Links to selected blog posts and websites

My research has progressed by crystallising concepts from practice and then, to use a metaphor many other practice researchers have found resonant, weaving these into a conceptual framework.  Blogging has been the vehicle for giving shape to these ideas as they rise up from reflective practice.  The blog posts and other writings which are cited in my exegesis are linked from the images below.

Blog posts

International Centre for Arts and Narrative (ICAN)

ICAN, a collaboration between York St John University and York Theatre Royal, is the socially engaged research centre within which my PhD research is located.  

In addition to hosting my research with adolescents, ICAN engages diverse communities in explorations of the relationship between narrative and different artforms, through:

• day-long multi-artform storytelling workshops with school and community groups, starting with a story and working with different artists to develop a group retelling of it (see poster, right);
• lively studio talks on a range of topics from prisons to mental health to food, 'Narrative and....', engaging audiences of practitioners and the general public in the latest thinking on the uses of narrative;
• other projects and events, such as 'Storyknowing: A Festival and Symposium of Storytelling and Theatre with Young People'. 

I have been involved in much of this work during the period of my PhD research, co-facilitating many of the community workshops, and co-authoring a peer-reviewed publication on them (with my supervisor Prof Matthew Reason).


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