Projects

Here you can see the list of my research projects in chronological order.

2025-2026 Flippin’ Pain through Storytelling – a project funded by AHRC Impact Acceleration Account. Budget: £ 23,143 [Principal Investigator]

2025-2026 Making Waves: A UK Young Academy Project promoting ocean literacy across UK secondary school subjects through digital storytelling.

2025 Pinning down the intangible: applying digital storytelling as an evaluation tool (Consultancy project commissioned by Point North).

2024-2025 Streetwork and Participatory Action Research thorugh Storytelling (Consultancy project commissioned by Dynamo International).

2024-2025 Climate Action through Sport in the context of refugees and displacement (Consultancy project commissioned by Loughborough University London).

2024-2025 IMAGINE: A UK Young Academy project which seeks to enable/inspire young people to imagine a future for themselves and others.

2021-2024   INTERACT Made Smarter Network+ ESRC award; Total budget: £4,885,886 [Co-Investigator].

2022-2023   Gender Based Violence and Resilience in India: Co-Producing Interdisciplinary Network through storytelling and applied theatre (GenViR Network India). AHRC award; Total budget: £48,143 [Co-Investigator].

2019-2021 What’s App with Everyone? Animated storytelling for mental health literacy among young people – funded by AHRC. Total budget: £996,475 [Co-Investigator]

2021-2023  FutureAbilty – Digital and transversal skills for online teachers. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 287.230 [Co-Investigator].

2021-2023 E-SHAHRAZAD – Innovative Approaches in Adult Education: Digital Storytelling in Intergenerational Learning. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 228,829 [Co-Investigator].

2020-2023  SOLIS – Developing wellbeing and social inclusion: achieving success through understanding of cultural diversity. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 345,442 [Principal Investigator].

2019-2022  Art-Connection – Promoting EU Key Competence no.8 (cultural awareness & expression) as a tool for the development of individual and collective skills that promote social cohesion. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 387.195 [Co-Investigator]

2019-2022  CERTIFY – Crisis and Employment: Tools and Methodologies For Your future. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 287.518 [Principal Investigator]

2019-2021 OPÉRATION “CALCUL” À GRAPHOVILLE 2.0. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 179,763 [Co-Investigator]

2018-2021  PÁRAMO – Provisioning Of Ecosystem Services And Cultural Values In The Montane Tropics. Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Budget: £ 287,405 [Researcher Co-I].

2018-2021  PARAGUAS – How Do The Páramos Store Water? The Role Of Plants And People. Funders: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Budget: £ 184.120 [Researcher Co-I]

2021  Creative Archives: Producing, Preserving and Showcasing Transnational India Film Heritage. AHRC award; Total budget: £34,342 [Co-Investigator].

2018-2020  SELAM – Learning self-awareness and self-management to eliminate bullying and create peer support scheme in immigrant concentrated schools. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 198.360 [Co-I]

03-06 2018   ‘Storying’ the Cultural Heritage: Digital Storytelling as a tool to enhance the 4Cs in formal and informal learning. AHRC IPS at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA). [PI]

2018-2019 ENDOWS – Engaging Diverse Stakeholders And Publics With Outputs From The UK Drought And Water Scarcity Programme. Funder: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Budget: £ 6.926 [Researcher Co-Investigator]

2017-2019  DIST – Digital Integration StoryTelling. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 204.908 [Co-I]

2017-2019   EOOL – Europe of our lives. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 137.330 [Co-Investigator]

2016-2019   CASCADE – Increasing Civil Society’s Capacity To Deal With Changing Extreme Weather Risk: Negotiating Dichotomies In Theory And Practice. Funder: Economic and Social Research Council. Budget: £ 29.811 [Researcher Co-Investgator]

2016– 2018    DICHE- Digital Innovation in Cultural and Heritage Education in the light of 21st century learning. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 300.533 [Co-I]

2016-2017  The Reasons – ‘There is something in the water’. Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council – Connected Communities Programme (AHRC). Budget: £19,031 [Researcher Co-Investigator]

2015– 2017  NAR-SPI – Narrative educational resources for socio-professional inclusion. Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2; Total budget: € 195.963 [Co-Investigator]

2014-2019  DRY – Drought Risk and You. Funded by UK Research Councils Institutional budget: £ 493.000 [Researcher]

2006–2011  Various funded projects as Principal Investigator in the Lazio Region, Italy:

– Writing 100 biographies of the Historical Dictionary of Lazio in cooperation with the Museum of Italian Liberation, Rome, Italy;

– Working on a research project at the University of Cassino (Italy); – Cataloguing newsreels and documentaries produced between 1930 and 1939 by the fascist official organ of propaganda