Digital Storytelling Durham: People

Teti has led a number of projects across Durham University and beyond which has involved working closely with a number of key collaborators, academic staff without whom the projects would not have been possible. You can read a little bit about each of the collaborators here and about their work and interest in stories.

Dr Teti Dragas (Digital Storytelling Lead)

Associate Professor, DCAD Durham University

Teti has facilitated and worked with lots of lovely storytellers across Durham and internationally in over 9 projects and is now busy penning this work in lots of exciting papers with her other co-collaborators and is working on a monograph with her co-author Laura Mazzoli Smith. Read more about Teti…

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Dr Alistair Brown

Assistant Professor, English Studies Durham University

The wonderful Alistair was the first collaborator on the digital storytelling project with Teti with some wonderful English Studies students and has worked on three projects altogether using Digital storytelling. He has also helped to set up this site. Read more about Alistair here…

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Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith

Associate Professor, School of Education Durham University

Laura is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, Durham. She has worked extensively on narrative methods and on various digital storytelling and narrative-based research projects. She is co-authoring a monograph on Digitial Storytelling as Learning Methodology with Teti. Read more about Laura here…

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Dr Sophie Ward

Associate Professor, School of Education Durham University

Sophie is an Associate Professor in the School of Education. She is the convener of a UG module, Historical and Philosophical Ideas in Education working with Laura and Teti. It’s the first module to use digital storytelling as a summative assessment which the team are busy writing about now. Read…

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Dr Emily Williams

Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology Durham University

Emily is the director of the MA in Archaeological and Museum Objects. Her interest in storytelling came from her study of objects and their histories. Storytelling has been used on the MA to support the professional development and skills of the students who are training to be conservators. This has…

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