We are delighted to announce that the world’s first collective graphic memoir on student mental health “Things and the mind”, developed by Lancaster University, will be out in print this month, shared with 50 UK universities, looking towards international distribution and digital sharing and training activities. A graphic memoir is usually a book that […]
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It’s been a strange year… Just a brief update on the ongoing project that is applying a participatory design approach towards developing a graphic narrative co-created by students-volunteers, students-survey participants, student Co-I (Monika Conti), student artist (Andi Setiawan) and project PI (Dr Natasa Lackovic, Educational Research). The project is a part of the largest student […]
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Please visit CIELL project web site for updates on this project:https://ciell.eu/
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Art by Eleni Tsampra @2018, all rights reserved. Eleni Tsampra (Associate Professor, AKTO College, Greece and Associate Lecturer, University of West Attica, Greece), is one of the team members of the Erasmus + CIELL project led by Lancaster University. CIELL aims to support essay writing in an engaging and deep manner, to support students who […]
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Art by Edmond Baudoin, Traces of the Great War @2018 On a Marché sur la Bulle. All rights reserved A teaching and learning resource for KS3 teachers primarily targeting English and literacy (a flipbook uploaded below), in addition to Citizenship and History was created by ReOPeN, in collaboration with LICAF, commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the […]
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ThINK on the page, by Sarah Catherine Firth What a delight: this festive season’s blog is written by Sarah Catherine Firth, an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator based in Melbourne. Sarah’s work relates to the concept of graphic social science via her thought-provoking art, such as the series of “thINK on the […]
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By Can Yalcinkaya, part 2 of Can Yalcinkaya’s graphic social science blog post. I got involved in the Australian alternative comics/graphic novels scene and created comics for local anthologies, as well as limited run zines. While none of these earlier comics were created as “scholarly” works, they were nonetheless informed by my research interests. “Wounds […]
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Art by Joe Decie 2018 Introducing ReOPeN, CiC’s (Communites in Control project) and Joe Decie’s collaborative work: a graphic narrative “Communites in Control” about health inequalities in England. This graphic narrative booklet builds on communities’ stories, wonderfully drawn by Joe Decie, with scenarios and design solutions developed by Lancaster University’s academic team Emma Halliday (Health […]
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Art by Dave McKean 2018 On Thursday October the 18th, 2018, a group of schools and teachers in Cumbria gathered in Kendal to start their participation in a project about the use of graphic novels and comics teaching toolkit (the featured image), based on a fantastic graphic stories’ anthology Traces of the Great War about […]
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Reading time: app. 3 minutes Introducing part 1 of a 2-part-blog-entry hosted by Can Yalcinkaya. We are delighted to host blogs on Graphic Social Science, and spread the good word about the work of all the wonderful creators that link graphic novels and social science, any social issue really! We invited Can Yalcinkaya, the convenor […]
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