borders of arts and culture such as Border Crossings, Counterpoint. Twitter Analytics: 61.4K impressions over a 5 day period (the number of times a user saw a tweet). If you compare this to a 28 day period we received 119K impressions so roughly half of which took place within a 5 day period. An increase in engagement by 2.7%, 394 links clicked (an average of 79 per day), 109 retweets, 266 likes Over 1000 votes were submitted. Q&A - 60 attendees. Panellists included young filmmakers from the connective memories project, Izazov, Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba. Young filmmakers from CTS facilitated conversations with the filmmakers who submitted films to the festival. Panel 1: CTS PHD student, Panel 2: Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba and Panel 3 young filmmaker from Izazov. Fascinating to hear young people from around the world talk to each other about their artistic work, their contexts, their experiences and that is something were going to explore more over the summer. We are going to explore ways of connecting young people from across the CTS network and of providing space for dialogue that is shaped/information by young people from the projects around an artistic stimulus. Quotes: "Thank you for organising a wonderful event. We were extremely happy and excited to participate in the event. You created a bigger opportunity for us! Winning the award was such great achievement for us a team and for our community. Sure, we represented and we were so empowered." (Mother Nature, The Nature Network). YouTube stats for June - 3369 minutes watched and 1095 views. Follow-up: Questions from the filmmakers and a highlight reel (additional content for the website). Filmmaker from the CTS Izazov project was awarded the Gold Audience Choice Award. Filmmaker from the CTS Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in Northern India was awarded the Silver Audience Choice Award. As a result the filmmaker had two articles written about their film in state newspaper and has an opportunity to speak at a mental health symposium organised by the state government in Nagaland. The format of the Q&A has influenced CTS' future youth engagement plans including the FOAR2000 project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-international-film-festival-2020/ |
| Description | Changing the Story Twitter Page |
| 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 | We have set up a project twitter account - @Changing_Story_ In it's first four months the channel has had the following statistics: 316 followers (as of 9 March 2018) / tweeted 121 times / 64,795 twitter impressions / 1,950 profile visits / 39 mentions. The account has also allowed us to identify new ways of engaging with new audiences, such as the PeaceDirect online consultation about civil society organisations in international development. These statistics will be updated in the next RF round. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Changing_Story_ |
| Description | Changing the Story Webinar Series: ENGAGING YOUTH PARTICIPANTS (3 July 2020) |
| 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 | Episode 4 of the CTS Webinar series was designed and moderated by Katie Hodgkinson on the theme of engaging youth participants. The webinar was held via Zoom on 03/07 and was attended by 18 of the network (PIs, Co-Is and CSO partners). Webinar blurb: With the lock-down, in some form or another, looking to continue into the foreseeable future, (how) can we continue to engage young people as participants in research projects? How can we get young people interested in participating in ongoing research and compensate them for their time? What are the ethical implications of this - for example of interviewing young people via videoconferencing when they are in their own homes and not necessarily in a private space? How can we as researchers respond to these ethical issues? How should we respond to the fact that using online technologies may exclude already marginalised young people from participating in the research? Building trust online was discussed along with whether it is ethical to pay youth for participation in research. Participants reported a change in views around whether projects without a sustainability plan are the right projects to be funded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/07/24/engage-young-people-as-participants-and-collaborator... |
| Description | Changing the Story and British Council follow-up workshop (January 2021) |
| 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 key message from the Youth, Voice and Development report is that in these turbulent times it has never been more important to understand what young people want and need. Innovative examples from CTS and the British Council demonstrate the positive power of creative, participatory approaches that embrace young people as agents with valuable insights, knowledge and capacity. In December Changing the Story and the British Council invited their respective networks to save the date for a Youth, Voice and Development event where we will start with the questions: 'What next?' for youth-focused work? How do we build on the existing excellent work outlined in the report to ensure young people globally are meaningfully engaged in shaping their lives and futures? This event in January 2021 provided an opportunity to reflect on issues and questions raised in the report, share diverse experiences from multiple countries and projects and generate ideas on 'what next?' 30 academics and practitioners attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Changing the Story and MIDEQ Participatory Workshop (January 2021) |
| 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 | The UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub (MIDEQ) invited Changing the Story to present at its next 'Share Out' in this series of free, virtual, public webinars on 12 January 2021. In this MIDEQ Share Out event, participants had the opportunity to hear about arts-based methodologies, youth/participant led research and sustainability in two Changing the Story projects: Pensamiento y libertad (Thought and Freedom) in Venezuela and Tribal Education Methodology (TEM) in Kerala, India. In the first presentation, Mirla Pérez of the Universidad Central de Venezuela and Dr Katie Brown of the University of Exeter presented their findings from the CTS project Pensamiento y Libertad (Thought and Freedom), and other projects carried out by the Centro de Investigaciones Populares, about the impact that mass migration from Venezuela has had on the lives of young people, and the relationship between conflict and migration in the country. Dr Sreenath Nair of the University of Lincoln then introduced the Tribal Education Methodology (TEM) project in Wayanad, Kerala, India, where multinational plantation companies and the movement of rich farmers to tribal lands has left indigenous communities landless and homeless, in lack of education and in poverty. The presentation looked at the ways in which art-based methodologies are used to address the development issues of Tribal communities, and how the South-led epistemologies and tribal cultural heritage have been integrated as powerful participatory tools to a develop TEM tool kit for sustainable curriculum for young people. 38 participants attended the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-the-story-youth-centered-approaches-in-venezuela-and-india-t... |
| Description | Changing the Story featured in University of Leeds annual review 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Text featured in the University of Leeds Annual Review which captures the impact of the project: Our researchers continue to lead Changing the story, a four-year project to support young people affected by conflict across the Global South. It aims to develop clear, evidence-based understanding of how civil society organisations (including museums, heritage organisations, community participatory arts and activist groups) can be most effective in promoting social reconciliation, equality and human rights in the aftermath of conflict. The collaboration involves universities, INGOs, artists, grassroots civil society organisations and young people and, in 2018-2019, 17 project teams across 12 countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changing the Story featured in UoL Undergraduate prospectus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story were selected to be a featured project in the UoL 2018-19 undergraduate prospectus as a case study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/340/undergraduate_prospectus_2017 |
| Description | Changing the Story website - Resources Pages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story website is developing a bank of open-access resources that are of relevant to researchers, practitioners and Civil society organsation's working across our 5 target countries and beyond. Partners have noted the value of the pages and the sharing of these resources has also gained significant support (retweeting etc.) when shared via our twitter channels. The resources page is also encouraging other project partners to engage more directly with the sharing of their current and previous work in the public realm, which is valuable both for the growth of open access research as well as the transformation and relevance of research into practical resources for those on the ground. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - #YoungChangemakers series |
| 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 | The #YoungChangemakers is a blog series of Changing the Story which invites young people leading alternative actions for civil society building in ODA-recipient countries to be a guest blogger on our website and share with us and the public their thoughts on the work they do, why they think youth voice is important, and what advice they have for other young people wishing to make change. The series has had positive engagement in Twitter and has also been referenced extensively by other University of Leeds research social media profiles (eg. Open Research Leeds). We believe that the opportunity for young people from often vulnerable backgrounds to speak freely via an academic platform about their work and their belief in youth voice is empowering and may also help to change the way in which research narratives are shared online. The series is also helping us to create (again mainly through its promotion via social media channels) new connections with other young people participating in or interested in this sort of work, visible via new twitter followers etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/category/young-changemakers/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - General Blog and Project Updates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story blog is growing quickly, with roughly one entry a week, and is becoming a key way through which we share and articulate the work we are doing across our 5 countries. We have noticed increased engagement with the blog via our Co-Is and project partners, who are keen to share project updates and reflections via this and other sections of the website (like the Resources page). This is also, in turn, helping the project partners across the 5 countries to better see an overall context of the project and find new ways of connecting across the case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/blog/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - Opportunities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story's Opportunities page has allowed for postdoctoral adverts linked to the project to travel further than they would have done, and have also helped to grow understanding about the different strands of the project. Sharing these opportunities via CTS has also helped us gain relevant Twitter followers, and enquiries via the website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - Profile page |
| 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 | The Changing the Story website's People page is an engaging site which lists all partners involved in the project. It helps people to see the scale of the project and the breadth of different expertise in the work, helping to validate our work and expand our networks internationally. It has also helped to raise awareness of individual team member's wider work. For example, through the website Prof. Ananda Breed was contacted by an award-winning documentary filmmaker who wishes to work with her to create a documentary film about Rwanda. They are currently planning the schedule. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - Project Overview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story's Project Overview pages help to generate a wider understanding of activities, aims and objectives happening across the project, both for the general public but also a way to strengthen connections across the 5 networks countries. Within the section there are also Theory of Change illustrations which highlight the mains objectives of each strand and the overall project in non-research specific language, which we hope will encourage research and non-research stakeholders to identify new ways to connect with our work. The page also speaks to our commitment to share our progress and reflections openly with a wider network as the project continues. We hope this added awareness will allow for fuller engagement in our Phase 2 commissioning opportunities as the website grows (more impact to be inputted in due course as the project progresses). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/about/ |
| Description | Changing the story website - Related Projects page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story website's Related Projects page is helping to build a network of similar projects working with the arts and civil society organisations in post-conflict settings, and, along with our growing resources page, is helping to position the CTS website as a central information point for finding out more about this type of work. The Related Projects page features similar projects (including other GCRF Network plus projects) and has allowed us to expand our network (including eg. through increased conversation with these projects). It has allowed us to attend events we have been invited to via the network, such as the Creative Alternative Workshop led by Action Aid, Christian Aid and the University of York in Jan 2018. We are also hosting an event at British Council in London 26 March 2018 to start to formalise this growing network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/related-projects/ |
| Description | Civil Society Organisations Reflections on Arts Based Methodologies in Schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Nub Raj Bhandari about the use of arts based methodologies in schools in Nepal. The blog was shared on the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/12/20/civil-society-organisations-reflections-on-arts-base... |
| Description | Co-badged CTS and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Roundtable Discussion (June 2020) |
| 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 | Co-hosts: Sarah Smith (DHF) and Johanna Martendal (DHF) Attendees: 10 youth peacebuilders from within the UN youth network, CEO of Peace Mentors and 20 researchers, youth and CSO partners from the CTS network. The discussion aims to highlight diverse examples of how young people are engaging in and advancing peace and development efforts. Insights from the discussion will be used to inform efforts to conceptualise 'youth leadership' as a necessary component of peacebuilding and sustaining peace, rather than as an add-on. The meeting will also allow participants to discuss leadership within their own work, and brainstorm how they can best work together across institutions to support one another in strengthening youth leadership, from the UN to grassroots initiatives. In particular, the meeting will allow for reflection on the role of the international community and the UN in advancing the meaningful participation and ownership of young people. Reflections from the meeting will be synthesised in a summary report and published as a blog post, the aim of which is to facilitate continued dialogue on what is needed to strengthen youth leadership.Participants are also encouraged to contribute with their own blog posts on what leadership means to them and how young people are demonstrating leadership in their communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-badged Changing the Story and Oxfam Online Roundtable Discussion |
| 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 | What does meaningful youth engagement look like in post-conflict settings? What are the specific challenges faced by young women and marginalised youthin civil society building? Oxfam and Changing the Story are co-organizing an online conversation on meaningful youth engagement, exploring these questions anre more. Researchers and young activists will share findings from participatory researches on youth-led social change in post-conflict and fragile contexts. See details here: https://oxfam.box.com/s/q5hr7l7t4vzwpkied9bd22iamtaaxwog 3 Changing the Story projects to critically respond to findings from the Oxfam's youth engagement projects: Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia and YouthLEAD. Discussion to feed into Oxfam's strategic development plan 2020-2030. A resource to be produced following the discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-badged Mobile Arts for Peace Webinar: Setting up a research project. |
| 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 | The webinar explored some of the challenges and opportunities for setting up research projects. Often, this phase of research projects gets little to no attention; but requires agile, adaptive, and creative responses that could be further reflected upon moving forwards. In this webinar, MAP teams in Nepal and Kyrgyzstan began by reviewing the start of their research, including the recruitment and engagement of research participants, coordination between partners and stakeholders, and development of research frameworks and tools. The webinar was attended by 63 participants. The webinar explored the following questions: What factors should be considered when developing equitable partnerships? How can researchers engage with and work with young people in the early stages of their project? How can researchers use arts-based research approaches within the early stages of the project? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-setting-up-your-research-project-tickets-136957297965 |
| Description | Collective Learning: Engaging with policy and policymakers (blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of a series of blogs written by delegates who attended the CE4AMR conference in Nepal. The blog forms part of the evaluation of the event covering a wide range of perspectives/ disciplines. In this blog, Post-Doc Researcher Deena Dajani discusses the prominent collective lessons shared by practitioners in the global health field. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/11/collective-learning-engaging-with-policy-and-policym... |
| Description | Color Up Peace: Photos and Coloring Pages for Peace (blog March 2021) |
| 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 | Blog by Lisa Glybchenko, a PhD student in International Relations and founder of Color Up Peace. Lisa was heavily involved in recruiting the CTS Youth Research Board and has continued to engage with CTS throughout 2021/22. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/03/19/color-up-peace-photos-and-coloring-pages-for-peace/ |
| Description | Community Engagement - A critical part of the fight against antimicrobial resistance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first in a series of blogs written by delegates who attended the CE4AMR conference in Nepal. The blog forms part of the evaluation of the event covering a wide range of perspectives/ disciplines. In this blog, Naomi Bull considers the bigger picture and use of creative methods to address AMR. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/08/22/community-engagement-a-critical-part-of-the-fight-ag... |
| Description | Community Engagement for AMR conference Nepal |
| 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 | The event explored the potential of community engagement approaches to address antimicrobial resistance, and more broadly arts-based interventions, and the lessons that can be learned from these approaches to address broader global health issues. Ministry of Health officials and other prominent Government officials from Nepal such as those from the Ministry of Education Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock were in attendance. The event featured panel discussions with Government Officials, keynote speeches (GARP- NPHF, NARC, NHRC, Environment- NEFEJ, FHI, WHO) and lightning talks from researchers in the field. Day 3 of the conference was used as a launching pad for Praxis and focused on the theme of 'Engaging with Policy and Policymakers.' The event was organized in Collaboration with HERD International. Day One: Informing National AMR Policy in Nepal Participants: 135 Day Two: AMR and Community Engagement: International Learning Number of Participants: 78 Day Three: Global Health and Community Engagement in the Global South: Methodological Learning from the Arts and Humanities Number of Participants: 78 The delegates that attended now form part of an AMR network that going forward will address the challenge of AMR. Tweeting throughout the event made over 49,000 impressions. Following the event a grant bid to form part of a GCRF Cluster was submitted - a total of 7 collaborators, 6 projects from across 5 Global South countries (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam and Ghana). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Community Engagement: An innovative approach to tackle AMR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog is part of our Community Engagement For Antimicrobial Resistance (CE4AMR) blog series following the CE4AMR summer workshop in Nepal. It is the penultimate blog in the series and was uploaded Sept 2019. In the blog, Miriam Kayendeke reflects on her time in Nepal and what struck her about the conference. The blog was uploaded on the CTS website and shared via Twitter. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/27/community-engagement-an-innovative-approach-to-tackl... |
| Description | Community and Civil Society Organisation Engagement |
| 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 | Public engagement on the role of arts-based community development interventions for health promotion through two physical meetings, a 1-day stakeholder consultation with Civil Society Organisations working in areas of addiction and mental health among young people in April 2019; and a 1-day film dissemination among organisations that participated in the three documentary films, in addition to film studios, and policy makers, in Dec 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Connective Memories: intergenerational relations in contemporary Rwanda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a seminar on the Connective Memories as part of the Feminism, Gender and Sexuality seminar series held at UCL Institute of Education. The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards from both students and academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Creative Expression among Young Cambodians: A CTS & Oxfam Webinar Summary (blog, June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On March 3, 2021, Changing the Story and Oxfam welcomed practitioners, researchers, youth, and colleagues to an online discussion on how national and international NGOs can engage in creativity, connection and collective creation with young people. Dr Amanda Rogers (University of Swansea), Reaksmey Yean (Centre for Khmer Studies), and Sokhorn Yon (Cambodian Living Arts) of Changing the Story research project 'Contemporary Arts Making and Creative Expression among Young Cambodians', were invited to frame a discussion, drawing on their experience of arts-based research and knowledge of the arts and culture in the Cambodian context. The document contains a summary of the emerging ideas and questions to provoke further dialogue on how organisations can engage in collective creation with young people. The document was shared via CTS and Oxfam social media channels and networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2021/06/KEY_TAKEAWAYS_VF.pdf |
| Description | Creative alternatives workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Creative Alternatives Workshop was a 'critical friends' day of workshops organised by Action Aid, Christian Aid and University of York to which our PI and Project Manager were invited to attend. The aims were: To critically learn and reflect on the value and impact of using arts methodologies as a way of exploring credible alternative futures that build from the local level and confront, challenge, contradict and extend dominant global narratives; To explore challenges such as: whether arts enable participants to better imagine alternatives' how to best share, translate, explore and deepen analysis of development alternatives across different geographies (local, national or transnational)' to meet other individuals and organisations who are interested in using or use art in development practice as a way of imagining alternatives. It took place on 16 January 2018 in London and was attended by some 50 people. There were many vibrant discussions and key issues raised and it was a great opportunity for academics and practitioners to work together. The key organisers of the event are interested in engaging more directly with our growing network of related projects. Kate Caroll (the chief organiser from Action Aid) is also now sitting on our Steering Group. There is no URL linked to this as it was a closed event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cultural Artist Network |
| 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 cultural network has been created to inform the MAP methodology and the National Curriculum in Music, Dance and Drama. The network includes ten cultural organisations alongside the partnership with the Rwanda Arts Council (RAC) to link local level community artists with the MAP clubs in each of the five provinces. Cultural artists have been contributing to the MAP methodology through curriculum workshops, the facilitation of TOT and Youth Camps and the creation of artistic outputs including mobile films, songs, paintings and performances with and for young people. In addition, a Cultural Artist Network meeting was conducted in Rwanda with attendance from subject based representatives of the Rwanda Arts Council and MAP cultural artists (January 2020). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Cultural Protection Fund Breakout Workshop (Praxis) |
| 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 | Harriet Hoffler Senior International Policy Advisor - Cultural Diplomacy (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UK) ran a breakout workshop during the Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus Event in Lebanon to obtain feedback on the Cultural Protection Fund programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | DCMS-PRAXIS Policy Event Sept 2020 |
| 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 | PRAXIS collaborated with DCMS to put together an event to bring together a group of GCRF-funded academic experts in Heritage to discuss policy-relevant findings. The event, Heritage Research to Address the SDGS, was held on September 25th, between 13.00 and 14.30. PRAXIS virtually hosted 10 Principal Investigators as well as around 5 policy advisors from DCMS and other government departments. The event was opened by Neil Mendoza, Provost of Oriel College, recently appointed as Cultural Commissioner to the government. Ian Stanton from AHRC also attended. A policy briefing was produced from the discussion and was shared with AHRC and DCMS. Agenda: 1.10-1.25: Each participant to identify a key policy-relevant finding of their research 1.30-1.45: (Building on discussion of policy-relevant findings): How can heritage research contribute to cross-government priorities for ODA but also the UK, for example around sustainable development, climate change, clean water and nutritious food, peace and stability? 1.45-2.00: What specific expertise does the UK bring in heritage research for global challenges and the SDGs, and how do we better mobilise that expertise? 2.00-2.15: How could UK heritage research help UK Government to be better prepared to respond to emergencies that are multidimensional in nature and have unpredictable consequences (e.g. the interaction of climate change with conflict and a sudden shock such as a natural disaster)? 2.15-230: What are the research gaps; what kinds of research programmes could help fill them? 2.30 Conclusion and thanks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis-publications/heritage-research-to-address-the-sdgs-brief... |
| Description | Debating the Future of Academic Travel and the Climate Crisis Dec 2020 |
| 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 | 10 December 2020 - Dr Esther Dusabe-Richards panellist at FU Berlins Lunch-time Debates on the Future of Higher Education Internationalization. The event focused on the intersection of academic travel (which includes international student mobility) and HEI's approach towards a more sustainable future. While climate change is coined "the next crisis", which approach can institutions take to walk the walk and put their sustainability goals into action? Can the need for study abroad, building international networks and advancing university careers on a global scale be reconciled with the goal of reducing our and our institutions' carbon footprint? Who needs to take the lead and how can we future-proof our universities' missions? Speakers (in alphabetical order): · Dr. Richard Axelby, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, SOAS London · Dr. Esther Dusabe-Richards, Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Praxis: Arts and Humanities for Global Development.University of Leeds · Dr. Astrid Eichhorn, Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Southern Denmark / University of Heidelberg; Speaker for the Work Group "Sustainability" at Junge Akademie |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fu-berlin.de/international/news-events/watersheds |
| Description | Decarbonising Research - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog, uploaded June 2020, captures the discussion from the first in the series of informal webinars extended to participants across the Network Plus community, in order to provide support to the Network Plus community as it seeks to continue to deliver on its research plans, to share, and capture, learning and insights across this community on a range of relevant topics, to provide opportunities for colleagues to generate new ideas in order to maximise the intellectual value of this community and support the develop of new projects that can respond to future funding opportunities. Praxis and Richard Axelby to use the blog as a basis for a discussion with Alison Phipps about sharing its content with the AHRC Steering Group and the possibility of an online workshop, co-badged Praxis and Global Parliament Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/06/30/decarbonising-research/ |
| Description | Developed and submitted evidence to inform the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) Day of General Discussion on Children's Rights and Alternative Care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | . In the lead up to the DGD, the research team called for greater accountability to children and fundamental shifts in inclusion for children with disabilities in family and community-based care. We highlighted the huge gaps between policy and practice which results in many children with disabilities being committed to institutions and residential 'special schools' and challenges to inclusion such as inability to access sign language interpretation, meaning deaf children are not included in decision making about their own care. Evidence from our work with Changing the Story was one of over 200 written and video submissions from children and young people, governments, national human rights institutions, inter-governmental organisations and UN agencies, civil society organisations, academics and coalitions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Documentary video produced by Bophana showing the living conditions of elephants and indigenous peoples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our screening events for the project "Partcipatory Film and Elephant Conservation" were covered in the Cambodian national press, raising awareness of the project and issues explored in our films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thmeythmey.com/?page=detail&id=100411&fbclid=IwAR2kyAw0TfqYWQEbv_k5s90w-755eeWuEdAO66hKw... |
| Description | Doing Good, Staying Well toolkit launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Hosted on February 24, 2021 this event launched the Doing Good, Staying Well wellbeing toolkit for social entrepreneurs with an audience from Malaysia, Cambodia, India, Australia, Germany, and the UK. The event included a presentation on the toolkit, open reflection on the co-creation process during the pandemic, and an insightful sharing by audience members of how they'd like to use the toolkit in their work supporting social entrepreneurs or in peer groups by social entrepreneurs. The outcomes of the event included requests for access to the toolkit, early-stage conversations about how different organisations can use the toolkit to support their members, and initiating conversations related to wellbeing and mental health, which is very much a taboo topic in Malaysia and Cambodia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Doing Good, Staying Well: The role of support organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | An article that proposes specific changes on how education institutions, support organisations, intermediaries, and the media can support social entrepreneurs to maintain their wellbeing. Following the publication of the article, several individuals who work in support organisations shared online how the piece helped them to reflect on their practice, question their practice, and consider changes. Additionally, we received requests for additional information and potential to collaborate with The Wellbeing Project to co-create a wellbeing programme for their changemakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.pioneerspost.com/business-school/20210412/doing-good-staying-well-how-support-organisati... |
| Description | ECR Grantees Workshop (Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The ECR Development Workshop was held at the University of Leeds 1st May 2019 and was open to existing CTS ECR grantees and P1 Co-Investigators. The workshop provided an opportunity for ECR's to update the core CTS team and colleagues on the progress of their P2 projects. In the afternoon, the workshop focused on impact, how ECR's can engage stakeholders in their projects and looked ahead to the development of the project following grant completion. In total 14 ECR's attended the workshop, 3 phase 1 Co-Investigators and the core CTS team including a post-award representative (7 team members) - 24 total. Key challenges/synergies/themes identified included: recruitment of participants and integrating young people from different backgrounds, managing expectations, finance and time constraints, impact and sustainability, undertaking research in politically fragile environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Empathy and Compassion in Art-based Research Blog |
| 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 | With support from Changing the Story Mobility Fund, Early Career Researcher RT attended a 4-day online convention on non-violent communication (May/June 2020). In this writing, RT explains their reflections and takeaways from the major practice exercises and sessions. To close, RT discusses how their reflections from this event can be applied to performance based research like Changing the Story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/08/24/empathy-and-compassion-in-art-based-research/ |
| Description | Engage young people as participants and collaborators in research projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog was produced as an outcome of the Engaging Youth Participants webinar on 3 July 2020. The blog was shared with the CTS network (100+ contacts) and promoted on social media/CTS website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/07/24/engage-young-people-as-participants-and-collaborator... |
| Description | Engagement with Khoe Community at Thyspunt |
| 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 | On 27 November 2019 (with funding from the Mobility Grant) the team from Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba made the trip to Thyspunt near Port Elizabeth to meet fellow activists, albeit from a much older generation. The Khoe community at Thyspunt are one of the traditional leadership houses of South Africa and represent the First Peoples of southern Africa. They shared their experiences of land dispossession and organising for land and environmental justice. Together, the different groups (which included local politicians, activists, and the colleagues from SCLC) discussed a way forward for collaboration across the Karoo, and made a trip out to the contested archaeological site of Philip's Irrigation Tunnel. A video report that was made by Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba is available under the heading: "Thyspunt: Khoisan Heritage". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/w0pKi8YmX1g |
| Description | Engaging Young People through Visual Art: Comic strip and Collage (Skills Exchange Programme) |
| 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 | Workshop blurb: Comic strip and collage are two forms of visual art that were used in the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project in Indonesia to engage young people and local leaders in peacebuilding dialogue. MAP is a four-year international, multi-disciplinary project which explores the use of interdisciplinary arts-based practices, aimed to inform the curriculum and youth policy for peacebuilding in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda and Nepal. In this workshop, Dr Harla Sara Octarra (co-investigator MAP Indonesia) and Vina Puspita (Visual Artist & AHRC GCRF PhD student) will explicate the participatory processes with young people to develop comic strip as a dialogic research tool, and to create digital collage art as an advocacy tool to raise awareness on social problems. 10 participants attended the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engaging with policy, and trying it out on the spot - personal workshop takeaways |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Heritage and Policy Keynote speaker Ian Baxter and shared via Heritage Futures Wordpress. The blog was then repurposed for the CTS audience, shared on the website and Twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/01/14/engaging-with-policy-and-trying-it-out-on-the-spot-p... |
