Full Description
As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact.
Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showcases rich, diverse case studies from both early-career and established researchers. Covering everything from research design and analysis to ethics and dissemination, the book addresses the unique opportunities and challenges these approaches bring to contemporary social research.
With a focus on real-world practice, critical reflection and the capacity to drive change, this is an essential collection for researchers seeking to generate inclusive, impactful and ethically grounded research.
Contents
Forward - Helen Lomax
1. Introduction - Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way
2. Longitudinal co-creation: a novel participatory approach for embedding an ethos of father-inclusion in communities, practice and policy - Anna Tarrant
3. Explosion Time. Creative involvement in research with young, disabled and LGBTQ+ people - Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Harvey Humphrey, Benji Rose-Ingall, Eddy Phillips and Alex Toft
4. Creativity troubling methods: An online carousel of creative methods during the COVID-19 pandemic - James Duggan and Rod Kippen
5. PAR and Community Organising: Empowering Black and other Global Majority Student Voice - Amina Razak
6. From zines with older punk women to zines with young dads: zines and (non)-DIY cultures - Laura Way
7. "It gives access to a different layer of meaning": reflections from a photo-production study on work-life balance - Agata B. Wezyk and Catherine V. Talbot
8. The Living Journals Method: A Digital Participatory Research Approach for Studying Participants' Daily Lives - Sabina Savadova
9. 'Building blocks of something extraordinary' -refusing damage-centred research with migrant communities in the UK through creative methods - Rebekka Hölzle
10. Site specific creative work with communities: encounters with the field - Kate Pahl and Steven Pool
11. Creative methodologies and participatory research with/in punk spaces: Dialectograms in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Le Val d'Ajol (France) - Jim Donaghey and Audrey Tuaillon Demésy
12. Care-informed militant ethnography: Centring praxis in research design - Elise Imray Papineau
13. Social co-creations of joy as methodological foci in skateboarding research - Amy Pomerand Petzoldt
