Creative interactions with data: using visual and metaphorical devices in repeated focus groups
Creative interactions with data: using visual and metaphorical devices in repeated focus groups
This article presents some of the emergent methods developed to fit a study of quality in inclusive research with people with learning disabilities. It addresses (i) the ways in which the methodology was a response to the need for constructive, transformative dialogue through use
of repeated focus groups in a design interspersing dialogic and reflective spaces; and (ii) how stimulus materials for the focus groups involved imaginative and creative interactions with data. Particular innovations in the blending of narrative and thematic analyses and data generation and analysis processes are explored, specifically the creative use of metaphor as stimulus and the playful adaptation of I-poems from the Listening Guide approach as writing and performance. In reflecting on these methodological turns we also reflect on creativity as an interpretive lens. The paper is an invitation for further methodological dialogue and development.
focus groups, inclusive research, I-poems, learning disabilities, metaphor, participatory research, stimulus materials, visual methods
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Nind, Melanie
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Vinha, Hilra Gondim
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1 February 2016
Nind, Melanie
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Vinha, Hilra Gondim
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Nind, Melanie and Vinha, Hilra Gondim
(2016)
Creative interactions with data: using visual and metaphorical devices in repeated focus groups.
Qualitative Research, 16 (1), .
(doi:10.1177/1468794114557993).
Abstract
This article presents some of the emergent methods developed to fit a study of quality in inclusive research with people with learning disabilities. It addresses (i) the ways in which the methodology was a response to the need for constructive, transformative dialogue through use
of repeated focus groups in a design interspersing dialogic and reflective spaces; and (ii) how stimulus materials for the focus groups involved imaginative and creative interactions with data. Particular innovations in the blending of narrative and thematic analyses and data generation and analysis processes are explored, specifically the creative use of metaphor as stimulus and the playful adaptation of I-poems from the Listening Guide approach as writing and performance. In reflecting on these methodological turns we also reflect on creativity as an interpretive lens. The paper is an invitation for further methodological dialogue and development.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 14 November 2014
Published date: 1 February 2016
Keywords:
focus groups, inclusive research, I-poems, learning disabilities, metaphor, participatory research, stimulus materials, visual methods
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/371811
ISSN: 1468-7941
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