Public Stories Lab: Exploring the Social and Cultural Value of Trees through Storytelling
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216
Date & Time
May 1, 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Description
RSVP on the original myUMBC post
Join the Public Stories Lab to explore how storytelling is fundamental to human experience and understanding. It also forms the basis for qualitative methodologies like ethnography and narrative inquiry.
In the context of an interdisciplinary and multi-sited research
project, researchers from Branching Out will explore how ‘tree’ stories
enable us to understand the social and cultural value of trees.
Alma Solarte-Tobon is based in Nottingham, UK. She is currently a Research Associate and Doctoral Researcher at the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University. Her PhD research focuses on digital storytelling and emotional literacy, specifically around Latin American young people living in the East Midlands. Outside research, she has over 20 years’ experience in community arts as a Creative Producer for City Arts in Nottingham, delivering local and international projects in many art forms.Mike Wilson is Professor of Drama and Head of Creative Arts at Loughborough University, where he is also Director of the Storytelling Academy, a research and teaching collective in Applied Storytelling (https://storytellingacademy.education/) . He has previously served as Dean of Research at Falmouth University and was Co-Founder of The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales. His main research interests lie broadly within the field of popular and vernacular performance and he has led numerous projects that explore the application of storytelling to a variety of social and policy contexts, especially around environmental policy, health, education and social justice. This has included work across the UK and Europe, as well as in Kenya, Uganda, India and Colombia. He has served on many Advisory Boards and Panels for the UK Research Councils and the British Council and has published widely on storytelling and its various applications.
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