Richard Phillips, Helen Kara

Creative Writing for Social Research (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: . how to write creatively as a social researcher; . how creative writing can help researchers to work with participants and generate data; . how researchers can use creative writing to analyse data and communicate findings. Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission to write creatively but also shows them how to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447356004
• Artikelnr.: 60864844

Autorenporträt

Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is a specialist in creative and arts-led research methodologies, which he practises in his own work and encourages students to try in the field trips he leads in cities from Liverpool to New York. Richard's books include Georges Perec's Geographies (2019), Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012), Sex, Politics and Empire (1996), and Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997). Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in research methods and ethics. She is the author of Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide (Policy Press, 2nd ed. 2020) and Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives (Policy Press, 2018). Helen is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Definitions ~ Social research ~ Creativity and creative ~
Writing and creative writing Synergies between creative writing and social
research What follows DOING CREATIVE WRITING Introduction Doing it
yourself: getting started ~ Reading for writing ~ Small steps and time
frames ~ Warm-up exercises Putting yourself in the picture ~ Writing in the
first person ~ Diaries and journals Observation and description ~
Autoethnography ~ Observational writing and the implied observer ~ Stories
and storying ~ Collecting and transcribing stories Writing about ideas:
essays and lists ~ Essays ~ Lists and listing Doing it yourself: following
through ~ Drafting and editing ~ Seeking and receiving feedback ~ Writing
together DOING RSEARCH, GENERATING DATA, WORKING WITH PARTICIPANTS
Introduction ~ Rationale ~ Ethics Getting started: participatory creative
writing for social research ~ What is a participant? ~ How to invite or
recruit participants Workshops and groups ~ How to draw participants
together into a cohesive group ~ Playful workshops ~ Getting started,
warming up ~ How to write, review and revise together: workshopping ~ Scope
Working with individuals ~ Varying roles for participants and facilitators
Data and findings: process and product ~ Observing and documenting the
creative writing process ~ Product: outputs and impacts EXPLORING AND
ARTICULATING FINDINGS Introduction Data analysis ~ Fiction in data analysis
~ Poetry in data analysis ~ Play and screenplay writing in data analysis
Dissemination ~ Visual methods of writing for dissemination ~ Performance
for dissemination ~ Comedy in dissemination Finding and telling stories;
storying SEARCHING AND QUEER(ING) WRITING Introduction Searching Queer(ing)
writing