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Overview
This interactive online workshop is designed for newer researchers who are interested in or curious about creative and arts-based research methods. The session offers participants the opportunity to experience poetry, object-based reflection, and visual storyboarding as provocations for thinking about research identity, methodological choice, and knowledge production. The workshop foregrounds experiential learning, critical reflection, and discussion of methodological affordances and challenges. Activities are carefully designed for the online environment and require no specialist resources. Participants will first engage individually in short creative activities before these experiences are unpacked through discussion and examples drawn from published research. The session explicitly addresses common anxieties among doctoral and early-career researchers around the legitimacy of creative approaches, challenging hierarchical assumptions about research methods. Attendees will leave with increased confidence, practical insight, and examples of how creative methods can be ethically, rigorously, and productively used within higher education research contexts.
Schedule
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10.00 – 10.10 |
SRHE welcome and housekeeping Introduction and overview of the session by Charlie Davis |
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10.10 – 10.35 |
Creative provocation activities Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan: Object-based reflection, micro-poetry Tim Clark: Introduction to storyboarding |
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10.35 – 10.55 |
Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan: Methodological discussion: poetry and creative inquiry in higher education research |
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10.55 – 11.15 |
Tim Clark: Methodological discussion: visual methods and storyboarding |
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11.15 – 11.30 |
Open discussion, Q&A, and next steps |
Speaker bios
Prof Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is a professor of education and qualitative researcher whose work focuses on narrative, poetic, and arts-based approaches to educational research, with particular attention to researcher identity and lived experience.
Dr Tim Clark is Director of Research for the School of Education and Childhood at UWE Bristol. His work explores the use of visual and arts-based methods, including storyboarding, to understand the experiences of doctoral and professional doctorate students.
Dr Charlie Davis is an Associate Professor in Higher Education at the University of Nottingham. Charlie’s research focuses on access to and transitions through higher education by under-represented social groups. He specialises in the use of creative narrative methods in co-production contexts to generate knowledge which can be accessed by audiences within, and beyond HE contexts. He is co-convenor of the SRHE Newer-Researcher Network.
London
United Kingdom
| Event Fee(s) | |
| Member Price | £0.00 |
| Guest Price | £45.00 |
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