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We invite contributions for an edited educational resource exploring creative and embodied research methods through the lens of experience and reflection.

Rather than providing methodological overviews or step-by-step guides, this collection focuses on a simple question:

What did you learn when you used a particular creative or embodied research method?

We are interested in contributions that share practical insights, unexpected discoveries, challenges, tensions, mistakes, surprises, and moments of transformation. And we welcome contributions from researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, students, community researchers, and anyone who has experience using these approaches as research participants.

The aim is to create a resource that helps researchers, students, practitioners, and educators learn from lived experiences of using methods in real research contexts.

Your contribution may focus on any phase of the research process (project planning, data collection/generation, analysis, dissemination), and it may be conversational, reflective, critical, narrative, or experimental in style. We encourage honest accounts of uncertainty and learning as well as success. The goal is not to present a perfect method, but to share experiences that can help others think creatively and critically about research practice.

Possible methods include (but are not limited to):

• Arts-based research
• Walking methods
• Body mapping
• Participatory visual methods
• Performance and theatre-based methods
• Dance and movement methods
• Storytelling
• Photovoice
• Creative writing
• Poetic inquiry
• Drawing and sketching
• Collage and assemblage
• Sensory methods
• Object-based methods
• Craft-based inquiry
• Digital creative methods
• Other creative, embodied, and experimental approaches

Contributions should…

• …focus on one method or approach
• …be written in the first person
• …centre on lessons learned from actual practice
• …highlight both successes and challenges
• …offer insights that others may find useful
• …be accessible to readers from different disciplines
• …be 2,000 words max.
• …use the DOCX template (download from here).

 

Editors:

Nicole Brown (UCL), Rachel Griffiths (University of Exeter), Christie Haddad (UCL), Amanda Ince (UCL), Danielle Kleinerman (UCL), and Argyro Tsampazi (Independent Researcher).

For more questions or to submit your ideas, please email Nicole Brown.