Listening & watching
If you want to find out more - have a watch or a listen to these videos and podcast recordings of our consultants discussing their research and working practices.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Masterclass: The power and the impact of contributor-led storytelling
This talk explains the ethics of storytelling about real people, specifically in the humanitarian and development sector, and advocates for telling stories in partnership with the people who have lived those experiences. The talk considers three key questions:
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Who gets to see?
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Who gets to speak?
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What is the responsibility of the teller of real life stories?
Originally recorded as a Masterclass at the University of Huddersfield in February 2023.
Jess Crombie: On storytelling partnerships
In this podcast I am interviewed by the founder and director of the Photo Ethics Centre Savannah Dodd about my career, my research, and my thinking on image making as a process of partnership between the image maker and the person who is sharing their story.
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Is NGO storytelling unethical?
In this podcast I discuss this question with Ernest Randriarimalala, communications specialist at WaterAid Madagascar, and Rachel Erskine, communications manager
at Amref Health Africa UK.
Changing the narrative in storytelling
Kirsty Adams, together with Kondwani Jere (Documentary photographer and Storyteller), Jess Crombie, (Researcher and scholar at UAL) and Sofia Ollvid (Communications Director at SolarAid) explore the topic of storytelling and content for the non-profit sector, looking at the people and the processes who hold the power to form perceptions, and how this can be done better.