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All Stories, All Stages: Impact Producing Across Creative Disciplines

Three people standing together in a workshop space, smiling and talking. One person stands next to a wall of colourful sticky notes, another wears a black blazer and T-shirt and is laughing, and a third person stands with arms folded, listening thoughtfully. Shelves, speakers and workshop materials are visible in the background.
  • Written byHayley Davis
  • Published date 05 January 2026
Three people standing together in a workshop space, smiling and talking. One person stands next to a wall of colourful sticky notes, another wears a black blazer and T-shirt and is laughing, and a third person stands with arms folded, listening thoughtfully. Shelves, speakers and workshop materials are visible in the background.
AKO Storytelling Institute Fellows in conversation during a collaborative workshop session, exploring ideas, sharing reflections and building connections through creative practice.

How can storytelling contribute to social change and what role can impact producing play beyond its traditional home in feature-length documentary?

The AKO Storytelling Institute has been exploring these questions through its Fellowship programme, working with creatives across a wide range of disciplines to better understand how impact producing can support creative practice at different stages of production.

This new report brings together insights, reflections and learnings from the 2024–25 AKO Fellows, alongside research by UAL researcher Sean Marshall. It examines how impact producing operates across forms including podcasting, animation, games, fiction and other creative practices and how its affordances shift depending on discipline, context and timing.

Read the report:
All Stories, All Stages: Impact Producing Across Creative Disciplines (PDF 8.6MB)

Please note this report may not be full accessible.