Richard Phillips & Helen Kara 
Creative Writing for Social Research [EPUB ebook] 
A Practical Guide

INTRODUCTION

Definitions

~ Social research

~ Creativity and creative

~ Writing and creative writing

Synergies between creative writing and social research

What follows

DOING CREATIVE WRITING

Introduction

Doing it yourself: getting started

~ Reading for writing

~ Small steps and time frames

~ Warm-up exercises

Putting yourself in the picture

~ Writing in the first person

~ Diaries and journals

Observation and description

~ Autoethnography

~ Observational writing and the implied observer

~ Stories and storying

~ Collecting and transcribing stories

Writing about ideas: essays and lists

~ Essays

~ Lists and listing

Doing it yourself: following through

~ Drafting and editing

~ Seeking and receiving feedback

~ Writing together

DOING RSEARCH, GENERATING DATA, WORKING WITH PARTICIPANTS

Introduction

~ Rationale

~ Ethics

Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research

~ What is a participant?

~ How to invite or recruit participants

Workshops and groups

~ How to draw participants together into a cohesive group

~ Playful workshops

~ Getting started, warming up

~ How to write, review and revise together: workshopping

~ Scope

Working with individuals

~ Varying roles for participants and facilitators

Data and findings: process and product

~ Observing and documenting the creative writing process

~ Product: outputs and impacts

EXPLORING AND ARTICULATING FINDINGS

Introduction

Data analysis

~ Fiction in data analysis

~ Poetry in data analysis

~ Play and screenplay writing in data analysis

Dissemination

~ Visual methods of writing for dissemination

~ Performance for dissemination

~ Comedy in dissemination

Finding and telling stories; storying

SEARCHING AND QUEER(ING) WRITING

Introduction

Searching

Queer(ing) writing

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.