| Description | Engaging with the Policy Process Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Episode 1 of PraxisCast is hosted by Dr Hana Morel (UCL) and features Richard Hebditch (National Trust), Professor Ian Baxter (Heriot Watt) and Praxis Principal Investigator Professor Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds) who cast a critical lens over why arts and humanities researchers should engage with policy, the opportunities available to drive and shape policy and provide practical guidance on where researchers should start. The podcast episode has been sent to the 3 keynote speakers and 16 workshop participants. The podcast has been shared on 4 Heritage Mailing lists including History-Heritage which has 287 recipients. The podcast has been shared with the Communications team at UKRI and via the Changing the Story Twitter account which has 2500 followers. Relevant and appropriate Twitter accounts have been tagged including DCMS. Two members of the public requested subscription to the podcast. The podcast has been listened to 23 times in a one month period. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-504707192/praxiscast-how-to-engage-with-the-policy-making-process-episod... |
| Description | Evaluating the Arts (PRAXIS, British Council and AHRC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | There is growing recognition that existing monitoring and evaluation models do not fully capture the complexity of work in international development. Such models can be especially limiting when it comes to evaluating arts-based methods and programmes. The Evaluating the Arts Workshop was co-hosted by the British Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through its PRAXIS project on 21-22 Sept 2020. It brought together over 30 researchers from across the AHRC project portfolio, as well as representatives from the AHRC, the British Council, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and UNESCO. A position paper was produced following the event and has been disseminated to the AHRC and British Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis-publications/evaluating-the-arts_-position-paper-1/ |
| Description | Examining Civic National Values (Part 2) |
| 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 | The blog was written by Pramila Bisunke as part of the Young Changmakers Blog series. Pramila is a young person from Nepal who worked as part of the research team on the Phase 2 Kenya and Nepal project. Pramila writes about her experience of working on the project and why she thinks schools need to adapt the methods they use to teach. The blog was uploaded onto the Young Changemakers page on the website and shared via Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/01/examining-the-interpretation-of-civic-national-value... |
| Description | Examining Civic National Values in Kenya and Nepal: Why, how and what next? |
| 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 | Written by Marlon Moncrieffe, Principal Investigator on the Kenya and Nepal project and uploaded October 2019. Marlon discusses the projects comparative elements; why the decision to compare young voices in Kenya and Nepal was made and the resulting comparative opportunities afforded. The blog was uploaded onto the website and shared via Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/01/examining-civic-national-values-in-kenya-and-nepal-w... |
| Description | Examining Interpretations of Civic National Values made by Young People in Post Conflict Settings (An international comparative project between Nepal and Kenya): Conferernce Presentation of Interim Findings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | University of Brighton Education Research Conference - July 2019 Conference presentation of interim findings by Dr Marlon Moncrieffe and Professor David Stephens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Examining the Interpretations of Civic National Values made by young people in Nepal: A youth perspective |
| 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 | The blog was written by Samjhana Balami as part of the Young Changmakers Blog series. Samjhana is a young person from Nepal who worked as part of the research team on the Phase 2 Kenya and Nepal project. Samjhana writes about her experience of working on the project and why it changed her perspective on the education system in Nepal. The blog was uploaded onto the Young Changemakers page on the website and shared via Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/young-change-maker-resou... |
| Description | Exploring Safeguarding Concerns through Participatory Research Methods (Sept 2020) |
| 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 | Held on 23 Sept, the focus of the webinar was on embedding an approach to safeguarding, and on the ethical implications of raising concerns through participatory research methods. We will ask how researchers and other stakeholders might identify and respond to safeguarding concerns raised through participatory arts. It will also identify ways in which storytelling might contribute to reporting within the project and across the network. The webinar was designed and facilitated by Rajib Timalsina, Regional Safeguarding Lead for Asia. Two young researchers shared their stories of participation in a Changing the Story project in Nepal. A blog was produced by a young student based in Nepal following the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/06/01/a-reflection-on-the-understanding-of-safeguarding-re... |
| Description | FG invited to present at Heritage Management and Sustainable Habitat virtual conference April 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jana Das Chaudhuri, Heritage Management Specialist at the Centre for Sustainable Habitat in India, attended the PRAXIS/UKNC HOSF conference (Feb 2021) and invited FG to present a paper at the International Webinar on Heritage Management and Sustainable Habitat to celebrate the World Heritage Day 2021 on April 18, 2021 at 16.00pm - 18.00pm (IST). During the event, FG will present some findings from my PhD research titled 'Linking Theory with Practice: Assessing the Integration of a 21st Century Approach to Urban Heritage Conservation, Management and Development in the World Heritage Cities of Florence and Edinburgh. FG will also shows some examples on how heritage can be used to tackle global challenges and the SDGs (in this case SDG 11 in particular) flagging the PRAXIS report and the HOSF conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | FMH News Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short article about the Community Engagement for AMR conference in FHM news bulletin (University of Leeds internal Comms). Number of staff the bulletin is sent to unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FOAH2001 Safeguarding Workshop Nov 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Safeguarding project officer Tony Cegielka led a safeguarding workshop with 5 undergraduate students working with CTS on the FOAH2001 project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Faculty of ARTS Research Impact Workshop Series: Project Planning for Research Impact |
| 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 | The Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of ARTS aims to cultivate innovative approaches to research impact among its researchers in both traditional and creative research with a new, ongoing workshop series featuring prominent guests working across disciplines. In this third series workshop on 23 February 2023, Professor Paul Cooke of University of Leeds addresses the development of research impact in project planning - Project Planning for Research Impact. Around 40 people attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://research.hkbu.edu.hk/event/faculty-of-arts-research-impact-workshop-series-project-planning-... |
| Description | Field research in the time of COVID-19: how creativity saved the day' (blog March 2021) |
| 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 | Mary Drosopulos is the Post-doctoral Research Assistant of the Co-Learn SEE project (January-July 2021): a comparative, evaluative and participatory research project investigating the learning from four CtS participatory-arts projects in the SEE region. The blog highlights Mary's experience of working on the CoLearn project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/03/26/field-research-in-the-time-of-covid-19-how-creativit... |
| Description | Film premiere and community engagement - Putrom Modulkiri |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We screened the three films produced on the project to approx. 120 indigenous community members and facilitated a Q&A discussion with filmmakers around local issues represented such as elephant welfare, deforestation, habitat loss. Local community members reflected on the importance of seeing their stories, issues and priorities acknowledged and represented in film. As a result of the screening, the films will be archived at the Modulkiri Indigenous People's Information Center. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Film premiere and policy stakeholder engagement - Phnom Penh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Phnom Penh premiere was intended to present the films produced under the project to key policy makers. Cambodian Secretaries of state for the Minsitry of Culture and Ministry of Environment both attended - both commented on the importance of the films as records of indigenous culture and of the importance of awareness of environmental issues. Diplomatic staff from The British and Swedish embassies also attended. As a result of the screening, further discussion will take place around the use of the films as learning resources by schools. Further screenings will now be held for diplomatic staff at the Swedish embassy and another screening held hosted by H.E. Tina Redshaw, British Ambassador to Cambodia, at the British Embassy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Filmmakers from The Kohima Institute: Our Changing the Story journey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Young changemakers blog from three young filmmakers about their journey as filmmakers. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/12/19/filmmakers-from-the-kohima-institute-our-changing-th... |
| Description | First Steps in Film-Making |
| 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 | Researcher from the Kohima Institute, Benrilo Shitiri, reflects on the Phase 2 India projects first filmmaking workshop in Nagaland. The theme of the first workshop was Health and Youth in Post-Conflict Nagaland. The blog was shared on the CTS website and via Twitter. The blog was uploaded 7 July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/07/first-steps-in-film-making-changing-the-story-worksh... |
| Description | First Steps in Social Entrepreneurship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This 3-hour workshop, delivered on March 29, 2022, focused on the role of social entrepreneurship as a path toward sustainable social change in addressing diverse societal and community challenges. In this workshop, approximately 11 young people from South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Colombia defined problems worth tackling that matter to them and their communities, explored solutions to these problems that can be sustainable in the long term, and considered ways to mobilise resources while looking after their wellbeing as young social entrepreneurs. By the end of this session, young people had a list of actionable next steps to start implementing their idea for social change. Overall, the event received positive feedback with young people sharing that they developed new knowledge about social entrepreneurship and feeling energised and motivated to take their ideas forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Food and Heritage Learning Event - Praxis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with Dr Tahrat Shahid, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Challenge Leader for Food Systems at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), this 1-day workshop aims to ask critical questions about how Arts and Humanities Research Council-Global Challenges Research Fund (AHRC-GCRF) multi-disciplinary collaborations navigate the balance between the local and the global. The arts and humanities offer approaches to global development that attend to local context, unlocking and mobilizing local knowledge as a way of addressing development challenges. How can arts and humanities research projects attend to this crucial context, while also addressing the need to scale up learning so that it can inform development work more broadly? Keynote speakers include: Professor Naomi Sykes (The Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter), Professor Henrice Altink (Professor in Modern History and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York), Dr Sandip Hazareesingh (Director of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University) and Dr Theano Moussouri (Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at University College London). 27 participants attended the workshop not including the 5 keynote speakers, from 18 Institutions. One participants from the Council of British Research in the Levant attended, one from the AHRC and 1 from UNESCO. A future Praxis x UNESCO event was discussed at the workshop. Discussions during the workshop have been fed back to the AHRC and have shaped a future call around Food and Power. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/food-and-heritage/ |
| Description | Food and Heritage Podcast Featured in Food Climate Research Network Newsletter (March 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Food and Heritage Podcast Featured in Food Climate Research Network Newsletter - second episode (March 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://fcrn.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=85afd3b5aa2e515e25c3e7b9d&id=a4426c720f |
| Description | For a Different Today and Tomorrow (blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of our Early Career Researchers blog series. The blog was written by ECR Laura Taylor and uploaded 6th September following the CTS conference in Colombia. The blog reflects on the transitional Phase Colombia is experiencing and how the YouthLead project fits into that context. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account, elevating awareness of the project and ECR researcher. The blog was retweeted by The Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations (858 followers) and The Programme of Critical Studies of Transitional Politics (Universidad de Los Andes - 332 followers). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/06/for-a-different-today-and-tomorrow/ |
| Description | From grassroots to Policy engagement blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Uploaded to the CTS website 7th May 2020. Given the pandemic, is grassroots engagement with policymakers still possible? Can participatory arts practices engage policymakers through online platforms? If engagement is possible, is there actually a way we can exploit the digital to influence the policymaking process, can we for instance, use the digital to connect youth leaders and policymakers directly? Is there perhaps even an advantage to the digital when disseminating project findings to policy-makers? This blog captures the headline responses to these questions and shares examples of how our network are responding with innovation to the realities and limitations imposed by Covid-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/05/07/from-grassroots-participation-to-policy/ |
| Description | From the borders of Precariousness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (University of the Andes). Uploaded 18th Dec 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/12/21/desde-las-fronteras-de-la-precariedad/ |
| Description | GCRF Global Engagement Meeting Pretoria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Paul Cooke presented a paper on our participatory video work in South Africa, India and Brazil to an audience of over 100 people from across Africa and the UK drawn from ifferent countries, different disciplines, and from a mix of academic and non-academic organisations (e.g. non-governmental organisations; charities; policy makers; international funders). . This was part of a GCRF Global Engagement Meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, taking place 5-6 December 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/gcrf/gcrf-global-engagement-events/ |
| Description | Global Disability Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Hope and Homes for Children (advocacy team, including Olarte from our project) attended the Global Disability Summit on 14-16th February 2022 in order to track global developments on disability and children's care, and support participation of self advocates, care experienced young people and our partners through the Civil Society Forum and the Youth Summit . It was an important moment to monitor the United Kingdom government commitment on deinstitutionalisation - published in this policy position at the previous Global Disability Summit 2018. This year, the UK launched its new FCDO Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy at the Summit, including the following statement "We continue to support the global commitment to shift from institutional care of children to community and family-based care. De-institutionalisation is a long-term process that requires quality, accessible and inclusive structures and services at both government and community levels. We will continue to tackle the underlying drivers of institutionalisation and strengthen protective systems for children with disabilities." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Going Digital? A Changing the Story Position on Online Arts and Humanities Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog explores the challenges, opportunities and emerging questions identified by the Changing the Story Network, outlining our collective position on the realities of 'going digital' post COVID-19 from the first CTS Network webinar on 27th March, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/03/31/going-digital-a-changing-the-story-position-on-onlin... |
| Description | Good Pitch Colombia 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 19 April 2018, our Colombia Co-I Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar and his local project team attended Good Pitch Colombia 2018 to present his sub-strand proof of concept project of Changing the Story "Relatos del Futuro" (Tales of the Future). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://goodpitch.org/events/gpco2018 |
| Description | Good Practice Around Safeguarding (Webinar) |
| 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 | This second webinar in the safeguarding series identified good practice around safeguarding invited CTS researchers to collate their responses to UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR's) survey: 'Safeguarding in International Development Research'. The webinar was held on 15.01.20 and was attended by 23 participants. The aim of the webinar was to identify common areas of focus and contextualise solutions to projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/02/13/webinar-episode-2-good-practice-around-safeguarding/ |
| Description | Graphic Design and Social Media: A Lever for Change (Skills Exchange Programme) |
| 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 | This workshop was delivered by CTS CSO partner and graphic designer Oli Muhizi. 12 youth participants from across the 27 CTS project attended the workshop. Workshop blurb: This workshop will cover the interest of using social media as a lever for change, the interest of using social media in communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Graphic Design and Social Media: An Introduction (Skills Exchange Programme) |
| 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 | This workshop was delivered by CTS CSO partner and Graphic Designer Oli Muhizi. 13 youth partners from across the 27 CTS projects attended the workshop. Workshop blurb: In this workshop we will focus on graphic design fundamentals, some of the tools used in Graphic Design, and the advantages of graphic design in communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guest Lecture. Paul Cooke invited to speak to students at Bournemouth University (Oct 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke was invited by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (CTS Co-I's) to talk about CTS and participatory filmmaking (26 Oct 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Heritage and Our Sustainable Futures (PRAXIS & UKNC UNESCO) |
| 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 | With support from the AHRC, the UK National Commission (UKNC) for UNESCO and Praxis at the University of Leeds hosted 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future: Research, Practice, Policy and Impact', a virtual conference from 22nd February to 2nd March. The conference brought together a diverse range of cultural heritage and sustainable development contributors, including policymakers, practitioners and researchers, but also non-governmental organisations (NGOs), museums, private sector representatives and other stakeholders from across the globe. United by the shared goal of collaboration for sustainable progress, the conference explored how best to utilise cultural heritage research on the ground to drive forward the SDGs, especially in Official Development Assistance (ODA)-eligible countries. There were 60 panellists, 1500+ registrations, and 13 days of awe-inspiring discussions, researchers, practitioners, and policy-innovators have come together from across sectors and, 30 countries and different timezones in order to connect and learn from one another. 150-200 attendees participated in every session across the 10 days. We registered 350,000 social media impressions across the timeline of the event. A report will be produced from the conference. The recordings of the conference were made available after the event on the UKNC for UNESCO Youtube channel (see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChb3yeEdXakb0q5_5N2ZZiw) and have received more than 1,000 views, reaching a wider audience. The collaboration between an academic (PRAXIS) and a policy (UKNC for UNESCO) partner has been an extremely enriching process, which effectively supported the translation of research data on how to mobilise heritage for the SDGs into concrete outputs, practical actions and policy impacts. Following the 'Heritage and Our Sustainable Future' conference, Dr Francesca Giliberto drafted ten policy briefs with key insights, case studies and recommendations from each conference session targeting policy innovators, funding bodies, and practitioners. The policy briefs were jointly edited by PRAXIS and UKNC for UNESCO and published on both websites. For more information see the section titled 'Publications'. The policy briefs have been widely shared by PRAXIS and UKNC for UNESCO, reaching more than 18,000 people on LinkedIn and receiving more than 65,000 impressions on Twitter. The Heritage and Our Sustainable Future report series has been cited in the AHRC-DCMS Policy Fellowships 2021 (see https://www.ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AHRC-281021-Funding-Opp-InformPoliciesCultureHeritageCreativeIndustries-InternationalCulturalHeritageProtectionSoftPowerPolicy.pdf). Moreover, the policy briefs have been promoted by AHRC as a template model for preparing other policy briefing documents by other Global Challenges Research Fund Projects. The policy briefs on 'Biocultural Heritage: Linking Nature and Culture' and 'Bridging the Gaps: Cultural Heritage for Climate Action' featured on DCMS website as examples of best practices. See: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/dcmss-international-cultural-heritage-protection-programme#links-and-guidance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://nomadit.co.uk/heritage-and-our-sustainable-future/about |
| Description | Heritage and Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with Dr Hana Morel from University College London (UCL) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Heritage Priority Area, this 1-day workshop aims to explore the intersections and relevance of Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) heritage research and public policy, including ways of 'bringing learning back to the UK', by providing participants with a useful guide and practical tips on how to engage with the policy process. This is a fantastic opportunity for those wanting to translate research findings into policy impact but are unsure how to do so. The areas the workshop will be focusing on specifically are: Introducing the policy process and stages of advocacy, including open calls for evidence and responding to them. Facilitating change through bridging heritage research with evidence-based policy. Suitable ways of engaging with policymakers. Keynote speakers include: Richard Hebditch (Government Affairs Director at The National Trust) and Professor Ian Baxter (Director of Scottish Confucius Institute for Business & Communication). The workshop was attended by 25 participants, not including the 3 keynote speakers, from 14 UK institutions and 2 participants from the AHRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/heritage-and-policy/ |
| Description | Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus Event (Praxis) |
| 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 | "Heritage and Global Challenges" Praxis aims to bring together an international group of delegates to engage in 3 days of workshops and group activities to address the question of how the collective learning from AHRC-GCRF projects on heritage has shaped global challenges in the past four years, and how it should continue to do so in the future. The 3-day event will also include brief lightning talks by all delegates, as well as a session at the end of each day for the collective writing of a briefing report that will emerge from the event and be co-authored by all those present. Major three-day workshop/conference organized by Praxis and joined by 28 AHRC Global Challenges funded projects, 3 other research projects and 9 institutions and organizations (V&A, UKNC for UNESCO, DCMS, British Council, UKRI, AHRC, Council for British Research in the Levant, Baraka, Society for the Preservation of Nature in Lebanon), with a total of 57 participants from 12 countries (UK, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, India, South Africa, Colombia, Brazi, Argentina and Georgia). It collated learning on research funded projects, reflected on heritage research contribution to sustainable development and global challenges, maximised projects' impact, contributed to the definition of future collaborations, and defined a future research agenda on heritage for global challenges. The event's outcomes will be included into a Praxis' Report on Heritage for Global Challenges that targets policymakers, funding bodies, academics, researchers and NGOs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/heritage/ |
| Description | Heritage for Global Challenges Podcast (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In February, a group of artists, film makers, researchers, policy makers and funders came together in West Bek'aa Lebanon to discuss Heritage for Global Challenges. This podcast, recorded in each of our individual homes during Covid-19 lockdown, is an opportunity to continue some of those conversations. The podcast episode is hosted by Jaideep Gupte (UKRI) and features Ian Thomas (British Council), Muna Haddad (BARAKA) and Dr Daniele Rugo (Brunel University London). The podcast was shared with the 60 Heritage for Global Challenges Conference attendees. To date (July 2020), the podcast has been listened to 81 times. In total, the three Praxis podcasts have been listened to 244 times. The podcast was also shared via the History-Heritage Mailing list (288 recipients) and the Cultural Heritage Mailing List (over 200 recipients). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/praxis-leeds/heritage-for-global-challenges-10 |
| Description | How to transform the world, photograph by photography (Skills Exchange Workshop) |
| 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 | The workshop, open to youth participants from across all 27 CTS projects, was delivered by Photographer and CTS project partner Robert Golden. Workshop blurb: This is for people who wish to become more thoughtful about the nature and content of their work and who wish to communicate with people on an emotional level. These virtual workshops will be tutorials, asking people to be proactive in discussions, if they wish. 11 participants attended the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Humanitarian and Liberal Order Workshop (Praxis) |
| 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 | The workshop was organised in collaboration with Save the Children and the AHRC to discuss contributions to a book titled 'The Political Economy of Humanitarianism.' Blurb is as follows: For many liberal commentators at the turn of the nineteen-nineties, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western liberal democracy. But, in recent years, liberal norms and institutions have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics. Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. And humanitarian multilateralism, previously promoted by the United States to consolidate its hegemony, seems to have lost strategic currency. 20 participants attended the workshop including Praxis Post-doc Deena Dajani. What role has humanitarianism played in the consolidation of 'liberal order'? What are the implications of challenges to liberal order for the political economy of humanitarianism? As late liberalism produces precarity and inequality, might it also open space for the emergence of new emancipatory practices that supplant humanitarianism's Eurocentric and minimalist politics of survival? This volume brings together public intellectuals, journalists, scholars, and humanitarian aid workers to provide critical responses to these questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IZAZOV - Changing the Story Bosnia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two week long participatory workshops with youth activists in Bosnia, training them in filmmaking and political engagement. 8 participants in total, 6 from BiH and 2 from other European countries. A total of four films finished as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IZAZOV! Change is a Creative Moment |
| 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 | Blog repurposed from The Complete Freedom of Truth, a partner on the P2 project IZAZOV! in BiH. The blog, written by partner Tina Lee, documents the activities during the projects first filmmaking workshop which was attended by 7 young filmmakers. The blog was shared on TCFT website and Twitter (the account has 171 followers to date) and the CTS website and Twitter account. Uploaded 10 July 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/10/izazov-change-is-a-creative-moment/ |
| Description | Images from DC-CAM/ Cambodia project featured on Cinema and Television Research Homepage (University of Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Images from DC-CAM/ Cambodia project featured on Cinema and Television Research Homepage (University of Leeds) - Feb 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/cinema-television |
| Description | Images from DC-CAM/ Cambodia project featured on Cultures and Societies Research Homepage (University of Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Images from DC-CAM/ Cambodia project featured on Cultures and Societies Research Homepage (University of Leeds) - February 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/research-cultures-societies |
| Description | In Conversation with Oxfam and Changing the Story (3 March 2021) |
| 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 | Changing the Story and Oxfam invited youth, researchers, practitioners, and Oxfam staff to participate in an online consultation on the question of how national or international organisations can invest significantly in creativity, connection and 'collective creation' with young people. 50 attendees from across the CTS and Oxfam network attended including the Oxfam Country Director in Cambodia. Contemporary Arts Making and Creative Expression among Young Cambodians, a Changing the Story research project, provided the creative stimulus for the discussion, directly addressing the question of how organisations can invest in creativity and collective creation with young people, using their research with young artists and audiences in Cambodia as a case study. Audiences had opportunity to participate in a live Q&A with the project team: Dr Amanda Rogers (University of Swansea), Reaksmey Yean (Center for Khmer Studies), Sokhorn Yon, and Frances Rudgard (Cambodian Living Arts), and to see a creative performance from partners in Cambodia. A discussion followed, exploring the kind of environments that enable youth creativity and connection, the barriers to creating such an environment, and how national or international organisations can support the building and sustainability of such creative spaces. A recording from the workshop is available along with a one-pager highlighting the key messages and learning from the event. The webinar is part of a series between CTS and Oxfam (Quebec) around youth engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | In Conversation: Food and Heritage Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The podcast was recorded on 10th January 2020 following Praxis second workshop on the theme of Food and Heritage. The podcast episode is hosted Dr Tahrat Shahid, GCRF Challenge Leader for Food Systems at UK Research and Innovation, and features panellists Professor Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter), Professor Henrice Altink (University of York), Dr Sandip Hazareesingh (The Open University) and Dr Theano Moussouri (University College London). The panel discuss interdisciplinary research, balancing priorities of preserving local food varieties with feeding the population and the future food research agenda. The podcast was uploaded on to the Praxis SoundCloud account and listened to 7 times in the first 24 hours of uploading. The podcast episode has been sent to the 5 keynote speakers and 15 workshop participants. The podcast has been shared on 4 Heritage Mailing lists including History-Heritage which has 287 recipients. The podcast has been shared with the Communications team at UKRI and via the Changing the Story Twitter account which has 2500 followers. Relevant and appropriate Twitter accounts have been tagged including Food Research@Leeds, Global Challenges Research@Leeds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-504707192/food-and-heritage |
| Description | Including all children and young people in research and multi-agency work |
| 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 | Paul Cooke has been invited to speak at the event which hopes to explore and discuss how to do research, co-production and intervention work with children, young people who feel excluded by classic research methodologies. Also in attendance representatives from Save the Children and UNICEF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://icy.leeds.ac.uk/events/including-all-children-and-young-people-in-research-and-multiagency-w... |
| Description | InsideOut & OutsideIn CTS Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story Festival: InSide Out & OutSide In' was a hybrid event that took place in person in Kosovo and online. It included: launch of the artwork installation "The Square of Untruth", conference re CTS projects Respace, CoLearnSEE, and The Making of the Museum of Education about their research and findings at the 'Perspectives on Past, Present and Future, and a policy-facing workshop for the launch of the CoLearnSEE regional educational policy paper! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/cts-and-praxis-events/changing-the-story-festival... |
| Description | Insights from Community Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first in a series of blogs written by delegates who attended the CE4AMR conference in Nepal. The blog forms part of the evaluation of the event covering a wide range of perspectives/ disciplines. In this blog, Muhammad Shafique talks about his experience of the event and the difficulties he has faced travelling to conferences due to his Pakistan nationality. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/08/16/insights-from-community-engagement-for-antimicrobial... |
| Description | International Conference on Human Rights, Democracy, Cultures of Peace and Nonviolence (DEMOSPAZ) - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Phase 2 Venezuela Co-Investigator Mirla Perez about the presentation Mirla gave at the International Conference on Human Rights, Democracy, Cultures of Peace and Nonviolence (DEMOSPAZ). The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/12/11/international-conference-on-human-rights-democracy-c... |
| Description | International Women's Day Social Media campaign |
| 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 | On Thursday 8 March 2018 Changing the Story led a one-day social media campaign as part of International Women's Day. We pledged to support the IWD #pressforprogress commitment of forging 'Positive Visibility of Women' in the research we do and the communities we work with. We shared resources uploaded by our female Co-Investigators via our Twitter channel, we shared graphics outlining the gender split in our research team (50% are women), we supported promotion of 'related projects' we work with that are also focusing on women currrently (like the Nepalese international Human Rights Festival) and finally we also launched the online premiere of our Voicing Hidden Histories Brazil-strand film, 'Um Pouco de Tudo, Talvez" on Twitter and UoL Facebook channels. The campaign not only helped to raise awareness of our work and the different projects involved (19 retweets and 25 likes on Twitter) but also helped to support International Women's Day more widely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Changing_Story_ |
| Description | Interview for Radio Caracas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 30 October 2019 Mirla Perez was interviewed for one hour on the radio show 'Aqui se habla libertad' (Here we talk about freedom) about the Pensamiento y Libertad project. As part of the show, a leader of one of the national political parties, Vente, gave her response to the project's findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://rcr.tv/aqui-se-habla-libertad-miercoles-30102019/ |
| Description | Introduction to safeguarding in international development Webinar Dec 2019 |
| 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 | Introduction to safeguarding in international development is the first online webinar hosted by regional leads Chaste Umohoreye and Helene Rousseau, Dec 2019. 23 participants attended the webinar including a representative from UKCDR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/31/changing-the-story-webinar-series-what-is-safeguardi... |
