Shirish Kulkarni

Two things about me might come as a surprise to you, if you’ve perhaps seen or read about the deep listening work I’ve been doing with communities over the last four or five years.

There’s nowhere to buy underwear!

Ydw i’n ddigon Cymraeg?

Not many researchers get to take part in a rave at 10am on a Saturday morning in the name of “evidence gathering”, but if that’s wrong, maybe I don’t want to be right… This wasn’t just any rave though, it was a rave explicitly designed to enable us to let…

When I started our News for All project, I found it useful to write Week Notes – informal, sometimes scrappy, reflections on the work, my feelings about it and mainly what I was learning.

I was invited to give the opening address at the Publix and European Press Prize event – Shaping Tomorrow: Collective Efforts for the Future of Journalism on 12th March 2025.

I originally wrote this article in October 2019, shortly after I’d had the privilege of attending The Power of Storytelling conference in Bucharest.

We all know that journalism is facing existential questions around trust, news avoidance and the need to better engage with audiences.

In September 2025, I appeared alongside our News for All Community Facilitators, Rhiannon and Amira, and moderator Cristian Lupsa, at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum in Athens.

I appeared in “How to Read the News”, a BBC Radio 4 series revisiting stories from a year ago to forensically examine how the news is made, and how our perception of the facts can be shaped by how stories are told, and who is presenting them.