Rethinking communication: integrating storytelling for increased stakeholder engagement in environmental evidence synthesis - Environmental Evidence | Biodiversité | Scoop.it
From environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com - March 13, 2018 6:22 AM

Storytelling is a two-way interaction, written or oral, between someone telling a story and one or more listeners. It is a well-known and powerful means of communicating messages and engaging audiences. In this commentary paper, we present a framework for the integration of storytelling in systematic reviews and systematic maps at the stages where stakeholders are actively involved. Using storytelling to explain complex research has, in the past, not been considered a rigorous method of communicating science.