The Story Grounds, together with the Faculty of Education and BU CARES Research Centre are pleased to welcome visiting scholar Dr. Jessica Gannaway for August and September, 2025!
Dr Jessica Gannaway is a Lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. After beginning her career as a secondary school literacy teacher in remote NT, Jessica has worked in both public and private sector schools in the Northern Territory and Victoria. Additionally, she has worked with teachers, school leaders and Departments of Education to codesign professional development and improve classroom relationships through teacher reflexivity practices. She coordinates the First Nations in Education (Secondary) subject within the Master of Teaching. Jessica's areas of research, scholarship and publications include: relationality and identity in education, and teacher dispositions in relation to cultural responsiveness, truth-telling and anti-racist pedagogies.
Welcome!
The Story Grounds is a research lab at Brandon University rooted in storytelling, film, and arts-based collaboration. We are a place where art, storytelling, knowledge, and relationships are nurtured.
What We Do:
Storytelling & Film
Creating collaborative films and digital stories grounded in community relationships.Arts-Based Research
Exploring research as a creative, relational, and place-based practice.Community Collaboration
Working ethically with Indigenous Peoples, artists, and organizations.
“Art is the literacy of the heart.” - Elliot Eisner
Highlights
Listen to Ayden Lambert, Research Assistant, talk about his experiences with using PhotoVoice to explore what Indigenous identity means on CBC Radio Noon.
Upcoming Events
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time.”