This event brings together researchers, particularly PGRs, who are using creative, arts-based methods in their research. You will have the opportunity to share how you are currently using or have used creative, arts-based methods to interrogate educational challenges, and how we can use various creative ways to listen to stories, particularly ‘untold and hidden’ stories from the pandemic. In particular, we will think about the following questions:

• How do we narrate our experiences of the pandemic using creative, arts-based methods?
• Whose stories do we narrate and whose stories are hidden?
• How can we open up spaces for stories to emerge and what are the creative ways that we can do this?

We ask that you come prepared to take an active role in the session in the following ways:

• Come prepared to share the creative methods that you are using with the other participants (no more than 10 mins each).
• Bring your tools of creation (paper, pencils, sketchbook, iPad, camera, laptop etc.) so that in the session as a collective we can investigate creative methods as a way to listen to our own pandemic stories.
• Discuss how creating an SoE Creative Collective of like-minded curious and creative researchers might shake things up and challenge ways of doing academic research.

There are limited spaces so please sign up by the following date: Thursday 7th July