Northern Ireland-based Big Telly Theatre Company is one of five partnerships to be awarded a Collaborate Fund research grant. The funding will enable Big Telly and researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University and the National Centre of Social Research to explore how to use immersive theatre to look afresh at ‘arts-led dialogue’. Big Telly’s creative practitioners and their academic partners, digital artists and deliberative practitioners will explore how theatre enables us to consider the psychological and social effects of digitising memory and memorialisation.