Matters of Interest: Conversations and Enquiries
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.
Matters of Interest: Conversations and Enquiries
Latest Episodes
Ethnography’s Ghosts: Spectres, Archives, Ancestors
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 (Routle...
Sonic ways of knowing: researching life using sound
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 a...
Creative writing as analysis in research with children: putting a light in the window
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 ‘port...
Theatre of the Oppressed: Reflections and Provocations from an Artist/Researcher
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 c...
Social Fiction as a means of ‘unflattening’ disabled children’s educational childhoods.
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 educati...