A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
This reading group, open to all, 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.
For the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time. Once we have a group established, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in. We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion.
How often will we meet?
The group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below. Generally, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday). We will use a Teams link which is here:
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 348 984 652 522
Passcode: rzmyJC
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.
Autumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group.
If you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk
Schedule
| Date | Reading |
Thurs 5th Dec, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) | Gabrielsson, H., Cronqvist, A., & Asaba, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research, 32(5), 814-822. |
(Pause for winter break) | |
Thurs 16th Jan, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
Thurs 23rd Jan, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
Thurs 30th Jan, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
Thurs 6th Feb, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
No meeting this week, February holiday for schools in Edinburgh | |
Thurs 20th Feb, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
Thurs 27th Feb, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
| Thurs 6th Mar, 9.30-10.30 | TBA |
| Thurs 13th Mar, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) | TBA |
Past reading selections, for info:
Haseman, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 118, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)
van Rooyen, H., & d’Abdon, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103
Vicki Harman, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23:1, 23-36, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285
Chapter 11, Hearing Urban Regeneration by Jaqueline Waldock in Bull, M and Back, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader, Oxford: Berg
Harrison, K., Jacobsen, K., & Sunderland, N. (2019). New Skies Above: Sense-bound and place-based songwriting as a trauma response for asylum seekers and refugees. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(2), 147–167. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.2.147_1
Martinez, Francisco (2021) Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects: Exhibitions as a research method, London: UCL Press. Chapter 7 ‘Curating ethnographic research’ from this book as a reading for a later week for the group, OA at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51817
Makepeace, E. (2021). Theatre is knowledge: Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed and participatory research. In The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry (Vol. 2, pp. 68-78). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529769432
Emmerton, R., & Giselsson, K. (2024). Indigenous art as decolonising truth-telling: Battle Mountain Memorial. Journal of Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241255153
Gabrielsson, H., Cronqvist, A., & Asaba, E. (2022). Photovoice revisited: Dialogue and action as pivotal. Qualitative Health Research, 32(5), 814-822.
Some other books for the list:
Leavy, P. (2015). Method Meets Art, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press.
Denzin, N. K., Lincoln, Y. S., & Smith, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
