Creating Stories for Social Change
Critical Sustainability Stories (CRISS) is an educational tool for storytellers wanting to examine sustainability and climate change in an informed, evidenced-based way.
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The CRISS Tool has six topics to help storytellers engage with climate change and sustainability. Within each topic, you'll find questions thoughtfully crafted to inspire reflection, ignite meaningful discussions, and deepen storyteller understanding.
Critical Activity
Advances storytellers critical thinking skills around the function and impact of climate and sustainability stories.
Audience
Understand who you’re speaking to and how your story can impact them.
Storytelling Journey
Guides how to engage with climate and sustainability issues throughout the story creation process.
Context
Places stories in relation to cultural, political, economic and geographical contexts.
Quality of Information
Guidance for ensuring creative content uses reliable and evidence-based data.
Justice
Helps storytellers consider equity and social justice challenges.
The Criss Tool
Use our free resources to reflect, discuss, and learn about sustainability and climate change challenges.
How Criss can help
Why use CRISS?
Want to speak to your audience about climate change challenges? We’re here to empower you and enrich your stories.
access academic research and knowledge from experts
Advance communication skills on climate and sustainability
Create meaningful societal impact and change the climate narrative
Boost audience engagement with climate science stories
Increase your profile for telling climate stories
Grow professional discourse in the creative sectors
What people say...
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Created for Creatives
Have you got a great story to tell, but want to get the climate and sustainability facts right?
Just some of the people we support:
Writers
Opera
Local Authorities
Heritage Interpretation
Film makers
Theatre
Our Work
Case Studies & Collaborations
Here are just some of the exciting projects we have supported.
Experts in the field
How can we help you?
Explore how we can support your creativity.
Expertise
Access 1-to-1 expertise and training with the CriSS Tool creators Dr Alexandra Dales and Dr Rory Padfield and the wider project team.
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Membership access grants exclusive research, resources, and training, tailored to your needs.