Moving off script: A/synchronous storytelling with family carers and people with learning disabilities

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This paper is about digital storytelling in the context of health and social care research with people with learning disabilities and family carers in the United Kingdom. We explain how we were drawn to decolonial thinking in the formulation of ‘metodologia otra’ to think again about the processes and practices of (digital) storytelling in health and social care research. We conclude by reflecting on what we learned about digital storytelling methods and the need to ‘move off script’ as an ethical response to storytellers who want to tell the stories that matter to them in ways that matter to them.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Runswick-Cole, K. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-9718 Douglas, P. Ryan, S. Smith, M.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2025 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	care; caring; mental health; learning disabilities; metodologia otra; co-production
Dates:	Accepted: 22 September 2025 Published (online): 24 December 2025 Published: 24 December 2025
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE / DHSC UNSPECIFIED
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2025 15:09
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2026 12:38
Status:	Published online
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.3828/jlcds.2025.50
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:232176

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Moving off script: A/synchronous storytelling with family carers and people with learning disabilities

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