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Thanks Shelley, your email is really helpful. Cheers, Brendan _____ From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Tracey Sent: 09 September 2009 20:04 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Brendan, I am theorising in this creative way for my PhD - using poetry, collage, film and other arts-based methods. I'm bending the limits of language and of the PhD itself. The theme of the PhD is teacher creativity, so I suppose that makes it kind of appropriate for me to do so. Research and meaning-makign are creative, aren't they?. You need a supportive supervisor who has that kind of background. . (I'm lucky enough to have a great one). There's a chapter on PhDs using arts-based approaches in a wonderful book, Handbook of The Arts in Qualitative Research. It's published by Sage (i think it was 2007 or 2008) and the editors are Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Cole. Love Shelley _____ From: Practitioner-Researcher [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of brendan cronin [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 09 September 2009 19:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: I too went to the BERA conference and some thoughts came to me. How does one begin to theorise in an interesting way rather than just nicking other people's ideas? Can one Stronach-like start to play around with language, concepts in a weird post-modern way? I've done 2 MAs but not a Phd. Can one theorise in this creative way at Phd level? How can one bend the limits of language? Second, how does the debate about creativity relate to epistemology? I studied under Vic Kelly at Goldsmith's in 1986 - tremendous stuff, very philosophical, analysing concepts. Is there value in analysing the epistemological position underpinning various formulations of creativity? Love, Brendan Cronin