The University of Brighton (UoB) is located on the south coast of England approximately sixty miles from London and is home to some 21,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Digital Storytelling initiatives take place at the university through funded projects and undergraduate teaching. From 2013–2015, UoB was the lead partner in Silver Stories, a research partnership of nine organisations from six countries that explored the use of digital storytelling as a means to train health and social care professionals working with older people and gathered stories from different community groups across the participating countries. The 2015–16 ‘Moving Stories’ project, is a community-university partnership funded project developing the use of digital storytelling as a means to facilitate empathy and understanding between education professionals and local secondary school migrant children.
The university works closely with DigiTales, a research company hosted by Goldsmiths College, University of London, that has been leading cutting edge digital storytelling projects since 2005. This includes work with a range of different community organisations and groups underrepresented in the media, including young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, Black and Minority Ethnic groups, older people and users and survivors of mental health services
