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Matters of Interest: Conversations and Enquiries is an occasional series of conversations, presentations and exchanges exploring ideas, practices and questions that invite further thought.
Having fulfilled its role as an active network over five years, the Practice as Research Network has concluded as an ongoing programme. Matters of Interest continues in a different spirit: guided by curiosity rather than a fixed programme or disciplinary remit, the series creates space for encounters with people, perspectives and ways of thinking that might otherwise remain unexplored.
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This talk introduces Ethnography’s Ghosts, edited by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson. Their previous collaborations include Reflexivity and Social Research (Palgrave 2022), Ethnographic Explorations (Routledge, 2023) and methodological papers. The conduct of an ethnography involves gathering and curating material representations. Field notes and journals are among the most significant, and most prized, of such traces. They are intermediate texts that mediate between observed events...
In this session Richard Longman explores how sonic practices can serve as creative modes of organisational inquiry. Richard begins with the Organising Songs series, where he approached popular music not as cultural backdrop but as a way of knowing organisations – their tensions, atmospheres, and affective architectures. Treating each track as an analytic site allowed questions of voice, power, conflict, and emotion to emerge through the grain of sound rather than through thematic reduction. A...
In this session Luci Gorell Barnes presents on how she has used creative writing within analysis in her doctoral research. Luci presents a creative writing method that she developed as part of her PhD analysis, in which she produced ‘portraits’ of individual children. Arundhati Roy (2009, p.134) reminds us to ‘never simplify what is complicated’ and this creative analysis process came out of her desire to deepen her understanding of what she had learned from her encounters with each child rat...
In this session Olivia Maurer presents her experience using practice as research working with participatory theatre in a traditional policy and social science context. Drawing on her ongoing doctoral research, Olivia shares insights on conducting practice as research and how the duality of the artist/researcher identity has impacted her positionality, duty of care, and outcomes of the project. The challenges and potentialities of engaging in PAR within a PhD process are also evaluated. ...
In this session Jill Pluquailec presents her use of Social Fiction when researching disabled children. This seminar presents a methodological reflection on the use of social fiction as a means of ‘unflattening’ disabled children’s educational childhoods. Jill argues there is a critical need for new ways of exploring the lived experiences of neurodivergent and disabled children to complicate ‘flat’ understandings that deny the embodied, affective, socio-spatially mediated experience of school ...
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