Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Phillips ,
Helen Kara
Publisher: Policy Press
Imprint: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447355984
ISBN 10: 1447355989
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 20 January 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A fantastic book, a polyvocal story and a guide to creative practice with great examples and exercises. Once I started, I couldn't put it down! Essential reading for all social researchers and research methods students. Maggie O'Neill, University College Cork Well-written, varied, helpful and engaging... for those trying creative and arts-based methods or those just wanting to understand them, this book offers such a rich yet accessible way in. Sally Chivers, Trent University
This book invites readers to navigate the uncharted territory where creative writing and scholarly work intersect. Nothing but inspiring, invigorating and intriguing possibilities await those who venture in. Patricia Goodson, Texas A&M University I love this book! There is so much content covered in a way that is entirely accessible and non-prescriptive. The book helps you think about creative writing and offers opportunities to practice it and see how it works for you. It will definitely be on my recommended reading list. Nicole Brown, UCL Institute of Education This book crackles with energy and enthusiasm. It provides a wide-angled lens on social research, at once empathetic and focused, and articulates the intersections between creative writing and social research in a helpful and accessible way. Bridging the world of the new researcher and the established academic, the book celebrates creative writing as research in all its messiness and strategic scruffiness. Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University A fantastic book, a polyvocal story and a guide to creative practice with great examples and exercises. Once I started, I couldn't put it down! Essential reading for all social researchers and research methods students. Maggie O'Neill, University College Cork
Author Information
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.
