Dr Nicole Brown | One six-hour session | Summer: 10:00 - 16:00 Tuesday 28 April (Room 675 in the IOE)

This course accrues 2 training points.

The aim of this interactive workshop is to explore creativity within research, to identify opportunities to use creative methods within the research process and to explore the foundations and theoretical underpinning related to these methods in qualitative research. 

We discuss what creativity is, why we should be creative in research and how we can introduce creativity and creative methods in our existing paradigms and methods. Subsequently, delegates actively experiment with "pick a card" and "diamond 9" activities, photo elicitation, and the process of creating representations of experiences. Delegates also have opportunities to consider creativity within diary methods and observations as data collection. Creative research methods have been found particularly helpful in yielding rich qualitative data and thus provide a deeper insight into research participants' experiences. All tasks are explored in view of 4 guiding questions allowing delegates to focus on practical, methodological and ethical considerations regarding the approaches presented. 

For much more information, please see the course description page.