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“The benefits of the story-telling/story-listening loop within participatory research” – online the video recording of the seminar in Wellington

The University of Otago, New Zealand, just published on their YouTube channel the video recording of one of the seminars I gave during my visit in April.

Seminar hosted by the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, April 2024

You can read the abstract of the presentation here:

The benefits of the story-telling/story-listening loop within participatory research

Participatory storytelling is an enriching and powerful research approach that enables the researcher and the participant to shift power dynamics and establish new ways of working to achieve (together!) more meaningful and long-lasting results. Storytelling is an effective way for people to connect, share knowledge, and generate change. Even more when the story-telling/story-listening loop is prioritised during this creative process. As our world becomes more diverse, it is crucial for academia and cultural institutions to promote engagement with different perspectives. Stories have a unique power to build empathy, trust, and understanding among communities. However, it is important to recognise that there isn’t just one truth or perspective. Like Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, “relying on a single story can risk a critical misunderstanding”.

In this seminar, we’ll explore the concept of co-created “Story Work” and how it involves collaborating to create stories that reflect diverse experiences and truths. We’ll also look at how storytelling can be used in research to foster engagement and inform practice and policy.

This seminar aims to address these questions:

How can digital storytelling be adapted globally while staying true to local values?

Is collaborative storytelling a solution to exclusion and marginalisation?

How do we differentiate between different storytelling practices while maintaining their ethos and core principles?

The official and warm welcome from Teesside University: “Meet Professor Antonia Liguori”

I recently joined Teesside University, in the UK, as Professor of Participatory Storytelling and Public Policy and the wonderful Comms Team just created this great video to summarise my research.

You can read the post on the University website via this link: https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/news/pressreleases_story.cfm?story_id=8500

And you can see my research profile here: https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/antonia-liguori

Storytelling seminars in Wellington, New Zealand

Thrilled to be in Wellington, New Zealand, for a series of storytelling seminars hosted by Otago University and to finally meet in person the brilliant Dr Hemakumar Devan and his colleagues to learn more about their inspiring work on the HRC Whānau opioid stories project, exploring the use of participatory storytelling for a more “holistic” and culturally appropriate approach to chronic pain.


More info and registration here: https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/about/events/talk-series-participatory-storytelling-in-health-practice,-research-and-policy

Digital Storytelling with museum objects: exploring the benefits of co-creation within diverse learning communities

It is now accessible online the video-recording of my presentation at the European Open and Digital Learning Week 2023, as part of the panel on Well-being, Heritage and Higher Education Learning chaired by Prof. Antonella Poce, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.

You can watch it here 50′ from the start of the panel.

EODLW 2023 – Well-being, Heritage and Higher Education Learning (my talk 50′ from the start)

You can read the abstract below.

Social interaction between peers is an essential factor in the development of an inclusive practice within formal and non-formal Education, aiming at increasing individual and collective wellbeing. Starting from this premise, Digital Storytelling is presented here as a transformative educational approach, considering the key values of its original model and the flexibility of the various tools applied within this participatory practice. In particular, the use of museum objects, both in the physical and in the virtual space, is suggested as a way of prompting the storytelling process during the story-circle, while exploring personal connections with the object itself. This activity has proved to enhance creativity and collaboration in a context in which mutual learning and peer support are prioritised. Our experience suggests that the role of emotion in the digital storytelling process is central to the promotion of ‘embodiment’, a specific form of knowledge that exists in ‘the telling of stories with emotional meaning’. This extraordinarily rich meaning-making process facilitated in the various steps of the Digital Storytelling approach, that constantly interweaves the personal and the collective, finds its engine in the hyper segmentation of the conventional DS model and its many disruptions driven by co-creation.

Wellbeing, Heritage and Higher Education Learning

For the European Open and Digital Learning Week organised by EDEN DLE, I was invited to deliver a talk as part of an exciting panel discussion (on Monday the 6th of November at 3pm CET) facilitated by Prof. Antonella Poce, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.

The panel explores how we promote wellbeing within the university context and what role could the use of technology and heritage play. The session, through the participation of seven experts from different European and non-European institutions, aims to investigate research experiences in the field of promoting and evaluating wellbeing in formal Higher Education contexts, especially through the use of heritage and technology as educational tools.

The title of my presentation is: Digital Storytelling with museum objects: exploring the benefits of co-creation within diverse learning communities.

If you want to join us, please, register via this link.