In all corners of the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected young people’s education, employment, mental health and disposable income, particularly for those who had already been disadvantaged due to complex inequalities and marginalisation. In low- and middle-income countries like Colombia, the impact of the pandemic has been felt...
This blog is part of Changing The Story’s #YoungChangemakers series. The Changemakers in Film Summit series was curated by Jacqueline Adjei, an undergraduate Laidlaw scholar working with the CTS team. This blog post details some of my reflections for each event however, it doesn’t cover the full extent of each...
Music can overcome violence and marginalization. The language of music is able to transcend physical and non-tangible barriers to connect people including those at the urban margins. Co-created music during our project ¿Cuál es la verdad? not only allowed us to understand and to disclose local realities of the group...
* Perspectives from ‘Creative Expression among Young Cambodians’ Workshop was originally posted on the Cambodian Living Arts Website (9 July). The original post can be found here. Written by Danielle KHLEANG We move forward like the branches that grow bigger and longer, yet we never forget where we are from....
Rachel Killean, Queens University Belfast Film and filmmaking have proved to be critical avenues for raising awareness about environmental challenges. High profile screen releases have helped set and steer agendas around, for example, An Inconvenient Truth and global heating, Blue Planet and plastic usage, and most recently Seaspiracy and marine...
It would take 59 days and 20 hours to walk from Pristina to Kigali, and 73 days to walk from Bournemouth to Kigali. I wanted to measure this time as a poignant reminder of distance as experienced through the new lens of personal movement through space during the pandemic....
The Making of School Houses in the 90s and the School House Museum by Jeta Rexha forms part of the Changing the Story Blog Series. Jeta Rexha is a Research Assistant on the Phase 2 Early Career Research Project The Making of the Museum of Education (Kosovo). The ‘house-school’ that...
Mary Drosopulos is the Post-doctoral Research Assistant of the Co-Learn SEE project (January-July 2021): a comparative, evaluative and participatory research project investigating the learning from four CtS participatory-arts projects in the SEE region. Getting involved in the CoLearn SEE project When I got involved in the ‘Changing the Story’ project...
By Lisa Glybchenko, PhD student in International Relations, founder of Color Up Peace My recent engagement with Changing the Story’s Youth Research Board made me once again, and slightly differently, reflect on the project I started as an undergraduate student at the American University in Bulgaria four and a half...
Giulia Levi is a doctoral candidate at Bournemouth University, which is a partner university in Changing the Story. Based on her practice experience with civil society initiatives working towards peace building in Bosnia Hercegovina since 2005, she is currently completing a comparative, VC-funded PhD project called ‘Bridging societal divisions in...