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      Bringing research alive through stories: reflecting on research storytelling as a public engagement method

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            Stories are vital in making sense of our lives – and research. Consequently, 12 researchers from the University of Sheffield underwent a three-month training process from September to November 2019 to learn how to shape their research experiences into accessible, ten-minute, spoken stories. This culminated in a storytelling evening as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science, at which researchers from different disciplines discussed various nature–society dynamics in diverse field sites in the Global South. By reflecting on the training process and the performance through qualitative interviews with storytellers and audience members, our study answers the research question: What lessons emerge from an interdisciplinary group of researchers engaging with research storytelling for public engagement? Our study addresses gaps in the literature by focusing on interdisciplinary research storytelling, spoken ten-minute stories, bringing together storytellers’ and audience’s viewpoints, and providing practical recommendations for researchers and practitioners. We argue that research storytelling can have diverse benefits for both researchers and listeners by promoting learning in an accessible format, boosting self-confidence and helping (un/re)learn scholarly communication. However, professional guidance and peer support, as well as ethical sensitivity, are crucial.

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            Journal
            rfa
            Research for All
            UCL Press (UK )
            2399-8121
            20 September 2022
            : 6
            : 1
            : 20
            Affiliations
            [1 ]University of Sheffield, UK
            [2 ]Lancaster University, UK
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            Author information
            https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-0781
            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7675-8825
            https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-2484
            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3785-8057
            https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4208-1211
            Article
            10.14324/RFA.06.1.20
            e8144123-9821-4011-9627-581ee724ef37
            Copyright 2022, Judith E. Krauss, Suma Mani, Jonas Cromwell, Itzel San Roman Pineda and Frances Cleaver

            This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

            History
            : 19 March 2021
            : 27 June 2022
            Page count
            Tables: 1, References: 60, Pages: 16
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            Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
            Global South,public engagement,research storytelling,interdisciplinarity

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