Projects + Organizations
Research + Storytelling + Narrative + Communication Strategy + Messaging
Academic Projects + Organizations
Studying + Researching Narrative
Storytelling Projects
Collecting + Telling Stories
Communications Projects + Services
Story + Narrative as Communicatons Strategy
Training
Story + Narrative as Communicatons Strategy
Founded in 2008, CIRN’s mission is to serve those working with narrative ideas and approaches in various disciplines by facilitating research on the role of narrative in human experience, assisting the development of theory on the narrative complexity of human life and encouraging the use of narrative approaches to practice in a variety of fields. CIRN published Narrative Works from 2011-2020.
“Narrare Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University brings together researchers in literary studies, social sciences, game studies, media and journalism, history, philosophy, education, psychology, health sciences, political science and administrative studies. The centre’s essential aim is to develop consistent narrative-theoretical methodology for all disciplines working with narrative.”
“The Narrative Network is a network for academics at The University of Melbourne interested in narrative research, founded by Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn, hosts of the podcast Narrative Now.”
“Project Narrative is a cluster of faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students who work on narrative and narrative theory. Project Narrative sponsors lectures, colloquia, and conferences at Ohio State University, bringing specialists from all over the world to discuss developments in narrative theory.”
“The Narrative Group at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies pursues basic and applied research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding. Core technologies include logical abduction reasoning with large-scale formalizations of commonsense knowledge, generative AI models for content creation, and the integration of neural, probabilistic, and symbolic reasoning methods.”
“Narrative 4 offers educators creative tools to teach compassion and develop strong student leaders in the classroom and community. Through our Story Exchange, Artists Network, Learning Resources, and Civic Engagement projects, Narrative 4 is creating a global network of changemakers.”
“The European Narratology Network (ENN) is an association of individual narratologists and narratological institutions. Our focus is predominantly, but not exclusively, 'European' in the sense of:
our object domain: narrative representation in literature, film, digital media, etc. across all European languages and cultures;
our institutional affiliation: universities, research institutions and interest groups based in one of the European countries.”
“Founded in 2008, we explore all forms of stories, from myth to memoir, in all kinds of media, from print to performance. We sponsor courses, workshops, grants, fellowships, and a live event series that give students an opportunity to appreciate the way stories work, work on us, and can work for us. We also produce two podcasts that feature the research and creative work of the Stanford community: the award-winning State of the Human and our fiction and poetry show, Off the Page.”
“StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Since our founding in 2003, we’ve helped nearly 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in our online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered."
“Effective social impact stories create emotion and drive action. Our in-depth research on the topic transforms how practitioners and their organizations approach storytelling now and into the future.”
“Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.”
“Narrative Initiative is a strategy hub. We collaborate with social movements to transform deeply held beliefs and values to make equity and justice the foundations of multiracial democracy.”
“ReFrame Builds Narrative Power to Win. We invest in people — strategists, creatives, leaders, and dreamers — developing the skills, acumen, and networks we need to advance just narratives at scale. We use powerful technology to understand narratives across society in real time, gain strategic insight, and forecast arising opportunities to advance just narratives. We develop strategies, curate stories and mobilize networks to advance narratives that light the way to justice, liberation, healing and freedom for all people and the Earth.”
“Just Bloom offers award-winning workshops in creativity and leadership. We developed new science based on an ancient understanding of the brain, in which Story is how you think rather than something you tell. Designed by Dr. Angus Fletcher, the Just Bloom StoryThinking Method offers an alternative to divergent and convergent theories of creativity such as brainstorming, ideation, and Design Thinking.”