Please join the Adventures in Posthumanism Network for their research seminars which are open to all. The seminars will be delivered online via Zoom (all times are GMT).
Wednesday 21 May, 13:30–15:00 | Creatively interrogating the meanings and understandings embedded in particular objects in a critical discourse/narrative inquiry enabled new understandings to emerge
Speaker: Dr Viv Southall
Abstract
My research emerged from my need to better understand the dynamics of autistic/non-autistic long-term romantic relationships when working with couples in my Relationship Education service. Research emphasises that not all autistic people are comfortable with face-to-face interviews, therefore I wanted the participants to be able to communicate their stories in any way that they chose. I will share how this led to a creative methodological approach and data collection which was then reflected in the presentation of the research. The use of a love story, handbook, photos, objects (such as bookcases, clocks, gardening equipment), emails and creative representations became integral to the research process. The participants and I meandered, noticed and mulled over them to develop our understandings of their romantic relationships. I will be talking about how these objects enabled us to engage with the data in new ways bringing extra insights.
My research emerged from my need to better understand the dynamics of autistic/non-autistic long-term romantic relationships when working with couples in my Relationship Education service. Research emphasises that not all autistic people are comfortable with face-to-face interviews, therefore I wanted the participants to be able to communicate their stories in any way that they chose. I will share how this led to a creative methodological approach and data collection which was then reflected in the presentation of the research. The use of a love story, handbook, photos, objects (such as bookcases, clocks, gardening equipment), emails and creative representations became integral to the research process. The participants and I meandered, noticed and mulled over them to develop our understandings of their romantic relationships. I will be talking about how these objects enabled us to engage with the data in new ways bringing extra insights.
Biography
Vivien was a primary school teacher for 20 years plus, and a lecturer in education for ten years. She has been married for 39 years and has two children. This has helped her engage with individuals and family groups in delivering relationship education for the last 25 years. Her MEd evaluated the relationship education service and her fresh-off-the-press EdD thesis, about autistic/non-autistic long-term romantic coupes, informs her ongoing practice.
Vivien was a primary school teacher for 20 years plus, and a lecturer in education for ten years. She has been married for 39 years and has two children. This has helped her engage with individuals and family groups in delivering relationship education for the last 25 years. Her MEd evaluated the relationship education service and her fresh-off-the-press EdD thesis, about autistic/non-autistic long-term romantic coupes, informs her ongoing practice.
Wednesday 4 June, 13:00–14:30 | Writing Sensation: Sense, Events and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry
Speaker: Andrew Mark Gillott, University of Stirling and Leeds Beckett University
Abstract
How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?
How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?
Andrew takes on these questions with creativity, speculation and invention. His book illuminates the ‘creative-relational’ as a poietic and transversal concept of an inquiry capable of attending to the way events throw themselves together, and how forms take shape in the interplay of difference. Engaging with postfoundational and postqualitative approaches to inquiry, Writing Sensation offers readers both engaging, creative and affirmative readings of scholars such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, and enactments of how one may write the immanent moment of emergent circumstances.
Biography
Andrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport at the University of Stirling and Visiting Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University. He is particularly interested in collaborative, transdisciplinary and postfoundational modes of inquiry that offer ways of probing a sense of what is happening as it makes itself felt.
Andrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Sport at the University of Stirling and Visiting Fellow in the Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University. He is particularly interested in collaborative, transdisciplinary and postfoundational modes of inquiry that offer ways of probing a sense of what is happening as it makes itself felt.
We very much hope you can join us for this event to be chaired by Dr Mary Garland and Dr Ken Gale.
Zoom link: https://plymouth.zoom.us/j/98621692083?pwd=cG3Hm4MoQJCvgDcDPZPAcifTbXeNGA.1
Meeting ID: 986 2169 2083 / Passcode: 652767
Meeting ID: 986 2169 2083 / Passcode: 652767