International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling

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

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

• Kate Adams
• Stefano Ba
• Ricardo Barker
• Katherine Blair
• Liz Cable
• Laura De Pretto
• Liza Dracup
• Richard Greatrex
• Carolyn Jackson-Brown
• Katrin Joost
• Kostas Maronitis
• Robbie McAllister
• Catherine O'Connor
• Stefano Odorico
• Thomas Pollard
• Jason Scott
• David Thompson
• Ilaria Vecchi
• Elric Williams