The Qualitative Research Unit at Swansea Medical
School, Swansea University, invites you to attend:
Colloquium 2006:
"Circles within Circles: Qualitative Methodology and
the Arts: The Researcher as Artist"

Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th September 2006 
at the University of Wales-Swansea.

The starting point for this exciting two-day event is
the idea that there is an emerging 'edgelands' in
qualitative enquiry - a space between established and
new methods where new approaches are being developed,
new theories examined and new ways of asking and
answering questions formed that do not conform to
neatly regulated patterns of events or outcomes. The
Colloquium builds on the idea that there are links
between New Qualitative Methodologies and the Arts and
explores what happens when researchers and artists
join together to present their work side by side,
encouraging a cross-fertilisation of applications and
ideas.  There will be presentations from qualitative
methodologists within the strands: narrative based,
arts-based and re-defined methodology, alongside
presentations from fine artists, musicians and
performance artists.  The Colloquium will concentrate
on two aspects of commonality: 'process' and
'representation'.  Process, because for artists and
researchers alike, the central feature of their work
and their lives is the creative process,
representation because an essential consideration for
both is how best to represent social reality - to
represent what has been discovered to others.  

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