Creative research methods for critical event studies

This article explores the emerging trajectory of creative arts-based research methods in practical theology. Creative arts-based approaches work with the embodied, material, imaginative, and sacred, foregrounding questions of representation and interpretation. Whilst seen as novel or emerging, creative methods fulfil key practical theological tasks and reveal the roots of the discipline as already creative and constructive. Drawing on Westfield’s engagement with poetry and poetic writing, Byrne’s studio-based visual arts practice, and Walton’s life writing and autoethnography, the article examines the distinctiveness of creative methods in representing lived experiences and generating new, liberative theologies. The article engages collaborative creative arts-based research to discuss practical and ethical issues in undertaking these methods. The paper concludes by reflecting on the possibilities for the future of practical theologies shaped through creative methods.

The growing application of creative methods as a humanistic craft in social work research reflects an appreciation of their methodological value. Creative methods can enhance democratisation and inclusion within the academic research process, yet challenges limit their potential. Although applied to develop understanding of social work practice more broadly, creative methods have not yet been included in research focused on empathy. This article aims to contribute to the flourishing of creative methods by outlining a visual and a poetic method applied to develop understanding of meanings and experiences of empathy by focusing on social workers’ perspectives. Situated within the English child protection system (2021–23), the constructionist research design was constrained by COVID-19. The article describes the visual method (relational practice gallery) and the poetic method (relational practice poems) and includes example representations. The application of creative methods enabled social workers’ previously relatively unheard voices to be included in new understandings of empathy and illuminated the nuances of their ascribed meanings and intricate, emotional and situated relational empathic practice experiences. Limitations and methodological considerations are discussed. The article contributes to building research capacity among researchers exploring relational social work practice, for whom creative methods might be novel or daunting, and to the flourishing of creative research methods more broadly.

A variety of basic research methods focused on community practice organizations have been demonstrated over the last three decades. This article reviews the highlights of this history by examining comparative analysis, quantitative analysis, qualitative study, and historical research methods. A systematic description and analysis of nine specific research methods, including their purpose, stage of knowledge development, and feasibility, are provided. Documentation of this rich history of creative and feasible research methods should serve to stimulate further work on community practice research methods.

Laura J. Shepherd, ed. (2013). Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to Theories and Methods . Routledge, London and New York, 304 pp., $160.00 hardcover (ISBN-13 978-0-415-68017-2), $54.95 paperback (ISBN-13 978-0-415-68016-5). Mark B. Salter and Can E. Mutlu, eds. (2013). Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction . Routledge, London and New York, 256 pp., $150.00 hardcover (ISBN-13 978-0-415-53539-7), $51.95 paperback (ISBN-13 978-0-415-53540-3). Jacob L. Stump and Priya Dixit. (2013). Critical Terrorism Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods . Routledge, London and New York, 208 pp., $145.00 hardcover (ISBN-13 978-1-415-62046-8), $46.95 paperback (ISBN-13 978-0-415-62047-5). Claudia Aradau, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Neal, and Nadine Voelkner, eds. (2014). Critical Security Methods: New Frameworks for Analysis . Routledge, London and New York, 230 pp., $150.00 hardcover (ISBN-13 978-0-415-71294-1), $44.95 paperback (ISBN-13 978-0-415-71295-8). “There is a point at which methods devour themselves” (Fanon 1952, 12). Almost 20 years since the publication of Krause and Williams's edited volume Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases (1997), critical security studies (CSS) has reached a moment in which critiques of more traditional or mainstream modes of studying the politics of war, security, and violence are supplemented by a great deal of explicit attention to their methods and methodologies for doing so. The last few years have witnessed a sudden proliferation of textbooks on methods for critical security studies that have attempted to chart the field and provide guidance for students or newcomers on methods for conducting research consistent with its values and goals. The four volumes discussed in this review essay follow on the heels of numerous other textbooks that attempt to map the terrain of security studies, such as Hansen and Buzan (2009), Peoples and Vaughan-Williams’s edited compilation of key and illustrative works (2010), Jarvis and Holland (2014), and the second edition of Karin Fierke’s Critical Approaches to International Security (2015 [2007]). In recent years, the establishment of several journals, including Critical Security Studies and particularly Security Dialogue , as well as Journal of Global Security Studies (an ISA journal) and European Journal of International Security (a BISA journal), that are dedicated to pluralistic studies of security have also suggested the popularity and continued innovation of diverse strands of scholarship that can be grouped as “critical security studies.” Furthermore, the selection of “Methods, Methodologies, and Innovation” to frame the 2014 Millennium conference and subsequent special issue also suggests a great deal of both interest and tension around the question of method and methodology for critical, interpretative, and pluralistic scholars, including the question of whether or not issues of “method” should be … lw487{at}cam.ac.uk