| Description | Invitation to be part of a conference panel on Unpacking the Global/Local Nexus in World Heritage Sites: a Pragmatic Approach at EURA 2022 (Milan, Italy, 16-18th June 2022). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giliberto was invited to be part of a conference panel on Unpacking the Global/Local Nexus in World Heritage Sites: a Pragmatic Approach at EURA 2022 (Milan, Italy, 16-18th June 2022). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invitation to give a lecture on Heritage and SDGs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Francesca Giliberto was invited to give a lecture on Heritage and SDGs to the MA students in 'World Heritage Studies' at the Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.b-tu.de/en/worldheritage-ma |
| Description | Invitation to participate in a workshop at the Heritage Hub, Queen's University Belfast |
| 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 | Dr Francesca Giliberto was invited to participate in a workshop at the Heritage Hub at Queen's University Belfast on 8th March 2023. The Heritage Hub is an inter-disciplinary centre exploring the broad intersections between heritage and society. A part of its remit is to support researchers in communicating their research in an accessible and policy relevant way. It is also interested in synthesising research into wider themes like conflict, climate and wellbeing. Following the work she did on Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Disasters and the policy briefs published in collaboration with the UNESCO National Commission for UNESCO, Dr Giliberto was invited to share her experience with the PRAXIS project and co-run a workshop with Dr Rowan Jackson (University of Edinburgh) on writing policy briefs and communicating research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/HeritageHub/ |
| Description | Invitation to present PRAXIS at the Heritage Place Lab Pilot Phase organised by ICCROM and IUCN |
| 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 | Dr Francesca Giliberto was invited to present the PRAXIS project at the Heritage Place Lab Pilot Phase as a guest speaker. The Heritage Place Lab was organised by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Union on Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee. According to the organisers, her "presentation and participation were really valuable for the Research-Practice Teams and added to the quality of the exchange in this Workshop I: Research-Practice Collaboration". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.iccrom.org/news/call-research-practice-teams-heritage-place-lab-pilot-phase-0 |
| Description | Invitation to present PRAXIS findings at "INTO DUNDEE. Heritage Now: Relevance and Community" organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the INTO (International National Trusts Organisation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giliberto was invited to present insights from the Heritage and Our Sustainable Future report series at "INTO DUNDEE. Heritage Now: Relevance and Community" (Dundee, UK, 4-6th October 2022), a major international conference organised as part of the Culture in Crisis Programme in partnership with the International National Trusts Organisation, the National Trust for Scotland and V&A Dundee. INTO Dundee: Heritage Now: Relevance & Community highlighted the importance of both people and purpose within heritage preservation, taking an encompassing look at tangible and intangible heritage, as well as the preservation of landscapes where nature and heritage co-exist. The conference explored key ideas such as how relevance is perceived, shaped and adapted within heritage, and how organisations can engage communities and (re)present narratives. As the heritage sector faces ongoing evolving challenges, now more than ever organisations are recognising the importance of future-focused strategies. The conference provided an important forum for sharing experiences and developing best practices, with specific consideration to work relating to communities and the relevance heritage holds for them. The event drew together a global audience of heritage professionals and those working in associated sectors, providing a rich opportunity for sharing international experiences and case studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cultureincrisis.org/online-content?dm_i=7H4P,1JWN,R28ME,4Y7U,1 |
| Description | Invitation to present PRAXIS findings at a side event of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022 organised by ICOMOS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giliberto was invited to present the Heritage and Our Sustainable Future report series at a side event of the "UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022" (Mexico City, 28-30th September 2022), organised by the ICOMOS SDGs Working Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.icomos.org/en/focus/un-sustainable-development-goals/109155-icomos-mondiacult-2022-cultu... |
| Description | Invitation to present reserch findings on cultural heritage and climate change at a side event of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022 organised by the Climate Heritage Network and partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giliberto was invited to present some insights on cultural heritage and climate change from the Heritage and Our Sustainable Future report series at a side event of the "UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022" (Mexico City, 28-30th September 2022). The event-titled "Responding to the Climate Emergency: New Imperatives for Cultural Policy"-was held on 29 September 2022 and organised by the Climate Heritage Network (CHN); Culture 2030 Goal Campaign; United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG); International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio de Quito (IMP); International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS); City of San Antonio, TX. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://articles.unesco.org/en/articles/mondiacult-2022-responding-climate-emergency-new-imperatives... |
| Description | Invitation to speak at the Smart Madinah Forum (City of Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 19-21 February 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Francesca Giliberto was invited to present findings from the Heritage and Our Sustainable Future conference in the panel on Housing and Neighbourhoods at the Smart Madinah Forum, co-organised by UN-Habitat and Madinah Region Development Authority (City of Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,19-21 February 2023). The forum gathered thought leaders and experts from all over the world to discuss how smart cities can improve quality of life and ensure sustainability, and the role of innovation in promoting sustainable development. The event built on the UN-Habitat's People-Centred Smart Cities Flagship Programme, which was launched at the 10th session of the World Urban Forum in February 2020 to foster innovative and integrated approaches for programming and implementation in line with UN-Habitat's overall principles for advancing sustainable urbanisation. The event included a series of panels addressing various aspects of innovation, technology, urban development, inclusion and sustainability for a better urban future. The panels cover targets associated with Sustainable Development Goal 11 such as mobility, green and public spaces, spatial planning and housing and neighbourhoods. During the event, participants reported an increased interest in the role of heritage in sustainable cities and people-centred approaches, and Dr Giliberto was asked for further information about her research. She was also invited to speak at a future workshop on sustainable tourism to be held in Cairo in Autumn 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://event.smf.city/event/smf-2023 |
| Description | Invitation to take an active part at the People-Nature-Culture Forum 2022 organised by the World Heritage Leadership Programme |
| 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 | Dr Francesca Giliberto was invited to present her research findings on cultural heritage and the SDGs and to take an active part at the first People-Nature-Culture (PNC) Forum 2022, held at Suwon Hwaseong in the Republic of Korea, from 10 to 12 October 2022. The PNC Forum 2022 was organized by World Heritage Leadership Programme-a joint ICCROM IUCN capacity building programme funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment-in cooperation with the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage and with the support of the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration who generously contributed to the 2017-2022 Korea ICCROM Funds in Trust. The theme of this first edition of the PNC Forum was "Benefits of heritage to people". By bringing together a group of heritage practitioners and institutions that have been working on the implementation of PNC course and other key capacity building activities in the past 5 years, the PNC Forum aimed to map the range of benefits heritage places provide to people allowing a better understanding of how heritage contributes to the life and livelihood of people and communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iccrom.org/press-release/people-nature-culture-forum-takes-closer-look-benefits-heritage... |
| Description | Invited lecture (Beyond Skin and Queen's University Belfast) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | October 09, 2020, Queens University (UK) and Soka University (Japan). Edwar Calderon was invited to give a guest lecture on the teaching module Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display. This was an online workshop delivered in partnership with Min-On Music Research Institute; Beyond Skin and Queen's University Belfast. The title of his presentation was "The potential of music and arts for peacebuilding processes: filling the power vacuum in Colombia". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present on the Connective Memories project as part of the Children's Rights as a Cross-Cutting Socio-Political Field of Study and Action seminar series, coordinated by the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. The title of the seminar was 'Ethics and participatory research methods- insights from the Connective Memories project in Rwanda' and involved a reflection across the Connective Memories project in discussion with Dr. Natalia Fernandes (University of Minho, Portugal) on participatory research with children and the ethical obligations that researchers encounter when using participatory methods with children. The seminar was recorded for future teaching purposes. As well as the rich discussions during the seminar, I also received a follow-up request on whether some of the materials developed by the young researchers could be used for training purposes by the NGO Street Invest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.childrensrightsstudies.online/webinars |
| Description | Invited seminar presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar to the University of Tasmania (Australia) on how young social entrepreneurs perceive meaning in their work and how they cope with the situations when they do not perceive their work as meaningful, despite the sacrifices. Presentation sparked an interesting debate with questions and increased interest in the topic and request for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk: Children and young people's participation in research: practical case studies in times of COVID-19 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Children's Rights Studies Online (online Children's Rights Studies collaboration involving partner universities in Australia, Europe and Latin America such as Universidad Complutense Madrid, University of New South Wales, Universiteit Leiden, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso). Research module contribution (invited). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk: Intersectionality in childhood research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | University of Manchester Childhood Studies Research Group Invited Talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Isangizanyakuru: children and the co-production of memory in Rwanda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation delivered at the Remembering Children workshop, which together both researchers and practitioners, from the UK and overseas to facilitate collaboration between those who study how children and their lives are remembered locally, nationally and transnationally and those who put memory into practice. We have been invited to participate in a new network on children and memory for publications and future funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2020/03/remembering-children-workshop |
| Description | Izazov Film-making and Activism Workshop, King's College London |
| 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 | On November 2nd, members of the Izazov team gathered with other young filmmakers to present their films and talk film dissemination strategies with a workshop audience in London at Kings College. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/11/26/izazov-filmmakers-on-being-young-in-bosnia-and-herze... |
| Description | Izazov Filmmakers: On being young in Bosnia and Herzegovina - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog by Phase 2 BiH project team, Izazov, following a youth-led workshop in London in November 2019. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/11/26/izazov-filmmakers-on-being-young-in-bosnia-and-herze... |
| Description | JMP SMOSS (SDG6) Meeting in the Nexus Building |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Request to display AMR videos filmed by Paul Cooke at the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Meeting on 24th - 26th March 2020 about SDG6 (Water and Sanitation). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Keeping Sane While Doing Good |
| 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 | An event hosted on March 25, 2021 on Clubhouse in collaboration with Biji-biji and ThiughtFull on how social entrepreneurs and those in changemaker positions can maintain their wellbeing at work. During the event, research findings from our work were shared as well as the Wellbeing Toolkit. Participants at the event shared how the event had changed their views and provided them with ideas for how to improve and look after their wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of collaborators. A new relationship with ThoughtFull was developed for potential work together in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://joinclubhouse.com/event/PGRj9gz2 |
| Description | Keynote talk for ICRRA annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this session I introduced a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Programme, running in 12 countries that has explored how arts and heritage-focussed civil society organisations, INGOs have worked with young people to allow young people themselves to drive change. The aim of GCRF was to bring together researchers and other relevant stakeholders to create a new space of innovation in international development programming, and to support capacity building by generating projects rooted in equitable partnerships between the Global North and South. After providing a flavour of the work we have undertaken with partner organisations of different sizes in a range of countries with very different experiences of conflict and of social development post conflict, I pointed to the ways in which the project has evidenced the value of the arts and heritage in supporting inter-generational peacebuilding, and how young people can take a leadership role in this endeavour. I then turned to some of the structural challenges we have faced in doing this work and where our programme's findings would suggest we need to go next if we are to have any chance of achieving the SDGs by 2030. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Kicking off 'Changing the Story' in Kosovo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Lura Pollozhani (University of Prishtina). Lura discusses the P1 Kosovo project Kick-Off workshop and the next steps for the project. Uploaded 23 Oct 19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/10/23/kicking-off-changing-the-story-in-kosovo/ |
| Description | Kosovo | Albert Heva and Bornmouth University members Residency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Key partner in Kosovo, Albert Heta, and members of the Bournemouth University team were invited by 'The Complete Freedom of Truth' (TCFT) project to participate in a residency which brings together a group of artists, workshop leaders and young people from across the UK, to develop a sense of global citizenship among young artists and explore ideas through the arts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/02/08/kosovo-strand-activities-begin-via-a-global-youth-ci... |
| Description | Kosovo | Film screening of Phendulani's Story and Me |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | University of Prishtina screened the Changing the Story film: Phendulani's Story & Me |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/LuraPo_/status/1067434031157993472 |
| Description | Kosovo | Kick Off Event |
| 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 | Kicked off phase 1 of the project with a workshop bringing together artists, academics and activists from Kosovo and the UK. The workshop was organised by the University of Prishtina in partnership with Bornmouth University and was held in artistic and academic spaces. The aim was to discuss the opportunities for civic education of youth in Kosovo through the arts. Alongside the workshop, trips were taken to two municipalities to meet with local artists and activists and discuss how they practice their art and how they (as well as young people) see their cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/10/23/kicking-off-changing-the-story-in-kosovo/ |
| Description | Large Grant Webinar |
| 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 | On 14th May 2019 Changing the Story hosted a large grant webinar to provide some additional support around the large grant application process, particularly for those based in the Global South. 30 practitioners applied to participate in the webinar and 13 took part (including 3 from the Global South) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Learning from the past with and for young people: Intergenerational dialogue, education, and memory after genocide Conference |
| 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 | The aim of the workshop which took place in March 2019, was to to bring together researchers, artists, and civil society practitioners from within Cambodia and other post-conflict contexts to share experiences and insights across research projects, develop avenues to enhance impact, and provide opportunities to network and liaise for future collaborations with partners from across the global north and south. A particular focus of the workshop will be supporting Early Career Researchers in any discipline from across the world who are working on issues related to this topic and are currently involved in GCRF projects. The conference was also used to launch Praxis: Arts and Humanities for Global Development. 83 delegates (roughly 30 in-country). Local NGOs/CSOs/Global South Researchers participated in panels (5 panels in total: Imaging new ways to create and develop collaboration, Transnational Justice, Memory and Education, Introducing CTS and Learning from the Past) - 'The workshop is very importance for share any idea, experience and access to the youth generation. I hope to participate in the workshop next year'. 'I'm very happy that a lot of foreigners want to know about Khmer history because I want to share experience from other countries. We cannot make peace alone, but we can make peace together' 'The great thing about this conference is that I can share and hear from different perspectives who come from many countries. It also opens space for discussion' Cambodia Conference report provides further evaluation of the event - link below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2019/09/Report-of-Cambodia-Confere... |
| Description | Learning to shoot - videography masterclass for the Changing the Story Team, Kohima |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Young changemakers blogs by the team of young filmmakers at the Kohima Institute, India. The blog was shared via the Young Changemakers page on the CTS website and on our Twitter account to 2500 followers. The blogs was retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/14/learning-to-shoot-videography-masterclass-for-the-ch... |
| Description | Lights, Camera, Action: Raising Youth Voice Through Video |
| 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 | This blog is part of Changing The Story's #YoungChangemakers series and was originally featured on Oxfam's Views and Voices Online Platform. The blog was written by Imogen Davies, Oxfam Great Britain's Global Advisor on Youth, Gender and Active Citizens on the theme of participatory filmmaking. The blog was uploaded on to the CTS website and shared via Twitter with links to Imogen's and Oxfam Policy Twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/26/lights-camera-action-raising-youth-voice-through-vid... |
| Description | M&E Thursday Talk - Strengthening Arts & Conflict Transformation through Evaluation |
| 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 | Our project manager Inés Soria-Donlan joined the DME for Peace international 'Thursday talks' webinar on Thursday, June 7. The webinar included the leaders of the IMPACT Project facilitating a discussion on "Strengthening Arts & Conflict Transformation through Evaluation." Inés actively contributed to the discussion and has been directly approached by other attendees after the event to share more about the Changing the Story project and our approach to evaluating arts-based peacebuilding initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.dmeforpeace.org/me-thursday-talks/5334/ |
| Description | MAP (TOT) for the Western, Northern, Southern and Kigali Provinces (20 July - 8 August 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project delivered two seven-day training the trainer workshops from 20 July - 8 August 2019 at St André Hotel (Kabgayi) in Muhanga district; Southern Province of Rwanda. A total of 80 secondary school teachers (20 teachers from each of the four provinces including Gicumbi, Huye, Rubavu, Kicukiru) attended the two week, seven day residential trainings. Two provinces were paired over the course of each seven-day residential including Gicumbi and Huye in week one and Rubavu and Kicukiru in week two. The contribution made by myself and the research team includes the training of adult educators to deliver Music, Dance and Drama in their classrooms. Also, to provide much needed resources including a hard copy MAP manual (both in English and Kinyarwanda) plus flip chart paper, markers, ball, pens, pencils, post it notes and other stationary. Participants also have ongoing access to the Master Trainers from the Eastern Province who contributed to the facilitation of the training, MAP staff at partnering organisation IRDP, and site visits (October 2019) to help support the delivery of MAP within the partnering schools. The residential trainings researched: use of cultural forms, monitoring and evaluation, and arts-based research methods through workshops that focused on trust building, team building, telling stories, identifying conflict issues, problem solving, and designing and implementing MAP workshops. The research participants then designed next steps, in terms of implementing MAP into their schools, communities, and establishing MAP clubs. Research participants reported an increased ability to address conflict related issues and to apply the subject of Music, Dance and Drama within their in school and out of school settings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MAP (Youth Camp) for the Western, Northern, Southern and Kigali Provinces (21 - 30 November 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Breed extended MAP to the other four provinces amounting to 25 schools in Rwanda through training of trainers (July 2019) and youth camps (November 2019). The youth camps involved the training of 50 young people (2 per school) in addition to a trainer from each School, alongside cultural artists, master trainers and youth trainers. The residential one week training researched: use of cultural forms, monitoring and evaluation, and arts-based research methods through workshops that focused on trust building, team building, telling stories, identifying conflict issues, problem solving, and designing and implementing MAP workshops. The youth research participants then designed next steps, in terms of implementing MAP into their schools, communities, and establishing MAP clubs. Research participants reported an increased ability to address conflict related issues and to apply the subject of Music, Dance and Drama within their in school and out of school settings. Breed trained 25 adult educators in the Eastern Province who trained an additional 68 adult educators in their schools amounting to 93 adult educators trained in the MAP methodology. Additionally, Breed trained 10 youth facilitators who created MAP clubs in their schools. Each of the five drama clubs in the Eastern Province have a minimum of 50 members amounting to 250 members overall. The MAP adult educators have integrated MAP into their weekly curriculum and subject activities reaching over 500 young people on a weekly basis. During 2019, due to Ubwuzu funding, reaching an estimated 150 adult MAP adult educators and 50 youth facilitators (plus 10 youth master trainers from Eastern Province) who implemented MAP activities through in-school and co-curriculum activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MAP Website |
| 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 | The MAP website was designed by Inés Soria-Turner and hosted by University of Lincoln to provide a format for resources to be shared and to enable translation software. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://map.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights led Safeguarding webinar June 2020 |
| 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 | PI of Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights was invited to lead the seventh safeguarding webinar. The webinar took place on 16 June and 11 participants attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mainstreaming Global Mental Health Conference November 2021 |
| 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 | PRAXIS is supporting the GCRF project 'Mainstreaming Global Mental Health' to run a one-day conference on 15 November. PRAXIS has helped design communication materials and registration processes including the design of a 'match-making' scheme to connect ECRS, practitioners, academics/researchers in a mentee/mentor capacity. PRAXIS has shared the event with the CTS and PRAXIS network including via the Network Link Newsletter ran by UKNC and the UKRI Newsletter. 197 people registered for the event from 24 countries including the UK, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgeria, Peru, Mexico, Norway, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Slovakia, Vietnam, Turkey, Italy, Nepal, France, Uganda. The event was bilingual (Spanish and English). 76 people attended (53% LMIC) from 17 different countries (8 LMIC), 21 (28%) of whom were early career scholars. Attendance was 41% of those registered. Majority of the loss was from: UK, Nigeria, and South Africa; non-LMIC; PGR, Academics, Health Professionals, Other. There were 60 (32%) offers of a menteeship (47% LMIC) from 14 different countries and 90 (49%) requests (41% LMIC) from 16 different countries. Quantitative feedback was provided by 18 people, all at the highest score of 5. Qualitative comments were provided during and after the event by 18 people, all of which were positive. Specific further networking requests were made by 2 people. Live translation in Spanish was provided. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://projectresilience.co.uk/projects/mainstreaming-global-mental-health/ |
| Description | Making documentaries to transform the world (Skills Exchange Programme Workshop) |
| 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 | The workshop was delivered by filmmaker and CTS project partner Robert Golden and was open to youth participants from across the 27 CTS projects. Workshop blurb: This workshop will help clarify essential, practical and creative ideas, and provide ways of discovering and creating your films. It is not a how to use a camera or shoot a scene, it is about how to refine your themes and find how they create content that demands certain subject matter. It is about the filmmaker's role in the world and how they can contribute to a better world. It is about asking yourself questions and finding ways to answer them. This is all about the fundamental substructure of documentary making. 10 participants attended the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa - Heritage Day Event |
| 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 | Young people who worked as community researchers on this project took the initiative to host a local event for National Heritage Day. They shared their project findings; highlighted stories retrieved from intergenerational heritage interviews; provided traditional food; presented traditional music and dance; officially presented local leadership with the published community heritage book they created. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa - Workshop 1 |
| 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 | Workshop 1 brought together 3 young people from rural Mpumalanga Province, including young people outside work or education, as community researchers; 3 leaders from local grassroots development CSO Pala Forerunners; 3 academics from the universities of Sheffield and Pretoria; and 3 postgraduate students from the University of Pretoria. Initial data collection was shared and evaluated; we reflected systematically on the project's aims and objectives, and strategies and methods; methods were established for the project; next steps were determined; and recordings were made of the workshop as participatory research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ukzacommunityresearch.org |
| Description | Mapping Community Heritage with Young People in Rural South Africa - Workshop 2 |
| 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 | Workshop 2 brought together 7 young people from rural Mpumalanga Province, including young people outside work or education, as community researchers; 3 leaders from local grassroots development CSO Pala Forerunners; 2 academics from the universities of Sheffield and Pretoria; and 1 postgraduate student from the University of Pretoria. Final data collection was shared and evaluated; we reflected systematically on the project's aims and objectives, and strategies and methods; next steps were determined; and recordings were made of the workshop as participatory research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ukzacommunityresearch.org |
| Description | Martin Keat - Identifying the means to establish digital hubs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 12 practitioners attended 4 online and face to face workshops to identify the means of establishing digital hubs. Notable impacts - We were able to identify a remote youth leadership programme model for rollout. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Martin Keat - Training in the implementation of digital hubs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Purpose - To make decisions 12 practitioners attended 12 online and face to face workshops to receive training, plan implementation, monitor rollout and impact. We were able to implement a remote youth leadership programme and learn from this to inform future engagement activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Measuring children's time use: Five insights from research in northern Uganda Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lucia Rost is a Research Manager at Plan International. She recently completed a PhD in International Development at Oxford University, which was related to Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care Programme. In January 2021, Lucia produced a blog on her recent paper highlighting five insights into measuring children's time use from research in rural northern Uganda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/01/07/measuring-childrens-time-use-five-insights-from-rese... |
| Description | Media interview with journalist focusing on the challenges and opportunities of marrying sustainable development with cultural heritage conservation and management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Francesca Giliberto was interviewed by Diego Giuliani, a free-lance journalist for the international tv channel Euronews and for the European Research Media Center Youris.com. The interview focused on the challenges and opportunities of marrying sustainable development with cultural heritage conservation and management. Some insights from the interview were included on an article on the EU project Pocityf published on the research project website (https://pocityf.eu/news/invisible-is-better-when-sustainable-solutions-blend-into-the-landscape/?cn-reloaded=1), on Youris.com and further distributed to several international news multipliers (e.g. AlphaGalileo, EU Agenda, Phys.org, Cordis). Thanks to a partnership between the Icons Innovation Strategy Foundation, which is producing the article, and the international tv channel Euronews, some excerpts of the interview might also be aired on Euronews and distributed through all of its web and social media platforms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://pocityf.eu/news/invisible-is-better-when-sustainable-solutions-blend-into-the-landscape/ |
| Description | Meet the Researchers: Cultural Connections alumni event series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke and Katie Hodgkinson invited to present at the University of Leeds 'Meet the Researchers: Cultural Connections alumni event series' on 18th Aug 2020. The following projects to be highlighted during the talk: ACT: Arts, Critical Thinking and Active Citizenship (Kosovo) Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba (South Africa) Connective Memories (Rwanda) Izazov (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Street Art (Zimbabwe) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting between Praxis and UK National Commission for UNESCO |
| 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 | Meeting between Praxis and UK National Commission for UNESCO on 5 June 2020. Subsequent meeting planned for July. Also attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto, Lauren Wray. The meeting discussed next steps for UKNC contribution to the Praxis led project for a conference and report on Maximising the Impact of Heritage Research for the SDGs. The event will be held in January 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting in Los Andes to think about peace on a small scale - El Espectador |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article published online on 3rd September about the Peace in a Small Scale conference in Colombia. The article promotes the event and features the names of CTS grantees. El Espectador is the 2nd largest newspaper in Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/pais/encuentro-en-los-andes-para-pensar-la-paz-pequena-esc... |
| Description | Meeting scheduled with Sarah Smith and Johanna Martendal from Daghammarskjold |
| 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 | Meeting with representatives from Daghammarskjold scheduled for 24/03 to discuss ways of connecting and sharing learning between CTS and NGO's. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Harriet Hoffler, DCMS (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, and learnt from Harriet about DCMS's Cultural Protection Fund and its aims in the future. Discussed collaborating on a future Heritage and Policy event. Harriet also expressed interest in attending Nexus event on Heritage. She attended the Nexus in February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Ian Thomas, British Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | 13 February 2020 Meeting with Ian Thomas, British Council Attended by Dr Francesca Giliberto. Provided an overview about Praxis' report on heritage for global challenges and learnt from Ian about the Cultural Protection Fund and the British Council's programme on Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth. The meeting discussed British Council's views and expectations on Praxis' report to make sure they are taken into account since the beginning of its preparation. The meeting also cemented future collaboration discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Ian Thomas, British Council (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes and learnt from Ian about BC's Cultural Heritage Programmes. Discussed collaborating on two fronts: an event on evaluation of arts and humanities projects, and Ian attending the Heritage Nexus event. Ian attended the Heritage Nexus event in February 2020 and a collaborative workshop with BC on Evaluation scheduled for September 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Jaideep Gupte, Challenge Leader for Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Deena Dajani (Praxis Post-doc) provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, Jaideep provided feedback and identified relevant projects that we had not picked up on using GTR. Jaideep expressed interest in attending Nexus event on Heritage. He attended the Nexus in February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Karina Croucher and Adrian Evans, University of Bradford |
| 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 | 25 February 2020 Meeting with Karina Croucher and Adrian Evans, University of Bradford Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Lauren Wray. The meeting discussed the possibility to organize a one-day workshop on Heritage and Mental Health in collaboration between Praxis, the Institute for Global Mental Health at the University of Leeds (Siobhan Hugh-Jones and Anna Madill) and the University of Bradford. The workshop is likely to be held at the University of Bradford in May-June 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Kelsey Shanks, Challenge Leader for Education (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, Kelsey provided feedback and expressed interest in collaborating on Learning Event on Education in C&D. Follow - up meeting closer to C&D timeline scheduled. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Laura Hammond, Challenge Leader for Displacement (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Praxis PI Prof Stuart Taberner and Deena Dajani. Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, Laura provided feedback and identified possible directions. Follow-up meeting closer to C&D events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Laura Jones and Vernon Rapley, V&A (Praxis) |
| 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 | Attended by Prof Stuart Taberner, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Deena Dajani. Same conversation as before, now included Vernon (Director of Culture in Crisis programme) and Stuart (PI on Praxis) cementing collaboration discussions. 10 February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Laura Jones, V&A (Praxis) |
