Mannay, Dawn  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111
2025.
Sandboxing: Qualitative interviewing with sand, objects and figures.
Presented at: Communication, Culture, and Languages Department Seminar Series,
Nantes, France,
13 November 2025.
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Abstract
The sandboxing method was developed from the tradition of play therapy, specifically the World Technique, where children create three dimensional scenes, pictures, or abstract designs with a range of miniature, realistic and fantasy, figures and everyday objects in a tray filled with sand. Sandboxing adapts this therapeutic practice as a distinctive tool of qualitative data generation with children, young people, and adults who create sand scenes and discuss their metaphorical meanings in elicitation interviews. This presentation explains the origins and development of the sandboxing technique, and reflects on the affordances, limitations and ethical considerations of sandboxing, introducing studies that have drawn on this technique alongside other methods of inquiry. It also reflects on the importance of communicating research findings in accessible ways and the emotional impacts of applying sandboxing on the researcher.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Status: | Unpublished |
| Schools: | Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Research Institutes & Centres > Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | qualitative reseach; creative research; sandboxing |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2025 13:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/182401 |
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