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Insights Into Creative and Participatory Research

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As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact. ...
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  • 26 May 2026
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As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact.

Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showcases rich, diverse case studies from both early-career and established researchers. Covering everything from research design and analysis to ethics and dissemination, the book addresses the unique opportunities and challenges these approaches bring to contemporary social research.

With a focus on real-world practice, critical reflection and the capacity to drive change, this is an essential collection for researchers seeking to generate inclusive, impactful and ethically grounded research.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 296
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date: 26 May 2026
ISBN: 9781447372943
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Social research and statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Research methods / methodology, Sociology
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“This edited collection is a much-needed contribution to the creative research methods literature that showcases innovative uses of creative and participatory methods, such as participatory approaches to zines, digital methods and dialectograms. The book benefits from a range of contributors in terms of disciplines and career stage which allows us to think generously about the wide-ranging potential reach of these methods and ways to build more inclusive research.” Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester

Linzi Ladlow is Senior Research Fellow and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Award holder at the University of Lincoln.

Laura Way is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Roehampton.

Foreword - Helen Lomax

1. Introduction - Linzi Ladlow and Laura Way

Part 1: Co-creation

2. Longitudinal co- creation: a novel participatory approach for embedding an ethos of father- inclusion in communities, practice and policy - Anna Tarrant

3. Explosion time: creative involvement in research with young, disabled and LGBTQ+ people - Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Harvey Humphrey, Benji Rose-Ingall, Eddy Phillips and Alex Toft

4. Creativity troubling methods: an online carousel of creative methods during the COVID- 19 pandemic - James Duggan and Rod Kippen

5. Participatory action research and community organising: empowering Black and other Global Majority student voices - Amina Razak

Part 2: Art and visual research

6. From zines with older punk women to zines with young dads: zines and (non-)DIY cultures - Laura Way

7. ‘It gives access to a different layer of meaning’: reflections from a photo- production study on work–life balance - Agata B. Wezyk and Catherine V. Talbot

8. The living journals method: a digital participatory research approach for studying participants’ daily lives - Sabina Savadova

9. ‘Building blocks of something extraordinary’: refusing damage- centred research with migrant communities in the UK through creative methods - Rebekka Hölzle

Part 3: Community space and place

10. Site-specific creative work with communities: encounters with the field - Kate Pahl and Steven Pool

11. Creative methodologies and participatory research with/in punk spaces: dialectograms in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Le Val d’Ajol (France) - Jim Donaghey and Audrey Tuaillon Demésy

12. Care-informed militant ethnography: centring praxis in research design - Elise Imray Papineau

13. Social co-creations of joy as methodological foci in skateboarding research - Amy Pomerand Petzoldt