| 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 | Following Introduction to Laura Jones, we met to discuss Praxis and V&A's Culture in Crisis programme in more detail. Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes and learnt from Laura about V&A's Culture in Crisis programme. Discussed collaborating on two fronts: Praxis launching its report on Heritage at one of the V&A's evening lecture series, and Laura and Vernon attending the Heritage Nexus event. Laura and Vernon attended the Heritage Nexus event in February 2020. Organising the launch of the report under conversation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Neelam Raina, Challenge Leader for Conflict |
| 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 | Esther provided an update on C&D strand. Neelam provided input on how to approach the portfolio and ideas on possible event formats if taking Nexus event online. Important to use the event to ask some of the 'bigger' questions that could shape future of Conflict research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Neelam Reina, Challenge Leader for Conflict (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, Neelam provided feedback and identified "big questions" for C&D theme. Agreed on follow-up meeting closer to C&D events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Oxfam - 27/01/20 |
| 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 | Strategic development meeting with Oxfam involving CTS team and various national-child/young people development leads. The possibility of future shared learning encounters were discussed around specific themes of civic space x narratives. Follow-up meeting planned for March 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Ronald Van Moorten - Youth Active Citizenship Researcher Oxfam |
| 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 | Meeting scheduled for 16/03/2020 between CTS and Oxfam to discuss Ronald's work around Empower Youth For Work and to input into a trajectory around civic space x youth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Tahrat Shahid, Challenge Leader for Food Systems (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Deena Dajani provided an overview of Praxis aims and programmes, Tahrat provided feedback and identified relevant projects that we had not picked up on using GTR. Tahrat expressed interest in collaborating on Learning Event on Food and Heritage and producing a podcast. This led to a successful collaboration on both fronts in January 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Memories de violencia y post-conflicto en contextos periféricos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our Colombia Co-I Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar facilitated a table on 'Memory and Forgetting: Ways of reconciling silence" where he spoke about some of his work on the project, as part of the international seminar organised by Colombia's Alliance Francaise "Memorias de violencia y post-conflicto en contextos periféricos" Memories of Violence and post-conflict in peripheral areas" in Bogotá 26-27 April 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ifea.org.pe/eventos/colombia/pdf/programa-seminario-memoria.pdf |
| Description | Memory Landscape Workshop - Tribal Education Methodology Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Memory landscape: it is eco restoration of the School campus and the activity is led by Anita Sharma, the leading environmental activist in Kerala. Each TEM youth learner plants a tree in the school campus that is brought from the tribal hamlet. A tree which they like the most and has a memory associated with it making the campus a memory landscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Memory and Identity: Do Khmer Rouge Narratives Influence how Cambodian Millennials Shape their Identity? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thesis by Changing the Story partner Darathtey Din (Not recognised under the category publications). The paper considers the historical context of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Regime, the post-conflict memories of young Cambodians and how these memories have shaped the identity of young Cambodians. The paper was shared via the Changing the Story website and Social Media Channels. The response to the paper on Twitter was particularly positive, receiving 21 retweets, 51 likes and multiple personal messages of support and interest to Darathtey. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2019/05/Memory-and-Identity.pdf |
| Description | Mini Arts Festival for Heritage Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | At the final performance of the workshopped theatre piece on 23 September 2019, developed by the members of Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, their analysis was presented in entertaining form back to a hall full of learners from various local schools. This was done in conjunction with a workshop by ILL members, and with other heritage day events (Heritage Day is celebrated on 24 September every year in South Africa). The performance was a very engaging and inspiring call to action for young people to take more active roles in the struggles for land and environmental justice in South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mithila Art workshop (Nub Raj Mobility Fund) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nub Raj Bhandari, a previous Co-I on CTS commissioned project, was awarded CTS Mobility Funding to deliver a workshop on Mithila Art on 23 July 2022, following development of an idea at our final network event the previous month. "It was a very fascinating experience for me to see the interest of girls on Mithila art and the way they expressed their social challenges and their personal dreams.". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Curriculum Workshop (March 2018), Kigali, Rwanda |
| 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 | The MAP curriculum workshop from 15-17 March 2018 consisted of ten cultural organisations including: Future Vision Acrobats, Mindleaps, Niyo Art Gallery, Niyo Cultural Centre, Kwetu Film Institute, Umuduri Band, Kigali Centre for Photography, Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts, Music Mind Consult, Rwanda Rocks, and Eric Onekey. During the workshops, the cultural artists were asked to deliver a two-hour workshop focused on how their specific discipline could be adapted as a dialogic tool for young people. Within this practice-as-research approach, the cultural artists explored how and why their disciplines could be adapted for dialogic purposes. The workshop included reflection concerning the successes and limitations of providing a safe, inclusive and progressive society in Rwanda that informed the planning and delivery of the critical review phase of the AHRC Changing the Story project. The curriculum workshop generated discussion and debate about the use of varied cultural forms to navigate painful pasts issues and the challenges and limitations of safety, inclusivity and progressiveness within the current political climate of Rwanda. Additionally, cultural artists from a range of disciplines (visual arts, drama, dance, music, photography, film, acrobatics) noted that it was the first time that they had worked within an interdisciplinary context. Outputs included the development of a MAP toolkit that was translated from English to Kinyarwanda and the evolution of an interdisciplinary artists network. The cultural organisations have used MAP methodology within the design and delivery of programmes for young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Training of Trainers (August 2018), Rwamagana, Rwanda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The training of trainers was conducted in the Eastern Province of Rwanda including twenty-five educators from five schools including GS Munyiginya and Rwamagana A (REB schools), Lycée du Lac Muhazi (WDA school) and Rwamagana Lutheran and Friends of the Children International School (NGO schools) from 27 August - 2 September 2018. Five of the cultural artists from the original curriculum workshop including Jeymo Mutinda from Music Mind Consult, Rukundo Jean Baptiste from Niyo Arts Centre, Elisee Niyonenga and Mutoniwase Sheila Yvette from Future Vision Acrobats and filmmakers from Kwetu Film Institute served as part of the training and consultation team. In addition, we included a resident counsellor Laure Iyaga from Sana Initiative. The training involved the delivery of the MAP methodology. The MAP manual consists of a 250-page toolbox of exercises to employ Music, Dance and Drama as a dialogic tool and to develop skills in the performing arts. The manual was divided into sections entitled warm-up, lead-in, main activity, energiser, and reflection. These are not pre-scripted lesson plans, but rather exercises that can build on a trajectory of learning towards an overarching lesson objective or theme. The Rwandan national curriculum framework is broad based to allow teachers to plan in a way that best reflects the particular needs of the school and the skills of teachers. The manual has already been tested and approved by the Rwandan Education Board through the pilot phase of the project in the Eastern Province. Twenty-five trainers who attended the training of trainers between 28 August - 2 September have been using the methodology as part of their curriculum, conducted training of trainers in their schools, and initiated drama clubs. To date, the training of trainers has extended to include sixty trainers through subsequent training of trainers activities conducted in the partner schools alongside delivery of MAP within the course curriculum and extracurricular activities involving over five hundred young people. MAP provides a participatory student-centred methodology that encourages children and young people to be active in their learning, to learn collaboratively, and to be empowered by how that learning takes place. There are sections in the manual that includes facilitation skills, group dynamics, experiential learning, curriculum structure, and training and sustainability. The section on sustainability includes: a) how to use materials in schools or communities; b) adapting to regional contexts; c) research methodologies; d) community asset mapping; e) engaging community leaders; f) building and sustaining networks; g) drama clubs and theatre tours; and h) action planning. Due to the context of work in post-genocide Rwanda, the training of trainers and youth camps include a resident psychologist, Laure Iyaga, from partner organisation Sana Initiative. The resident counsellor provides one-to-one and group counselling during sessions as needed. In addition, the Sana Initiative has provided exercises related to peer-to-peer counselling, identifying emotions, and awareness about symptoms related to trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder. In this way, the Ubwunzu project provides a pedagogic approach to teaching and learning that addresses some of the stated needs within the Rwandan education system including facilitation skills to develop student-centred learning; subject content to enable instruction of Music, Dance and Drama within the curriculum; and integration of local and regional responses to culturally informed needs and issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) Youth Camp (November 2018), Rwamagana, Rwanda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) youth camp was designed to support the development of youth-led MAP initiatives within partnering organisations and to evaluate phase one activities. It was conducted from 27 November - 1 December 2018 and included one lead MAP adult trainer from each of the five schools alongside incoming adult trainers for a total of ten adult trainers and two young people (one male and one female) from each of the five schools. The adult trainers and young people who participated in MAP activities noted changed views in opinions and behaviours. Adult trainers noted that previous to MAP, that they had used corporal punishment and used top-down approaches to teaching and learning. Following MAP, adult trainers noted that they were able to create a learning and teaching environment that enhanced student engagement and provided a safe space to explore conflict related issues. Additionally, that their communication and leadership skills improved alongside enhanced empathy and active listening skills. Beyond changes in opinions and behaviours, MAP adult trainers and young people were able to integrate MAP activities into the Music, Dance and Drama aspect of their curriculum alongside initiating drama clubs. Young people noted that they were no longer afraid to voice their opinions and served as leaders in their schools. Both adult trainers and young people stated that they discovered their talents within the creative arts and that the interdisciplinary arts platform provided an outlet for them to voice their stories through numerous artistic channels. The youth camp supported the engagement of ten young people to serve as co-facilitators and co-educators within the school environment to delivery MAP methodology. Additionally, each school was given $250 to support drama club activities and each youth-led drama club created a charter. Data from adult trainers included the following statistics regarding MAP engagement within the noted five schools: (REB schools) GS Muniginya hosts weekly teacher trainings of MAP methodology and created a drama club with forty-nine students, 12 male and 37 female under age 24. The teacher trainings involve 30 adult trainers, 11 male and 19 female. Rwamagana A (name changed to GS St. Vincent de Paul Rwamagana Catholique from September 2018) created a drama club and integrates the MAP methodology into the curriculum that impacts 200 young people under age 24, 120 male and 80 female. 52 young people are involved in weekly drama club, 32 male and 30 female. The teacher trainings at the school have involved 12 adults, 9 female and 3 male. (NGO schools) Friends of the Children School integrated MAP methodology into a two hour block twice a week. All 365 primary students participate. Hosted parent information meetings regarding MAP activities and drama club. Rwamagana Lutheran trained teachers in MAP methodology which has now been used in S2, S3 and S5 'crew times' (sections of the school schedule for team building activities). Trained teachers have created a drama club. Drama club has included 10 students, 5 male and 5 female. Trained teachers include 17 educators, 11 male and 5 female. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Shaping the Rwandan National Curriculum |
| 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 | Author: Ananda Breed (Co-Investigator). Uploaded 28th March 2019, the blog documents the achievements of MAP between March 18- January 19 including the awarding of additional funding, completion of a training manual and partnership with the Rwanda Education Board. The blog features quotes from educators and young participants involved in the projects workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/03/28/mobile-arts-for-peace-map-shaping-the-rwandan-nation... |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace - March 2018 |
| 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 | From from 15 - 17 March 2018, Hope Azeda from Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts and Prof. Ananda Breed (University of Lincoln) - both Co-Is on the Rwanda strand of Changing the Story - delivered a three-day symposium with cultural artists in Kigali. The main objectives of the symposium were: To explore how cultural forms can be adapted for dialogic purposes; To develop a multi-disciplinary arts-based curriculum for young people; To build alliances with organisations with similar values, working towards transformational goals for longer-term effects; To build upon existing knowledge and experience of good practice; To support eachother in identifying the issues that concern us. In preparation for the symposium, cultural artists from organisations including Future Vision Acrobats, Niyo Art Gallery, MindLeaps, Niyo Cultural Centre, Kwetu Film Institute, Umuduri Band, Kigali Centre for Photography, Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts, Music Mind Consult, and Eric Onekey were asked to demonstrate an exercise from their cultural form (music, dance, theatre, visual arts, video and film, poetry) that could be adapted for dialogic purposes. Most of the artists agreed that inclusivity was key towards building safe and progressive societies. The symposium with cultural artists was hosted at the Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Centre in Kigali, Rwanda and was designed and facilitated by Ananda Breed from University of Lincoln and Kurtis Dennison from Mashirika. Exercises from the cultural workshop will be integrated into a manual used for a training of educators and youth workers (June 2018) and youth camp (August 2018) in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/04/05/making-each-other-human-the-mobile-arts-for-peace-pr... |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace Event (Aug 2020) |
| 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 | Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) and Changing the Story (CTS) hosted a three-day conference that focused on 'Education and Art for Peacebuilding' from 5 - 7 August with the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP) as a co-host in Rwanda. Speakers included the MAP youth facilitators and master trainers alongside the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC), Never Again Rwanda, Aegis Trust, IRDP, Rwanda Education Board and UNESCO as well as workshops, performances and panels. The conference used technology to link partners across Rwanda, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Nepal, Cambodia, Uganda, the United Kingdom and other countries. Zoom, live camera feed, and combined physical and virtual break out rooms enabled connection and interaction between the 40 participants who were located at IRDP and the 40 participants who participated online across the three-day event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace Project Update |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MAP newsletter May 2019. The newsletter offers an insight into the projects filmmaking workshop and includes a film 'Headphones' produced by young people who participated in the workshop. The newsletter was repurposed as a blog on the Changing the Story Website and shared via social media channels.103 recipients receive the MAP newsletter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/07/mobile-arts-for-peace-project-update/ |
| Description | Mobile Arts for Peace Safeguarding Workshop Jan 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Safeguarding Project Developer visited a youth camp in Rwanda and co-delivered a safeguarding workshop with Chaste Umohoreye, regional lead for sub-saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/11/29/mobile-arts-for-peace-rwanda-safeguarding-workshop/ |
| Description | Mobile Filmmaking Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Partner organisation Kwetu Film Institute (also goes by the name Rwanda Cinema Centre) led a three-day mobile filmmaking workshop. The aim of the workshop was to introduce 10 MAP young people and 6 MAP master trainers to the methodology of using film and photography to explore issues that young people face. Renowned filmmaker Eric Kabera (Director of Kwetu), led the training. Mobile phones were given to the five schools and MAP clubs in the Eastern Province to create films. Five films were created and screened as part of the Rwanda International Film Festival (October 2019) in the category of Panorama. The mobile filmmaking skills have been used to create a youth-led research project to document the MAP methodology and the impact on young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mobile Peace for Arts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MAP newsletter March 2019. The newsletter outlines what's next for the project in 2019: countrywide expansion, mobile filmmaking workshops and the application of small grants that can help deliver ongoing training. The newsletter was repurposed as a blog on the Changing the Story Website and shared via social media channels. The total number of people receiving the newsletter is unknown but recipients include partners in the UK and Rwanda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/04/17/learn-more-about-mobile-arts-for-peace-map/ |
| Description | Mobilising Histories workshop |
| 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 | The workshop, led by Prof. Stuart Taberner (the Uk-based South Africa Co-I for Changing the Story), the University of Pretoria (South Africa Co-I for Changing the Story), and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC, main South Africa CSO partner) took place 21-22 May 2018 at JHGC. It brought together a number of projects funded by the UK's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) that focus on arts-based interventions in building greater resilience and a human-rights culture in post-conflict societies. CSO and NGO partners from across South Africa and globally contributed practical expertise and specific understanding of local contexts and forms of intervention. he event also advertised funding opportunities for further focussed research linked to the 'Changing the Story' project. The workshop was filmed and a short film will be made. In addition, a short report will be prepared, including a set of recommendations for mobilising arts and heritage to achieve the SDGs, and a blog. Feedback from participants was very positive, and new connections and understandings have been created. All Changing the Story Co-I organisations also presented their work as part of the conference and engaged in active discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/events/2nd-changing-the-story-network-meeting/ |
| Description | Mobility Fund - CIES 'Illuminating the Power of Idealism' conference, Ashley Visagie |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ashley Visagie of CTS-funded CSO BottomUp in South Africa was provided funding by CTS' Mobility Fund to attend and co-present a paper at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 'Illuminating the Power of Idealism' conference in Minnesota, US. Impact on Ashley: "I have come back with a new consciousness both about the place I have visited but also about our own challenges in South Africa, and I am enriched with new ideas about the potential of new modes of political expression as well as global collaboration of people who suffer in different ways and places but from the effects of the same global issues". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2022/08/11/comparative-and-international-education-society-cies... |
| Description | Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning Safeguarding Webinar May 2020 |
| 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 | The fifth webinar in the series was led by Linda Hoxha, our Regional Lead for Europe, who has extensive experience in Save the Children's Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) approach. The webinar was held 18/05/20 and attended by 12 participants including a representative from UKRI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/05/26/evaluating-and-learning-from-your-projects-approach-... |
| Description | Mr Klaje - BBC Radio Ulster interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. They were interviewed by the BBC programme "The Ticket" on 14 April 2022, about the project in Northern Ireland and Mr Klaje's forthcoming gig in Belfast. This is part of their collaborative project socio-spatial transformations in geographies of conflict in which we are generating a transatlantic dialogue NI-Colombia around diversity, peacebuilding and climate change using the music and arts as tools for social change. The interview will be broadcasted tomorrow Thursday between 6-7 pm in the following link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009m25 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016b3r |
| Description | Mr Klaje - Beyond the Skin workshops 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. These creative workshops in partnership with refugee charity Beyond the Skin took place 19-22 2022 was for refugees living in Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Mr Klaje - Edinburgh workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. These workshops in partnership with Cual es la Verdad PI Dr Marlies Kustatscher took place 2-6 May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Mr Klaje - Leeds workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. These creative workshops in partnership with UoL's School of Performance and Cultural Industries took place 29 April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Mr Klaje - London workshops 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. These workshops in partnership with World Heart Beat took place across schools in London 16-27 May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Mr Klaje - N. Ireland workshops 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. This workshop in Northern Ireland took place between 21st March and 1st April 2022, with support from BEAM - Creative Network" and Mid Ulster Council., and further workshop took place with other Belfast communities 7-13 May as a result of the first set. The workshops have led to a new partnership between the work and local Ulster council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Mr Klaje - QUB workshop 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mr Klaje Collective are a music collective who received funding as part of CTS' Phase 2 project, Cual es la verdad? They received additional financial support via our Mobility Fund, along with support from other partners, to conduct a tour of England and Northern Ireland in partnership with their academic project partner Edwar Calderon, to share their methodologies with young people and academics in school and HE settings. This creative workshop at QUB 4-8 April 2022 was for academics, students and practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ajourneythatchangedourstory.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | My History: The child soldiers of Colombia Animation Film Launch |
| 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 | The project 'Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia' launched Operation Berlin, an animation about the 2000 Colombian army attack against the Arturo Ruiz column of the FARC outside the town of Tibú in the north east of the country. More than 70 child combatants were killed in the attack, but the facts about what happened remain unclear, and the army has been accused of covering up the atrocity. The film was shared with the Colombian Truth Commission. Date of the launch 12.02.21. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Media Coverage - My Congo My Story (eNCA News Channel, South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News coverage of the My Congo My Story Exhibition in South Africa on eNCA News Channel, South Africa. eNews Channel Africa, eNCA, is a 24-hour news channel, Its headquarters are in South Africa. The channel focuses on news from South Africa and the African continent, but and also covers international stories. eNCA is South Africa's most-watched News Channel - http://teeveetee.blogspot.com/2016/03/enca-remains-most-watched-tv-news.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AnHivXShg&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Navigating the tightrope of stigma in social entrepreneurship: Implications for wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this talk, on March 4, 2022, Andreana shared insights from the research with refugee entrepreneurship, published by Au et al 2022, with the current cohort of postgraduate students from across the globe participating in the Spring Institute on (Dis)Ability. The talk included research findings, reflections on methodological and ethical challenges, and suggestions for future research. Participants at the event shared how the event had changed their views on refugee entrepreneurship and wellbeing and provided them with ideas for future research projects on the topics of stigma, refugee entrepreneurship, and wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spring-institute.com/program-and-speakers-2022/ |
| Description | New Times Article, 'Teachers Highlight Role of Theatre and Drama in Solving Conflicts' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The article about the MAP training of trainers written by Jean de Dieu Nsabimana states the importance of MAP for conflict prevention and to influence the competence-based curriculum. The Director General of Rwanda Education Board noted the importance of simulation and sketches as best practices for children to learn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/teachers-highlight-role-theater-drama-lesson-delivery |
| Description | Online panel ImaginingOtherwise - Part I: Disposable Youth |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hosted by project partners: Online panel on South Africa's examples of Disposable youth: Dr Heather Jacklin and Prof Azeem Badroodien 2 July 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqO0pxfAjxA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqO0pxfAjxA |
| Description | Online panel ImaginingOtherwise - Part II: Manufactured Crises |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online panel hosted by project partners, chaired by Dr Walsh. Manufactured Crises with Dr Sara Black & Ashley Visagie 14 July 2020 engaging with schools and education in the SA context |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDWHn6PlC4 |
| Description | Online panel ImaginingOtherwise - Part III: Firing Back Against the Disimagination Machine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Yvette Hardie/ Mike van Graan/ Emile Jansen 28 July 2020: hosting the three speakers to discuss arts education and public policy enabled a new perspective on social issues and implications of post-apartheid arts education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJo3YJ2PzQ |
| Description | Online panel ImaginingOtherwise - Part V: Arts pedagogy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ImaginingOtherwise arts mentors gathered together to present ideas on arts education and provide insights into the barriers to youth engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPa988JlSMQ&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Online panel ImaginingOtherwise- Part IV: Educated Hope and Art as Public Pedagogy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With international arts activists from SA and Zimbabwe, this talk enabled links and continuities across countries and contexts to emerge as well as a sense of the debates in arts activism. It has already been assigned watching for a PGT course in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG03lXFoeAU |
| Description | Online webinar on "Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Disasters: Relevance, Challenges and Future Actions" |
| 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 | The webinar was organised by the PRAXIS team and held on Wednesday 30th November 2022, 1-3pm (UK time). During this event, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Luba Pirgova-Morgan launched the report titled "Cultural heritage in the context of disasters and climate change: insights from the DCMS-AHRC Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort" recently published by PRAXIS (University of Leeds) and the CRITICAL project (University of Edinburgh). With this event, we also promoted knowledge exchange and shared learning on the complex interrelationships between cultural heritage, climate change and disasters between academic and non-academic stakeholders in the UK and the Global South, and fostered further discussion and collaboration, particularly in terms of how to improve current heritage and climate change policies and practices. We brought together representatives from the Cultural Heritage and Climate Change cohort with other interested parties such as members from funding bodies, policymakers, academics, practitioners and other stakeholders to stimulate a constructive discussion on this topic. A roundtable with representatives of these key actors stimulated a discussion around two main aspects: 1) the ways to improve current practices tackling cultural heritage management in the face of climate change and disaster impacts; 2) the role of international collaborations between academics, practitioners and research participants when approaching a variety of cultural heritage forms as well as differing approaches to the assessment of risk. A 2-page policy brief will be prepared after the event by the PRAXIS team to include the lessons learned from this online event and PRAXIS participation at COP27. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/cultural-heritage-climate-change-and-disasters/ |
| Description | Op-Ed |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an op-ed piece published on a prestigious newsletter and website - The Times Higher Education. The op-ed argues that the current movement for decolonising universities should also be applied to research 'partnerships' and their unequal balance of power. I have received invitations to deliver a talk and it was very well received by many editors, researchers, and university leaders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/equal-research-partnerships-are-myth-we-can-change |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) 'Gender in conflict' workshop Oct 2019 |
| 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 | One-day workshop/conference, funded by Bournemouth University's Women's Academic Network (WAN), 'Gender in Conflict', 9th Oct.; with guest speakers from Kosovo (Erasmus+ K107 funded). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2020/02/25/gender-in-conflict-conference-wan-funded-event/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) (2017) & Open Society Foundation, supporting young scholars, regionally and internationally, to build knowledge about Kosovo's statehood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | As a member of an international academic supervisory team/board, led by University of Thessaloniki (regional) and funded by Kosovo Open Society Foundation (KFOS), Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers supervised several young scholars from across the region and internationally in small research projects aimed at building knowledge about Kosovo statehood and influencing media and policy, nationally, regionally and internationally. See publication output 'State-building in Post-independence Kosovo: Policy Challenges and Societal Considerations', Prishtina: KFOS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) - Kosovo-artist residency in Dorset with TCFT's (Opera Circus) 2018 |
| 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 | Dorset artist/research residency, AHRC-Kosovo Strand phase I activity, 12 to 16 February - hosted by TCFT/Opera Circus, Bridport, Dorset, and invited Kosovo partner: Albert Heta, Director of Stacion: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prishtina, Kosovo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/tag/reconciliation/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) - Kosovo-artist residency in Moderna Galerija and +M SUM in Lubljana, Slovenia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nora Prekazi Hoti (Museum of Mitrovica, northern Kosovo), was the beneficiary of an artist residency at Moderna Galerija and +M SUM in Lubljana, Slovenia, in January 2020. A blog is forthcoming on CtS's and ACT (Kosovo Strand's) web-site. Nora, who has participated in ACT (Kosovo) activities, states that this residency provided her with inspirational insights about women's role and possibilities in the art work including in curating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) - Kosovo-artist residency in Prishtina, hosted by Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prishtina and other CSOs, 2018 |
| 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 | Prishtina artist/research residency, AHRC-Kosovo Strand phase I activity, 2 to 7 September - hosted by Stacion: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prishtina and other CSOs (including Thermokiss), for invited UK partner: Tina Ellen Lee of Opera Circus, Dorset; who build upon the networks to co-create and lead Izazov! (Bosnia & Hercegovina) and continue collaboration with the CtS Kosovo projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) 2019 & Open Society Foundation, supporting young scholars, regionally and internationally, to build knowledge about Kosovo's statehood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | As a member of an international academic supervisory team/board, led by University of Thessaloniki (regional) and funded by Kosovo Open Society Foundation (KFOS), Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers supervised several young scholars from across the region and internationally in small research projects aimed at building knowledge about Kosovo statehood and influencing media and policy, nationally, regionally and internationally. See publication output 'Local and International Determinants of Kosovo's Statehood', Prishtina: KFOS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Book launch of Zine Boom monograph (proof of concept), March 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | On 10th March, 2020, the young artist/researcher Zine Boom team (P1 ACT, Kosovo Strand 'proof of concept') launched their monograph (a 'zine', containing research and artistic results) to a wider public including media and wide media reports in Kino Armata, Prishtina, Kosovo. They shared the innovative approach jointly developed to unearthing a neglected pre-war history of the experiences of, and artistic spaces carved out by, young people during a period of escalating ethnic segregation which opens up new critical questions and approaches to a causal historical understanding of Kosovo's subsequent war. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1599208210253419 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Kick-off workshop Sept 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | P1 ACT (Kosovo), AHRC 'Participatory Arts and Participatory Research: Kosovo-Strand Kick-Off Workshop', with invited national and international CSO, artists and academic partners, Prishtina, Kosovo, 3 - 4 September. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/10/23/kicking-off-changing-the-story-in-kosovo/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Op-ed about Kosovar students negotiating reciprocal stereotypes in Thessaloniki |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Op-ed, in Albanian, by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Drosopulos, M., titled 'No more sad stories': Kosovar students negotiating reciprocal stereotypes in Thessaloniki', published in Kosovo-Albanian newspapers Koha Ditore and Koha.net, May 15, 2019. Op-ed introduces critical ways of thinking about everyday migration experiences and associated identity constructions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.koha.net%2Fveshtrime%2F163061%... |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Op-ed about Local Serb Responses to a Citizenship Dilemmas in Kosovo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Op-ed, with Trupia, Francesco; postgraduate researcher in Kosovo Open Society Foundation's 'Building Knowledge about Kosovo' project from Italy/Bulgaria about '"Good Personhood": Local Serb Responses to a Citizenship Dilemma in Everyday Life', published by NGO-Aktiv (CSO and CtS-ACT partner in northern Mitrovica, Kosovo), June 4, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ngoaktiv.org/publication/good-personhood-local-serb-responses-to-a-citizenship-dilemma-in... |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Op-ed comparing Serb and Albanian history textbooks in Kosovo; and comparing these to the situation in Bosnia and Hercegovina |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Op-ed, By Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers and Narcisa Semic, 'If Albanian and Serb historical textbook narratives remain staunchly divided, what needs to change?', 800-word op-ed (available in English and in translation in Bosnian) Blog op ed.: Dealing with the Past, Belgrade: Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (Civil Peace Service), 5th February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.dwp-balkan.org/en/blog_one.php?cat_id=8&text_id=35 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Proof-of-concept (Zine Boom) workshop, Prishtina April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'Sound - Text - Space' - 'Participatory Arts and Participatory Research: Kosovo-Strand Proof-of-Concept Workshop', ACT - Critical Citizenship/Zine Boom with invited national and international artists, CSOs, young people and academic partners, Prishtina, Kosovo, 8 - 10 April. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/act-kosovo/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Reconciliation-in-Action, 'fishbowl exercise' workshop, Festival of Learning, University of Bournemouth, Bournemouth, 12 July. |
