Storytelling as a Method for Sustainability Research

The St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities (StACCS) invites you to join us for a workshop exploring the value of storytelling as a method for sustainability research.

StACCS addresses the challenges of sustainability through interdisciplinary collaboration around the themes of carbon, capital, and community, drawing on methodological principles that reflect on how we do this work: creatively, civically, carefully, and chronologically. This event will form part of our activities related to the ‘creatively' theme which seeks to generate new narratives about sustainability in the face of the inadequacy of mainstream responses to the climate crisis.

Building on our earlier discussion in May, this session brings together a small group of scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines, each of whom has been invited to share a brief reflection on how they integrate storytelling into their work. Our aim is to highlight how fiction can enrich sustainability research and inspire more creative and transformative approaches to scholarship.

We will be joined by the following speakers:
– Dr Loraine Clarke, School of Computer Science
– Dr Roxani Krystalli, School of International Relations
– Dr Tom Metcalfe, School of Computer Science

The event will be chaired by Prof. Jo Sharp, School of Geography and Sustainable Development.