Our popular reading group, hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh, is back for the new academic year.
We are pleased to share the return of our creative research methods reading group!
Due to popular demand, after running throughout the 2024-25 academic year, the reading group will return this semester – the first session will begin on Thursday 16th October 2025.
If you are new to the reading group, it is open to all and will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research. The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods. We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings, but this is not required. You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group, but you should have an interest in creative methods.
How often will we meet?
The group will meet for one hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below. We will use a Teams link which is here:
Meeting ID: 367 538 020 222 7
Passcode: Qj2sG9K5
Preparation
You are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you.
Our format for the discussion will be:
- 1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think, feel, wonder about)
- 30 minutes – Open discussion
- 5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.
If you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk
Schedule
| Date | Reading | |
| Thurs 22nd January, 9.15-10.15 | Un-Labelling the Language: Exploring Labels, Jargon and Power through Participatory Arts Research with Arts Therapists and People with Learning Disabilities. Power, Nicki ; Millard, Emma ; The Lawnmowers Independent Theater Company, Activists and Artists at ; Carr, Catherine, Voices : a world forum for music therapy, 22(3), 2022-11-01 | |
| Thurs 29th January, 9.15-10.15 | Performing care new perspectives on socially engaged performance. Fisher, Amanda Stuart, editor.; Thompson, James, 1966- editor., Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020 Note: | |
| Thurs 5th February, 9.15-10.15 | The And Article: Collage as Research Method, de Rijke, Victoria. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231165983 | |
| Thurs 12th February, 9.15-10.15 | Fountain, Daniel (2022) ‘Constructed Masculinities: Unpicking Working-Class Masculinities through Knitting’ in Textile: the journal of cloth and culture, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print): 1 – 8 | |
| Thurs 19th February, 9.15-10.15 | Kriger, Debra (2019) ‘Malleable Methodologies: Sculpting and Imagination in Embodied Health Research’ in International journal of qualitative methods 17: 1–12 | |
| No meeting this week | ||
| Thurs 5th March, 9.15-10.15 | Reading TBC | |
| No meeting this week | ||
| Thurs 19th March, 9.15-10.15 | Reading TBC | |
| Thurs 26th March, 9.15-10.15 | Reading TBC |
Past reading selections, for info:
Savransky Martin (2024) ‘How to do social research with… ghosts’. In: Coleman, Rebecca, Jungnickel, Katrina, & Puwar, Nirmal (eds.) How to Do Social Research With. London: Goldsmiths Press.
Lupton D & Watson A (2022) ‘Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation: Bringing Creative Writing Prompts and Vital Materialism into the Sociology of Futures’ in Qualitative Inquiry 28(7): 754–766
Matchett, Sara & Mbasalaki, Phoebe Kisubi (2025) ‘Precarious Landscapes: Theatre and Belonging With a Group of Sex Workers in Cape Town’. In: Mackey, Sally & Ong, Adelina (eds.) Performing Homescapes. Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.79 – 100