| 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 | 20 people of the general public in Dorset region, including regional Holocaust memorial organisations, attended this workshop - developed by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers - aimed at building critical awareness regarding the prerequisites of reconciliation and rejection to its imposition as a moral demand, based on ethnographic experiences in Southeastern Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) Zine Boom (proof of concept) in the media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lura Limania and Nita Luci were interviewed about the Zine Boom (P1 Kosovo ACT) proof of concept project as part of Changing the Story, sharing the innovative pedagogical conceptual underpinnings and research results that reveal an unknown chapter of youth history in Kosovo, to the wider public. Interviews/reportages appeared in several outlets, including ExpressKTV and Kosovo 2.0 (link below) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/inside-yugoslavias-albanian-rock-scene/ |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) consultancy for the British Council on media independence and gender equality in the Western Balkans / Kosovo |
| 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 | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, provided consultancy to the British Council on questions of media independence and gender equality, jointly with experts from the wider Western Balkan region. This was as part of a 2.5 year project lead by the LSE and funded by the FCO's Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) contribution to Human Development Action plan (gender equality) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, was called as Senior Expert drafting the Human Development action plan for Kosovo's Programme for Gender Equality 2020 - 2024 for the Agency for Gender Equality, Kosovo Government, which included a critical review of the situation of education, health, media, culture (i.e. objectives, activities, indicators for all field) in line with Kosovo's Development Strategy and the SDGs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) presentation about Srebrenica and memory on Holocaust Day, Lighthouse (Poole) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Giulia Levi, VC-funded doctoral student at Bournemouth University under supervision by Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, presented some of her conceptual findings about memory after war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a UK audience at the occasion of Holocaust Day. Her research widens P1 (ACT) and P2 (IZAZOV!)'s approaches on questions of 'silence' after war to universal questions on the basis of, yet beyond, the immediate case studies; and applies these to societal division that have emerged in Dorset since the Brexit referendum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/02/09/remembering-the-srebrenica-genocide-on-holocaust-mem... |
| Description | P1 ACT (Kosovo) review of civic education and text books on ministerial expert board in Kosovo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nita Luci, Co-I of University of Prishtina University, was called on the Kosovo ministerial commission which conducted a blind review of the Education textbooks (6th grade) in Kosovo and reviewed the new National Curricula textbooks from 2018 - 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: 20 extended interviews (Cali, Quibdó, Buenaventura) Phase 1 |
| 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 | • 20 extended interviews (Cali, Quibdó, Buenaventura) Phase 1. Out of the list above, Quibdó, Buenaventura and Cali became the pilot of phase 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: 2x Sound Workshops with local arts collective |
| 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 | • 2 Sound workshops (Phase 2) Etnia Company/John Humberto (Chocó)/Arco Iris Collective/frontiers of the Invisible (Calí) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: 34 Explorative meetings with youth arts collectives in 4 different Departments. |
| 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 | The team undertook an extensive engagement with local youth arts collectives in 4 different departments of Colombia, gathering and sharing learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: 7x sonic expeditions Mid Atrato River/Cal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | • 7 sonic Expeditions: Mid Atrato River/Calí. (Phase 2). Each phases of the project in conducted individually: Macro-histories, Micro-histories, cartographic testimonies and sonic expeditions are per person. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: ACC guest lecture at Uni of Manizales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (PI) was invited to guest lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies in Childhood and Youth, University of Manizales, PhD Seminar, Program on Youth Studies, Colombia, May 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: ACC invited to speak at Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (PI) was invited to present a paper at 'Dialogues on Violence and Peace in Latin America', Laboratorio de estudios sobre la Violencia, en la frontera, Colegio de la frontera Norte, Tijuana, México, Octuber 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: ACC panelist at University of Utrecht |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar (PI) was invited to be a panelist at 'Affect and Violence in Latin América', University of Utrecht, Netherland, panel participation, December 5-6, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Coverage of PECT conference by El Espectador |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Both days of the PECT conference was covered by El Espectador (2nd largest newspaper in Colombia). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://pect.uniandes.edu.co/ |
| Description | P1 Colombia: La paz en pequeña escala: mecanismos globales y realidades locales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Castillejo-Cuéllar, Alejandro (Columnista Invitado). La Paz en pequeña Escala" Periódico El Espectador Agosto 18, 2019 https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/opinion/la-paz-en-pequena-escala-mecanismos-globales-y-realidades-locales-columna-876688 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/opinion/la-paz-en-pequena-escala-mecanismos-globales-y-rea... |
| Description | P1 Colombia: PECT conference 2019 |
| 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 | On September 4 and 5 2019, Colombia-strand of Changing the Story Network co-organized a two-days conference "3rd International Conference of the Critical Studies program on Political Transitions: Peace in a Small Scale" at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. There was a live radio transmission of the conference, it was reported by El Espectador (second largest newspaper in the country), audiences came from 14 countries, there were 800+ attendees in total, and participation of 14 local-level grassroots organisations as well as representatives from FARC and National-level organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://pect.uniandes.edu.co/ |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Radio transmission of PECT conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • Live Radio transmission of the PECT conference via the national network of University Radio Stations (25) and the Community Radio Stations throughout Colombia, comprising more than 30 rural locations scattered around the territory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://pect.uniandes.edu.co/ |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Sonic biography fieldtrips with young people in Calí x2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The team made 2 extensive and intensive fieldtrips with community members in Calí, The first trip included a "narrative" or "hermeneutic" phase that seeks to produce a person's "life", or what we might call a "macro-history", highlighting the relationships between memory and identity. As a second part of this initial phase, and based on the structure of the telling, the person is invited to deepen on any one particular time-space identified. 2. In a second "spatial-cartographic" phase, the person/speaker is invited to delve into certain aspects of his/her own history through a process we call "itinerant memorialization": literally walking the territories associated with his/her testimony becomes a kind of moving witnessing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/12/21/las-voces-de-un-rio-que-se-niega-a-morir/ |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Sonic biography fieldtrips with young people in Chocó x5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The team made 5 extensive and intensive fieldtrips with community members in Chocó, The first trip included a "narrative" or "hermeneutic" phase that seeks to produce a person's "life", or what we might call a "macro-history", highlighting the relationships between memory and identity. As a second part of this initial phase, and based on the structure of the telling, the person is invited to deepen on any one particular time-space identified. 2. In a second "spatial-cartographic" phase, the person/speaker is invited to delve into certain aspects of his/her own history through a process we call "itinerant memorialization": literally walking the territories associated with his/her testimony becomes a kind of moving witnessing. Finally, a "sensory-aural" phase that seeks to record, based on a basic preparatory workshop, the sounds and/or images of his/her micro-history. 4. Eventually, sounds of everyday life can be presented to their own communities and themselves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/12/21/las-voces-de-un-rio-que-se-niega-a-morir/ |
| Description | P1 Colombia: This is How Youth see Peace in Conflict Areas (October 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Video and article about the project on the Universidad de los Andes website: This is How Youth see Peace in Conflict Areas / ASÍ VEN LA PAZ LOS JÓVENES DE LAS ZONAS EN CONFLICTO(October 2018). The film has had 331 views to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://uniandes.edu.co/es/noticias/antropologia/asi-ven-la-paz-los-jovenes-de-las-zonas-en-conflict... |
| Description | P1 Colombia: Transgenerational conversations x2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | These were opportunities for the youth to share their work with elders in the community. Youth life histories have to be connected to larger family and displacements stories. Narrative of the Future is also an experiment in collective testimony. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemaker Programme workshops delivered to youth in Nigeria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Following train the trainer workshops in Nigeria in 2017, participants of the TTT delivered the Changemakers Programme directly to young people in the country in 2019/20. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemaker Programme workshops in Mozambique |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Following train the trainer workshops in 2017, participants of the TTT delivered the Changemakers Programme directly to young people in the region in 2019/20. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemaker workshops with Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village School, Rwamagana district, Rwanda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivered Changemakers Programme to their students - Thirty-one (31) learners in Senior 4, Senior 5 and Senior 6 in the age range of 16 to 21 participated in the programme. Overall, the findings indicated a number of positive outputs and outcomes. Learners were empowered with the required knowledge (historical facts and concepts) and skills (leadership, critical thinking, empathy, personal commitment to positive action and other affirmative values) to resist extremism and promote pluralism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/sa-critical-review-2/ |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemaker workshops with Thabo Secondary School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivered Changemakers programme to twenty-three (23) Grade 10 and 11 learners in the age range of 15 to 18. The pilot programme was collaboratively developed by stakeholders from South Africa (the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre and the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, as part of the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation in South Africa) and Rwanda (Aegis Trust, an organisation working to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity worldwide). The programme was designed in the form of a three-day workshop for high school learners using various methodologies and consisted of four major components: an examination of three case studies from the Holocaust; the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; apartheid in South Africa; and leadership. Each history component included a section on moral choices. The programme was intended to be closely linked to the national curriculum in South Africa and Rwanda. Overall, the findings indicated a number of positive outputs and outcomes. Learners were empowered with the required knowledge (historical facts and concepts) and skills (leadership, critical thinking, empathy, personal commitment to positive action and other affirmative values) to resist extremism and promote pluralism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop in Mauritius |
| 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 | Delivery of the Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop. Expansion of the programme to a new country. Thanks to success of roll out of the programme in countries like this one, there is an increasing interest in the CMP from different countries including Kenya, Namibia and Senegal. We are currently negotiating running "Train the Trainer" workshops in these countries in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop in Cape Town, South Africa |
| 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 | Delivery of the Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop. Expansion of the programme to a new region of SOuth Africa. Thanks to success of roll out of the programme in countries like this one, there is an increasing interest in the CMP from different countries including Kenya, Namibia and Senegal. We are currently negotiating running "Train the Trainer" workshops in these countries in 2020. A number of CMP workshops were then delivered to communities in Cape Town following the TTT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop in Mozambique |
| 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 | In July 2018, the CMP TTT workshop was successfully delivered in Mozambique to 25 participants drawn from various institutions. 7 This was despite the various challenges encountered in the implementation of the programme, including logistical challenges, power outages and language barriers, as all the materials were developed in English instead of Portuguese. Overall, the majority of the participants expressed satisfaction with the manner in which the programme was delivered. The data also showed that the participants felt that they had been given the tools required to implement the CMP among youths in their country.Post-workshop monitoring has indicated that the new facilitators have delivered the CMP programme in a number of schools in both countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/sa-critical-review-2/ |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop in Nigeria |
| 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 | In September 2018, 26 facilitators, drawn mainly from the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Academy, participated in the CMP TTT workshop in Nigeria. The programme was effectively delivered following the initial evaluation and recommendations that emanated from the implementation of the TTT in Mozambique. Overall, participants indicated high levels of satisfaction regarding the delivery of programme and attested to acquiring the knowledge and skills required to deliver the programme in their country. Post-workshop monitoring has indicated that the new facilitators have delivered the CMP programme in a number of schools in both countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/sa-critical-review-2/ |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop in The Gambia |
| 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 | Delivery of the Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop. Expansion of the programme to a new country. Thanks to success of roll out of the programme in countries like this one, there is an increasing interest in the CMP from different countries including Kenya, Namibia and Senegal. We are currently negotiating running "Train the Trainer" workshops in these countries in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P1 South Africa: Changemakers Train the Trainer workshop in Durban, South Africa |
| 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 | Delivery of the Changemakers Programme Train the Trainer workshop. Expansion of the programme to a new region of SOuth Africa. Thanks to success of roll out of the programme in countries like this one, there is an increasing interest in the CMP from different countries including Kenya, Namibia and Senegal. We are currently negotiating running "Train the Trainer" workshops in these countries in 2020. A number of CMP workshops were then delivered to communities in Durban following the TTT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P2 ReSpace (Kosovo - Rwanda) Kick-off workshop Oct 2019 |
| 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 | First workshop of P2 ReSpace: Reanimating space in post-conflict Rwanda and Kosovo, with artists, architects and young people from University of Prishtina, Kosovo; University of Kigali, Rwanda and Bournemouth University from Oct. 1st to 8th, at University of Bournemouth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | P2 ReSpace (Kosovo-Rwanda) 'If Buildings Held Memory - Reanimating space in post-conflict Kosovo' (Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 'If Buildings Held Memory - Reanimating space in post-conflict Kosovo' was an interactive talk delivered as part of ReSpace's first workshop at Bournemouth University. It brought together young professionals and research participants from the field of sociology and social anthropology, architecture and design from Kosovo, Rwanda and the UK and helped forge youth-led project design based on interdisciplinary challenge and communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PRAXIS & DCMS Lunch and Learn Series on 'Cultural Heritage, Climate Change and Human Rights' (Sept-Oct 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PRAXIS, in collaboration with DCMS and AHRC, organised three thematic webinars on 'Cultural Heritage, Climate Change, and Human Rights' that took place online from September to October 2021, in a series of 'Lunch and Learn' events. This webinar series of virtual 'brown bag' lunches explored this critical nexus through discussions with researchers from AHRC's GCRF portfolio. Discussions focused on research that spans cultural heritage and climate change through the lens of human rights with a view to sharing recommendations for future funding rounds and policy action. The webinars aimed to raise awareness and generate connections among researchers, research funders, and policy stakeholders, to ultimately create policy impact to address the threats related to cultural heritage from climate change, while safeguarding and championing human rights. With COP26 on the horizon, these webinars contributed to draw on existing research and policy networks and collaboration to share knowledge and generate recommendations for policy impact in this area. The series included diverse perspectives with participation from GCRF/Newton research leaders, policymakers and experts who are facing the climate threat first-hand and input from early career researchers, many of whom will be interning at DCMS during 2021. The webinar series included: 1) A launch event (23rd September 2021), with contributions from Yoloxochitl Lucio Orizaga (ICOMOS Emerging Professional Working Group, Mexico), Dr Peter Manning (University of Bath, UK), Jaylson Monteiro (Cultural Heritage Institute, Cabo Verde), and Fatma Twahir (Fort Jesus World Heritage site, Kenya). 2) A webinar on 'Intangible Heritage for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation' (7th October 2021), with contributions from Prof Nina Laurie, Professor of Human Geography, University of St Andrews; Dr Hanne Cottyn, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of York; and Dr Santiago Martínez-Medina, Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia. 3) A webinar on 'Reducing Inequalities: Fostering Global Efforts through Heritage' (21st October 2021), with contributions from Prof Jennifer Barclay, Professor of Volcanology in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia; Dr Karen Pascal, Vulcanologist, Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO); and Dr Colin Breen, Archaeologist and Reader in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Ulster University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/learning-events/cultural-heritage-c... |
| Description | PRAXIS Analytics Tool/List Generator (Dec 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Praxis Data & Analytics tool was generated by analysing data from 113 Conflict and Displacement GCRF projects, sourced from an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) spreadsheet. The AHRC provided the core data, which was then supplemented by reviewing the project descriptions, outcomes and summaries available at https://gtr. ukri.org. The aim of the tool is to enable quick and easy generation of visuals to facilitate comparative analysis amongst the cohort. Data from the Youth Engagement, Heritage and COVID PRAXIS strands has since been added to the Data and Analytics tool in 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2021/12/University-of-Leeds-PRAXIS... |
| Description | PRAXIS Facilitating new connections: 'Picturing Climate' to be featured as a case study on UKRI COP26 Climate Justice Virtual Platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PRAXIS was contacted by Matt Scott at UKRI re UKRI's virtual platform on the theme of climatic justice (the virtual platform is being led by Neelam Raina). Matt requested case studies to be included on the virtual platform. Following a meeting with Matt and with Kevin Coughlan, who is supporting the COP26 comms team, Esther was able to connect Matt and Kevin with Agnes Czajka, PI of Picturing Climate. Agnes edited a case study (500 words) that featured on the COP26 virtual platform. To date, 25 people have accessed the portal and read the case study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://whova.com/web/cop_202111/ |
| Description | PRAXIS NEXUS Conflict and Displacement Nov 2020 |
| 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 | Second major Nexus event focusing on 'Conflict and Displacement'. Aim of the event to draw out synergies between projects, collate knowledge and learning, develop networks, shape policy impacts, and discuss future directions for research addressing global challenges in Conflict and Displacement. Event ran across 2 weeks 16-27 November. Over 150 registrants to the event including GCRF projects, CSO's and policymakers. Sessions on themes including decolonising research, self-reflexivity, movement and change, the arts as methods and a COVID roundtable.. Over 30 participants engaged across each of the 8 sessions. Over 60 attending the opening plenary with keynote speakers Asma Khalifa, Ruth Daniel and Neelam Raina. A report to be produced from the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/praxis-opportunities/nexus-events/conflict-and-displacem... |
| Description | PRAXIS meeting with the British Council - July 2020 |
| 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 | We met to explore possible avenues for collaboration on forthcoming Praxis Nexus and Learning events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PRAXIS participation at COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt |
| 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 | As delegates of the University of Leeds, Dr Francesca Giliberto and Dr Luba Pirgova-Morgan attended a series of events on arts, culture and heritage and climate change organised by the Climate Heritage Network and CultureCOP as part of and/or in parallel of COP27 (Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 10-18 November 2022). Attending these events, they networked with relevant participants and organisations working in this field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.climateheritage.org/cop27-events |
| Description | PRAXIS x Rights for Time Knowledge Exchange workshop |
| 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 | Robyn Gill-Leslie, PRAXIS Conflict and Displacement Post-doc, connected with the Rights for Time GCRF Network for a closed knowledge exchange meeting on 29/07/2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participation in Peace Direct consultation on "Civil society & Inclusive Peace: A Reality Check" |
| 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 | Our project manager Inés Soria-Turner applied and was successfully invited to participate in Peace Direct's online consultation about "Civil society & Inclusive Peace: A Reality Check". Peace Insight are the world's leading resource on local peacebuilding. The consultation was led by Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative (IPTI), Peace Direct and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). Peace Direct provide a vital network that connects peacebuilders with an international actors and organizations-and with each other. The consultation involved civiil society organisations, researchers and practitioners who over three days discussed online together about key issues affecting CSO practice in development today. 126 participants registered, and over 270 comments across the 9 discussion threads, including many in-depth reflections and sharing of experiences. One of Inés' comments was selected for one of the days closing reviews, spreading awareness of our project and values with an international audience. As an immediate next step, Peace Insight will follow up with a short summary report of the discussion, as well as exploring whether they can develop a more complete report based on the learnings from this week. This discussion also feeds into IPTI's Impact Local Peace project. What this means is that the broader conclusions and insights drawn from this consultation will help guide how IPTI develops and tests its support mechanisms and tools for civil society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.peaceinsight.org/consultations/civil-society-inclusive-peace/ad/ |
| Description | Participation in a panel |
| 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 | Hosted on December 1, 2020 by Social Innovation Movement, this event on how research can generate positive impact provided a platform to share our research and activities with social entrepreneurs related to wellbeing. The event was attended by stakeholders from Malaysia and Cambodia as well as by interested parties from the UK. The discussion around the wellbeing toolkit sparked an insightful conversation about how the toolkit can be used not only by young social entrepreneurs, but also other audiences, such as individuals in more traditional third-sector organisations. Feedback from audience members after the session was positive and included requests for access to the toolkit when it was finalised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in the NACCW Biannual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In July 2019 Professor Paul Cooke and Dr Lou Harvey from the University of Leeds joined four representatives of the Bishop Simeon Trust and its South African operational partner, One Child One Family , at the biannual conference of the NACCW in Durban . At a very well attended workshop we had the opportunity to share the leadership model with key policy decision makers, NGO leads and practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participatory Action Research workshops for young people and teachers in Rwanda |
| 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 two, two-day Participatory Action Research (PAR) workshops with 10 young people and 6 adult facilitators in April where we explored what is PAR and participatory research methods and designed a research project on the topic of Isangizanyankuru (shared stories and memories) in Kinyarwanda. The young researchers reported great enthusiasm for the project, stating that they did not know research is something that young people could do prior to this project. One of the adult facilitators has created his own research project on understanding the barriers faced by children with disabilities or long-term illness within the school environment and one of the young participants is researching the impact of Mobile Arts for Peace in her school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participatory Filmmaking in Participatory Development at Royal Holloway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In this research seminar at Royal Holloway University of London, Professor Paul Cooke reflected upon the findings of the recent AHRC project 'Troubling the National Brand and Voicing Hidden Histories'. 20 people were in attendance and there was very interesting and engaged discussion after the paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/aboutus/newsandevents/events/eventsarticles/participatory-filmmaking... |
| Description | Participatory Methods do not equal inclusive methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Andreana Drencheva who considers how inclusive are participatory methods? Whom do they exclude? The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter and shared by project partners and author. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/01/29/participatory-methods-inclusive-methods/ |
| Description | Participatory arts in International Development Book Launch (16th October) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Number of attendees: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Paul Cooke - Participatory filmmaking in the East Rand 21 Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | LUCAS Seminar - all welcome Professor Paul Cooke (Leeds) invited to present a talk on 'Changing the Story or Confirming the Story? Participatory filmmaking, development and youth leadership in the East Rand, South Africa' as part of the LUCAS (Centre for African Studies) open seminar series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/events/paul-cooke-participatory-filmmaking-in-the-east-rand/ |
| Description | Peace in a Small Scale Conference (Bogota, Colombia) |
| 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 | The Program of Critical Studies of Political Transitions (PECT), Universidad de Los Andes, led by CTS P1 Co-Investigator Alejandro Castillejo-Cuellar, invited fellow Co-Investigator to attend the 3rd Meeting of Critical Studies on Political Transitions Conference titled Peace on a Small Scale: Visions of the Nation, Unfinished Transitions and Daily Life. The event took place September 4-6, 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. Social groups, academics, research groups, state entities, private and public companies were invited to present proposals for one of the 23 panels. Financial assistance from other institutions in México, Guatemala, Chile, and Colombia, the Swedish Cooperation, major newspapers in Colombia (El Espectador is the official media https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/) plus all of the independent new outlets and university a community radio stations. University Santo Tomás did live radio and connected to community (local stations) and other university radios across the country, more than 40 in total. We had 23 panels, the presence of 16 social and victims organization, and two dozen of universities participating. A total of 750 registered attendees. The event was filmed and broadcast live online. Changing the Story panel featuring 4 Global South Academics/Researchers. CTS grantees introduced their projects, discussed the similarities and commonalities across their projects and the idea of Peace on a small scale. Panel featuring young people from P1 Colombia project (Etnia Company). Opportunity for South to South Networking - representatives from each P1 project was present at the event in addition to researchers from both P2 Colombia projects and the P2 Venezuela project. Other outputs: CTS grantees experience of the event to be written about in a series of blogs. 1x CTS in a minute film. Contact made with a LatAM specialist independent journalist with the possibility of an article about the LatAm strand of CTS. A report to be produced by CTS PhD candidate evaluating the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/19/1406/ |
| Description | Peace on a small scale: global mechanisms and local realities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The article was written by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar and published online at El Espectador on 18 August 2019. The articles promotes the Peace in a Small scale conference. El Espectador is the 2nd largest newspaper in Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/opinion/la-paz-en-pequena-escala-mecanismos-globales-y-rea... |
| Description | Peer Exchange (Skills Exchange Programme) |
| 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 | In this workshops, participants involved in the CTS skills exchange programme came together for one final workshop to share their own skills with their peers that they feel are relevant and important to them. Topics included using cinematography and animation to engage young people, muralism, and 'we need to talk about social media. It's a game changer!" 7 participants attended and led the peer exchange workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pensamiento y libertad (Venezuela) Twitter Takeover - 24th October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On Thursday 24th October, the project team from the Changing the Story ECR Grants project, "Pensamiento y libertad (Venezuela)" took over Changing the Story's twitter feed to share more about their project, their team and where they work. Summary for the takeover - 'In this Twitter takeover, we'll share the key findings from focus groups held in different municipalities across Miranda, Venezuela, with 15 to 25 year olds. These include what day-to-day life is like for young people, how political conflict affects their lives, families and communities, their hopes for change, and how they use images and music to conceptualise the conflict. We'll also share our methodology for this first phase of the project, and how it will feed into the second phase of arts workshops. Tweets were in Spanish and English. Twitter Analytics: 30 Tweets 13 650 organic impressions (the number of times a tweet has been viewed). In Oct so far tweets have made 43.2K impressions so your tweets account for 32% of all views this month. 39 Retweets 109 likes 22 replies Up to 8 engagements per tweet Contact details have been shared between the project team and a PhD researcher in Venezuela - possibility of future collaboration/ shared learning. Tweets were saved and shared as a narrative story using Wakelet (web link below). The narrative story will be added to the Pensamiento project page on the Changing the Story website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/1eaa6110-7f7d-4756-9fd8-e9ceae6c96bb |
| Description | Pensamiento y libertad press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release put out by the University of Exeter, sharing key findings from Pensamiento y libertad and contextualising them within the Venezuelan economic and migrant crises. The piece was reported on in Spanish by Primer Informe and El Politico https://primerinforme.com/2020/06/04/estudio-muestra-dramatico-dano-generacional-en-jovenes-venezolanos-causado-por-20-anos-de-chavismo/ https://elpolitico.com/investigacion-revela-el-dramatico-dano-generacional-causado-por-dos-decadas-de-chavismo/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/news/articles/youngvenezuelansdistrusta.html |
| Description | Pensamiento y libertad public website |
| 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 | The website introduces the Pensamiento y libertad project, partners and aims; hosts the transcriptions of the focus groups and report on the findings; and provides information for getting in touch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://pensamientoylibertad.com/ |
