‘ … But we are academics!’ a reflection on using arts-based research activities with university colleagues

Burge, Amy; Godinho, Maria Grade; Knottenbelt, Miesbeth; Loads, Daphne

doi:10.1080/13562517.2016.1184139

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“…My reflexive exercise in the doctoral class had a transformative impact on me [51][52][53][54][55]. It helped me to discover my true selfhood and to explore the qualitative inquiry approach.…”

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"From Scientism to Qualitative Inquiry – The Transformative Impact of a Reflexive Exercise"

Jacob

2022

BJSTR

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Art-based methods are increasingly finding acceptance in scientific research. This paper tells the story of how a reflexive exercise helped in paradigm shift from positivism to qualitative inquiry. The reflexive exercise took place in a professional doctorate classroom session in 2018 with the class size of about twelve students. The exercise was meant to develop the capacity of the professional doctorate students in Health and Wellbeing on reflexivity. It aimed to help them find their voice in intellectual debates and professional practice. Each of the students was required to write words that described how others perceived them and to make sense of these words. Findings from this research demonstrate the roles of reflexivity in solving the problem of scientism. It highlights the benefits of reflexive exercises and recommends engaging them in health and wellbeing practice.

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"From Scientism to Qualitative Inquiry – The Transformative Impact of a Reflexive Exercise"

Jacob

2022

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“…This aesthetic-oriented paradigm has a strong focus on reflexivity and empathy oriented through the creation and consumption of the art (Dunlop, 2001). As such, through this project, like other ABER-oriented projects (Burge et al, 2016;Burnard et al, 2017;Lynch & Glass, 2020) the act of creation and the created product itself served as data. At the outset, participants were invited to join a research project entitled the "arts of resistance research".…”

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Activism as leadership: Supporting progressive activists within our work

Weiser¹

2023

JCAPS

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This empirical work is driven by a study on the experiences and motivation of a group of college-aged student activists. Using a cohort of 14 millennial-aged activists who organized their work in response to a rise of right-wing authoritarianism in national and state politics, this paper presents recommendations for how student affairs professionals working in activities-oriented functional areas can leverage these experiences to build capacity around engagement, leadership development, sense of belonging, and work in partnership with these communities to challenge unjust practices within the academy. Further, I argue that in order to do our work of supporting students in their educational ventures, we can no longer claim notions of political neutrality.

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“…To this end, the current researchers made an exerted effort to create an atmosphere of power quality between the researcher and the participants as proposed by Karnieli-Miller et al (2009) through the creation of a nonthreatening and welcoming environment decided upon by the respondent. Arts-based research by Burge et al (2016), similarly conducted among academics at a tertiary institution, found that academics, with their own research background, had certain assumptions about what is appropriate and expressed fears about losing their authority and dignity. In recognizing the established hierarchy in academia, data collection for this study was conducted by the most junior member, rather than the most senior members, of the research team to ensure that participants did not feel intimated or uncomfortable sharing their experiences with an individual who had successfully navigated the academic career hierarchy under investigation.…”

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Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics

Sharafizad

Brown

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Sociological Methods & Research

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This article presents an adaptation of an arts-based research method usually reserved for child-focused research to examine organizational processes. We developed Draw, Write, Reflect (DWR), advancing a known method, Draw and Write, for investigating phenomena relating to child participants, to explore a new context: adults engaging in academic careers. This article reports on the rationale behind the novel use of this research method, outlines a DWR procedure for future research, and contains reflections of both the researchers and the respondents regarding their experiences participating in DWR. Offering participants a combination of visual and oral methods allowed the researchers to obtain data in a more individualized approach steered by participants’ preferences. The multidimensional insights obtained through DWR would not have been attainable through each method on its own. Furthermore, we argue arts-based research can serve as a vehicle for disseminating academic work beyond conventional academe to a growing, nonacademic audience.

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‘ … But we are academics!’ a reflection on using arts-based research activities with university colleagues

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

"From Scientism to Qualitative Inquiry – The Transformative Impact of a Reflexive Exercise"

"From Scientism to Qualitative Inquiry – The Transformative Impact of a Reflexive Exercise"

Activism as leadership: Supporting progressive activists within our work

Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics

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