The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum at Bristol's School of Education welcomes Sarah E. Truman from the University of Melbourne to open up a discussion of research-creation as a methodology and method. This session will be run both in-person and online via a Zoom connection. Please select preference when registering.

As a concept, research-creation has a geographic affiliation with Canada and was made popular by provincial and federal funding agencies as a way of acknowledging research projects at the intersection of arts practices, theory, and research. Research-creation as a term has now been mobilized as both a methodology and a method for enacting empirical research internationally. In this seminar I will discuss how the theories I draw on to conduct research-creation projects are aligned with what has been dubbed the feminist materialisms. Specifically, a feminist orientation of conducting research that is embedded in anti-colonial, anti-racist, and queer politics. This talk will give a brief overview of research-creation, pose some questions around queer-feminist approaches to research methods that I draw on in my new book, followed by a few examples from my past and current research, and a couple of discussion-activities for participants to use to think about their own research.

Sarah E. Truman is Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne and co-convenor of the Literary Education Lab. From 2022-2025 Dr. Truman is an ARC DECRA Fellow whose project focuses on youth creative writing of science fiction in mining and metropolitan communities in three commonwealth countries (Australia, Canada, and Wales). In addition to conducting research into literary education, Dr. Truman co-directs the international research-creation project WalkingLab, and composes music with Oblique Curiosities. Dr. Truman’s most recent book is Feminist Speculations and the Practice of Research-Creation (Routledge, 2022). www.sarahetruman.com

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Dr. Truman will be speaking at the School of Education in room 1.21, and you are welcome to attend in person. If you would prefer to attend remotely the talk will also be streamed live online via Zoom. Please indicate which option you prefer when you register so we can gauge numbers to accommodate in the room.