| Description | Performance and Conflict Conference, University of Lincoln, 21-22 September 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | International conference organised by University of Lincoln and School of Playback Theatre UK involving over fifty-five attendees. Principal organisers: Professor Ananda Breed (UoL) and Veronica Needa (SPT UK). Event: Two-day conference based on the use of participatory art forms in conflict/post conflict settings to explore how participatory arts practices might be used to explore some of the nuanced forms of storytelling/performance in contexts when there are often public versus hidden narratives. How might forms be adapted? What new forms might emerge? How can performance contribute to the transformation of conflict? Keynote delivered by Jonathan Fox, co-founder of Playback Theatre, an original form of improvisational theatre in which audiences or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot. The form originates from traditional story practices and has evolved into an international platform of socially engaged performance making as evidenced through the International Playback Theatre Network. Workshops were facilitated by Hannah Fox, Jonathan Fox, Jo Salas and Dr Luis C Sotelo Castro. Participatory film screenings were chaired by Professor Paul Cooke, principal investigator of the AHRC Changing the Story project. Impacts included the discussion of annual event related to the use of performance in relation to conflict issues proposed for Montreal in 2019 and the organisation of a conference committee. Additionally, weekly Playback workshops have been hosted at Mansions of the Future to serve the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Performance and Film Viewing: National Women's Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On the evening of 23 August the co-creators from Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba presented their film "Women in Arms" and a version of their applied theatre performance to a joint women's conference of the Support Centre for Land Change and Tshintsha Amakhaya, an action learning platform of civil society organizations that supports local community struggles in land and agrarian reform. The film and the performance were a roaring success and inspired the activists present, who were especially happy to see that young people were engaged in the fight for land justice in South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Playwriting for Peace: Actualizing Perpetual Peace in Post-Conflict Pristina, Kosovo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of the Young Changemakers blog series and was uploaded 5th August. Written by two postgraduate students the blog discusses the role theatre can play in enacting and sustaining peace in the context of "post-conflict" Kosovo. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. After reading the blog a current CTS partner with a project based in Kosovo requested the contact details of the authors to discuss how their applied theatre programme links to the partners current project. Through Changing the Story, the two authors have donated a small grant to partner Nita Luci to fund an applied theatre intervention in Kosovo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/08/05/playwriting-for-peace-actualizing-perpetual-peace-in... |
| Description | Postgraduate and early career researcher workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with a local jazz pianist, we held a workshop for postgraduate and early career researchers that included epistemological and methodological reflections on arts-based and participatory action research using the jazz metaphor. The jazz metaphor largely refers to viewing jazz practice as new language and a different way of viewing collaboration, interaction and adaptation in systems of power relations. The workshop was run as a conversation between the jazz pianist, the piano, the workshop leader and the participants. The pianist explained concepts, stories and techniques from jazz, and the workshop leader helped translate these examples into specific research methodology questions and considerations. We chose to focus on two key elements: (1) how leadership and improvisation in jazz connect to research design and collection of data, and (2) how the notion of dissonance in jazz offers insight into the interpretation and analysis of data. Across both themes, critical reflections on the notion of the interplay between voice and listening emerged. The purpose of the workshop was to establish a network of post-graduate and early career researchers working with arts-based and participatory action research methodologies in the broad field of peacebuilding. The nine participants who were able to attend the event in person or online indicated that they felt that the workshop sparked an interest in holding futures events and seeking out future collaborations for developing arts-based and participatory action research projects. They reported that they found the workshop valuable in providing additional reflexive tools for their own research, as well as spurring ideas for how to approach future projects. The network has been in contact on a slack channel created following the event in June 2022, and there are early plans being made for holding a similar workshop in Northern Ireland in the autumn. The jazz pianist also expressed an interest in future collaborations with academics, and found the workshop to be enlightening for exploring the many applications of jazz practice in other areas of work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Praxis Case Study - AHRC Heritage Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Praxis were chosen to be AHRC Heritage featured case study October 2019. The case study was uploaded to the AHRC website, shared on the AHRC Heritage Twitter account (8015 followers, many of whom are heritage researchers and practitioners), as well as on the Changing the Story Twitter account and website. The case study was used to promote the upcoming Heritage and Policy learning event on 6th December 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://heritage-research.org/case-studies/praxis-arts-humanities-global-challenges/ |
| Description | Praxis Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus Report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Heritage for Global Challenges" (24-26 February 2020, West Bek'aa, Lebanon) was a three-day workshop organized by Praxis with the goal to champion the distinctive contribution that Arts and Humanities research can make to tackle urgent global development challenges, focusing on heritage, in particular. This Heritage for Global Challenges Lebanon Workshop Report by Francesca Giliberto features reflections on the contribution of heritage research to sustainable development and global challenges from 28 AHRC-GCRF Heritage projects, 3 Newton Projects and 9 external organisations including UNESCO, V&A Museum and the British Council. The report was shared with workshop participants, the AHRC, UNESCO, DCMS and the British Council. The report was also shared via the following links: http://www.urban-graphic-object.org/project/repositioning-graphic-heritage/ http://www.urban-graphic-object.org/repositioning-graphic-heritage-project-featured-at-the-heritage-for-global-challenges-event-in-west-bekaa-lebanon-24-26-february-2020/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/lebanon-report_16-06-2020_v02-min/ |
| Description | Praxis Presentation at AHRC offices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Praxis team have been invited to talk about the project to AHRC staff on 4th November 2019. Impact unknown as the presentation has not yet been delivered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Praxis Team Opened the Homat El Hima International Centre in Lebanon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On 24th February, Praxis opened the Homat El Hima International Centre in West Bek'aa, Lebanon, in collaboration with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon. Praxis and the workshop featured in an article published on the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon website (link below). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://wp.me/p7PNvt-2l8 |
| Description | Praxis meeting with senior policy advisor at DCMS 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting on 13 July to discuss the Praxis Heritage Global Challenges Report featuring 80+ projects, the UNESCO event in January and a co-badged DCMS and Praxis Policy Workshop 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation - Research England (24th September) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 5-minute presentation at Research England by Ines Soria-Donlan to Dr Steven Hill, Director of Research and Dr Natalie Cozier, Institutional Engagement Manager for Research England - a unique opportunity to present our work to national decision makers / represents CTS' position as a model project at Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation UKRI GCRF Virtual Conference (23rd October 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke has been asked to present at the UKRI GCRF Virtual Conference in October 2019. Impact: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation and workshop participation |
| 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 | Participated in an SDG4-focused 3-day international network workshop organised by iHuman Research Centre / School of Education, The University of Sheffield (TuOS) and The Aga Khan University (AKU), Pakistan with participants from UNESCO, ChildFund, Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC), DFID Education, Aga Khan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and education practitioners. Presented on how youth-led social enterprises contribute to addressing SDG4 directly and indirectly through an intersectional perspective that recognises multiple social categories and barriers related to housing, health, income inequality, displacement and refugee status. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at 'Research on the role of cultural heritage in the building of (national) identity in post conflict situations' |
| 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 | Cooke presented insights from Changing the Story as part of a panel on "Identity and education - society after the conflict" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at AHRC (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Dr Deena Dajani, Prof Stuart Taberner, Prof Paul Cooke and AHRC. Provided an overview of Praxis programme, including methodology of how the four themes were chosen and projects located |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at NACCW conference in Durban (July 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke and Martin Keat were asked to present at the NACCW conference in Durban, South Africa (July 2019). NACCW Conference provides the professional training and infrastructure to promote healthy child and youth development and improve standards of care and treatment for orphaned, vulnerable and at-risk children and youth in the family, community and residential group care settings. Conference delegates can look forward to a spirited professional experience blending diverse child and youth care work experiences from across the globe in engagements on practice, programs and child and youth care work policy in a city renowned for summer days all year round. Impact: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Performance and Conflict. International Conference at the University of Lincoln |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cooke presented the Changing the Story as part of a panel on PACCS and GCRF projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/events/performance-and-conflict-international-conference/ |
| Description | Presentation at the DEMOSPAZ conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mirla Perez presented her work with young people in Venezuela to a group of international researchers at the DEMOSPAZ conference in Madrid in May 2019. The conference brought together researchers interested in human rights and cultures of peace. At the conference, Mirla created connections with researchers from Colombia and Ecuador how have similar research concerns. The conference also made Mirla rethink how to present findings from Venezuela to a European audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation by Dr.Jasmin Hasic to talk about his new book Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Policy Since Independence. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, has invited Dr.Jasmin Hasic to talk about his new book Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Policy Since Independence. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, it claims to be the first comprehensive analysis of BH's foreign policy since the country's independence in 1992. This is a rare opportunity to discuss foreign policy in a Balkan state, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, with one of its leading foreign policy experts. The presentation will be at the Committee Room G, House of Lords on 31st October. The presentation hasn't been given yet so impact unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030056537 |
| Description | Presentation by Youth Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The young researchers who were co-researchers on the Connective Memories - Isangizanyankuru Participatory Action Research project presented initial findings at the Changing the Story/Mobile Arts for Peace event on Arts-Based Research for Education and Peacebuilding to an audience of Rwandan policy actors, teachers, students as well as researchers and practitioners attending online from across the Changing the Story network. The event encouraged the young researchers to reflect further on their findings and generate ideas for further activities to disseminate their work. It was also reported that attendees found the presentation significant in terms of demonstrating how young people can undertake important research and also open up space to discuss the sensitive topic of sharing stories and memories across generations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation for practitioners: Social entrepreneurs' wellbeing: Framing away and focusing on recovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to social entrepreneurs at the Social Enterprise World Forum to share research findings about wellbeing in social entrepreneurship. Approximately 70 social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship support members, and business practitioners attended the session. The sessions sparked reflective conversations about wellbeing in social entrepreneurship and the challenges that social entrepreneurs experience. Attendees shared that the presentation had given them a different way to look at wellbeing and actionable steps to consider for their own wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation of 'Heritage for Global Challenges' at the ICOMOS Lecture 'Sustainable Development Goals and Heritage' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In recent decades, tangible and intangible heritage has been widely recognised as not only important in its own right but also as an enabler and driver of sustainable development. Yet heritage remains largely absent from the most recent international development agenda adopted by the United Nations (2030 Agenda). During the lecture, Dr Francesca Giliberto presented some key findings from PRAXIS report on Heritage for Global Challenges, which demonstrates how heritage can be effectively mobilised by researchers to foster sustainable development. She also shared best practices, lessons learnt, case studies, and a series of recommendations with the aim of maximising the potential of heritage research for international development and operationalising the Sustainable Development Goals on the ground. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.icomos.nl/agenda/icomos-lecture-sustainable-development-goals-and-heritage |
| Description | Presentation of PRAXIS findings at 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Antwerp, 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Giliberto and Dr Pirgova-Morgan presented some findings from the PRAXIS Heritage and COVID-19 strands at the 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (Antwerp, 19 - 23 September 2022) organised by the University of Antwerp. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cultural-policy-research/about/ |
| Description | Presentation titled 'Heritage for Global Challenges: Special focus on Cultural Heritage and Climate Change' at the Workshop on Climate Change Risk Assessment for cultural heritage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Francesca Giliberto presented key findings from the 'Heritage for Global Challenges' report and recommendations from the policy brief titled 'Bridging the Gaps: Cultural Heritage for Climate Action' during the Workshop on Climate Change Risk Assessment for Cultural Heritage (online, 23 February 2022). The workshop was organised as part of the project "CRAFT: Developing a Novel Climate Change Risk Assessment Framework for Cultural Heritage in Turkey" (funded by UK Arts and Humanities Research Council) to share stakeholders' experiences and raise awareness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ce.metu.edu.tr/en/announcement/new-international-project-climate-change-and-cultural-heritag... |
| Description | Presentation to Justice Rising |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presented research on youth-led social enterprises in post-conflict settings to Justice Rising - an international NGO that builds schools and delivers education programmes and support in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, and Syria. The organisation aims to transform conflict zones through education in a localised manner. The talk resulted in requests for additional information, an invitation to a follow-up event, and a discussion for future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to SAG AHRC meeting (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Attended by Dr Deena Dajani, Prof Stuart Taberner and Prof Paul Cooke. Provided an overview of Praxis programme, including methodology of how the four themes were chosen and projects located. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to SALVE International |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presented research on youth-led social enterprises to SALVE International - an international NGO that supports young people on the streets in Uganda through education, social entrepreneurship activities, peer support, and wellbeing interventions. The talk resulted in requests for additional information and a discussion for a future collaborative PhD project on how CSOs that work with young people engage young people in their governance mechanisms in relation to accountability, strategic direction, and control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation, screening and discussion at Midwestern University, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Whilst in Nepal working on the 'Sourcing Community Solutions to Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal", Prof. Paul Cooke was invited to speak about his recent work in participatory filmmaking and international development at MidWestern University in Nepal on 16 February 2018. There were 40 Masters students present. He screened the project film "Voicing Hidden Histories: Participatory Filmmaking, Advocacy and International Development" and provided an overview of this project, his recent work challenging Xenophobia in South Africa. He also introduced the Changing the Story project, highlighting future opportunities to get involved, as well as highlighting the wider potential for creative activities and youth-focused civil society in participatory development. Prof. Cooke and Project Officer Inés Soria-Donlan then took questions and engaged in a very engaged discussion with the group. The meeting has led to a potential further partnership with the organiser of the event, Bishnu Khatri (one of the MA course leaders and also directly involved in the Nepal International Human Rights Film Festival) which we hope will support project film outputs of all project associated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Changing_Story_/status/964917221796581377 |
| Description | Presenting Changing the Story and Voicing Hidden Histories at the launch of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York, 4 June |
| 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 | Cooke gave a keynote talk at the Centre's launch to around 150 people. Also screened the film 'Voicing Hidden Histories: Participatory Filmmaking, Advocacy and International Development' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/igdc/events/igdc-summer-launch/ |
| Description | Presenting Changing the Story and our approach to Evaluation at the 'Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Cooke presented the aims and approaches of Changing the Story as part of a panel of projects exploring issues around 'reconciliation' in post-conflict settings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Prison in Paradise |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Vanessa Levaillant talked about her work at the Jewish Detainee Memorial & Information Centre in Mauritius, and the history of the Jewish community who were detained there in 1940. This free, public event was hosted at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) as part of the 'Mobilising Histories' workshop led by Prof. Stuart Taberner and co-organised by Changing the Story, the AHRC, University of Leeds and the JHGC on 21-22 May 2018. Several attendees remarked on how Vanessa's talk had moved them personally, and the event was reviewed by the South African Jewish Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.sajr.co.za/news-and-articles/2018/05/31/instead-of-the-promised-land-jews-landed-on-an-is... |
| Description | Project Introduction and Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Our project was introduced to partners via workshop event held in Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Project policy presentation by young people to the Minister for Social Development in Johannesburg |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was the final showcasing event and involved both hearing and deaf young people who had been involved in the project. They were able to speak directly to the young people. This activity was used as the starting point for a focus policy discussion on disability rights that Hope and Homes for Children is leading in the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world's biodiversity - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Krystyna Swiderska, the blog discusses the importance of protecting indigenous cultures. Krystyna attended the Praxis Food and Heritage event in January 2020. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and was retweeted by the author. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/02/21/protecting-indigenous-cultures-is-crucial-for-saving... |
| Description | Protest march against water management by municipality - December 2019 |
| 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 | The year 2019 was a drought year for the Karoo, and many factors worked together to make the situation worse: poor management by the municipality, the threat of using scarce resources for natural gas extraction, and confusion among townspeople about how their future water needs would be seen to. In one in a series of protests organised by SCLC, the members of Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba on 8 December 2019 took part in a protest march covered by local media which included handing over memorandum of demands to the local municipality. They filmed the march and its aftermath, raw footage available on request. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public Facing Year 1 report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 20-page public-facing year 1 report documents the achievements of Changing the Story's 5 Phase 1 projects and more broadly, taking a closer look at the partnerships the project has developed, events hosted and what to expect in our second year. The report was shared widely with our funders, partners, steering group, via our website and Social Media Channels (11 Retweets, 15 likes). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2019/09/CTS1718-A-year-in-Review-c... |
| Description | Reflections from The Performance and Conflict Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Aylwyn Walsh reflects on The Performance and Conflict Conference organised by Ananda Breed Nov 18 using poetic forms. Uploaded 14 Nov 18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/11/14/reflections-from-performance-and-conflict-conference... |
| Description | Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Giulia Levi. Giulia is a PhD Student at the University of Bournemouth working on Bosnia & Brexit and Civil Societies Organisations attempting to bridge societal divisions. On the 26th of January, Giulia was invited to remember the Srebrenica genocide at the Holocaust Memorial Day organized at the Lighthouse in Poole. The blog is a written version of the talk Giulia gave at the event. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and shared by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/02/09/remembering-the-srebrenica-genocide-on-holocaust-mem... |
| Description | Research Centre for Social Sciences Workshop York |
| 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 | Paul Cooke was invited to speak at a workshop hosted by The Research Centre for Applied Human Rights in York. Paul presented on Changing the Story to roughly 100 researchers in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Rwanda | Performance and Conflict Conference |
| 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 | Two-day conference based on the use of participatory art forms in conflict/post conflict settings to explore how participatory arts practices might be used to explore some of the nuanced forms of storytelling/performance in contexts when there are often public versus hidden narratives. Speakers included guests from organisations from Rwanda, academics, and arts-practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/events/performance-and-conflict-international-conference/ |
| Description | Safeguarding Focus Group Aug 2020 |
| 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 | Psychologists at the University of Pristina took part in a focus group as part of the CTS Safeguarding project. 5 psychologist's took part. The focus group was held on 03/08/20. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Safeguarding Webinar at Heritage for Global Challenges (PRAXIS NEXUS, Feb 2020) |
| 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 | Safeguarding project officer designed a safeguarding webinar in collaboration with the AHRC. The workshop was delivered to over 50 researchers, academics and practitioners at the Heritage for Global Challenges Nexus event in Lebanon 2020. Safeguarding features in the Heritage for Global Challenges event report and upcoming publication due for release in Feb 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/lebanon-report_16-06-2020_v02-min/ |
| Description | Safeguarding Webinar for CSO partners Jan 2020 |
| 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 | The third safeguarding webinar was designed to support CSO partners. The webinar was held 31/01/20 and 12 participants attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Safeguarding gender and gender identity in IDR Webinar July 2020 |
| 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 webinar on Safeguarding gender and gender identity in International Development Research. The webinar was held on 24 June and 8 participants attended. The webinar was designed and led by the Regional Safeguarding lead for Latin America, Astrid Cortés. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/07/03/safeguarding-in-international-development-research/ |
| Description | School House exhibition |
| 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 | "Blerta Hocia" Intimate Archives of Space exhibition 03.03.21 Linda Gusia and Nita Lucia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | School Visit (Kathmandu, Nepal) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team returned to urban school in Nepal, to show the films made during the projects of children engaging in activities and expressing their notions of Civic Natinoal Values. Therefore the aim of this workshop was: To be aware of young peoples' interpretations 'civic national values' from a different cultural context. This was tested through the question: What are the good things about your national community? We wanted to know: What are the interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' made by young people in different cultural context? We wanted to know how they matched. We used the film to introduce the Kathmandu children to their peers in Makwanpur and explained that they took part in the same activity.The idea was to allow the children to reflect on seeing interpretations of 'civic national values' made by their peers. Those ideas were recorded via Ipad through questions: What are you learning about yourself? What are you learning about others? What are the common themes? How are we speaking together in one voice? A whole group circle time faciliated by teachers was implemented to gain young people's responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Kathmandu, Nepal) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School Visit (Kathmandu) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leadersThe project team, CSOs and teachers faciliated the four part scheme of work, seeking empower young people to share their interpretations of the term: community. The activity also empowered them to explore and discuss understandings of the terms: tolerance and mutual respect in relation to experiences in the local community in relation to the question: What is meant by community? The purpose was to see how young people show different understandings of what community means to them. This was led by a range of questions: Who are the people in your community? What are the good things about your community? Who belongs to this community? What is meant by tolerance? What does tolerance look like in your community? What is meant by mutual respect? What does mutual respect look like in your community? The pedagogical approach to this activity was via Circle time allowing for each young person's response to be heard. In total, 60 children aged from 9-14 took part in this activity. They were able to reflect on their discuss and to record their ideas on film via Ipad. Questions to stimulate included: What I have I learnt from this activity? Next, the young people were asked to record via illustration their interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' in relation to experiences in local community.The purpose being to transform oral testimonies of 'civic national values' and represent them as visual testimonies. This activity was stimulated by the question: What does your ideal community look like? The children created large posters with felt pens/crayons to illustrate mutual respect and tolerance occurring between people in their community? Following this, the children were able to use Ipad to record and to speak about their learning in this activity through questions such as: What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about others? The overall aim here was to empower the children to transform oral and visual testimonies of 'civic national values' and actively represent them as visual testimonies Next, the children were facilitated by performance arts groups to take the ideas from their posters and to generate live performances through them i.e. what they have described about tolerance and mutual respect in their communities. These varied performances were shared and reflected upon by the entire group. The teachers and the CSO leaders reported being inspired by a new approach to teaching and learning through child-led experiences. The teachers reported how the scheme of work via its arts based methodology approach gave each child the opportunity to express themselves individually and via a group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Limuru, Kenya) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team returned to rural school in Kenya, to show the films made during the projects of children engaging in activities and expressing their notions of Civic Natinoal Values. Therefore the aim of this workshop was: To be aware of young peoples' interpretations 'civic national values' from a different cultural context. This was tested through the question: What are the good things about your national community? We wanted to know: What are the interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' made by young people in different cultural context? We wanted to know how they matched. We used the film to introduce the Limuru children to their peers in Nairoibi and explained that they took part in the same activity.The idea was to allow the children to reflect on seeing interpretations of 'civic national values' made by their peers. Those ideas were recorded via Ipad through questions: What are you learning about yourself? What are you learning about others? What are the common themes? How are we speaking together in one voice? A whole group circle time faciliated by teachers was implemented to gain young people's responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Limuru, Kenya) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School Visit (Limuru, Kenya) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leadersThe project team, CSOs and teachers faciliated the four part scheme of work, seeking empower young people to share their interpretations of the term: community. The activity also empowered them to explore and discuss understandings of the terms: tolerance and mutual respect in relation to experiences in the local community in relation to the question: What is meant by community? The purpose was to see how young people show different understandings of what community means to them. This was led by a range of questions: Who are the people in your community? What are the good things about your community? Who belongs to this community? What is meant by tolerance? What does tolerance look like in your community? What is meant by mutual respect? What does mutual respect look like in your community? The pedagogical approach to this activity was via Circle time allowing for each young person's response to be heard. In total, approx 60 children (all girls) aged from 9-14 took part in this activity. They were able to reflect on their discuss and to record their ideas on film via Ipad. Questions to stimulate included: What I have I learnt from this activity? Next, the young people were asked to record via illustration their interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' in relation to experiences in local community.The purpose being to transform oral testimonies of 'civic national values' and represent them as visual testimonies. This activity was stimulated by the question: What does your ideal community look like? The children created large posters with felt pens/crayons to illustrate mutual respect and tolerance occurring between people in their community? Following this, the children were able to use Ipad to record and to speak about their learning in this activity through questions such as: What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about others? The overall aim here was to empower the children to transform oral and visual testimonies of 'civic national values' and actively represent them as visual testimonies Next, the children were facilitated by performance arts groups to take the ideas from their posters and to generate live performances through them i.e. what they have described about tolerance and mutual respect in their communities. These varied performances were shared and reflected upon by the entire group. The teachers and the CSO leaders reported being inspired by a new approach to teaching and learning through child-led experiences. The teachers reported how the scheme of work via its arts based methodology approach gave each child the opportunity to express themselves individually and via a group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Makwanpur, Nepal) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team, CSOs and teachers faciliated the four part scheme of work, seeking empower young people to share their interpretations of the term: community. The activity also empowered them to explore and discuss understandings of the terms: tolerance and mutual respect in relation to experiences in the local community in relation to the question: What is meant by community? The purpose was to see how young people show different understandings of what community means to them. This was led by a range of questions: Who are the people in your community? What are the good things about your community? Who belongs to this community? What is meant by tolerance? What does tolerance look like in your community? What is meant by mutual respect? What does mutual respect look like in your community? The pedagogical approach to this activity was via Circle time allowing for each young person's response to be heard. In total, approx 60 children aged from 9-14 took part in this activity. They were able to reflect on their discuss and to record their ideas on film via Ipad. Questions to stimulate included: What I have I learnt from this activity? Next, the young people were asked to record via illustration their interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' in relation to experiences in local community.The purpose being to transform oral testimonies of 'civic national values' and represent them as visual testimonies. This activity was stimulated by the question: What does your ideal community look like? The children created large posters with felt pens/crayons to illustrate mutual respect and tolerance occurring between people in their community? Following this, the children were able to use Ipad to record and to speak about their learning in this activity through questions such as: What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about others? The overall aim here was to empower the children to transform oral and visual testimonies of 'civic national values' and actively represent them as visual testimonies Next, the children were facilitated by performance arts groups to take the ideas from their posters and to generate live performances through them i.e. what they have described about tolerance and mutual respect in their communities. These varied performances were shared and reflected upon by the entire group. The teachers and the CSO leaders reported being inspired by a new approach to teaching and learning through child-led experiences. The teachers reported how the scheme of work via its arts based methodology approach gave each child the opportunity to express themselves individually and via a group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Makwanpur, Nepal) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team returned to rural school in Nepal, to show the films made during the projects of children engaging in activities and expressing their notions of Civic National Values. Therefore the aim of this workshop was: To be aware of young peoples' interpretations 'civic national values' from a different cultural context. This was tested through the question: What are the good things about your national community? We wanted to know: What are the interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' made by young people in different cultural context? We wanted to know how they matched. We used the film to introduce the Makwanpur children to their peers in Kathmandu and explained that they took part in the same activity.The idea was to allow the children to reflect on seeing interpretations of 'civic national values' made by their peers. Those ideas were recorded via Ipad through questions: What are you learning about yourself? What are you learning about others? What are the common themes? How are we speaking together in one voice? A whole group circle time faciliated by teachers was implemented to gain young people's responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Nairobi, Kenya) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team, CSOs and teachers faciliated the four part scheme of work, seeking empower young people to share their interpretations of the term: community. The activity also empowered them to explore and discuss understandings of the terms: tolerance and mutual respect in relation to experiences in the local community in relation to the question: What is meant by community? The purpose was to see how young people show different understandings of what community means to them. This was led by a range of questions: Who are the people in your community? What are the good things about your community? Who belongs to this community? What is meant by tolerance? What does tolerance look like in your community? What is meant by mutual respect? What does mutual respect look like in your community? The pedagogical approach to this activity was via Circle time allowing for each young person's response to be heard. In total, approx 60 children (all girls) aged from 9-14 took part in this activity. They were able to reflect on their discuss and to record their ideas on film via Ipad. Questions to stimulate included: What I have I learnt from this activity? Next, the young people were asked to record via illustration their interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' in relation to experiences in local community.The purpose being to transform oral testimonies of 'civic national values' and represent them as visual testimonies. This activity was stimulated by the question: What does your ideal community look like? The children created large posters with felt pens/crayons to illustrate mutual respect and tolerance occurring between people in their community? Following this, the children were able to use Ipad to record and to speak about their learning in this activity through questions such as: What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about others? The overall aim here was to empower the children to transform oral and visual testimonies of 'civic national values' and actively represent them as visual testimonies Next, the children were facilitated by performance arts groups to take the ideas from their posters and to generate live performances through them i.e. what they have described about tolerance and mutual respect in their communities. These varied performances were shared and reflected upon by the entire group. The teachers and the CSO leaders reported being inspired by a new approach to teaching and learning through child-led experiences. The teachers reported how the scheme of work via its arts based methodology approach gave each child the opportunity to express themselves individually and via a group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Visit (Nairobi, Kenya) testing four part scheme of work with children, teachers and CSO leaders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The project team returned to urban school in Kenya, to show the films made during the projects of children engaging in activities and expressing their notions of Civic Natinoal Values. Therefore the aim of this workshop was: To be aware of young peoples' interpretations 'civic national values' from a different cultural context. This was tested through the question: What are the good things about your national community? We wanted to know: What are the interpretations of 'tolerance' and 'mutual respect' made by young people in different cultural context? We wanted to know how they matched. We used the film to introduce the Nairobi children to their peers in Limuru and explained that they took part in the same activity.The idea was to allow the children to reflect on seeing interpretations of 'civic national values' made by their peers. Those ideas were recorded via Ipad through questions: What are you learning about yourself? What are you learning about others? What are the common themes? How are we speaking together in one voice? A whole group circle time faciliated by teachers was implemented to gain young people's responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/civil_national_values_kenya_nepal/ |
