Kara Helen (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 345 p. — ISBN 9781350355743.This book provides both an overview of, and an insight into, the rapidly expanding field of creative research methods. The contributors, from four continents, range from doctoral students through to independent and practice-based researchers to senior professors, providing a clear view of the applicability of creative research methods in all types of research work. Chapters offer examples of creative research methods in practice, and advice on how to transfer or adapt those methods for different disciplines and settings. Research ethics and research quality are considered throughout.This is a timely handbook which provides information for novice researchers and inspiration for experienced researchers, and is essential reading for anyone interested in creative research methods.Introduction
Overview
Creative Research Methods and Ethics
Creative Research Methods in the Geo-Political South
Digital Tools for Creative Data Analysis: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
Human Geography and Creative Methods: Moving and Mapping
Narrative Inquiry
Understanding Intersectionality in a Metropolitan Space in India: Creative Data Methods Using Social Media
Micro-Stories and Meaning-Making in Narrative Research
The Use of Semiotics in Leadership Narrative Analysis
Poetic Analysis
Grappling with Poetry: Why to Start and How to Start
Discovering the Self-Voices of Authors and Speakers: A Text-Based Method for Exploring Pronouns via Regular Expressions
Visual Methods
Ethnograms
Presenting an Analytical Apparatus for Visual Imagery (AAVI) in Socially Engaged Research Practice
Creating Visual Art
Creative Process: Visual and Material Sense Making in Research
Letting the Picture Tell the Story: Using Comics Capture Content as a Research Method
Participatory Textiles
Stitching as Creative Method: An Autoethnographic Account
Untangling Threads, Piecing Together, and Unpicking: The Possibilities and Barriers of Visual Vignettes in Trauma-Sensitive Research
Embodied Performative Methods
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
Performance Art and Embodied Data Analysis in Arts-Based Sociological Research on Whiteness
Part VIII: Participants as Experts
“I've got some more to add to that”: Using Creative Methods to Empower Autistic Young People to Tell their Stories
Creative Collaboration
Creative Research Methods in a Digital World: Problem-Solving and Collaboration in Research
ARTiculating an Ethical Position: A Group of art psychotherapists use a Collaborative Arts-Based (Research) Process to Set their Ethical Scene when Employing Creative Methods within Mental Health Research
Ethno-Mimesis: Using Ethnography, Participatory Arts, Walking and Theatre in Ethical Research for Change
Conclusion