A city is comprised of complex fabrics woven from its physical spaces and the lives of the people who inhabit them. To understand a city, one needs to study both the stories of these lives, and the spaces in which they unfold. Storying Sheffield is about narrative, community, arts/wellbeing, mental health & place.

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  Information about this new project which uses audio, text and images to deepen understandings of the social determinants of…

This Storying project is part of a large research initiative entitled “Empowering whom? The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the…

This research project, Improving Wellbeing Through Urban Nature (IWUN), is led by Dr Anna Jorgensen and crosses disciplines, using a variety of methods to…

Gradients. Glimpses of Sheffield is a new publication made up of writing and images by students from the Faculty of Arts…

Material Stories of Migration is a collaborative arts project based in Sheffield in which migrants work creatively with local artists…

Stories of Change is a collaborative project between Sheffield First Partnership’s Better Connected Programme, the University of Sheffield, local artists,…

Storying Sheffield engages in various research projects closely allied to its activities and themes. The Storying Sheffield project itself emerged…

Storying Sheffield has worked in various ways with people who live with mental health problems, and organisations offering support or…

A Dialogic Exploration of Gluten Ataxia: Lived Experience, the Medical Condition, its History This new and ongoing project led by…

This project is led by Charlotte Conway. Charlotte’s research interests are the uses of personal narratives and recovery stories within…