Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Helen Kara

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

✦ Synopsis

With foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen. 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

CREATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Contents
List of figures and tables
Figures
Tables
Debts of gratitude
Foreword
How this book can help
Overview of contents
1. Introducing creative research
Introduction
Creative research methods
What do we know about ‘creativity’?
Creativity in research
Informal and formal research
Evaluation research
Conclusion
2. Creative research methods in practice
Introduction
History of creative research methods
Good practice in creative research
Arts-based research in practice
Autoethnography in practice
Mixed-methods research in practice
Research using technology in practice
Conclusion
3. Creative research methods and ethics
Introduction
Research governance
Theories of ethics
Feminist research
Emancipatory research
Decolonised research
Participatory research
Critiquing transformative research frameworks
Managing ethical dilemmas in creative research
Ethics in arts-based research
Ethics in mixed-methods research
Ethics in research using technology
Well-being of researchers
Conclusion
4. Creative thinking
Introduction
Ethical thinking
Creative thinking
Creative use of literature
Using theory creatively in research
Creativity and cross-disciplinary work
Imagination
Assessing research quality
Reflexivity
Conclusion
5. Gathering data
Introduction
Ethics in data gathering
Reflexive data
Writing
Diaries and journals
Interviews
Video
Online and other secondary data
Transformative data gathering
Drawing
Mapping
Shadowing
Vignettes
Time
Mixed methods
Conclusion
6. Analysing data
Introduction
Ethics in data analysis
Data preparation and coding
Quantitative versus qualitative data analysis
Secondary data
Analysing documentary data
Analysis of talk
Visual analytic techniques
Analysing video data
Mixed-methods analysis
Data integration
Data analysis using technology
Transformative frameworks and data analysis
Arts-based data analysis
Conclusion
7. Writing for research
Introduction
Ethics in writing for research
Audience
Feedback
Fact versus fiction
Journals
Blogs
Poetic writing
Collaborative writing
Mixed-methods writing
How to write better for research
Conclusion
8. Presentation
Introduction
The ethics of presentation
Data visualisation – dos and don’ts
Graphs and charts
Diagrams, infographics and maps
Conferences and meetings
Mixed-methods presentation
Arts-based presentation
Presentation using technology
Conclusion
9. Dissemination, implementation and knowledge exchange
Introduction
Ethics in creative dissemination and implementation
Online and other media
Mainstream media
Arts-based dissemination
Mixed methods of dissemination
Dissemination in transformative research
Implementation
Knowledge exchange
Conclusion
10. Conclusion
References
Index
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