Creative methodologies workshop - embracing the visual as well as the verbal in research

Plews, C ORCID: 0009-0004-5630-4131 and Bytheway, S (2024) Creative methodologies workshop - embracing the visual as well as the verbal in research. In: BACP 30th Annual International Research Conference: Enriching Research, Practice and Policy with Lived Experience, 17-18 May 2024, Birmingham Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

Abstract

This 60 minute research methods workshop will focus on the use of creative methods of data collection as a standalone method and adjunct to interview methods. This workshop will introduce the presenters doctoral research as an example – ‘Exploring adolescent perceptions of mental health provision in education – a codesigned creative project’. The methods used in this project as an example of creative methods included photovoice, make-up self expression, found images and 3D digital rendered images to produce a triptych of images encapsulating young peoples voices on their mental health pre, during and post pandemic. The workshop will explore these examples and how the data was analysed yielding further/different themes than data from the interviews demonstrating how creative methods can be a useful adjunct to produce rich data on a topic. Participants in this workshop will also have the opportunity to engage in a small exercise demonstrating how images can give powerful sources of rich information about a participant/phenomena. As a plenary, members are invited to share any observations from this exercise they would like to share. The workshop will conclude with examples of other creative methods of data collection that are often used in the counselling and psychotherapy world such as creative depiction of timelines/genograms and constellation work and how they could be utilised to create rich qualitative data.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
UN SDGs:	Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Divisions:	School of Sciences
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2026 13:55
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2026 13:55
URN:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17856

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