Aimee Grant & Helen Kara 
Using Documents in Research [EPUB ebook] 
When, Where, Why and How

1. Introduction

Part 1: Boring Documents for Interesting Research

2. Identity Papers – Jose Ragas

3. Raising Voices: Documentary Research to Help Foreground Suppressed Stories – Victoria Pagan

4. Reflections on Using Charity Annual Accounts Data for Critical Research – Helen Abnett

Part 2: Documents from Popular Culture

5. How Documentary Analysis Promotes Ethical Approaches to Cultural Disability Studies Research – Ella Houston

6. Warrior Nuns, Wandering Sages and the Folklore of Asian Martial Arts Founders: Testing the Theory of Martial Creation – George Jennings

7. (Queering) Spiritualities on Social Media: Somatosensory and Discourse-Analytical Approaches to Digital Content – Marita Gunther and Lea Spahn

Part 3: Multi-modal Research with Documents

8. Using Documents in Research during Wartime and Disruptive Political Scenarios

9. Unequal Bureaucracies in Practice: Analysing Documents using Institutional Ethnography – Orla Meadhbh Murray

10. Music and Sound in Documentary Archives: A Case Study of Music and Asylum History – Rosemary Golding

Part 4: Novel Approaches to Disseminating Research with Documents

11. From Public Documents to Engaging Experiences: Creating a Transformative Learning Experience in a Liminal Space – Abigail Winter, Sarah Johnstone, Evonne Miller, TJ Thomson and Jen Seevinck

12. Documentary Theatre as Participatory Social Research – Katarzyna Niziołek

13. Becoming a Researcher/Archivist: The Case of the ‘Dear Diary’ Archive – Kate Carruthers Thomas

14. Conclusion

Helen Kara is a leading independent researcher, author, teacher and speaker specialising in research methods, particularly creative methods, and research ethics. With over twenty years’ experience as an independent researcher Helen now teaches doctoral students and staff at higher education institutions worldwide. She is a prolific academic author with over 25 titles and 2000 citations; notably Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide and Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners, both in their second editions. Besides her regular blogs and videos, she also writes comics and fiction. Helen is an Affiliate at Swansea University, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2021, at the age of 56, she was diagnosed autistic. Her neurodivergence explains her lifelong fascination with, and ability to focus on, words, language and writing.