Organisers

Muireann Crowley, project leader
Muireann is a second year PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature. Her doctoral research project focuses on representations of authorial identity in Romantic-era Scottish and Irish novels. She enjoys working in collaboration with others, and looks forward to listening to and learning from the stories that will emerge over the course of this project.
Alison Garden, project leader
Alison is a final year PhD student in the English Literature department. Alison's thesis focuses on the work of the contemporary author Colum McCann and explores his work as part of a transnational Irish canon, paying close attention to the development and social symbolism of literary form. She is delighted to be running this project because she not only loves stories, she also loves it when ideas can be understood and shared by all.
Erin Farley, storytelling coordinator
Erin is a young storyteller currently working towards registration on the Scottish Storytelling Directory. She has told stories to a range of community groups across Scotland with the charity Archaeology Scotland, and is on the committee of the Orkney Storytelling Festival. Erin studied Scottish Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, graduating with distinction in an MSc by research on the topic of supernatural landscape folktales in 2011. Hearing other people's stories is as important to Erin as telling them. She has been volunteering with the award-winning Museums Alive reminiscence project, run by Edinburgh Council, since January 2012, and currently works as a research assistant on two oral history projects within the University of Edinburgh.
Anna Feintuck, History, Classics and Archaelogy coordinator
Anna Feintuck is a first year PhD student in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is working as part of an inter-disciplinary team on the AHRC funded project "Mapping Edinburgh's Social History". Her research examines networks of printers and publishers, with a particular focus on cartographic firms, in Edinburgh c.1840-1980, and their contribution to Edinburgh's development as a knowledge capital. She also works as a tutor in social history and loves teaching. She is excited about the prospect of exploring new ways of presenting historical research.
Graeme Ferguson, GeoSciences Coordinator
Recent work across the social sciences appears to evidence an increased willingness to engage with imaginative modes of expression, form and presentation. As a narrative and analytic approach, storytelling promises means of attending to the world in all its particularity. Yet, as anthropologist Michael Taussig notes, we often remain blind to the ways in which ethnographic research relies upon the art of telling others’ stories – badly. My involvement in this project stems from interests in storytelling approaches across and outwith the academy, and how they might inform more nuanced understandings of the potentials and limitations of storytelling within scholarly practices.
Cormac Ó Callanáin, Edinburgh College of Art coordinator
Cormac Ó Callanáin is a PhD candidate at the Reid School of Music in the University of Edinburgh, having recently completed a master's degree in musicology there. He is currently researching music and music technology exchanges between East and West Germany during the Cold War period. Cormac has worked extensively in the entertainment industry as a technician and sound engineer in venues in Ireland, England and Scotland. He enjoys film photography and is presently learning to play the bouzouki.