The Community brings together international and interdisciplinary expertise from the arts, humanities and translation and social sciences to explore creativity within research methods. Our workshops and learning resources inquire into how we can research the world using techniques beyond simple interviews, surveys, textual analysis and participant observation.
Cross-campus activities are designed to extend and enhance students’ existing knowledge of social research methods. Where standard qualitative social research methods training tends to focus on using data-gathering instruments such as interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observations, and document analysis, this community considers emerging or more marginal bodies of sociological work which use or are influenced by creative and artistic practice and sensory engagement to gather, produce or analyse data sociologically.
Learning Community Activities
Past Events
First edition of EUTOPIA LU ‘EUTOPIA LU ‘Creative Research Methods’ coordinated by Hannah Jones (UW) – Jan-March 2022 – More info coming soon
Cross-campus workshops-series on creative research methods – Nov 2021-March 2022 – Please check this page or EUTOPIA Creative Research Methods – Upcoming Workshops & Events for news on upcoming cross-campus workshops for 2023.
‘Visual Research Methods in Research: EUTOPIA Creative Methods Workshop 1, featuring speakers Katarina Despotovic, Dr Helena Holgersson, Dr Hannah Jones, Professor Kaisa Koskinnen, Dr Patrícia Pereira and Dr Nike K. Pokorn – December 14, 2021 – A cross-campus day workshop hosted online between Finland, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK, presenting a variety of visual techniques that can be used in social research. For more information on this past activity, please visit: EUTOPIA Creative Research Methods – Past Activities
The first scheduled workshop in the 2022-23 cross-campus series was: ‘Archival Research Methods: EUTOPIA Creative Methods Workshop 2’, featuring speakers Dr Outi Paloposki, Dr Nirmal Puwar, Dr Helena Holgersson, Dr Hannah Jones, Dr Patrícia Pereira and Dr Nike K. Pokorn – December 12, 2022. This online workshop explored creative archival research, asking how can archives be engaged with beyond traditional limits, shaping social research and translation studies as methodology and practice. For more information on this past activity, please visit: EUTOPIA Creative Research Methods – Past Activities
Creative Research Methods Learning Resources
The Creative Research Methods Learning Community holds an ever-expanding bank of Learning Resources. These original resources have been devised by international researchers and practitioners, for students and scholars interested in learning about the world using techniques beyond simple interviews, surveys, textual analysis and participant observation. To date, our methods and approaches have included:
- Archives in Microhistorical Translations Studies
- Carrying the Body as Archive
- Ethics of Creative Research Methods
- Ethnographic Archives
- In Conversation: “Dig Where You Stand” (Researching Jobs Using Archival Method)
- Linguistic Landscapes
- Love and Break-up Letters
- Theatre Methods
- Walking Methods
Access to our complete bank of Learning Resources is available through visiting our Creative Research Methods landing page. Each unit contains an overview, video and audio material, as well as extensive reading lists. Suggestions for practical learning tasks are featured in selected units.
How to get involved?
(Students and educators)
Contact the EUTOPIA curriculum team: Jo Angouri (J.Angouri@warwick.ac.uk) and Karen Triquet (karen.triquet@vub.be).