About Us
The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan is dedicated to promoting, teaching, developing and researching storytelling in all its forms. The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling was launched in April 2005 by Prof Hamish Fyfe and Prof Mike Wilson.
The centre consolidates and builds upon the University of Glamorgan’s existing strengths in storytelling and is named after the socialist and oral history pioneer who was born and raised in the former mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University.
The centre is led by Professor Hamish Fyfe. The Co-Director is Karen Lewis. Dr Patrick Ryan is Research Fellow at the centre. The centre research assistant is Emily Underwood-Lee.
The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is proud to partner Storyworks, an organisation based at the Wales Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan. Storyworks has been established to support organisations interested in gathering stories and using them to improve their services. For more information visit http://www.storyworksglam.co.uk/.
For more detailed information on the centre including our recent activities, projects and publications please read our report on the activities of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling in the academic years 2008/9 and 2009/10 and our report on the activities of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling in the academic year 2010/11.
Storytelling
Storytelling has had a global renaissance in the last twenty years both as a unique art form, and in its many applications. Its uses range from health care to working with disadvantaged communities, from social work to oral history.
The centre collaborates with storytellers, artists and people in the creative and cultural industries as well as supporting those people who use storytelling in community and education settings. Students and academics at all levels will also find a wealth of resources at the centre.
Teaching
As well as opportunities to study storytelling at both undergraduate and postgraduate level the centre provides accredited and non-accredited courses for people using storytelling within the context of their work including teachers, children’s librarians and care workers. Applications and proposals from people wishing to study for a postgraduate research degree (M.Res, M.Phil or Ph.D) are also welcomed. We have a growing community of storytelling postgraduate researchers at both Masters and PhD level.
Research
The centre engages in both traditional scholarly research and practice-led research, investigating and interrogating the art form through engagement with academics and artists. The centre also presents regular conferences, symposia and seminars on storytelling.
Development
The Centre provides advice, support and evaluation for innovative projects and initiatives using storytelling from small community projects using storytelling as a means of collecting oral history through to providing evaluation of large government funded schemes.
If there is anything you would like to know more about please contact us at storytelling@glam.ac.uk
