Delighted to share the news that Tricia and I are working together again on a new digital reading project, this time based in Kenya…. DRIVE (Digital Reading for Inclusivity, Versatility and Engagement) is one of 24 new networks funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), a £1.5 billion […]
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Interviews from the Reading on Screen Roadshow
Mary talks about how she found Kit’s film inspiring especially for how it may help people with mental health issues. She also describes how the digital storytelling workshop has inspired her to do more family history storytelling. Barbara, another storyteller from our Bournemouth workshop, gives her views on Instagram and digital media more widely and […]
Reading on Screen Roadshow
On Monday 18 June we ran a Reading Roadshow as part of Bournemouth University’s Festival of Learning, just under a week of events where academics from the university put on events for the general public. For our event, we put on a screening of one of the project stories, plus the stories created by some […]
Exhibition at Jubilee Library, Brighton
An exhibition of digital stories from all of the Reading on Screen workshops is now on display in the Jubilee Library in Brighton until Friday 22 December. There are two screens showing the stories on a continuous loop and booklets showing the portraits of all of the storytellers and a bit of information about them […]
Pictures at an Exhibition ….
Last Friday brought together storytellers from Bournemouth, Brighton and Sheffield to view an exhibition based on the project and to see screenings of their films. Also in attendance were some of our Advisory Group members and Rose Attu from The Reading Agency who spoke about the fantastic work they are doing encouraging more young people […]
Brighton Digital Festival Reading on Screen event
As part of Brighton Digital Festival we were invited by Jubilee Library to show some of the Digital Stories made at the Reading on Screen workshop in Brighton, on Monday evening. Ross introduced the project to the audience and showed Jenni and Barbara’s wonderful intergenerational films to open the evening. Jenni introduced the stories and […]
Reading on Screen at the Off the Shelf Festival
We are heading for Sheffield this week for the final workshop! We are delighted that this event is featuring in Sheffield’s Off The Shelf festival which has been running since the early 90s. This year the festival line up includes Robert Webb, Mark Haddon and Brian Blessed, so we really are amongst illustrious company!! Our involvement […]
Reading on Screen Team at the Un/Told Un/Conference
Tricia, Ross, Ray, Isobel and I all took part in this ‘unconference’ on digital storytelling held at the University of East London in early July https://www.uel.ac.uk/events/2017/07/unconference-digital-storytelling. Advisory Group member Mark Dunford was one of the organisers, and the innovative format ensured that participants over the course of the 4 days had many different opportunities to […]
Reading on Reading
If you would like to find out a bit more about how people are researching ‘digital reading’ and the background to this project, please do check out the websites from our previous project Researching Readers Online and the Digital Reading Network. For example, the ‘Research Findings’ section of the Researching Readers Online site has the […]
Project News
The project got underway with a team meeting at the University of Brighton on 21 April, where we discussed the background to the project and preparations for the upcoming workshops. It is a complete coincidence (or is it?) that the photo of the team below shows them engrossed in ‘reading on screen’! From left to […]
