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My name is Lilly and I'm a 2nd year PhD student at University College London. My research is looking at the use of computational text mining methods in domestic violence research. Before doing a PhD I trained as an audio engineer and was working in the music industry. I've always been a creative person and am hoping to incorporate more of my creative juices into my research!

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Hi everyone, I am late in saying hi but I have read all of your posts, and wow to the range of interesting stuff everyone is doing. I am excited about the course, and meeting you all.

My name is Louise, and I am a Reader at Leeds Beckett. I work in a health promotion team, and have been doing research with women, for women over the last 10 years. The main focus of my work has been on evaluating interventions that support women experiencing domestic abuse and other challenging circumstances. I try and use participatory approaches when possible, and recently have been working with peer researchers. I am keen to develop my skills around creative research

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My name is Nicola Mannion. I am a 3rd year Ph.D student, in Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Limerick, Ireland. I am also a lecturer in Inclusive and Special Education and I am the acting co-ordinator of the Post Graduate Diploma in Special Education (PGDSE) in MIC. My research explores the experiences and perspectives of students with ID in mainstream post-primary schools in the Irish context. I am using Photovoice as my main method of data collection. I choose this method as I hope that it will overcome some of the ethical and methodological challenges of researching with children particularly children with intellectual disabilities. My research is underpinned by Lundy's Model of Participation which supports students to have the space, voice, audience and influence to express their views and have their voices heard. A transformative paradigm was adopted in this study as it allows me the researcher to address issues of social justice through the promotion of change led by participants for participants. Importantly, this paradigm allows me the address the power imbalance which can results when researching with marginalised groups. I am starting Data Collection in schools shortly. Looking forward to this course

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I am Christie a mental health nurse and an assistant lecturer at the University of Malta. I am currently in my 3rd Year of my PhD at Queen Margaret University. My research is about developing person centred practices in child and adolescent mental health services.
Since I am very interested in working with children and adolescents (as I have done for the past 9 years), having knowledge about creative methods will be very beneficial for me. Thus I am very looking forward to learn more about these methods, and also to learn from this very diverse and interesting group :)

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Hi everyone! My name is Madiha Sayani. I'm an independent monitoring and evaluation consultant currently based in Karachi, Pakistan. Over the last few years I've had the opportunity to work on the evaluations of several education interventions, including a couple of programs that worked on introducing play-based education in K-2 in low-cost schools. We struggled mightily during these evaluations to accurately understand children's experiences. We tried to dabble a little in arts-based methods but since we didn't have the expertise to execute them, we ended up using very traditional, linear data collection instruments to engage children. Recently, I've become more interested in incorporating the lenses of intersectionality, social justice and equity in evaluation. I registered in this course with the objective of developing a better understanding of how we can use creative research methods not only to include the perspective of populations that we can't cater to using traditional methods, but also to learn how to include them in the research design process as well. I'm really excited to learn from you all!

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Hi! I'm Kate, and I'm a Research Associate at Durham University. The research I'm involved with focuses on sexual and domestic violence, particularly LGBT+ people's experiences. I'm also currently working on a project exploring police recording of honour-based abuse, forced marriage and female genital mutilation and another which is focused on tackling sexual violence on university campuses. I don't have much experience at all with creative methods, having generally stuck to 'traditional' qualitative methods, but reading everyone's bios, there seems to be loads of experience in the group, so I'm really looking forward to hearing more about everyone's work and learning alongside you all :)

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Hello,
I am Jennifer Fraser. I am based at the University of Westminster where I am a Principal Lecturer in Social Sciences and University Director of Student Partnership in the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation. My work is primarily concerned with co-creating transformative and more socially just educational futures with students and colleagues. My background is in humanities and I've come to creative research methods more through community activism and a desire to disrupt traditional hierarchies of knowing than any formal training in research methods. I'm excited to be here with all of you and to learn together.

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Hello, really good to see you all here. My name is Ariane Critchley. I am a social work academic and Lecturer at the University of Stirling. I have mostly used creative methods in terms of outputs and knowledge exchange, and I'm here to learn more on using creative methods as part of fieldwork. I am also interested in using arts-based methods to explore arts-based practices, particularly in relation to poetry. I'm currently grant writing for an ethnographic study exploring infants' lives that I plan to undertake, and so hoping I might be able to refine my ideas on the methodology for that through this course, and that it will help me to carve out the necessary thinking time. Looking forward to learning with and from you all.

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Hi everyone, my name is Shona Russell, a senior lecturer in Management in the University of St Andrews. I'm embarking on a new research project examining and developing modes of accounting for ecological concerns and the potential of creative practices and arts-based methods. Looking forward to our conversations over the next six weeks.

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Hi everyone, I am doing a FT PhD at the University of Plymouth. I have a bit of a weird role as my job is to follow the journey of community researchers who are part of a programme being delivered by a larger team. I was once an artist, and have been enjoying bringing some imagination and creativity back to my thought as I have been planning my research. Hoping to figure out and finalise my methods and be able to bring some options to the table that I and those I want to engage will find exciting / enjoyable

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Hi all, I'm Katey - a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and University College London. I work in arts and health research, with a particular interest in how the arts may facilitate the formation of meaningful social identities that support health and wellbeing. My background is in the social sciences, and over the last 12-months I have been using more creative methods with those living with dementia as part of my role at Edinburgh. I am keen to learn more and to connect with you all!

