Summary of the impact

Currie's research into the role and nature of narrative and character has brought about a range of significant benefits in the fields of healthcare, education and public debate.

• Physicians working with mental health patients rely on Currie's work to support a specific treatment programme
• Training for more than 300 medical practitioners has been delivered, developed from materials in Currie's research
• Children's confidence and attainment levels have been improved
• Public debate has been stimulated
• Schools have changed their curricula to teach some of the research findings

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Graham White's research has had an impact on the preservation of cultural heritage, on processes of memorialisation and on formal innovation in broadcasting practice. His work on the performance of memory and the presentation of the self, explored particularly in public legal processes of historical reconstruction, fed into his creation of a series of original and adapted radio dramas during the census period. The reach and significance of this research, in particular focused on his 2010 adaptation of B.S. Johnson's formally innovative 1969 novel The Unfortunates for BBC Radio 3, but also in adaptations of Henry James' novel The Ambassadors for BBC Radio 4 and JG Ballard's novels The Drowned World and Concrete Island for the same network, is borne out by a range of evidence, from audience and beneficiary response to critical reception and a BBC award for innovation. The main beneficiaries of this research are the BBC, the B. S. Johnson estate, and radio audiences.

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Georgakopoulou's research in discourse analysis has from around 2000 pioneered — and promoted the academic and pedagogical importance of — the study of `small stories', that is everyday narrative conversations, using data drawn primarily from schoolchildren in Greece, including their communications through electronic media. Through her contributions to handbooks officially designated for teacher training in Greece, her work has become influential on teachers and hence classroom practices at secondary level, especially in the fast growing and crucial field of teaching Greek as a second language to migrant and minority children. The primary beneficiaries are teachers and pupils in secondary schools in Greece, but in other countries too Georgakopoulou's research has started to influence educational theory and practice in teaching English as a foreign or second language, and is also beginning to arouse interest for the psychotherapy of groups unable to construct coherent narrative accounts of their lives.

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Memory Maps is an online archive of writings and images inspired by East Anglia and especially Essex. The project explores people's relationship with place. It seeks to alter public perceptions of the region and to foster ecological awareness of the natural and the made environment. Developed by Essex literature academics in collaboration with The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Memory Maps project has successfully stimulated amateurs and professionals to practise the genre of psycho-geographical writing. The team has also promoted the project to a wide general audience through public symposia, book festivals, and contributions to international media including a feature-length documentary.