led by Dr Melanie Lovatt
This is an informative, fun and interactive session that introduces you to creative methods and offers guidance on why, when and how you might use them in your research. It starts with an introduction to creative methods and how they relate to epistemological and ontological positions. Melanie Lovatt will then facilitate an interactive session drawing on her own experience of using novels and forum theatre to identify and deconstruct narratives of oppression and discrimination, and facilitate alternative narratives of resistance. By the end of the session you will have a greater understanding of how creative methods can generate new ways of sociological thinking, and how you might practically use them in your research.