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 6th Mar, 9.30-10.30 | Playlists The Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and Education |
| Thurs 13th Mar, 9.30-10.30 | Transforming Transcripts Into Stories: A Multimethod Approach to Narrative Analysis – Aishath Nasheeda, Haslinda Binti Abdullah, Steven Eric Krauss, Nobaya Binti Ahmed, 2019 |
| Thurs 20th Mar, 9.30-10.30 | Holbrook T and Pourchier NM (2014) ‘Collage as analysis: Remixing in the crisis of doubt’ in Qualitative Inquiry 20(6): 754–763. Available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077800414530260 |
| Thurs 27th Jan, 9.30-10.30 | Jungnickel, Kat (2018) ‘Making Things to make Sense of Things: DIY as Research and Practice’. In: Jentery Sayers (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, New York: Routledge. Pp. 492-502. Available as a free download here: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18377/3/50jungnickelKat.pdf |
| Thurs 3rd Apr, 9.30-10.30 | Barry, K. et al. (2022) ‘An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm’ in Mobilities 18(3), pp. 349–373. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2022.2136996#abstract |
| Thurs 10th Apr, 9.30-10.30 | Owusu-Ansah, F. (2021). Image Theatre as a conduit for academic research. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, 6(1), 1-15. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ptoj/vol6/iss1/5 |
| No meeting this week | |
| Thurs 24th Apr, 9.30-10.30 | Ellis, C., Adams, T. E., & Bochner, A. P. (2011). Autoethnography: An Overview. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-12.1.1589 |
| Thurs 1st May, 9.30-10.30 | Rodricks, D. J. (2018). Access through the shadows: Lessons from applied performance practice research at the borderlands. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 23(3), 389–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2018.1473758 |
| Thurs 8th May, 9.30-10.30 | Back, L. (2023). What sociologists learn from music: identity, music-making, and the sociological imagination. Identities, 31(4), 446–465. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2023.2268969 |
| Thurs 15th May, 9.30-10.30 | Franceschelli, M., & Galipò, A. (2021). The use of film documentary in social science research: audio-visual accounts of the “migration crisis” from the Italian island of Lampedusa. Visual Studies (Abingdon, England), 36(1), 38–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1769497 |
| Thurs 22nd May, 9.30-10.30 | Armijos, M. T., & Ramírez Loaiza, V. (2024). Creative research with indigenous women: Challenging marginalisation through collective spaces and livelihoods practices. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-01-2024-0037 |
| Thurs 29th May, 9.30-10.30 | Slivka, K. (2015). Methodological Considerations for Intercultural Arts Research: Phenomenology, Ethnography, Collage Narrative, and Ethics. Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education, 2015(1). https://doi.org/10.17077/2326-7070.1486 |
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.
Maria Abranches & Elena Horton (2024) Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 30:1, 81-102, Full article: Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making
Forum Theatre and participatory (Action) research in social work: methodological reflections on case
The Music Playlist as a Method of Education Research | Postdigital Science and Education
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.