| Description | School Workshop - Opera Circus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Ran a workshop with the NGO Opera Circus with international youth activists and UK students to discuss the role of art in activism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Screening of Born Free Generation Film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Film screening of the award winning 'The Born Free Generation: Phendulani's Story and Me.' on Saturday 08.06.19 at the Arts Mill Hebden Bridge. 50 people were in attendance including local councilors. The event was organised in collaboration with the Bishop Simeon Trust. In addition to Phendulani's Story a number of short films made by the Youth Committees the project supports in South Africa were shown. Cllr Dr Carol Stow, Mayor of Hebden Bridge, told us "'This is an amazingly clever way of bringing the lives of children in South Africa to us here in the UK. People of my generation thought we had finished the fight to help people there, but it reminds us that we need to keep on helping so that people around the world can live with greater equality. Hebden Bridge is a caring town, we need to care about people in other countries too." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/b570d5cbe6db/bst-june-2019-enewsletter |
| Description | Screening of Changing the Story: the Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia at Mobilising Histories conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story film "Changing the Story: the Anlong Veng Peace Tours, Cambodia | Khmer Rouge History" was screened at the international workshop 'Mobilising Histories of Discrimination, Persecution and Genocide to make progress towards the SDGs' at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa. It was followed by a further presentation from our Cambodia Co-Is Dr. Peter Manning and Dr. Ly Sok-Kheang and an animated discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/events/2nd-changing-the-story-network-meeting/ |
| Description | Screening of The Anlong Veng Peace Tours podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Changing the Story film 'Changing the Story - the Anlong Veng Peace Tours' (Paul Cooke, 2018) was screened at Hyde Park Picture House as introduction to the Amnesty Leeds screening of the 2016 film 'Cambodia Spring' (Director, Christopher Kelly), followed by a live Q&A with director Christopher Kelly, and one of the films main contributors Venerable Sovath. They were also accompanied by Professor Surya Subedi, Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds who was the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia between 2009 and 2015. This was an excellent opportunity to share our work with the wider general public in Leeds and build new networks with international artists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amnesty-leeds-planning-meeting-tickets-40049636541 |
| Description | Seminar Presentation 'Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba The true voice of the land: participatory film-making with young people in South Africa' |
| 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 | up to 17 attendees at a seminar presentation at ECOSUR (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Villahermosa), Mexico. The participants are all involved in environmental research and engaged in community based activities, so the conversation ensued around methodologies and learning from working in rural communities. Some participants indicated an interest in pursuing participatory arts aligned work in future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar on UG Anthropology Course at Bournemouth University 11 November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cooke talk a seminar on 'Arts in Development'. This included screening the film 'The Born Free Generation: Phendulani's Story and Me' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Seminar presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online seminar to students and community members at Monash University Malaysia to present research findings on perceived positive work impact amongst young social entrepreneurs and how they cope with instances of lacking perceptions of positive impact from their work. Presentation sparked an interesting debate with questions and increased interest in the topic and request for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Small Charity Week Innovation in Development Talk |
| 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 | June 19, 2019: Delivered a talk titled "Innovation in and innovation for: Insights from social enterprises" to an audience of international civil society organisations working on diverse global challenges, such as education, poverty, inclusion, in diverse contexts (e.g., Tanzania, DRC, Nepal). The roundtable included talks from DFID and SALVE International (working in Uganda). The talk and conversations after it resulted in scheduling a meeting to discuss potential collaboration in Uganda and requests for additional information on social enterprise models and innovations in processes and governance of civil society organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://smallcharityweek.com/policy-day-2/#roundtable |
| Description | Social enterprises: Supporting and safeguarding refugees - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog was written by Andreana Drencheva and is about the role social enterprises can play in supporting and safeguarding refugees. The blog was shared via the CTS webiste, CTS Twitter (2500 followers) and shared by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/25/social-enterprises-supporting-and-safeguarding-refug... |
| Description | Social venturing: Challenging traditional approaches toward management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 23/05/2022, 145 young people from different parts of Southeast Asia, including social entrepreneurs and those interested in social entrepreneurship, attended a talk on social entrepreneurship and how it challenges what we usually think about in relation to commercial organisations and management, based on the presenters recently published article in the Journal of Business Ethics, Bringing the Family Logic in: From Duality to Plurality in Social Enterprises. The talk sparked an interesting conversation with reflection on how attendees understand social entrepreneurship and the experiences they have had. 84% of the attendees reported that through the session they encountered new insights, ideas, concepts or approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Society for Latin American Studies presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented the work and findings of the Pensamiento y libertad project in a panel on arts and activism in Latin America at the Society for Latin American Studies annual conference in April 2020, and participated in discussion with colleagues from across Latin America |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | South Africa | Mobilising histories workshop |
| 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 | The Mobilising Histories workshop was organised by the University of Leeds and the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. It brought together academics and practitioners (from NGOs and civil society organisations) to learn from each other, and share their experience of developing arts interventions that mobilise 'dark pasts' in order to promote social justice agendas. Participants also reflected critically on assumptions engaged in such initiatives. The aim was to identify best practice, provide evidence for the effectiveness of these approaches, and to asses their impact in different cultures and societies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | South Africa | Programme Launch in Dakar, Senegal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In June 2018, the Changemakers programme was launched in Dakar, Senegal to representatives of Ministries of Education from 7 West-African countries (Senegal, the Gambia, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau). The workshop was held under the theme: 'Learning from the Past: the case study of the Change Makers Leadership Program (CMP) - promoting pluralism and preventing violent extremism'. The event was conducted as part of a UNESCO and IFEF initiative: From Policy to Practice: Capacity-Building Workshop on Prevention of Violent Extremism through Education (PVE-E) in West Africa and the Sahel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/resources/cts-publications/sa-critical-review-2/ |
| Description | South Africa | Train the Trainers Nigeria |
| 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 | First Train-the-Trainers workshop held in September in Nigeria. The purpose of the workshops is to roll out the Change-makers programme to other African countries, in a sustainable way, whereby those who are trained will become a cohort of facilitators who can continue to work with young people in-country after the original team has left, meaning the impact of the program should continue to expand. The programme was also evaluated, developing recommendations for future training sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | South Africa | Training the Trainer Mozambique |
| 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 | In Mozambique, the "train the trainer" workshop was attended by 25 participants who included staff from the National Library of Mozambique and the Centre for Democracy and Development Studies as well as students and lecturers from local universities under different academic disciplines (political science, journalism, history and international relations). Over 30 exhibition panels consisting of the history of the Holocaust, the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and apartheid in South Africa were developed by the JHGC and used to deliver the CMP in Mozambique. The implementation of the programme encountered some logistical challenges, power outages and language barriers as all the materials were developed in English, a language most participants were not familiar with. Ideally, the materials could have been translated into Portuguese which is the official language of the country. Nevertheless, the trainees have been hosting schools and teaching the CMP using the said JHGC exhibition. There is need to follow the implementation of the programme in Mozambique through an evaluation process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | St Paul's University (Limuru, Kenya) Project Introduction and Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Our project was introduced to partners via workshop and seminar at St Paul's University, Limuru. Kenya. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Storytelling Walls Workshop - Tribal Education Methodology Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Story telling walls: it is a tribal Art workshop led by the leading painter, Sajitha Sankar. TEM youth learners paint the school walls with stories and myths they collected from their community and neighbourhood to make the school walls telling stories that they want to hear. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Storytelling in film and youth activism |
| 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 | The blog written by project partner Tina Lee and uploaded 2 June 2019 was taken from its original source (The Complete Freedom of Truth - http://thecompletefreedomoftruth.com) and repurposed for the CTS website. The blog centres on the launch of the projects first filmmaking workshop set to take place in July 2019. The blog was initially shared on TCFT website and Twitter account before being shared on the CTS website and Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/06/02/storytelling-in-film-and-youth-activism-in-bosnia-an... |
| Description | Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship |
| 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 | Taking place on November 15, 2020, this event was a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and supported by the International Student E-Exchange Programme on Making an Impact with a focus on introducing young people to the concept of social entrepreneurship as one tool toward sustainability and making an impact, the challenges they can expect, and how to address these challenges or put preventative mechanisms in place before they even emerge. The digital event was attended by 217 young people from 7 countries (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Nepal and United Kingdom). The session sparked an insightful debate with a lot of peer sharing and learning and feedback from participants after the session included positive messages about how useful the event was in helping them to find solutions to challenges they had already experienced or starting to see social entrepreneurship as a potential career option for them. We also received interest in the wellbeing toolkit we are developing with requests to share it when it is finalised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | TV5 Monde documentary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TV5 Monde documentary (Chaste Uhiworeye, who was with us in Cambodia, features talking about his art therapy sessions with Rwandans). The video was uploaded on to the TV5 Monde Info YouTube Channel which has 131K subscribers. The video has been viewed 407 times on YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ZXNz04Ig4&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Teacher training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | At the local level, we have trained 1,200 teachers, social workers, psychologists and lawyers in recruitment prevention: Tierralta (50 participants) 16 Jan 2023 Puerto Libertador (20) 17 Jan 2023 Montelibano (30) 18 Jan 2023 San Jose de Ure (10) 18 Jan 2023 Taraza (20) 18 Jan 2023 Cáceres (20) 18 Jan 2023 Monteria (50) 19 Jan 2023 Yopal (1,000 teachers) 24-27 Jan 2023 At the national level, we trained 40 professionals from the government agency ARN, who co-ordinate recruitment prevention across Colombia. These professionals graduated with a diploma in Psychosocial Strategies for the Prevention of Illicit Recruitment of Children and Teenagers by Non-State Armed Groups, awarded by Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. The diploma required 120 hours of study and practice, and classes were held on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 7 and 9pm from 5 February - 24 November 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Territories of Listening Panel - Peace on a Small Scale Conference (4-6 Sept 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke and three young people from the Etnia Company who collaborated on the P1 Colombia project Tales of the Future were invited to speak at the Peace on a Small Scale Conference (Sept 2019) hosted by the Universidad de Los Andes. Paul Cooke introduced Changing the Story. A conversation with young people from the Etnia Company followed featuring text and sounds from the P1 project. Young people who have before CTS had not engaged with international funders were given the opportunity to discuss their involvement in the project and engage with an international audience. The panel was filmed and broadcast live online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Allegory of the Fence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by a young changemaker from the Phase 2 South Africa project 'Mapping Community Heritage.' The blog was shared via the Changing the Story website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners and the young author. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/31/the-allegory-of-the-fence/ |
| Description | The Big Picture |
| 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 | Uploaded April 25th 2019. PhD candidate Chloe Brooks shares her role as part of The Big Picture Project - a project, like CTS, seeking to make a significant impact by addressing global development challenges through arts and humanities research. The blog was shared on the CTS website and via Twitter. Links to the projects Instagram, Twitter and website were included in the blog offering wider exposure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/04/25/the-big-picture/ |
| Description | The Complete Freedom of Truth (Kosovo strand) |
| 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 | As part of the Kosovo strand of the AHRC project 'Changing the Story', our key partner from the fields of arts and civil society in Kosovo, Albert Heta of Stacion: Centre for Contemporary Arts and members of the Bournemouth University team (Research Centre: Seldom Heard Voices: Marginalisation and societal integration), have been kindly invited by the award-winning Dorset-based 'The Complete Freedom of Truth' (TCFT) project to participate in a residency which brings together a group of artists, workshop leaders and young people from across the UK from February 12 to 16 2018 in Bridport, UK. TCFT is an international youth-led project with the ambition to develop global youth citizenship through culture and the arts, which links most closely to the underpinning ideas and aims of 'Changing the Story'. This collaboration will kick-start the Kosovo part project's phase 1 activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/02/08/kosovo-strand-activities-begin-via-a-global-youth-ci... |
| Description | The Experience of Conflict: A transnational language? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Principal Investigator Paul Cooke and uploaded 16 May 2019, the blog offers an insight into the Lebanon: The Youth Roll project, the aims and activities of the project, lessons learnt and hopes for the future of the project. The blog features images and a short film made during a planning workshop held in September 2018 at the Issam Fares Institute, American University of Beirut. The blog was shared with the projects partners, on the CTS website and via Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/05/16/the-experience-of-conflict-a-transnational-language/ |
| Description | The Mi Historia Film Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Mi Historia Film Festival was held in order to promote the website and the work of the youth journalists. As part of the festival, we held audiosvisual workshops and provided basic camera and photography training for 212 "at-risk" youths: Tierralta (40 youths) 16 Jan 2023 Puerto Libertador (50) 17 Jan 2023 Montelibano (30) 18 Jan 2023 San Jose de Ure (12) 18 Jan 2023 Taraza (30) 18 Jan 2023 Cáceres (50) 18 Jan 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Power of Youth Participation in Times of Crisis BLOG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog, authored by Alyson Brody, draws on the findings of a collaboration between the British Council and Changing the Story (CTS). Through this collaboration, we have been sharing knowledge about innovative approaches for working with young people in complex situations in developing countries and have examined the impact of COVID-19. The blog was a launching point for the Youth, Voice and Development Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/01/07/the-power-of-youth-participation-in-times-of-crisis/ |
| Description | The Tree of Love: Resilience, Resistance and Reconciliation Among Former Child Soldiers in Colombia - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Guest blog by Mat Charles, Independent Researcher, about his project The Tree of Love in Colombia. Possible collaboration between Mat and the Phase 2 Large grant project on an article about the project. Possible collaboration with Paul Cooke. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/11/07/the-tree-of-love-resilience-resistance-and-reconcili... |
| Description | The Voices Of A River That Refuses To Die |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Alex Sierra. Alex describes the fieldwork locations visited as part of the Phase 1 Colombia project Tales of the Future. Uploaded 18th Dec 18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/12/21/las-voces-de-un-rio-que-se-niega-a-morir/ |
| Description | The experiences of young people in social entrepreneurship: Insights from Malaysia - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog by Andreana Drencheva on the experiences of young people in social entrepreneurship in Malaysia. The blog was shared on the CTS website, CTS Twitter page (2500 followers) and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/22/the-experiences-of-young-people-in-social-entreprene... |
| Description | The landscape of social enterprises in Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Jian Li Yew from GEMA, a Civil Society Partner on the Phase 2 project Youth-led Social Enterprises in Malaysia: Shaping Civil Society by and for Young People. A young changemakers blog about the landscape of social enterprises in Malaysia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/01/29/the-landscape-of-social-enterprises-in-malaysia-invo... |
| Description | The landscape of social enterprises in Malaysia: Involvement of young people - blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Uploaded January 2020 to the CTS Website and promoted via Twitter - This blog written by a youth CSO partner on the Youth-Led Social Enterprises project in Malaysia, is part of Changing The Story's young changemakers series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/01/29/the-landscape-of-social-enterprises-in-malaysia-invo... |
| Description | The messiness of building community: Co-creation across lines of social difference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written collaboratively by Scott Burnett and Aylwyn Walsh about co-production/co-creation. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/01/08/the-messiness-of-building-community-co-creation-acro... |
| Description | The role of cultural heritage in the building of (national) identity in post conflict situations - post conflict published material |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story is featured in the latest publication by Cultural Heritage: A Challenge for Europe, a publication about the role of cultural heritage in building national identity in post conflict situations. The publication follows a conference in Warsaw (10-12 September) organised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Rebuplic of Poland, the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections, in cooperation with Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and Stuttof Museum, attending by Changing the Story Principal Investigator Paul Cooke. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/badania-roli-dziedzictwa_publikacja/ |
| Description | The role of cultural heritage in the building of (national) identity in post conflict situations workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage together with the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections, in cooperation with Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and Stutthof Museum in Stutthof. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp 1939-1945 is organizing an International Scientific Conference Research on the role of cultural heritage in the building of (national) identity in post conflict situations. Paul Cooke was invited to speak at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The youth just want their voice to be heard |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Young Changemaker Mazen Kobrosly discusses his role on Changing the Story's sister project 'Lebanon: The Youth Role.' Uploaded November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2018/11/14/the-youth-just-want-their-voice-to-be-heard-par-in-l... |
| Description | Theatre Workshops (Tribal Education Methodology project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Introductory Theatre Workshops at 5 tribal Model Residential Schools (MRS) in January 2020: these workshops were conducted by the PI and other prominent theatre activists in the region. The workshops consist of singing tribal songs, storytelling, games, voice modulation training, emotional expressions that are gathered from various tribal groups in Wayanad as well as from Applied theatre techniques. The participants are encouraged to explore their own cultural heritage through remembering and replaying traditional games along with improvisations on various situations/scenarios. The workshop had showcase some of the short performances, at the end of each day, developed through workshop activities, for educators, parents and public. Workshops engaged 500 tribal youth learners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Thinking Together |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog by Jesus Flores and Mirla Perez (Venezuela Co-Investigators) about their participation at a CTS network event in Colombia, Sept 2019. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/12/13/thinking-together/ |
| Description | Three animal conservation films by film students in Bophana |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Cambodian National People's Network (Cambodia's largest television network) produced a news segment covering the Participatory Film and Elephant Conservation project, raising awareness of the project and the issues explored in our films (deforestation, animal welfare, indigenous issues). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3992781100822794 |
| Description | Time Under Lockdown (CTS and Rights for Time Webinar) Oct 2020 |
| 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 | Webinar held on 15 October with over 30 Attendees. Summary: Confinement for people living in the Global South is not only geographical, but also extends to temporal trajectories and itineraries. Temporal uncertainty, lockdowns, closed borders and crackdowns in the name of COVID 19 have made futures even more precarious, uncertain and fuzzy. We will draw on case studies from Lebanon, Kenya, and Jordon, as well as allude to wider displacement in the Euro-Mediterranean zone. The panellists are Tamirace Fakhoury, Winny Obure, Rana Dajani, and Heather Flowe, who are members of the Rights for Time Network+, a new network funded by the AHRC. Rights for Time will be commissioning £800,000 of research through a competitive award process over the next 4 years. Information about the panellists, their scholarship, links to their organisations and partners, as well as the Network+, can be found here: https://www.rights4time.com |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2020/10/08/praxis-online-workshop-series-time-under-lockdown/ |
| Description | Training workshop for young reporters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | My Story: News for and by teenagers trained 80 youth journalists in some of Colombia's most marginalised communities where young people live with the daily risk of being recruited by non-state armed groups. The young reporters were trained in writing, audio and video production skills and were awarded a diploma in Peace Journalism and Audiovisual Production by Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. In order to obtain the diploma, the students were obliged to complete 120 hours of study and practice. The workshop schedule was as follows: The Andes newsroom (Bogotá, D.C.) x 15 students Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays from 3-5pm weekly 2 March - 28 October 2022 The Pacific newsroom (Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca) x 15 students Monday - Friday, 2-5pm weekly 25 July - 28 October, 2022 The Plains newsroom (Saravena, Arauca) x 15 students Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 7-10am 18 July - 28 October 2022 The Carribbean newsroom (Tierralta and Puerto Libertador, Córdoba) x 30 students Wednesdays 7-9pm Saturdsays 8am-5pm 1 August - 30 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Transforming communities through youth-led social change, social innovation and social enterprises |
| 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 | Transforming communities through youth-led social change, social innovation and social enterprises was a webinar that brought together presentations on projects with young people and young people's initiatives in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, India and Malaysia. The event created a platform not only to share findings and insights from each project, but also to collectively reflect, develop new relationships, and share insights with participants. Some of the participants made plans for future work together (e.g., special issues and applications for funding). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Translating international heritage research into policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Heritage and Policy Keynote speaker Ian Baxter and shared via Heritage Futures Wordpress. The blog was then repurposed for the CTS audience, shared on the website and Twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://heritagefutures.wordpress.com/2019/12/09/translating-international-heritage-research-into-po... |
| Description | Tribal Education Methodology Resource Group |
| 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 | TEM Resource Group (Feb 2020): PI in collaboration with tribal educationalists, cultural activists and theatre practitioners, formed a TEM resource group to find creative ways to integrate TEM objectives in the school curriculum. Learning pathways need to be combined with personality development and confidence boosting of the marginalized tribal youth, making teaching more culturally engaging. A broader objective is to tackle the problem of high dropout rates among tribal students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tribal Education Methodology Teachers working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | TEM Co-Ordinator Teachers' Meeting (Jan 2020) PI in collaboration with educationalists working in tribal areas in Wayanad, formed a group of TEM Coordinators led by K.K. Surendran, the leading expert in tribal education and the former member of the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), General Education Department, Government of Kerala. The aim of the forum is to understand the challenges faced by teachers working in tribal schools in the region. These participatory sessions invited tribal youth learners, educators, theatre practitioners to engage in workshops and discussions to form the basis of TEM Toolkit. The aim is to develop TEM teacher coordinators to play a key role in the implementation of TEM objectives among teachers, tribal youth and community to create a youth-led learning landscape in Wayanad. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tribhuvan University (Kathmandu, Nepal) Project Introduction and Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Our project was introduced and shared with MA Peace and Conflict Studies students of Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Troubled Reflections: A small window of opportunity for transformation in Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Authored by Emily Morrison (Co-Investigator of the Phase 1 Colombia project) and uploaded 18 May 2019, the blog discusses the changing narrative in Colombia, from a narrative of peace and transition to one of resilience and growth. The blog was shared with Emily's colleagues at the British Council and with the CTS network via the website and Twitter. The blog is evidence of an ongoing partnership with the British Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/05/18/troubled-reflections-a-small-window-of-opportunity-f... |
| Description | Twitter Takeover - Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba (P2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | SA takeover - Total of 13 tweets - Earned 4.6K impressions (More active tweeting during the morning which seemed to work well). Top Tweets: 5 project values earned 1014 impressions (11 engagements, 7 likes and 3 retweets). Tweets earned between 300 and 1100 impressions during the course of the day. 25 likes of average. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Twitter Takeover - Participatory Arts for Health Improvement |
| 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 | Tweets direct from Nagaland, India made 4,711 impressions (total times that users saw the tweet on Twitter) and 231 engagements (total number of times a user has interacted with a tweet, inc RT/comment/like/clicking on tagged handles/links). Images of the project team and the work environment including day to day activities were shared with the CTS twitter audience (to date 2200 followers). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Twitter Takeover by a Masters student on the project 'Mapping Community Heritage' (South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Young people on the Mapping Community Heritage project took over CTS Twitter account during the projects second workshop (Aug 2019). The aim of the takeover was to provide an opportunity for the project team to showcase their project and activities, offering an in-depth at the project look from a youth perspective. The project team were able to develop their social media skills and actively engage with the CTS network, answering questions posed to them live and direct via video recordings that were then uploaded. In total 10 videos were shared by the project team featuring UK and South African researchers, NGOs and young people working on the project. Analytics: Friday 23rd Aug: 19 Tweets - 7,365 impressions (28 retweets, 40 likes, 15 replies) Saturday 24th Aug: 10 Tweets - 4,199 impressions (15 retweets, 13 likes, 9 replies) Each Tweet received 300-700 impressions. Up to 33 engagements per tweet/ an increase of 6%. Up to 68 views per video that was uploaded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Twitter takeover - P2 project IZAZOV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BiH takeover - Total 8 tweets (spread out throughout the day) - Earned 1289 impressions, 225 media views and 59 total engagements. Tweets earned 19 likes, 9 profile clicks, 8 retweets but only 1 reply. Top tweets: Filip's video earned 922 impressions, visual literacy exercise tweet earned 1019 and introducing the team twee 1300 impressions. On average each tweet earned between 600-1300 impressions. CTS acquired 7 new followers during the takeover. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UZABINTWARI WORKSHOP - Eric & Leonard via CTS Mobility Fund |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Leonard Nyiringabo and Eric Ngabonziza, part of CTS' Youth Research Board, successfully applied to CTS' small Mobility Fund to deliver a pilot workshop for the NGO they are setting up as a result of the work they undertook as part of previous CTS commissioned projects. Uzabitwari project soon to be an NGO launched its first pilot workshops. With the help of headmasters of Le Paradis des angel and Nyarusange secondary school, Uzabintwari was able to recruit 25 young people who became part of the workshops. The project started with 13 young people in Primary school and 12 young from secondary school. The workshops - around youth and heroism in Rwanda - were successful and are feeding into next stages of development of their NGO. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4mheK1ZlU |
