International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling

Welcome to IRIS

The International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling (IRIS) promotes and supports creative research into the use and application of storytelling in media and technology. It has been formed to explore new, alternative and emerging methods of storytelling in an interdisciplinary and multi-perspectival context. 

The research centre brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, industry partners and students in order to ​foster creative conversations around ground-breaking research in contemporary media forms. Furthermore, it aims to promote dialogue between creative practice and theoretical knowledge as related forms of research work and provides the conditions for fully developing a wide range of possible projects. 

The centre offers research seminars, workshops and conferences. It also welcomes PhD candidates in its members’ areas of research including:

• Journalism, Media Representation, Political Communication, and Political Economy of the Media
• Film studies, documentary studies, audience analysis
• Visual ethnography, visual communication
• Digital Education

Our research

View the work of some of our IRIS researchers.

Our members

Click on each IRIS member's name to visit their profile on our Research Portal.

Directors and contact

• Co-Director: Dr Carolyn Jackson-Brown, email: C.Jackson-Brown@leedstrinity.ac.uk
• Co-Director: Dr Kostas Maronitis, email: k.maronitis@leedstrinity.ac.uk