
Re-imagining Research
An Ethical Response to a time of crisis
This project was initially developed as a response to the first wave of the pandemic and the first lockdown. We created a series of immersive online story experiences to connect children with eight artists and cultural organisations. This was our call to action: Reimagining Home Together: Saving Planet Anksi! | Leeds Beckett University



Underpinning research into 'story weaving'
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We called this new way of working story weaving and wrote about the new possibilities this opened.
Stephenson, L., Daniel, A. and Storey, V., 2022. Weaving critical hope: story making with artists and children through troubled times. Literacy, 56(1), pp.73-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12272
A Recovery curriculum
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The Windmill Cluster of Schools in Brixton then picked this up as a recovery curriculum across their schools
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Story making across the primary curriculum
An article about our work:
Story making: Drama in primary with the Story Makers Company | Drama And Theatre
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Reimagining Home for Leeds 2023
Three years after its inception we partnered with Leeds 2023 to reimagine our reimagining project. Schools across Leeds could sign on and come together to take part in this project.


"I think the benefits (of working in this way) are the opportunity to unlock learning with the children so you're learning with them."
Participating Teacher
"It was very organic in how it evolved. And so if a child couldn't necessarily push the boundaries on a particular thing, that didn't matter because you were wrapped up in it together so everybody felt valued, I think it was probably an advantage to the learning."
Participating Teacher