| Description | Unfinished transitions, between a New Guerrilla and the Old State |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The article discusses the Peace on a Small Scale Conference and the transitional nature of Peace in Latin America. The article features the words of Alejo Castillejo. The article was published 2nd September 2019 online at El Espectador, the second largest newspaper in Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/transiciones-inacabadas-entre-una-nueva-guerrilla-y-el-vie... |
| Description | Uni of Leeds Global Developement Research team meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Esther Dusabe-Richards represented PRAXIS at the University of Leeds Global Research Development team meeting, led by Louise Heery. She provided an overview of PRAXIS' vision, aims and approach. The team meeting was on February 10 2021 for 1 hour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | University Alumni- Meet the Researchers Presentation Aug 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Paul Cooke and Katie Hodgkinson we're invited to present Changing the Story as part of the University of Leeds Alumni 'Meet the Researchers' Series (Aug 2020). Feedback includes: "It was fascinating to see how the University reaches out beyond the boundaries of academia" "It was an enlightening and inspiring experience. I work in a similar field and I feel it has re-motivated me!" "All the participants spoke with passion about their research but pitched it well to a non-specialised audience" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLP9pjMsarzwi3SrsQKTKtTVk2lWbyoJXn&v=o1AOL3UbKg4&feature=emb_titl... |
| Description | University of Leeds Annual Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story features in the University of Leeds Annual Review 2019 prepared by University colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UoL reprint of Inequality in the Arts is at crisis point |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Reprint of article interview for The Stage by Inés Soria-Donlan on UoL LCS school website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/news/article/2034/inequality-in-the-arts-workforce |
| Description | Voicing Hidden Histories Celebration Event 14 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An evening of film, talk, and performance in celebration of the power of film and creativity. The evening included the world premiere of a selection of films made by communities in Brazil, South Africa and India as part of the recent project "Voicing Hidden Histories: Troubling the National Brand" and "Using Digital Tools to Challenge Xenophobia". It also marked the launch of two new international network projects based at University of Leeds, 'Changing the Story: Building Inclusive Civil Societies With, and For, Young People" and "Sumak Kawsay and the Sustainable Development Agenda". With introduction and Q&As by the in-country project teams, live performance, film screenings and music. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.leedsfilmcity.com/whats-on/voicing-hidden-histories-celebration-event/ |
| Description | Voluntary Research Assistant placements for 2 postgraduate students (Connective Memories) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Connective Memories project (CTS Phase 2 project) we have sought to extend further the commitment to supporting Early Career Researchers and providing opportunities for career development by offering two placements for master's students through a volunteer research scheme in the Department of Social Science, UCL. The scheme aims to provide students with the experience of team-based research for a few hours a week over the summer vacation. Two students: Ansley Medlicott and Megan Clay-Jones did an excellent job of co-designing and collating the resources for the Participatory Action Research toolkit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Wakelet: 'Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba' (South Africa) |
| 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 | Wakelet is an online resource which allows you to save, organise and share content from the web. Following 'Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba' (South Africa) Twitter takeover on 13th June 2019, we collated all of the projects tweets from the day into wakelet and uploaded the content on to our website as a blog post. The purpose is to save that information and any interactions that occurred in one place so that anyone accessing the website can revisit the takeover or read about it for the first time. The content can then be shared on the project teams own personal Twitter account as a way of showcasing the work they are doing and CTS more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/2747ac25-d293-4e85-99b4-d3658f3eb9b5 |
| Description | Wakelet: Izazov (BiH) |
| 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 | Wakelet is an online resource which allows you to save, organise and share content from the web. Following 'Izazov' (BiH) Twitter takeover on 5th July 2019, we collated all of the projects tweets from the day into wakelet and uploaded the content on to our website as a blog post. The purpose is to save that information and any interactions that occurred in one place so that anyone accessing the website can revisit the takeover or read about it for the first time. The content can then be shared on the project teams own personal Twitter account as a way of showcasing the work they are doing and CTS more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/9b823428-f96c-4828-8881-8bd26cdfbfbe |
| Description | Wakelet: Mapping Community Heritage |
| 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 | Wakelet is an online resource which allows you to save, organise and share content from the web. Following 'Mapping Community Heritage' Twitter takeover on 23rd Aug 2019, we collated all of the projects tweets from the day into wakelet and uploaded the content on to our website as a blog post. The purpose is to save that information and any interactions that occurred in one place so that anyone accessing the website can revisit the takeover or read about it for the first time. The content can then be shared on the project teams own personal Twitter account as a way of showcasing the work they are doing and CTS more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/9ad8c30a-879a-4a2e-a69c-39bf8307f2d9 |
| Description | Wakelet: Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in India |
| 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 | Wakelet is an online resource which allows you to save, organise and share content from the web. Following 'Participatory Arts for Health Improvement in India' Twitter takeover on 17th April 2019, we collated all of the projects tweets from the day into wakelet and uploaded the content on to our website as a blog post. The purpose is to save that information and any interactions that occurred in one place so that anyone accessing the website can revisit the takeover or read about it for the first time. The content can then be shared on the project teams own personal Twitter account as a way of showcasing the work they are doing and CTS more broadly |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/cef88bb3-c747-4007-95bd-1dcedf1aad8d |
| Description | Wakelet: Pensamiento y libertad |
| 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 | Wakelet is an online resource which allows you to save, organise and share content from the web. Following 'Pensamiento y libertad' Twitter takeover on 24th Sept 2019, we collated all of the projects tweets from the day into wakelet and uploaded the content on to our website as a blog post. The purpose is to save that information and any interactions that occurred in one place so that anyone accessing the website can revisit the takeover or read about it for the first time. The content can then be shared on the project teams own personal Twitter account as a way of showcasing the work they are doing and CTS more broadly |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://wakelet.com/wake/1eaa6110-7f7d-4756-9fd8-e9ceae6c96bb |
| Description | Weaving Together Intercultural Peacebuilding (Rajib Timalsina Mobility Fund) |
| 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 | CTS' Mobility Fund supported travel costs for CTS previous grantee Rajib Timalsina to attend "International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) on Weaving Together Intercultural Peacelearning". The event will take place in Mexico City, Mexico from 24-31 July 2022. Rajib was invited to be on a panel by the organisers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ne-np.facebook.com/PeaceEdCampaign/posts/iipe-mexico-prepcom-virtual-weaving-together-interc... |
| Description | Webinar on Cultural Heritage and Climate Change hosted by the Institution of Environmental Studies |
| 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 | Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time: global warming is causing the rise of extreme weather events and natural disasters, declining diversity of life on earth, increased disease and threats to health, loss of lives, mass displacement, and major impacts on livelihoods and human rights. However, the impact of climate change on cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) is often overlooked, as is the role that cultural heritage can play in adaptation and mitigation to climate change. This webinar, hosted by the Institution of Environmental Studies and co-organised in collaboration with PRAXIS, a research project at the University of Leeds funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the UK National Commission for UNESCO, explored the interconnections between cultural heritage and climate change. On the one hand, it presented the international framework on this topic defined through a series of international agreements, such as the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the outcomes of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). On the other hand, it discussed concrete academic and practical case studies connecting heritage and climate change. It provided examples from the UNESCO Global Geopark Network and key findings from a research project led by the University of Edinburgh, showcasing the potential of long-term archaeological and heritage datasets to inform and support human adaptation and contemporary responses to climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2022/04/04/webinar-cultural-heritage-and-climate-change/ |
| Description | Wellbeing for Impact programme |
| 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 | Wellbeing for Impact was a 6-week cohort-based wellbeing programme that aimed to support 20 young social entrepreneurs from Malaysia and Cambodia to equip them with the tools to reflect, plan, learn, and change their attitudes and behaviours to maintain their wellbeing and thus maintaining the sustainability of their social enterprises and the impact of their work. In the evaluation of the programme, the majority of participants reported that the program was useful to them and they planned to make long-term changes to their work and personal lives based on insights, ideas or approaches introduced in the program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | What about the survivors? The importance of a victim-centred approach to transitional justice in the Western Balkans - reflections on a conference BLOG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Giulia Levi is a doctoral candidate at Bournemouth University, which is a partner university in Changing the Story. Based on her practice experience with civil society initiatives working towards peace building in Bosnia Herzegovina since 2005, she is currently completing a comparative, VC-funded PhD project called 'Bridging societal divisions in post-Brexit referendum UK, learning from Bosnia'. The EU-funded Reconciliation Network of civil society organisations of the Western Balkans, known as RECOM, in conjunction with the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre, on 21st and 22nd of December 2020, organised and ran the 13th Forum for Transitional Justice online. In three panels, the invited academic experts and practitioners discussed the state of the process of dealing with the past in the post-Yugoslav space. They assessed and explored the state of transitional justice, memorialization and missing persons in the wider region. Guilia shares her reflections from the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2021/01/20/what-about-the-survivors-the-importance-of-a-victim-... |
| Description | What are the benefits of integrating young people in peacebuilding processes in communities and schools? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Guest blog from Never Again Rwanda about the benefits of integrating young people in peacebuilding processes in communities and schools. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by Never Again Rwanda who have 5319 followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/11/15/what-are-the-benefits-of-integrating-young-people-in... |
| Description | What role can community engagement play in tackling antimicrobial resistance? (blog) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The third in a series of blogs written by delegates who attended the CE4AMR conference in Nepal. The blog forms part of the evaluation of the event covering a wide range of perspectives/ disciplines. In this blog, initially repurposed from the Institute of Development Studies Website, Ayako Ebato reflects on what she took away from the conference and the themes that resonated with her own work. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter account. The blog was retweeted by the CE4AMR Twitter account which to date has 149 followers. The blog was also retweeted on the Institute of Development Studies Twitter account which has a following of 65.9K followers to date. Collectively CE4AMR blogs have increased the CTS twitter following inclusive of an AMR audience and supported the building of an online CE4AMR network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/08/30/what-role-can-community-engagement-play-in-tackling-... |
| Description | When does mental health become a safeguarding matter? Dec 2020 Webinar |
| 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 | The final webinar of Changing the Story's Safeguarding project was designed and facilitated by Linda Hoxha, our Regional Safeguarding Lead for SE Europe. The webinar was held on 1 Dec and 6 participants attended. Linda addressed the following topics: Sources of stress that may constitute a safeguarding concern: Risk analysis and mitigating protective factors; Cultural factors to anxiety and stress: Understanding personal space and intrusion; harassment and intimidation; The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on anxiety and stress: Safety and privacy in the home environment; data around violence from a psychological helpline in Kosovo on different demographics and marginalised groups; Coping strategies and intervention techniques: Safeguarding procedures in the workplace; designated focal points and first points of contact; a 'freedom to speak up' policy and mechanism; awareness of and confidence in external local support agencies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Where's the Research in Evaluation? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds). Stuart reflects on the questions posed by Chaya Herman at the ECR Development Workshop about what is it research? What are the research questions-and what new insights can we gain? Uploaded 31 Oct 18. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Why engage with policy? Blog (Praxis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Hana Morel (UCL) to accompany promotion of the Heritage and Policy Praxis event. The blog was shared via the CTS website, Twitter account and retweeted by Hana. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/10/30/why-engage-with-policy/ |
| Description | Why the role of the adult facilitator in children and young people's participation is crucial? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The blog forms part of the CTS guest blog series. Written by Dr. Carine Le Borgne, Senior Policy Adviser on Ending Violence Against Children at World Vision UK, the blog considers why the role of the adult facilitator in children and young people's participation is crucial. The blog was shared on the CTS website and Twitter. It was retweeted by World Vision UK who have 1.2 million followers. The blog provides evidence of an ongoing partnership with World Vision UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/07/23/why-the-role-of-the-adult-facilitator-in-children-an... |
| Description | Working with partners Safeguarding Webinar April 2020 |
| 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 | The fourth safeguarding webinar explored questions around approaches to safeguarding that we might ask each other before and during partnerships on Changing the Story projects. 23 participants attended including a representative from Bond. The following questions were discussed: - How do identify potential partners? - How accessible is information (online or otherwise) on their safeguarding approaches, policies and/or practices? - Which type(s) of joint workshop might help establish a mutual understanding around the scope of safeguarding issues, and to co-develop an approach for the duration of the joint project? - Would a set of FAQs around working in partnership be useful? If so, then what would you like it to include? - Could you identify real-life safeguarding issues (that we might anonymise to your satisfaction) for discussion in the session? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop on Participatory Approaches to Network Plus projects for the Decarbon8 project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CTS Project Manager Inés Soria-Donlan and PGR Katie Hodgkinson facilitated a half day workshop on participatory values, approaches and event planning in Network Plus projects for a newly launched ESPRC Network Plus project called Decarbon8, led by the School of Environment at University of Leeds. The workshop took place at University of Manchester and was designed for their interdisciplinary/cross-university Co-Investigator team. The workshop was very well received: "it was really helpful and engaging! Not only did it spark off some interesting discussions which will help us deliver better events going forward, but it was great from a teambuilding perspective too, especially the 'object of truth' activity which I think helped dispel some assumptions we'd made about one another starting off as a new team! [...] One colleague asked whether there is an online resource anywhere with more practical facilitation techniques to use in their future events - would you be able to signpost to any particularly good sources I can circulate to the team with things like that?" Reinforces potential relevance and need for CTS to produce some wider resources around these approaches within the context of a Network+ structure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://decarbon8.org.uk/ |
| Description | Workshop on participatory methods with focus on Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba (University of Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and workshop with PG students on participatory methods, discussing learning from 'Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshops bringing together research projects focussed on nexus of heritage and climate change in ODA countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | 3 workshops were organised to bring together the nine projects from a cohort of Global Challenges Research Fund projects, funded by Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 1. To introduce PRAXIS (the Leeds team) and its activities; share key learnings about methodologies, project achievements, lessons learnt and recommendations from the research projects; exchange ideas about research outputs; and co-design a strategy/template to collect project data. 2. To facilitate the communication of projects results in a format that could be translated into a two-page policy brief. After the second workshop, a policy brief template was circulated to allow an easy translation of project data into the policy brief format. The policy briefs prepared by the nine research projects are included in the report on 'Cultural Heritage, Climate change and Disasters' published in November 2022. 3. to launch the report, present findings from COP27 and promote knowledge exchange on the complex interrelationships between cultural heritage, climate change and disasters between academic and non-academic stakeholders in the UK and the Global South. Speakers included representatives from the CHCC cohort and other interested parties such as members from funding bodies (AHRC), policymakers (DCMS and the British Council), academics, practitioners and other stakeholders to stimulate a constructive discussion on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/praxis/cultural-heritage-climate-change-and-disasters/ |
| Description | World Changers: Celebrating impactful research - Essay titled "Bridging past, present - and future: how can heritage support development?" |
| 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 | The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, Professor Simone Buitendijk, has commissioned a second edition of the "World Changers: Celebrating Impactful Research" essay collection, to help promote the University's strategy: Universal Values, Global Change. The overall aim of this digital collection is to show a general readership how the work of Leeds University is shaping a better future for humanity and reducing inequalities. The 1st edition of the essay collection is available at: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/world-changers/ Dr Giliberto's essay titled "Bridging past, present - and future: how can heritage support development?" was selected to be part of the "World Changers: Celebrating Impactful Research" essay collection, and will be published online, including a podcast and visual materials, by May 2023. It will also be widely disseminated through media press, sent to relevant stakeholders, and presented in a university in-person event to maximise its impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Young Changemakers blog. Syria: How sport can change the story. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Written by Nour Al Tarsha and uploaded onto the website 15 January 2019. Nour discusses the significance of sport in building peace. Nour was a young ambassador at our Project Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Oct 18. Nour is a student at Liverpool Lifesciences UTC. She pursues a lot of interest in sport and science as her current CREST Award aims to meet three of the total seventeen Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN. The blog was shared via social media channels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/01/15/syria-how-sport-can-change-the-story/ |
| Description | Young People Changing the Story (workshop in Prishtina, Kosovo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This workshop bought together young people who had participated in CTS activities in Kosovo, and young people working in similar areas, to reflect on how young people can harness the arts for social change, and the challenges in doing so. The workshop was positioned around the Manifesta Biennial in Prishtina. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Young people for PAR using visual arts with other young people |
| 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 | This workshop was delivered by CTS Co-Investigator Tendayi Marovah and CSO partner Joseph Chikhoza. 12 youth participants from across the 27 CTS projects attended the workshop. Workshop blurb: How do we start tackling the injustices that show up in our communities? How do we strengthen our voices to become integral in improving the social, economic and political well-being of youth? The aim of this workshop is to empower young people with relevant research skills enabling them to: a) conceptualise YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) b) explore ethical issues in YPAR c) examine characteristics of YPAR d) discuss how visual arts can be used to foster YPAR e) demonstrate benefits which can be derived from using visual arts in YPAR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Youth Advisory Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MAP young people and adult trainers attended a two-day workshop to co-produce a call for small grants in order to engage the 25 MAP clubs with youth-led research projects based on issues that they face. The MAP young people created a youth advisory board to coordinate communication amongst the MAP clubs and youth-led initiatives that has resulted in regular meetings between the young people and an analysis of the successes and challenges of the MAP clubs thus far. Additionally, the young people have created a documentary that emerged from a mobile filmmaking workshop conducted by MAP, to deliver a visual report. The youth advisory board will continue to advise concerning the youth-led focus of MAP activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Youth Engagement Gender Identity Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In July 2021, PRAXIS, in partnership with Changing the Story, held a two-part workshop on gender stereotypes to support awareness and critical self-reflection. Young people from across the Changing the Story network were invited to engage in a series of discussions guided by questions about gender stereotypes, challenges, norms and assumptions in their lives, and contexts, and to share their actions for change; actions that they can implement at the personal or community level to affect change. 15 attendees attended this first workshop facilitated by Alyson Brody, Esther Dusabe-Richards, and Lauren Wray. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/gender-stereotypes-and-identity/ |
| Description | Youth Engagement Gender Stereotypes and Identity Workshop 2 (July 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In July 2021, PRAXIS, in partnership with Changing the Story, held a two-part workshop on gender stereotypes to support awareness and critical self-reflection. Young people from across the Changing the Story network were invited to engage in a series of discussions guided by questions about gender stereotypes, challenges, norms and assumptions in their lives, and contexts, and to share their actions for change; actions that they can implement at the personal or community level to affect change. 15 attendees attended this first workshop facilitated by Alyson Brody, Esther Dusabe-Richards, and Lauren Wray and included Including presentations by two youth activists from Kosovo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/gender-stereotypes-and-identity/ |
| Description | Youth Power: Celebrating and Supporting Young People in Social Entrepreneurship (knowledge exchange event) |
| 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 | This knowledge exchange event aimed to share insights from our research project with research participants from social enterprises, young people interested in social change, social entrepreneurship ecosystem builders including policymakers and educators as well as to support young people with ideas for social enterprises through feedback, additional insights, and networking opportunities. 83% of the attendees who completed feedback forms reported that the event was useful to them professionally; 81% of the attendees who completed feedback forms reported that they encountered new insights, ideas, concepts or approaches through the event 80% of the attendees who completed feedback forms reported that they planned to apply insights, ideas, concepts or approaches encountered through the event in their work 85% of the attendees who completed feedback forms reported that they were satisfied with the event Following the event, we also received the following feedback from the social enterprise lead for the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre, the main government agency responsible for supporting the social entrepreneurship ecosystem: "by presenting challenges of the ecosystem as a 3rd party observer, it gives an objective view on the socent ecosystem and does motivate me as an enabler of the ecosystem to take more active actions targeting those challenges presented. Hence, is it possible to share the slides with me?" Additional information and follow-ups from the event were also requested by young people, social entrepreneurs, and other ecosystem builders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/celebrating-and-supporting-young-people-in-social-entrepreneurship-ticke... |
| Description | Youth Research Board - Research Workshop 1 (June 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board begin the research phase of the project in June 2021. This first workshop with 8 in attendance from the YRB, 2 facilitators, 2 interpreters was about the YRB selecting the research themes they were most interested in and would like to explore over the next 6 months of the YRB project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Artwork Workshop 1 (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Youth Research Board work with artists Blerta Hocia and Driton Selami to co-devise a public artwork 'Public Untruths.' 15 participants attended this first development workshop in May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Artwork Workshop 2 (May 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Youth Research Board work with artists Blerta Hocia and Driton Selami to co-devise a public artwork 'Public Untruths.' 12 participants attended this first development workshop in May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Artwork Workshop 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Youth Research Board work with artists Blerta Hocia and Driton Selami to co-devise a public artwork 'Public Untruths.' 12 participants attended this first development workshop in May 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Call and Response workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Changing the Story invited young people across the network to submit their artwork. The Youth Research Board were invited to reflect on the artwork submitted and to creatively respond. The call and response tool emerged out of ImaginingOtherwise, one of the Changing the Story projects, and is about generating dialogue and creative responses without being worried about what is understood and what is missed. The workshop was led by Dr ally walsh and 14 participants attended in total. The YRB shared poems, Haiku, songs and drawings that they had created in response to the artwork submitted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Campaign Development Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Youth Research Board participated in the first in a series of campaign development workshops on how to use their research findings to develop three unique social advocacy campaigns on the change that they want to see. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Campaign Launch blog (Dec 21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Member of the YRB wrote a blog about the three YRB campaigns that was uploaded to the University of Prishtina website and Facebook page. Liked 76 times and shared 3 times on Facebook. 2.3K followers in the Facebook group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/groups/1815958132008905/ |
| Description | Youth Research Board Campaign Launch event Dec 21 |
| 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 | The Youth Research Board launched their creative campaigns for change based on their research findings with 6 CTS sub-projects who were invited to attend to learn about how the YRB had evaluated their projects. 67 registered to attend the event (14 registered in Spanish and 53 in English). Registrants are from 14 countries including Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, UK, South Africa, Nepal, Rwanda, Kenya, Serbia, Kosovo, Ghana, India, Ireland, and México. Of those registering, 50 have agreed for us to contact them directly with your campaigns and have agreed to promote your campaigns to their networks. 50 people attended the event including participants from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, Finland, Kosovo, Nepal, and India. Around 10 people who were unable to attend the event have requested the recording. 75% of people registering attended the event. Feedback available in the OneDrive. Link to recording: https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth-research-board/youth-research-board-campaigns-for-change/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Data Analysis workshop (Sept 21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Youth Research Board participated in a workshop to analyse the research data they collected led by Katie Hodgkinson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Haiku Workshop (April 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. In April 2021, the YRB participated in an arts-based taster workshop on Haiku researcher Dr Laura Taylor, and two young researchers on the YouthLEAD (Colombia) project Diego Alfonso, and Maria Fernanda Trujillo Santiago. The YRB have continued to use Haiku as a form of expression following the workshop, with two members of the YRB working on a book of Haiku and Haiku included in one YRB group's final campaign (Zine). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board PhotoVoice Workshop (April 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. The YRB participated in a workshop led by Dr Tiffany Fairey. 11 participants attended and following the workshop, one young person set up a PhotoVoice project in their community in Venezuela/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Presenting Initial Finding (Sept 21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board were invited to present their initial research findings to the central CTS team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Research Development Workshop 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The third is a series of workshops with the YRB to support the group to design, conduct and evaluate their research with 6 CTS sub-projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Research Development workshop 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The second is a series of workshops with the YRB to support the group to design, conduct and evaluate their research with 6 CTS sub-projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Unconference June 2022 |
| 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 | The Changing the Story Youth Research Board led an Unconference at the final CTS event in June/July 2022, reflecting on the topics/themes that had emerged from the academic and CSO partner roundtables on the previous day and drawing on their own skills and expertise. Around 50 participants were in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Youth Research Board Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. In March 2021, the YRB came together for the first time with the central CTS team (13 participants in total) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board Workshop Two |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. CSO partner Helene Rousseau (BottomUp, Cape Town) took the CTS YRB through a workshop on safeguarding and research ethics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth Research Board x Mobile Arts for Peace workshop (April 2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. . In April 2021, young researchers from Kyrgyzstan were invited to join a YRB workshop where members of the YRB interviewed them about their experiences as researchers on Mobile Arts for Peace. 36 participants attended in total. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/changing-the-story-young-change-makers/changing-the-story-youth... |
| Description | Youth, Voice and Development Learning Event (British Council and CTS, November 2020) |
| 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 | Learning event hosted by Leeds University Changing the Story (CTS) and the British Council on 4 November. Key emerging insights from the Youth, Voice and Development (YVD) Project were shared. Three British Council case studies were presented alongside three case studies from CTS. Over 40 participants from across the British Council attended. The event has informed a further workshop planned for January 2021. The aim of the YVD project, led by Post-doctoral Fellow Dr Alyson Brody, has been to identify synergies and areas of mutual learning between the work of CTS and the youth-focused portfolio of the British Council. The starting point is the growing crisis facing young people with regard to education quality, employment opportunities, political engagement and gender-based discrimination, all of which are highlighted through the British Council's Next Generation research series. YVD explores how CTS and the British Council are addressing these issues in Official Development Assistance (ODA) countries in creative ways that offer sustainable pathways for youth-centred development towards more meaningful change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Youth-led research during Mobile Arts for Peace ToT camp (Connective Memories project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In July/August, during two, six-day Training of Trainer camps run by Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) attended by around 80participants, we worked with a core group of three young researchers (the others were unavailable because of examinations, but with whom we re-engaged in November 2019) to pilot some tools for a new PAR module being developed for the MAP manual and to conduct youth-led research with adults as part of the Connective Memories project. The young researchers have begun making a film combining their research skills, with the mobile filmmaking training provided as part of MAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Youth-led research during Mobile Arts for Peace Youth camp (Connective Memories project) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | In November, during a six-day Youth Camp run by Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) attended by around 80 participants, we worked with a core group of 10 young researchers to conduct youth-led research as part of the Connective Memories project. We discussed analysis and the youth film on the topic of sharing memories and stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | YouthLEAD Participatory Mural Workshops and Painting (Colombia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Three Child-led Mural workshops (x40-50 children, i.e., study participants, with family informed consent to participate) CNMH staff (x1-2, co-facilitating and accompanying the project) RA (x1, employed through FUKL) 12 Gestores mentors, typically university-aged youth |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/2019/09/06/for-a-different-today-and-tomorrow/ |
| Description | YouthLEAD PhotoVoice Training of Trainers and Child-led Workshops (Colombia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two Training-of-Trainer workshops (x 12 Gestores mentors, typically university-aged youth) Four Child-led PhotoVoice workshops (x40-50 children, i.e., study participants, with family informed consent to participate) CNMH staff (x1-2, co-facilitating and accompanying the project) RA (x1, employed through FUKL) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://amplivoces.com/ |