The Truth of the Tale
How can academics work with storytellers to translate factual research into gripping stories for children and adults? What is the relation between truthfulness and fantasy in storytelling?
Projects
Motherhood in a Climate Crisis
What are women’s concerns and questions when contemplating motherhood in the climate crisis? What methods are effective in facilitating non-judgemental dialogue between women who have made different reproduction choices?
The Dragon Debates
How do the public themselves argue today, as compared with the political elites who are traditionally the focus of study? What rhetorical appeals do the public find most persuasive in practice and why?
Constitutional Therapy
How can we explore the creative processes behind our different voices? Can the popular media of podcasts and short films assist the political process of constitution-making? How can we tell the history of Chile’s social movements from the perspective of the objects that shaped them?
How can flood data be more useful?
In emergency flood disasters, what information is needed from scientists? How should data be presented and within what timeframe?
Inspire, Move and Illuminate
What makes a place special and unique? What causes people to fall in love with an environment?
Once upon a Hill: An action research inquiry into community engagements with Robinswood Hill Country Park
What is the value of local parks in lifting the wellbeing of local communities? How do communities relate to their green spaces?
Creative Grieving
How can we explore the therapeutic potential of creativity? What is the most effective way to demonstrate the different ways that art and the imagination can enable the bereaved to express and process their loss?
Classical Religions and Modern Wellbeing
What resources could a multidisciplinary dialogue about ancient Greek and Roman religions discover for understanding, caring for, and cultivating forms of mental and spiritual wellbeing today? How could this same dialogue generate new perspectives on Greek and Roman religions?
Library Stories
How have encounters with ideas hidden in the pages of books and archives stimulated imagination? What connections with others happen amongst the labyrinth of shelves and ideas that change the course of lives?