Creative Methods in Research

Creative Methods in Research – Discussion and Clinic

Divine Charura and Matthew Reason

The use of creative methods in research – including drawing, photography, creative writing, collaging, vlogging and more –  is now established across disciplines ranging from health to education, psychology to the arts. Creative methods involve inviting participants to engage in an active creative task through which they can communicate their lived experiences and draw out insights and meanings. It has particular affordances in exploring experiences that might resist verbal articulation, whether affective, traumatic, emotional, aesthetic, and when working with individuals or groups who might be resistant to traditional research methodologies. 

In this session Divine Charura (counselling psychology) and Matthew Reason (arts) will share examples of the use of creative methods in their own research and discuss its potential, its challenges and is practice. 

As well as discussion, we also hope the session will act as a ‘clinic’, in which anyone attending can bring along their own experiences or plans for using creative methods for discussion and problem-solving.

Learning outcomes from this session will include:

• Introduction to the use and potential of a variety of creative methods across a variety of contexts
• Understanding of the potential, limits of creative methods

This session takes place in TW 105

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