Location: UK

I am a social worker in the UK and have been working with children, young people and their families for thirty odd years. I am interested in Stories for Change and believe that fostering and adoption provides a wealth of information and interest that is unknown to the average person.

I have been working with the BBC's digital storytelling project for over four years as a facilitator and trainer. Last year I took an MRes looking into developing new forms of digital storytelling.

I work as a freelance participatory media facilitator mainly in digital media and narrative projects often using digital storytelling and more recently using location sensitive media. I work in a range of contexts and have been recently involved in workshops for Bristol Stories www.bristolstories.org, Knowle West Media Centre www.kwmc.org.uk, Digitales (Europe), Storybox http://www.story-box.co.uk, and Southville Mediascapes Project http://www.mscapers.com/msin/ABA0000010
I work in a whole range of educational, community and increasingly health contexts.
Other projects include being the content editor for www.l8r.uk.net - an interactive drama for learning about life skills (mainly sex and relationships) aimed at teenagers
and i also work for Creative Exchange an small international NGO and network which researches and advocates for a better understanding of the role of culture in development and social change.
I used to be an academic researching digital media and narrative in the context of social change... still interested in writing and researching this kind of work

I am an artist working in the community presently doing an MA in Arts in the Community at the University of Glamorgan. I have a passionate interest in digital storymaking and am basing my dissertation around the multiplicity of diversity which the digital story telling phenonemom promotes. My main focus will be on examining how something which can start as a deeply personal experience, a means of personal expression and individual creativity, can be shared with, and stimulate others. How it can open a window on historical and cultural identity, be used as an instrument for social change and justice, or a vehicle for promoting community participation and cohesion. As a universal tool Digital stories know no boundaries, they can make us laugh or cry; remind us of half forgotten memories; help us to understand ourselves and other people and teach us understanding and tolerance of others.