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...
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...
Creative responses to COVID-19, new regional consolidating learning research projects, and our first international film festival – find out what Changing the Story got up to in our third year! Following the scoping, development and capacity strengthening of our first year and the launch of our funding structure and Small...
Youth leadership and amplifying youth voice are key aims of Changing the Story (CTS), and are issues that I have been keen to focus on, as I believe that young people should be front and centre in decision-making that is about them and their futures. In recent months, CTS has...
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...
Youth, Voice and Development is a Leeds University-based programme that asks: ‘What works for putting young people at the heart of research that contributes to positive change?’ Phase One, in 2020, was a collaboration between Changing the Story and the British Council which aimed to map connections and synergies between...
This article draws on the findings of a collaboration between the British Council and Changing the Story (CTS). Through this collaboration, we have been sharing knowledge about innovative approaches for working with young people in complex situations in developing countries and have examined the impact of COVID-19. Young people matter. They represent over...