Shared Words Community Support & Education
Select an image to enlarge

Walks, stories and stills

A group of women walking and talking along a tree-lined path in Albert Park.
Walking and talking, Albert Park
Several pairs of hands sharing bowls of home-cooked food around a wooden table.
Home food, shared hands
A woman with a backpack standing at a bare kitchen counter, looking out of the window.
The empty counter
A terraced Middlesbrough street at dusk with a world foods shop lit up on the corner.
The city as a maze
A sparse room at night: a desk, a lamp and a bed made up on the floor.
A room, not yet a home
A plain white pillow on a made bed in soft daylight.
A pillow
A hand holding a phone showing a list of group chats.
Finding the group
A hand holding a phone showing a friendly WhatsApp conversation between group members.
Prompts between sessions
Women sitting and talking together over coffee in a bright, busy cafe.
Conversation over coffee
Two hands framing a heart shape around a small pale object.
Small kindnesses
A university lecture theatre seen from above, filled with students.
Where the research sits
A lecturer standing at the front of a full lecture theatre.
Teaching and evaluation
Students seated in a lecture theatre, listening.
Translating research into practice
A diagram of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from physiological needs to self-actualisation.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
How we use images

Dignity first

Our image direction is set out in the brand guide and applies to everything we publish.

  • Consent is the rule, not the exceptionIdentifiable participant images are only used with explicit consent. Where consent isn’t given, we photograph hands, walking feet, materials, park details, or backs and side profiles.
  • Real places, real momentsAlbert Park, paths, benches, hands holding prompt cards, tea flasks, shoes walking and relaxed group moments — not staged portraits.
  • Participation, not spectacleWe prioritise conversation, listening, child-friendly presence and small groups.
  • No charity tropesNo generic diversity stock imagery, no flags or passports, and no imagery that suggests crisis as someone’s main identity.
Watch

‘A Pillow’, our first digital story

Many of the stills above come from this short film. It is the fullest answer we can give to the question “why does this matter?”

Watch the film
Opening frame of the digital story A Pillow. A Pillow — digital story with subtitles