
Insights Into Creative and Participatory Research
Key Issues and Innovative Developments
Policy Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2026
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4473-7294-3 (ISBN)
Description
As more and more social scientists are turning to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores how these approaches can democratise research. Bridging theory and practice through rich case studies and critical insights, this is an essential guide for researchers seeking to produce inclusive, impactful and ethically grounded work.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 48 s/w Abbildungen
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-7294-3 (9781447372943)
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Insights Into Creative and Participatory Research
Key Issues and Innovative Developments
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04/2026
1st Edition
Policy Press
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Persons
Linzi Ladlow is Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln.
Laura Way is Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln.
Laura Way is Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln.
Contributions
Bournemouth University
University of Franche-Comte
Bournemouth University
Newcastle University
Goldsmiths, University of London
University of Lincoln
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of York
University of Glasgow
Content
Forward - Helen Lomax
1. Introduction - Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way
2. Longitudinal co-creation: a novel participatory approach for embedding an ethos of father-inclusion in communities, practice and policy - Anna Tarrant
3. Explosion Time. Creative involvement in research with young, disabled and LGBTQ+ people - Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Harvey Humphrey, Benji Rose-Ingall, Eddy Phillips and Alex Toft
4. Creativity troubling methods: An online carousel of creative methods during the COVID-19 pandemic - James Duggan and Rod Kippen
5. PAR and Community Organising: Empowering Black and other Global Majority Student Voice - Amina Razak
6. From zines with older punk women to zines with young dads: zines and (non)-DIY cultures - Laura Way
7. "It gives access to a different layer of meaning": reflections from a photo-production study on work-life balance - Agata B. Wezyk and Catherine V. Talbot
8. The Living Journals Method: A Digital Participatory Research Approach for Studying Participants' Daily Lives - Sabina Savadova
9. 'Building blocks of something extraordinary' -refusing damage-centred research with migrant communities in the UK through creative methods - Rebekka Hoelzle
10. Site specific creative work with communities: encounters with the field - Kate Pahl and Steven Pool
11. Creative methodologies and participatory research with/in punk spaces: Dialectograms in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Le Val d'Ajol (France) - Jim Donaghey and Audrey Tuaillon Demesy
12. Care-informed militant ethnography: Centring praxis in research design - Elise Imray Papineau
13. Social co-creations of joy as methodological foci in skateboarding research - Amy Pomerand Petzoldt
1. Introduction - Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way
2. Longitudinal co-creation: a novel participatory approach for embedding an ethos of father-inclusion in communities, practice and policy - Anna Tarrant
3. Explosion Time. Creative involvement in research with young, disabled and LGBTQ+ people - Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Harvey Humphrey, Benji Rose-Ingall, Eddy Phillips and Alex Toft
4. Creativity troubling methods: An online carousel of creative methods during the COVID-19 pandemic - James Duggan and Rod Kippen
5. PAR and Community Organising: Empowering Black and other Global Majority Student Voice - Amina Razak
6. From zines with older punk women to zines with young dads: zines and (non)-DIY cultures - Laura Way
7. "It gives access to a different layer of meaning": reflections from a photo-production study on work-life balance - Agata B. Wezyk and Catherine V. Talbot
8. The Living Journals Method: A Digital Participatory Research Approach for Studying Participants' Daily Lives - Sabina Savadova
9. 'Building blocks of something extraordinary' -refusing damage-centred research with migrant communities in the UK through creative methods - Rebekka Hoelzle
10. Site specific creative work with communities: encounters with the field - Kate Pahl and Steven Pool
11. Creative methodologies and participatory research with/in punk spaces: Dialectograms in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Le Val d'Ajol (France) - Jim Donaghey and Audrey Tuaillon Demesy
12. Care-informed militant ethnography: Centring praxis in research design - Elise Imray Papineau
13. Social co-creations of joy as methodological foci in skateboarding research - Amy Pomerand Petzoldt