Since April 2015 the Stories2Connect project team has been working hard to listen to disadvantaged children and young people and find out more about their lives. Our young researchers and the rest of the project team have spoken to over 120 children, young people, parents, carers and professionals in a series of story-telling interviews and events. From 2017-2018, a number of professional and aspiring artists, authors, film makers and animators collaborated with the project team in order to support the fictionalisation process and to help us to connect with diverse audiences. Click on their names below for examples of their fantastic work and contributions to the project.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators:
Sui Anukka
Anne Boyle
Lois Johnson
Janet Mann
Alison Padley-Woods
Kathryn Blatch
Debra Tracey
Deb Michel
Mel Green
Dale Hannah
Jo Deardon
Liz Halsall
Marie Basting
Jennifer Burkinshaw
Other Authors
UCLan students: Amy Lee Tempest, James Seymour
Lancaster University Students: Megan Breakwell, Michael Pritchard, Sohil Vanayak, Antonia Wood
Illustrators
UCLan students: Alice Cullinane
Falmouth University Students:
Sally Button
Matilda O’Connell
Freelance Illustrators and Artists:
Tim Chapman
Ben Thompson
Ruth Smith
Film Makers and Animators:
Sound Technicians:
Narrators:
Jonathan Hirst
Fabian Satchwell-Hirst
Dale & Susana Hannah
Ian Crook
Jenna Abbott
Naomi Womack
Janet Foxley
Marion Brown
Jennifer Burkinshaw
Deb Michel
Alison Padley-Woods