Author: tricia

Reading on Screen (RoS) was a collaboration between the universities of Bournemouth and Brighton funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  It was designed to share the findings with the public, of two previous projects at Bournemouth University, funded by the AHRC: Researching Readers Online and Digital Reading Network. DigiTales led Digital Storytelling workshops in Bournemouth, Brighton […]

DigiTales collaborated with Dr. Elena Vaccelli at the University of Greenwich on a pilot project working with the Portuguese speaking community in Stockwell, South London. There are roughly 35,000 Portuguese speaking migrants in Stockwell, spanning across different generations of migration and across different continents, including Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. The pilot project used […]

Untold Stories is a Civic Engagement project, supported by the University of East London’s (UEL) Civic Engagement Fund and the Salvation Army Housing Association (SAHA).  Digitales is working with 7 students from UEL to train them in Digital Storytelling facilitation, which they will then go on to apply as they facilitate a Digital Storytelling workshop […]

DigiTales collaborated with Zap Art, Sussex Prisoners’ Families and the University of Brighton on the Hidden Voices project, creating digital stories with families of prisoners in Brighton in February 2017. Hidden Voices was a programme of expressive arts workshops in youth clubs and community centres across East and West Sussex, to raise awareness of the […]

Validating and Connecting Experiences of Working and Studying Abroad Through Digital Storytelling StoryA – A Transnational European project funded by ErasmusPlus.  The UK Component is led by the University of Brighton. Partners: MeltingPro (Italy – lead partner); Storycenter (USA), Media Shots (Portugal), Verein Digital Story Vienna (Austria), Perspectives (Belgium), Museu da Pessoa (Brazil), Kulturskolan Stockholm (Sweden), Cape Peninsula […]

DigiTales was one of the three UK partners of the Silver Stories partnership (2013-2015)  which was led by the University of Brighton (UoB).  It was funded by the Lifelong Learning ‘Transfer of Innovation’ programme. DigiTales developed the Silver Stories proposal to the EC with the University of Brighton, building  upon our award-winning Extending Creative Practice […]

      DigiTales was commissioned by the Salvation Army Housing Association (SAHA) to train staff to use digital storytelling with their residents, many of whom are young people who have faced challenges and difficulties in their lives. The SAHA approach, through its Open Talent programme, is based on a life coaching model, which emphasises talent spotting […]