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Hi everyone, my name is Aoife Munroe. I am a 2nd year PhD student at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. I am also a Lecturer in Special and Inclusive Education. My PhD research is exploring autistic girls' experiences of mainstream education settings. I will be working with autistic girls to elicit their experiences and hope to adapt the model of 'interrupted interviews' (Shephard, 2015) and incorporate some alternative/creative methods to support the girls to tell their story. I am also using more traditional methods with parents of autistic girls and mainstream post-primary school teachers. I am very interested in expanding my knowledge on creative based methods and look forward to learning a lot during this course!

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I am in the first year of my PhD at University of Greenwich, where I will be doing research into the City of Sanctuary movement. The movement wants to create a UK that is more welcoming to refugees and other migrants.  In my research I will work with organisers of the movement, including refugees and other migrants, to see how different people participate in the movement. I have used some creative methods in the past when I was a researcher at the Young Foundation but it was very much learning-by-doing with little knowledge of the foundations of the different methods. I hope this course will help me to choose the most suitable method for my research questions. Look forward to meeting you all shortly!

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I am a third year PhD student at University of Eastern Finland, although I live in Helsinki. My ethnographic research into selective education in Finland has so far been rather conventional and I am now looking to mix it up with something different. My thesis is constantly evolving but at the moment I'm leaning towards exploring intensities, minor gestures and bodies in motion.

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Hi, I am Shaëny, a PhD student in my second year, at the university of Liverpool in the department of politics. I am looking at justice provision for survivors of sex trafficking in the gold mines of Senegal. My work is focused on decolonial, survivor-centred approach. I would love to know more about creative research as I am interested in finding the right way to collect data. I was planning to use culinary practice and food as a research method, so I can't wait to know if it's possible and to learn more during this course! Looking forward to meeting you all!

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Hi everyone, I am Ruth, a postdoc at the University of York - I am exploring solutions to the loneliness experienced by new and expecting parents. I am looking to explore mobile interviews as a method to interview parents with babies. I have always been interested in creative methods and use zines regularly. I can't wait to learn more and meet you all! 

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Hi everyone, I am Ruth, a postdoc at the University of York - I am exploring solutions to the loneliness experienced by new and expecting parents. I am looking to explore mobile interviews as a method to interview parents with babies. I have always been interested in creative methods and use zines regularly. I can't wait to learn more and meet you all! 

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Hi, I’m Kate and a research student at Coventry, in my final 15 months of my FT PhD on theology, poverty and the common good in Breadline Britain: an analysis of Christian responses to austerity poverty in England since the financial crisis.
I’m interviewing people involved with the Poverty Truth movement in the UK, keeping a autobiographical journal and conducting an arts based focus group using artefacts and arts materials in a discussion group.
Looking forward to our course together.

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Hi everyone, I am Fatima Maatwk, I am lecturer in Student Partnership at the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation at the University of Westminster. My research background originally is in Diversity and Inclusion - which were the topics of my PhD - through my work I am shifting more towards social justice, decolonisation, student partnership and co-creation. I am very excited to attend this course and look forward to meeting you all in a short bit.

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Just adding a word of welcome from the NCRM team - it's great having Helen back with us to lead this course and we hope you all find it really rewarding. Happy New Year!
(Dave Martin)

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Hi, nice to meet you all. My name is Suzanne Faulkner, teaching fellow in prosthetics and orthotics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. I am also an EdD student at the University of Strathclyde. I am in the early stages of my EdD . . . I intend to use Lego Serious Play (LSP) as a data capture method and to explore in what way LSP can be used to enhance participation of students with English as a second language, in group work activity. I am particularly interested in how to manage creative data types such as Lego Serious Play models and honouring their meanings as determined by the participants.

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Hello and welcome! I'm Helen Kara and I am your course tutor. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all and having some fun on this course! I will be checking in regularly, so do use the discussion forums in between our live Wednesday afternoon sessions.

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Hi - I am Nicola Simpson, Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. I am working on a number of Arts, Health and Wellbeing projects, including projects with the charity Hospital Rooms, developing participatory evaluation frameworks with lived experience experts. I am developing co-designed creative, arts-based and material methods to find ways to tell new narratives about impact and the experience of beneficiaries. I am very interested in the discussions around whether in employing creative and arts-based methods, we, as researchers, should be skilled artists, poets and practitioners too, and if we are, what that brings to the process.

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Hi everyone, I work for the charity Hospital Rooms as one of their Research Leads and I am also a PhD student at Birmingham School of Art. My research uses arts-based research and material methods to explore clinical encounters of locked and secure mental health units. At Hospital Rooms we work with artists, staff and patients through facilitating workshops and creating immersive installations and critical artworks in the wards. I am particularly interested in how creative methods can go beyond traditional qualitative methods to capture sensorial experiences and redistribute agency.

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Hello all..I am Divya- Chancellors Fellow,  University of Edinburgh. My research interests are physical activity, sedentary behaviour, development and evaluation of public health programmes and ageing. Very excited for this course- hoping to learn new and creative ways to conduct research.