Editorial Vol. 3 No. 2

Authors

  • Diane Conrad University of Alberta
  • Patricia Leavy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29431

Keywords:

editorial

Abstract

An introduction to Volume 3, Number 2, from co-Editorsi-in-Chief Dr. Diane Conrad and Dr. Patricia Leavy.

Author Biographies

Diane Conrad, University of Alberta

       Dr Diane Conrad is Associate Professor of Drama/Theatre Education in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Her participatory arts-based research focuses on working with youth, who are marginalized by society due to the challenges they experience in life (e.g. racism, poverty), through the arts to express and analyze their life experiences. Her work advocates for attention to the issues and needs of the youth.

Diane teaches graduate courses in arts-based research and participatory research and is Director of the Canada Foundation for Innovation Arts-based Research Studio in Education at the University of Alberta http://arts-basedresearchstudio.ning.com/

Patricia Leavy


Patricia Leavy, PhD is an independent scholar and novelist (formerly Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College). Her twenty published books include Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (first and second editions), The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative ResearchFiction as Research PracticeEssentials ofTransdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies and the arts-based novels BlueAmerican Circumstance and Low-Fat Love. She edits seven book series including the Social Fictions series for Sense Publishers and the Understanding Qualitative Research series for Oxford University Press. She is frequently called on by the national news media and blogs for The Huffington Post and The Creativity Post. The New England Sociological Association named her the 2010 New England Sociologist of the Year and she received the 2014 American Creativity Association Special Achievement Award for “special and extraordinary advancement of arts-based research and the ground-breaking Social Fictions series.” She is also the recipient of the 2015 Special Career Award given by the International Congress of Qualitaitve Inquiry. www.patricialeavy.com 

References

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Conrad, D. & Beck, J. (2015). Towards articulating an arts-based research paradigm: Growing deeper. UNESCO Observatory Multidisciplinary Journal in the Arts, 5(1), 1-26. http://www.unescomelb.org/volume-5-issue-1

Finley, S. (2003). Arts-based inquiry in QI: Seven years from crisis to guerrilla warfare. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(2), 281-296.

Heron, J. & Reason, P. (1997). A participatory inquiry paradigm. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(3), 274-294.

Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., Ryu, J. Y, & Belliveau, G. (2018). Ar/tography as living inquiry.In P. Leavy (Ed.) Handbook of arts-based research (pp. 37-53). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Springgay, S., Irwin, R. L. & Kind, S. (2008). A/R/Tographers and living inquiry. In G. Knowles & A. Cole (Eds.) Handbook of the arts in qualitative research (pp. 83-93). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Wilson, S. (2008). Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.

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Published

2018-09-15

How to Cite

Conrad, D., & Leavy, P. (2018). Editorial Vol. 3 No. 2. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(2), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29431