Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Helen Kara

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions, which are hard to answer using traditional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This accessible book is the first to identify and examine the four areas of creative research methods: arts-based research, research using technology, mixed-method research and transformative research frameworks. Written in a practical and jargon-free style, with over 100 boxed examples, it offers numerous examples of creative methods in practice, from the social sciences, arts, and humanities around the world. Spanning the gulf between academia and practice, this useful book will inform and inspire researchers by showing readers why, when, and how to use creative methods in their research.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of figures and tables
Debts of gratitude
Foreword • Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen
How this book can help
1 Introducing creative research
2 Creative research methods in practice
3 Creative research methods and ethics
4 Creative thinking
5 Gathering data
6 Analysing data
7 Writing for research
8 Presentation
9 Dissemination, implementation and knowledge exchange
10 Conclusion
References
Index