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Creative Approaches to QualitativeResearch
1- Using collage and found poetry to become a more reflexive researcher.
Dr Lucy Barker, Associate Professor, Northumbria University
Collage and poetic inquiry have become useful tools across disciplines as a form of qualitative inquiry
and a form of arts-based research (ABR). I present collage method and poetic transcription
(Richardson, 2002) from a recent doctorate study, as a way of reflexivity in research that embraces
openness transparency and rigour, as well as participatory and collaborative approach to research.
Turnign transcripts into Haiku and Tanka styles of poetry can be a powerful way of troubling and
disrupting the data in research, and readers may find that hidden preconceptions are exposed by
stripping back the transcripts into poetic stanzas to get to the core or essence of their meaning. Hoult
et al. (2020) attests that ‘poetic methods can surface voices in different ways’ (p.90). Madison (1991,
2004) and Richardson (2002) use poetic transcription to represent participants’ speaking styles and
worldviews more authentically, as well as allow participant ownership of their stories. The data in my
study were further diffractively analysed through other art and literature, to reveal deeper meaning
for pre-service teachers on the phenomenon of inclusive practice during classroom placements. My
aim as an a/r/tographer, where I position myself as Artist, Researcher, and Teacher was to co-create
with the participants through collaging and sketchbooks, to be reflexive and analytical (Springgay,
Irwin, and Kind, 2005), was for the readers to feel the embodied experiences of the participants and
encounters in the classroom for inclusive practice, so that they would feel with, rather than about
them reinforcing openness and transparency in the research process.
| Period | 28 Jan 2025 |
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| Event title | University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium: Transparency Openness and Rigour in Qualitative Research |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Bath, United KingdomShow on map |