Through the publication of Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2021) and subsequent written and oral dissemination work recorded on this website, Dillon and Craig have established a framework for accessing the cognitive value of stories to produce narrative evidence to inform decision-making as part of a pluralistic evidence base.
Engagement around Storylistening highlighted a demand for work deploying storylistening in relation to real world policy issues, demonstrating how it might work in practice.
Responding to this demand, in 2022-23 Dillon and Craig, together with new collaborator, Dr Alex Tasker, ran two small proof of concept projects in order to trial various methods of operationalising storylistening for nuclear policy (funded by the University of Cambridge Arts and Humanities Impact Fund), and for future uses of space (funded by CAPE). The results of those projects are recorded here.