StoryWorks: a new collaboration with WIHSC
February 25, 2009
StoryWorks has been established to support public service organisations interested in using people’s stories to improve what they do. Stories offer huge potential to reveal what people really experience from service providers, and what they actually want. First hand accounts, in people’s own words, can be a uniquely powerful way of ‘hearing it like it is’. Based at the University of Glamorgan’s Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care (WIHSC), StoryWorks is a collaboration between two faculties – Health, Sport & Science and Creative & Cultural Industries (and specifically the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling). The University’s Commercial Services Office is supporting the venture. StoryWorks is led by Karen Lewis, under the stewardship of a management board consisting of Professor Maggie Kirk, Professor Marcus Longley, Professor Hamish Fyfe and Professor Mike Wilson.please click on the title above for more information and contact details for Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis Project Leader, StoryWorksKaren is a graduate in English Literature, with post graduate qualifications in education and media. She started her career as a teacher and examiner and then moved into the voluntary sector, where she worked as a Senior Practitioner for Barnardos and then Training and Communications Manager for the Special Needs Advisory Project (Wales). She spent some time as a freelance trainer and consultant, undertaking work for a range of organisations including Save the Children, Torfaen Council, Clybiau Plant Cymru, Cardiff Council and Children in Wales.
Karen joined the BBC in 1999, where she stayed for ten years. During this period she worked in radio, television and new media and was the founder producer of the Bafta Cymru award-winning digital storytelling project, Capture Wales. Her final position at BBC Wales was as Partnerships Manager, with responsibility for relationships with external organisations and BBC Wales’ charities broadcasts.
Karen joined WIHSC in January 2009, to lead the development of StoryWorks, which has been established to support public service organisations interested in using people’s stories to improve what they do.
Contact
Tel 01443 483070
klewis@glam.ac.uk
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