Storytelling, Co-Creation, and the Power of Student Narratives

Free and open to all.

Date: 4th February

Time: 2pm - 3:30pm

*An invitation with a link to join the symposium will be sent to you two days in advance.

Storytelling for Racial and Social Justice: How Do We Tell Stories from the Margins?

Across higher education, students whose experiences sit at the margins of institutional life often hold the deepest insight into racial, social, and structural justice. This summit gathers educators, student partners, researchers, and change-makers from across the sector to explore one central question:How can storytelling transform equity, belonging, and justice in our universities?

This event is part of the Visualising Justice Cross-Institutional Ecosystem, a growing collaborative movement connecting universities engaged in co-creation, inclusive pedagogy, and justice-oriented design. Through case studies, creative artefacts, and student-led narratives, we examine how storytelling becomes a radical method of:

• Challenging institutional power

• Amplifying lived experience

• Reshaping curriculum, assessment, and evaluative practice

• Co-creating cultures of care, belonging, and agency

• Visualising justice through creative and documentary-style methods centering stories that are often unheard in traditional academic spaces

What to Expect

• Insights from UAL and SOAS on practice, pedagogy, and student partnership

• Creative outputs from the LCC Changemakers (UAL)

• Short talks on storytelling, racial and social justice, and transformative co-creation

• A digital showcase of cross-institutional case studies

• A live discussion on how to centre marginalised voices in research and pedagogy

• Opportunities to join the Visualising Justice collaborations for 2026 and beyond

Who Is This Event For?

Educators, student partners, academic developers, researchers, EDI practitioners, creative practitioners, professional services staff, and anyone committed to justice-based approaches to learning, teaching, and structural change.

UAL × Visualising Justice

Curator & Founder:Kevin J.Brazant, Senior Educational Developer, UAL

Kevin J.Brazant is a Senior Educational Developer at the London College of Communication, UAL. His work focuses on transforming curriculum through racial and social justice principles, with a particular emphasis on the ethnicity awarding gap and marginalised student voice. He is the author of Disrupting the Discourse: A Co-creation Framework forCenteringmarginalised voicesin Higher Educationand leads the LCC Changemakers, a student partnership initiative dedicated to embedding justice-oriented pedagogies.

Kevin’s research explores disruptive pedagogies, storytelling, and “learning from the margins.” Through his creative platform Lounge Akademics, he integrates podcasting, digital storytelling, and documentary-informed practice to surface lived experience and facilitate new forms of knowledge exchange. He also collaborates with sector bodies and organisations committed to justice-centred education and culture change.

Co-Curator (Creative & Artistic Practice):Joy Baek,Artist, UAL.

Joy Baek is a Korean artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores art as a form of dialogue that records the histories of our time. Her work centres silenced voices, particularly women’s lived experiences, across Korean and Scottish contexts.

Joy’s creative and activist ethos aligns closely with the Visualising Justice programme, where she contributes an artist-led perspective on storytelling, performance, and ethical witnessing.