Creativity in Education: International Perspectives
Creativity has become a buzzword across all disciplines in education and across all phases, from early years through to tertiary education. Although the meaning of creativity can change vastly depending on the global educational setting, it is impossible to ignore the applicability and relevance of creativity as an educational tool, philosophical framework and pedagogical approach.
In conversation with REA (Research Ethics Association)
I was asked to an “in conversation with REA”. The Research Ethics Association (REA) brings together academia, industry, and local organisations across all disciplines with the aim of promoting and implementing cross-discipline research ethics, while contributing to ethical practice and research standards. Specifically, I was asked to elaborate on a […]
Recommended readings – a reading list for creative methods
In this post I share my reservation about reading lists, and I share the articles, journals and books that I see as my "go-to" publications.
The benefits and challenges of participatory research methods
This video about the benefits and challenges of participatory research builds on my original work presented at the PASAR conference in 2017.
Article: Exploring experiences of ableism in academia
This article presents disabled academics' experiences and collective understandings of ableism as constructed through normalisation and able-bodiedness.
Article: Making sense of cultural bumps – Supporting GTAs with teaching
This article reports on a study with over 100 Graduate Teaching Assistants exploring experiences of ‘cultural bumps’ at a UK University.
Book: Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia
Deeply embedded in personal experiences, this perceptive book provides examples for universities to develop inclusive practices, accessible working and learning conditions and a less ableist environment.
Book: Ableism in Academia
The book "Ableism in Academia" provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm.
NVivo Podcast Episode 13: Participatory research methods
I was invited to contribute to the NVivo Podcast Between the Data. My contribution was published as Episode 13 "Participatory research methods with identity boxes, photographs and Lego".
Chapter: Assessments: letting students decide
If students are to take responsibility for their learning, then why are they not also in charge of their assessments? This question forms the basis for this paper that is co-written between two students and one member of staff.
Analysing data that has been collected using creative research methods
Workshop to consider analysis in qualitative research with a specific focus on how to treat and deal with data that is not textual, but comes out of the use of creative methods (drawings, paintings, pick-a-card, models, etc.)
Ableism in Academia
Call for contributions to the Ableism in Academia symposium and special edition publication.
Guest post: So we are all gifted and talented
Having read "Peak" guest blogger Craig Brown argues that gifted and talented provision needs to be reviewed.
Digest: Value of social networks for teachers
Kelly and Antonio (2016) report on the value of social networks, more sepcifically facebook, for the teaching communities.
Action plan template
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Sarah Pink: Doing Sensory Ethnography
Pink's understanding of ethnography is broader than that of a study relating to the culture or society of humans. Really, ethnography in Pink's view is a phenomenological study of life world and in the book she offers ways of accessing this life world through a range of channels. Pink suggests including the human senses at all levels of research. This book offers great justification for a less conventional approach to research; an approach where openness to what happens is paramount.