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Abstract: The aim of this interactive workshop is to explore creativity within research, to identify opportunities to use creative methods within the research process and to explore the foundations and theoretical underpinning related to these methods in qualitative research.

We discuss what creativity is, why we should be creative in research and how we can introduce creativity and creative methods in our existing paradigms and methods. Subsequently, delegates actively experiment with "pick a card" and "diamond 9" activities, photo elicitation, and the process of creating representations of experiences. Creative research methods have been found particularly helpful in yielding rich qualitative data and thus provide a deeper insight into research participants' experiences. All tasks are explored in view of 4 guiding questions allowing delegates to focus on practical, methodological and ethical considerations regarding the approaches presented.

When we talk about creative methods in analysis, we will begin by considering the principles and process of analysis within qualitative research in general to query whether analysis is ever an objective process and if there is a difference between analysing data from linear texts or visual/sensory data. Delegates have opportunities to practise analysing visual data independently, in connection with textual data employing the "Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis" or creative forms of expression.


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