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Reflexive Research

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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What are the unconscious emotional factors that draw us towards not only our objects of research but also towards our identities as 'researchers'? And how might bringing these factors into the realm of consciousness help our work become more meaningful, more lucid and more effective?

Reading:

  • Kuhn, A. (1992), 'Mandy and possibility', Screen (33:3)
  • 'Research as vocation' in The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind, by Robert D. Romanyshyn, New Orleans: Spring Journal Books, 2007, pp. 105-133

Suggested further reading:

  • Kim Etherington, Becoming a Reflexive Researcher: Using Our Selves in Research, London: Jessica Kingsley, 2004

This event is open to all research students in the School of Arts.