A 3000-word reflexive report evaluating the process of using creative methods to investigate the
research question you formed in class and analyse the data you found.
1) What was the process of using creative methods how did you go about unpicking and understanding the texts? How did using creative methods help you better understand the positionality and perspectives of the research participants ?
2) What was your experience of this process was it useful, supportive, effective, or cumbersome, inefficient, not useful. Are there different stages of research when creative methods might be particularly useful or appropriate? Do creative methods help you in ‘reading through’ or comprehending your raw data?
3) How does the literature evaluate creative methods as a way of approaching and analyzing data? What are the philosophical underpinnings of this method?
4) What are the relative merits of creative methods versus more traditional methods such as coding?
5) How could this method be improved? Based on your experiences in class and by considering other methods of organizing and analyzing qualitative data.
