About StoryBug

StoryBug works with people who have real-life stories to tell about infections, drug resistance and antibiotics.

Through creating and sharing stories (3-5 minute ‘mini-films’) about how resistant infections can often have unexpectedly far-reaching impacts on people’s lives, we want users of antibiotics to think twice about how, why, and when they use this precious medical resource.

No professional film makers are involved. StoryBug helps the people and patients who have experienced resistant infections to create the videos themselves – scripting and voicing in the first person, using their own mobile phone-sourced images, and even editing the finished product.

This authentic and direct approach places the person or patient front and foremost in the story-making process.

By helping to shape how people think about antibiotics, including the real threat of drug resistance in everyone’s lives, StoryBug and its storytellers want to help keep antibiotics working.

Thanks for watching the channel and please make contact if you too have a story to tell. Becky (StoryBug founder)

As a medical journalist for 20 years, I have a strong background linked to the power of story, gathering the personal stories of patients and the inspirational stories of medics.

The driving force of stories underpin all my work. Without the narratives of those who have suffered, or sought to end suffering, the positive outcomes of research and practice my not even exist.

You can read some of my published work here.

I would like to extend a special thank you to my PhD supervisors: Professor Laura Shallcross, MBE (UCL) Professor Andrew Hayward (UCL and UKHSA) and Professor Michael Wilson, University of Loughborough.

Digital stories are made directly by the storyteller with facilitation in scripting, voicing and video editing. No film-makers are involved.