Researchers are increasingly interested in expansive approaches to researching people’s social lives, bringing in perspectives and practices from across disciplines to explore how humans encounter each other and make meaning within spaces. In this interactive and hybrid workshop, we bring together examples from our interdisciplinary research and scholarship practice, situated broadly in Education, to explore walking and mapping as approaches to understanding people’s engagements with space in their everyday lives. We consider our work as engaging with creative inquiry , as an orientation to research and scholarship which goes beyond traditional social sciences methods of gathering and generating data in a linear process, questioning the positioning of the researcher as the one who has the right to ‘create knowledge’.
The workshop is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers with interests in creative approaches to research which engage with participants’ lives and interactions across, through and beyond space. It will take place in a hybrid format, with activities to prepare in advance of the session and the opportunity to reflect post-session. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities of these for research and scholarship and a starting point for using them in their own practice. The methods we will explore are compatible with citizen science approaches, as they can include data-generation on relatively large scales, attending to the variety of knowledges that can be produced by a diverse range of participants. The duration of the workshop is 2 hours. Participants will asked to complete pre-/post-workshop activities which takes about 2 hours.
Jessica Bradley (PhD) is an interdisciplinary linguist, whose research spans modern languages, translation studies, applied linguistics and creative practice. She is committed to ethnographic approaches to research and collaboration with creative practitioners. Jessica is co-founder of the AILA Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics Research Network and co-editor of the book Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities (2020). She is programme director for the BA Education, Culture and Childhood and deputy director for the EdD programme in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield.
Tim Herrick (PhD) is an award-winning teacher in the School of Education. Coming from a background of adult education, he moved into the School to lead a programme supporting those who teach in higher education. His interests in scholarship include critical pedagogy, emotions in teaching and learning, the educational experiences of people seeking asylum, and how spaces interact with student learning.
This workshop is part of the FORTHEM Campus course Approaches to Multilingualism developed by contributors of Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab.
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