‘The Festival of Creative and Digital Methods’ was a conference event held at the Loughborough campus in January 2026 hosted by SSH and EAP. The Festival continues through its online Interactive Taster Series hosted on the Learning & Teaching Teams channel. This starts a dedicated focus on enhancing knowledge and skills of the range of methods that can be used in both teaching and research.
In each session, colleagues across the university share, their chosen creative methods with participants. Each session includes interactive activities to enable participants to implement these methods in teaching and research contexts.
Staff can book onto each session via My.HR. Doctoral researchers can book onto each session through the Doctoral College Development Portal.
See upcoming Interactive Tasters below (with more to follow):
- 4 March – Stephanie Gou (Storytelling Academy): 'Storytelling as an approach'
- 18 March – Dr Victoria Wright (EAP): ‘Autoethnographic approaches teaching and research’
- 22 April – Dr Robyn Smith (SSEHS): ‘Podcasting as a participatory approach’
- 13 May – Robert Lang (SDCA): ‘Narrative methods: Embracing your Inner Storyteller as Scholarship’
- 3 June – Elizabeth Lovely (SDCA): ‘Way of Council’
- 24 June – Dr Tina Byrom (EAP): 'Beyond Words: Capturing Lived Experience with Images and Memory Boxes'
If you would like to run an Interactive Taster in the future, register your interest in hosting a session via the MS Form.
For general enquiries about the online series, please contact Dr Victoria Wright v.wright@lboro.ac.uk.