Storytelling in Context

Storytelling is an increasingly popular method for health, social care, and wellbeing practice and policy. Storytelling enables organisations to listen to ‘what matters most’ for their service users and staff and create service-user informed, needs-led provision and effectively allocate resources. However, little exists to ensure practitioners are rigorous, research-informed, and qualified.

This project will explore the potential to build the Centre’s offer to ensure effective training, courses and knowledge exchange. Led by PGR alumnus of the Centre (Hilary Dyer, Anna Suschitzky), who have become leading industry experts in storytelling for health and social care and supported the Centre’s academic team and in partnership with Social Care Wales, this project hopes to make a difference for people wishing to embed research-informed storytelling as part of their professional practice in health, social care, and associated areas.

This project will support the University’s ambitions to “be known for research-informed, research-led teaching and learning” and “demonstrably contribute to challenge-based learning and teaching and knowledge transfer activities” (Research and Innovation Strategy) with a focus on course provision that is innovative, accessible, and impactful.