Friday Opening Plenary Address Building Research in New Shapes and Engaging Diverse Audiences: The Transformative Potential of Arts-Based Research Patricia Leavy The word shape speaks to the form of our work but also the way that the form shapes the content and how that content is received by audiences. In order to address different issues successfully and communicate effectively with diverse audiences, we need to be able to see in different shapes and to produce knowledge in different shapes. In this presentation I suggest that innovative qualitative researchers are responding to a call to transform knowledge-building practices in order to make the products of social research publicly accessible. This requires us to transform the way that we think about doing and disseminating research. There is a practical and ethical mandate for doing work that has the potential to reach non-academic stakeholders, to be of value to those within and beyond the academy, and even to touch our own hearts. After making this case I suggest arts-based research is one emergent paradigm that offers tools for accomplishing these goals. I offer an overview of arts-based research including: what it is, strengths, research design options, exemplars and evaluation criteria. Attention is also paid to the multiple ways we may disseminate our research in order to broaden its impact, including traditional academic articles, artistic renderings and poplar writings such as op-eds and blogs. To read more go to the conference website here: nova.edu/ssss/QR/TQR2015/index.html
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