Research seminar july 14

How can two relatively new research methods, creative practice and autoethnography, provide

new insights into the bipolar experience?

Diana Brighouse

Creative practice

• textile installation• digital video/ video installation• website development

• digital drawing• collage

Autoethnography

• Carolyn Ellis & Art Bochner, USF• Norman Denzin, Illinois

• [autoethnography] urges writers with sociological imagination to connect biography and history, to join the personal with the public.• use of first person narratives as legitimate academic writing form

Maintaining the digital thread – establishing a blog

http://www.crackedmirrorsandangelpie.com

Established through Wordpress, in the public domain.

Notice of new post emailed to blog followers, also automatically tweeted on my twitter account.

No further attempts to publicise the blog (at the moment – point for discussion)

http://www.crackedmirrorsandangelpie.com

Evolving writing practice (supervised by Jess Moriarty)

Initial stimulus usually comes from media (radio news programmes, newspapers)

‘Journalistic’ blog, approx. 800-1400 words

Now starting thematically linked, more personal narratives –

experimental styles (dialogue, monologue, sentence length etc)

how should these be published? (short stories, blog, only for thesis)

Timeline

• ‘data’ collection (collage and writing) until Dec 2014

• applications for PhD funding Dec-Feb 2014/15• current work will act as pilot study for PhD • enabling creative practice and writing practice to be refined• research question unlikely to change

• second semester 2014/15 write up MRes, complete final optional module