Join CAT students on 7 April at 7pm for a free lecture on ‘How Story Makes and Changes the World’, where Sarah Woods will explore the power of stories. 

We are delighted to welcome Sarah Woods during our postgraduate teaching week for the ‘Communicating Transformational Social Change’ module. 

In this hour and a half lecture and Q&A, Sarah will reflect on the omnipresence of stories and how we use them to make sense of the world. The lecture will explore their impact on how we perceive who we are, what’s possible for us, and how they inform not only the way we communicate, but how we think in our increasingly complex world. 

Key information

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Date: Monday 7 April
• Start and finish times: 7pm-8:30pm
• Location: Sheppard Theatre, WISE building
• Free entry but limited spaces so please sign up in advance
• Book an evening meal in CAT’s café and join our students to discuss and debate before the lecture begins.
  • This can be prebooked for £10 alongside your public lecture booking below.
  • Dinner will be served at 6:00pm before the lecture begins.
  • This can only be prebooked before the event and cannot be purchased onsite.
  • Donnelly’s bar open from 8:30pm.
• Lecture is recorded for student learning purposes only and won’t be available publicly online. Book to join us in person.
• If you have any questions about this event please direct them to gsmo@cat.org.uk.

Speaker bio

Sarah Woods is an award-winning writer and systems thinker. She is currently writing a podcast series and book called STORY TIME: how story makes and changes the world. Sarah is a Research Associate at Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavik. Her dramatisation of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, for BBC Radio 4, will be broadcast in June.