Creative Writing for Social Research: A Practical Guide - Hardcover

Richard Phillips; Helen Kara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447355970 ISBN 13: 9781447355977

Publisher: Policy Press, 2021

Synopsis

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. Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission, but also shows them how, to write creatively.

About this title

About the Author

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).Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in research methods and ethics. She was awarded her PhD in 2006, has been teaching research and evaluation methods and ethics since 2008, and has worked as an independent scholar since 2011. Helen is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and in 2015 she was the first fully independent researcher to be conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447355970
• ISBN 13: 9781447355977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184