Creative Writing for Social Research - Phillips, Richard

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Résumé :
This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: - how to write creatively as a social researcher; - how creative writing can help researchers to work with participants and generate data; - how researchers can use creative writing to analyse data and communicate findings.

Biographie:
Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is a specialist in creative and arts-led research methodologies, which he practises in his own work and encourages students to try in the field trips he leads in cities from Liverpool to New York. Richard's books include Georges Perec's Geographies (2019), Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012), Sex, Politics and Empire (1996), and Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997).

Sommaire:
INTRODUCTION Definitions ~ Social research ~ Creativity and creative ~ Writing and creative writing Synergies between creative writing and social research What follows DOING CREATIVE WRITING Introduction Doing it yourself: getting started ~ Reading for writing ~ Small steps and time frames ~ Warm-up exercises Putting yourself in the picture ~ Writing in the first person ~ Diaries and journals Observation and description ~ Autoethnography ~ Observational writing and the implied observer ~ Stories and storying ~ Collecting and transcribing stories Writing about ideas: essays and lists ~ Essays ~ Lists and listing Doing it yourself: following through ~ Drafting and editing ~ Seeking and receiving feedback ~ Writing together DOING RSEARCH, GENERATING DATA, WORKING WITH PARTICIPANTS ~ Rationale ~ Ethics Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research ~ What is a participant? ~ How to invite or recruit participants Workshops and groups ~ How to draw participants together into a cohesive group ~ Playful workshops ~ Getting started, warming up ~ How to write, review and revise together: workshopping ~ Scope Working with individuals ~ Varying roles for participants and facilitators Data and findings: process and product ~ Observing and documenting the creative writing process ~ Product: outputs and impacts EXPLORING AND ARTICULATING FINDINGS Data analysis ~ Fiction in data analysis ~ Poetry in data analysis ~ Play and screenplay writing in data analysis Dissemination ~ Visual methods of writing for dissemination ~ Performance for dissemination ~ Comedy in dissemination Finding and telling stories; storying SEARCHING AND QUEER(ING) WRITING Searching Queer(ing) writing