When we think about data gathering we are considering a process that may require us to collect, produce and/or measure information on one or more variables of interest. Some data is produced, collected or observational, for example. How we approach and work with data can be influenced by our context, research questions and methodology. In this chapter we focus on data gathering, especially with children and young people. Data is often gathered in a systematic way, or through a process, with the aim of enabling you to answer research questions, explore a hypothesis or evaluate outcomes. With a creative research methods approach this is no different. When considering data gathering through creative methods the ability to be creative in approach and mindset supports the very act of creativity: engaging with ideas while recognising and supporting the use of imagination, intuition, ingenuity, insight and inspiration. Really, this is an overt acknowledgement of how researchers have always worked. Data gathering through creative methods is exciting. But we do note that gathering data in creative ways can be so much fun that at times we can forget to stop, and so end up with too much data and a headache at the analysis stage. In the case studies we acknowledge this through the inclusion of subheadings on tips and traps. These are designed to help you recognise some of the thinking required behind creative data-gathering processes. This chapter presents some examples of creative research data gathering in educational settings as a way to inspire possibilities for how you might work when gathering data.

The voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults are very often overlooked in research contexts. Creative qualitative methods have been utilized to study populations who have been neglected, empowering marginalized communities, and fostering equitable research processes and outcomes (Archibald & Blines, 2021; Jen & Paceley, 2021; McGarry & Bowden, 2017). This innovative symposium explores creative qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, such as creative writing and poetry, which have been employed in research about LGBTQ+ aging and also describes how each method may provide a unique contribution to the research process and literature. The first presentation describes the process of facilitating a weekly creative writing group with LGBTQ+ older adults and how creative writing can facilitate the retelling of life events and reimaging of new futures. The second presentation describes the process of analyzing pieces of creative writing in order to elucidate the potential and possibility of queer futurities and their implications for research on aging trajectories and imaginings. The third presentation details how found poetry created from dyadic semi-structured interviews sheds new light on the relationships of LGBTQ+ couples facing cancer. Through these three presentations, we will illustrate how creative methods contribute strengths of generating evocative and poignant narratives, illuminating not-yet-possible futures, and inspiring equally creative interventions. The overall objective of this symposium is to explore creative qualitative research methods for their utility in research with LGBTQ+ older adults, ultimately fostering more inclusive and nuanced research processes and products.

This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation. The book covers the following main areas: Drawing on experience, and studying how narratives make sense of experience. Investigating production processes in the cultural industries, and the consumption and assimilation of cultural products by audiences and fans. Taking both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of cultural life. Analysing visual images and both spoken and written forms of discourse. Exploring cultural memory and historical representation. Key Features A unique guide to research methods in Cultural Studies Explores key methods of research, with examples of how to pursue (or not to pursue) a particular method. Expert contributors include Martin Barker, Aeron Davis, David Deacon, Emily Keightley, Steph Lawler, Anneke Meyer, Virginia Nightingale and Sarah Pink.

