reanimating data: creative methods of knowledge exchange
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Reanimating Data: Creative Methods of Knowledge Exchange
Ester McGeeney
Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth Studies, University of Sussex
BSA Annual Conference 2014
‘Good sex’?: Building evidence based practice in young people’s sexual health
ESRC knowledge exchange project: (June 2013 – June 2014)
What is ‘good sex’?: Young people, sexual pleasure and sexual health services
PhD research (February 2009 – June 2013)
What is good sex?: Young people, sexual pleasure and sexual health services
16 individual interviews with young people (16-22)
4 focus groups with young people (16-22).
A survey of 278 young people aged 16 – 25.
+ A survey of 39 practitioners working with yp.
From research practice
• A training course for practitioners on pleasure.
• A film for young people
• A film for practitioners
• A film for the general public
• A review of the evidence on including pleasure in sexual health work with yp.
Embedded knowledge interaction and exchange
Process vs product
• Who decides what’s left in and what’s left out?
• Who decides what data ‘means’ or how it should be interpreted?
• What’s more important – the process of knowledge exchange that we engage in or the products that we produce as a result?
Reanimating data: a 2 day workshop
4 films that reanimate research data
Reanimating survey data
Good sex is….
Bad sex is…
Reanimating interview data
‘Look out through the eyes of the person who is talking. You are looking out into the environment that you were imagining. What’s above you? Look down at your feet-look to one side and then to the other. What is the air like? Are you inside? Is it warm? Cool? What’s the quality of the air like?’
Indiah
Reanimating data; participatory and creative methods for what?
• Messy, open, creative space for collaborative knowledge (re)creation, interpretation and exchange, an ‘opening up of possibilities’ (Redwood 2008) outside of academia.
• Creative possibilities for sex education that engage with emotion, imagination and desire.
• Creative and participatory research methods: young people as analysts and meaning makers, process as ‘data’.
Reanimating interview data: take 2
‘Tommy’ and ‘Indiah’
Process vs product
• Who decides what’s left in and what’s left out?
• Who decides what data ‘means’ or how it should be interpreted?
• What’s more important – the process of knowledge exchange that we engage in or the products that we produce as a result?
