Our impact
Empowering individuals and communities
- Growing knowledge and awareness of issues
- Increased activism at community level
- Effective use of digital storytelling as a tool for advocacy
- Validation of personal and shared experiences
Organisational practice and policy
- Growing use of storytelling as a tool for engagement and consultation
- Adoption of storytelling as a tool for delivering policy and objectives
Dissemination and ongoing learning
- Professor Wilson addressed the Extreme Events and Health Protection Team (Public Health England) in 2016
- The Hope Raisers digital storytelling studio in Baba Dogo, Nairobi, opened in 2019
- The National Farmers Union co-hosted a webinar, “Capturing stories about agricultural drought” (June 2019)
- UN Live – The Museum for the United Nations adopted storytelling techniques as part of the My Mark: My City campaign in Nairobi (September 2019)
- Atlas Foundation’s mobile classroom with digital storytelling facilities hit the roads of Kibera, Nairobi in 2020
- Dr Antonia Liguori presented “Co-designing an online ‘Utility Tool’ to bridge science and community knowledge through storytelling” at the MeCCSA Conference 2020