Mannay, Dawn  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111
2026.
Creative research methods: insights, innovations and applications.
Presented at: Creative Methods in Ageing Research Seminar,
London, UK,
21 July 2026.
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Abstract
Creative methods can be seen as a metaphorical bridge, moving beyond the dominance of text based forms to engage diverse communities, enable the sharing of stories and perspectives, fight familiarity, engender reflexivity, and encourage collaboration and change. In this talk, I reflect on some of my engagements with visual and creative research methods, thinking through aspects of design, data production, analysis, dissemination – and the potential for increasing impact through films, artwork, music, and participatory and co-produced multimodal materials. The studies introduced will illustrate how creative methods can be drawn on in projects with children, young people and adults across the life course; and the ways in which temporal and technological shifts can necessitate different approaches to generating data and communicating key findings. In sharing the ways in which I, and other researchers, have followed directions, encountered obstacles and forged bridges, I hope to communicate the learning in these processes, and the ethical tensions, limitations and affordances of these visual viaducts, tricky tightropes and creative crossings and connections.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item - unpublished |
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| Status: | Unpublished |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: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | creative methods; visual methods; sandboxing; drawing; qualitative methods; art-based methods; timelines; photoelicitation |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2026 09:01 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/188507 |
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