The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales is dedicated to promoting, teaching, developing and researching storytelling in all its forms. The Centre was launched in April 2005 by Prof Hamish Fyfe and Prof Mike Wilson.
The Centre consolidates and builds upon the University’s existing strengths in storytelling and is named after the socialist and oral history pioneer George Ewart Evans, who was born and raised in the former mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University’s Treforest campus.
Storytelling is both a unique art form and a valuable tool for promoting understanding and communication. Its uses range from health care to working with disadvantaged communities, from social work to oral history. We believe storytelling should be instrumental in enhancing inclusion, social justice and cultural life at individual, local, national and international levels. Our work contributes to the development of storytelling, raises public and civic awareness of storytelling, and challenges cultural values and social assumptions.
The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling (GEECS) has an experienced staff, a growing number of research students, and a truly international profile working with partners across the globe.
George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, University of South Wales, Cardiff Campus (ATRiuM), Adam Street, Cardiff, CF24 2FN UK
If you would like to find out more about the work of The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling please contact the Centre Director, Professor Emily Underwood-Lee.
If there is anything you would like to know more about please contact us at [email protected].
