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
| Date | Reading |
| Thurs 22nd January, 9.15-10.15 | Power, N., Millard, E., The Lawnmowers Independent Theater Company & Carr, C. (2022) ‘Un-Labelling the Language: Exploring Labels, Jargon and Power through Participatory Arts Research with Arts Therapists and People with Learning Disabilities’ in Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy 22(3). |
| Thurs 29th January, 9.15-10.15 | Sylvan Baker & Maggie Inchley (2020) ‘Verbatim practice as research with care- experienced young people: An ‘aesthetics of care’ through aural attention’. In. Fisher, Amanda Stuart & Thompson, James (eds.) Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Pp.171-186. |
| Thurs 5th February, 9.15-10.15 | de Rijke, Victoria (2024) ‘The And Article: Collage as Research Method’ in Qualitative Inquiry 30(3-4): 301–310. * We thought it would be fun and interesting to invite you to make a quick collage which represents some of your thoughts on the article, and share it with the group in the session ** This isn’t compulsory, and you are very welcome to join us whether you have a collage or not! |
| 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, DOI: 10.1080/14759756.2022.2043518 : 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 | Byrne, E. et al (2018) ‘The creative turn in evidence for public health: Community and arts-based methodologies’ in Journal of Public Health 40 (Supplement 1): i24–i30 |
| No meeting this week | |
| Thurs 19th March, 9.15-10.15 | Antonopoulou, A. & Dare, E. (2026) ‘Worldbuilding with Drawing and Words, an ‘Unproductive’ Counter to the Consumer-Driven, Extractive Models in Higher Education and the Cultural and Creative Industries’ in Arts 15(2): https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15020027 |
| Thurs 26th March, 9.15-10.15 | Pybus, Katie; McEwan, Jean; Garthwaite, Kayleigh; Power, Maddy; Patrick, Ruth; Corley, Sydnie (2022) ‘It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic’ in Sociological research online 27(3): 604 – 674 |
| No meetings for several weeks [Easter break] | |
| Thurs 14th May, 9.15-10.15 | Brown, M.E.L., Kelly, M. & Finn, G.M. Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn: poetic inquiry within health professions education. Perspect Med Educ 10, 257–264 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-021-00682-9 |
| No meeting this week | |
| Thurs 28th May, 9.15-10.15 | Black, Y. (2020). ‘The play’s the thing’: A creative collaboration to investigate lived experiences in an urban community garden. Management Learning, 51(2), 168-186. |
| Thurs 4th June, 9.15-10.15 | McEwan, J., Morrison, S., Bull, R. & Turner, J. (2026) A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Diamond. * please read Chapter 8 ‘Art as knowledge’ pp.87 – 102. |
| Thurs 11th June, 9.15-10.15 | Clark, K. Data’s Entanglements: Artmaking as Corresponding Companion During Diffractive Analysis. Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal, 7(1), 6. |
| Thurs 18th June, 9.15-10.15 | GlobalGRACE Brazil team (2021) Masculinities, Art, and Potencies from the Periphery, Rio de Janeiro: Uniperiferias Publishing House |
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