In this article, we present a creative, process-oriented, and multimodal qualitative enquiry project conducted by five undergraduate psychology students and their instructor. The project started as a course assignment on creative research methods aiming to explore the theme of inspiration. However, the project’s initial theme soon proved to be a device that catalysed the unfolding of the process rather than being an end in itself. Using photovoice, drawing, and collage-making, we engaged in a layered collaborative process of reflection, emotional sharing, and meaning-making. The writing of this article itself became an extension of the method, weaving our voices together into a shared narrative. Through this collaborative autoethnography, we engaged with a set of generative questions: How can creative methods help us explore psychological and social experience? In what ways might collaborative and multimodal enquiry catalyse emotional openness, reflexivity, and the co-creation of meaning? And how might such creative practices extend psychological research towards more relational and embodied understandings? We called our project Harmonic Chaos to reflect the balance that we experienced between chaos and self-organisation during the process.

The aim of the research is to consider the characteristics of “philological” and “historical” research methods in classical studies. The methodology of the research of the study is based on the principles of science, historicism, objectivity, system analysis, etc., as well as on the use of general scientific methods, special-historical and source study methods. The scientific novelty is that for the first time in Ukrainian historiography the question of “philological” and “historical” research methods in classical studies has been investigated. The Conclusions. At the end of the 19 th century, the disadvantages of the philological method of studying the ancient texts became obvious. Where the investigated ancient author referred to the names of his predecessors or at least pointed to them, it was easy to find the « main core » or the main author. But when such links or hints were completely absent, difficulties arose, and sometimes they were simply insurmountable. The philological method which was based on an unrestrained desire to find the original core of the source under study was reduced to « plus ultra » , i.e. was carried to the point of absurdity.One must fully agree that in one aspect historians were in a better position than philologists, in particular: a historian, in order to explain the facts of ancient historiography, has a greater opportunity to use appropriate phenomena in the historical literature of different times and places. Historians and philologists have different goals in the study of the primary source of ancient literature, so they cannot replace each other. Both classical philology and ancient history have their own subject and study methodology and both have reasons to work in an area that we call classical studies. Classical philology and history use a particular research method according to their own subject, goals and objectives which is consistent with the research method of a particular scholar.

This chapter aims to critically discuss the role of experience sampling methods (ESMs) in critical event studies. In doing so, this chapter will reflect upon the author’s doctoral primary research and will begin by providing an overview of the quantitative ESM approach and its development to a qualitative descriptive experience sampling (DES). This will be followed by a discussion regarding the ontological and epistemological shift that underpins the DES data collection method used. The research employs a critical realism perspective to inform a phenomenological approach to research enquiry and therefore the key theories of these perspectives will be discussed. Following this, the chapter will debate the considerations of method execution that DES requires and how these can be met and mediated to help ensure that the data and subsequent results are consistent and valid. It is therefore the aim of this chapter to provide a critical overview of (descriptive) experience sampling methods. This includes the history and development of the method, a shift towards a critical philosophical position and, based on the author’s experiences, the methodological considerations for its use in primary research. In doing so, it provides the reader with a deeper understanding of this method and how it can contribute to critical event studies.

The critical role of language teaching materials in developing intercultural citizenship has led to increased research on cultural representations within them. It has become necessary to critically review how culture has been conceptualised and the ways in which cultural representations have been methodologically approached in this growing body of research. Applying a qualitative synthesis approach, this systematic review synthesises and critiques current studies on cultural representations in language teaching materials published since 2013, focusing on how culture was conceptualised in these studies and how cultural representations were examined methodologically. Analysis of the reviewed studies reveals that existing research conceptualises culture as a multifaceted construct encompassing quantifiable objects, socially-constructed meaning, and dynamic meaning-making processes. These conceptualizations necessitate the use of diverse methods to explore cultural representations in language teaching materials. The analysis further identifies that quantitative content analysis was the method most commonly used in the reviewed literature, followed by methods associated with critical perspectives and social semiotics approaches. These findings have important implications for future research and practice relating to cultural representations in language teaching materials.

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SUMMARY Based on a recent SEC proposal, publicly traded companies will be required to adopt a clawback in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act. In response, firms have been voluntarily adopting clawbacks at an increasing rate. Prior research finds one benefit of voluntarily adopting a clawback is a decrease in restatements. A recent study by Pyzoha (2015) uses an experiment to further investigate restatements in a clawback environment by studying executives' restatement decisions based on auditor quality and executive compensation structure. Results show there may be an unintended consequence of clawbacks that partially offsets the aforementioned benefit. The study finds executives are less likely to agree with restating financial statements when their pay consists of a higher percentage of incentives and there is a lower quality auditor. Importantly, the study shows this tendency is reduced with a higher quality auditor. This article summarizes the study's motivation, research method, results, and practical implications.

Transcript Auto scroll search expand close Search Transcript Search Up Search Down Close Search Tools Tools icon close Download PDFopens in new window Cite Cite icon close Format APA APA Chicago Harvard MLA AMA Sass, C. (Academic). (2023). Using creative non-fiction narrative methods with people living with dementia: an ethnography [Video]. Sage Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529667950 Sass, Cara. "Using Creative Non-Fiction Narrative Methods with People Living with Dementia: An Ethnography." In Sage Video. : SAGE Publications, Ltd., 2023. Video, 00:15:49. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529667950. Sass, C., 2023. Using Creative Non-Fiction Narrative Methods with People Living with Dementia: An Ethnography, Sage Video. [Streaming Video] London: Sage Publications Ltd. Available at: <https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529667950 & gt; [Accessed 16 Mar 2023]. Sass, Cara. Using Creative Non-Fiction Narrative Methods with People Living with Dementia: An Ethnography. Online video clip. SAGE Video. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 6 Jan 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529667950. 16 Mar 2023. Using Creative Non-Fiction Narrative Methods with People Living with Dementia: An Ethnography [Streaming video]. 2023. doi:10.4135/9781529667950. Accessed 03/16/2023 copy to clipboard or Export to your reference manager Endnote Endnote Reference Manager ProCite RefWorks BibTeX Zotero Medlars Mendeley Word Export Cancel Share Share icon close Share via Email Please log in from an authenticated institution or log into your member profile to access the email feature. Sign in/register Embed Embed icon close Embed this Content Add this content to your learning management system or webpage by copying the code below into the HTML editor on the page. Look for the words HTML or </>. Learn More about Embedding Video icon link (opens in new window) Clip - https://methods.sagepub.com/video/creative-non-fiction-narrative-methods-with-people-living-with-dementia Embed code: Copy to clipboard Select a length: Entire video Entire video Select a size: 420x236 640x360 853x480 Sample View: (opens in new window) Cancel Get link Get link icon close Select a length: Entire video Entire video Link to this page directly with a permalink: https://methods.sagepub.com/video/creative-non-fiction-narrative-methods-with-people-living-with-dementia Copy to clipboard Cancel

The government's #stayathome policy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia has made people reduce their frequency to communicate face-to-face. This policy positively affects communication patterns in society, including the communication patterns of generation Z teenagers. This study aims to look at teenagers' communication patterns during the COVID- 19 pandemic. The communication patterns in this study are more focused on communication with friends. This study's research method is a qualitative descriptive method with in-depth interviews as a data collection method. The results of this study indicate that according to the characteristics of generation Z, teenagers are used to using digital media to communicate, both for interpersonal and group communication. Digital applications mostly used by teenagers to communicate are social media applications such as WhatsApp and Instagram. However, during this pandemic, teenagers also used teleconferencing applications such as Zoom and Google Meet. The choice of using this application depends on the form of communication made by teenagers. For communication activities carried out in the form of chat, they prefer to use social media applications. For communication activities carried out in groups and using the video call feature, they prefer to use the teleconference application. The results of this study also show that although the frequency of communicating via digital media has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, these Z generation teenagers still feel the need for face-to-face communication.