Kara H., Mannay D., Roy A. (eds.) The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis

Policy Press, 2024. — 486 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4473-6956-1.Creative research methods for data generation have expanded over recent decades and researchers are eager to take a creative approach to data analysis.It is challenging to bring creativity into data analysis while retaining a systematic, rigorous, and ethical approach. Written by experts in the field, this handbook addresses these challenges. The chapters adapt analytical techniques in creative ways for novice and expert researchers. Existing and novel methods from analysis of quantitative data to embodied, performative, visual, written, arts-based, and collaborative analysis are featured with case examples that are transferable across disciplines.This collection offers a definitive practical guide to creative data analysis.List of figures and tables.
Notes on contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction. Dawn Mannay, Alastair Roy, and Helen Kara.
Creative analysis of quantitative data
Five ‘Survive’ Lockdown: revisualising survey data as a graphic novella. Kate Carruthers Thomas.
Visually mapping the interplay between pandemic interest groups and ‘the vulnerable’ in newspaper accounts, 2018 – 2022. Stuart Neilson and Neil Kenny.Using discourse analysis to inform content analysis: a pragmatic, mixed-methods approach to exploring how the headteacher role is articulated in job descriptions. Alexandra Morgan, Andrew James Davies, and Emmajane Milton.Word clouds as creative data analysis – what can they tell us about student views of learning something new? Louise Gascoine, Kate Wall, and Steve Higgins.
Creative embodied analysisAnalyzing creative multimodal data for a scientific audience. Jennifer S. Leigh, Jennifer R. Hiscock, Sarah Koops, Anna J. McConnell, Cally J.E. Haynes, Claudia Caltagirone, Marion Kieffer, Emily R. Draper, Anna G. Slater, Kristin M. Hutchins, Davita Watkins, Nathalie Busschaert, and Larissa K.S. von Krbek.Object-work as a creative approach to data analysis in Embodied Inquiry. Nicole Brown.
A composite approach to movement analysis for embodied methodology. Rachel Kurtz and Laura Mazzoli-Smith.
Creative performative analysis
Rewriting in role: inviting readers through imagination. Claire Coleman.
A mosaic of siblings of cystic fibrosis: a creative dramaturgical analysis. Amie Hodges.
Theatrical research-based performance: an analytic method using theatre in an educational context. David Duncan.
Creative visual analysis
Co-creation of a sensory assemblage as data analysis. Mel Roberts and Anne Collis.
Creating artworks from data. Charlotte Barratt.
Using emoji as a creative tool for data analysis. Anuja Cabraal and Lauren Gawne.
Creative written analysisI poems and polyvocality: experiences of using a combined qualitative creative analysis technique to strengthen the voices of research participants and aid reflexivity. Jacqueline Dodding and Hazel Partington.Composite narratives, developing characters: a method of creative data analysis in developing public engagement artefacts. Lauren White, Adam Carter, and Katherine Davies.
Beyond the brick wall: transdisciplinary and creative research through Scholarly Personal Narrative and Lilyology. Dawn Wink.
Creative arts-based analysis
Slow stitch: reflexive creative analysis and meaning making. Naomi Clarke.
The analog journey method. Karen Gray and Emma Lazenby.
Using creative mapping methods to analyze multimodal data. Erin Roberts, Merryn Thomas, Karen Henwood, and Nick Pidgeon.
Existing methods adapted in creative ways
Embracing creativity in familiarisation. Louise Couceiro.
How to be creative when creativity is policed. Shehr Bano Zaidi.
Visual grounded theory: a new way of seeing, knowing, and constructing theories grounded in data. Jacquie Ridge.
But is it professional? Pairing creative practice and thematic analysis to illustrate organizational culture. Kyla Tully.
Analysis with participantsUsing patient and public involvement, engagement and co-production to enrich the analysis, interpretation, and utilization of sexual health research. Mar Estupiñán Fdez. de Mesa, Melvina Woode Owusu, Makeda Gerressu, India Henry, Chantel Sealey, Gwenda Hughes, and Catherine H. Mercer.Creative collaborative data analysis: co-constructing and co-analyzing the data together. Jess Mannion and the R&S (Relationships and Sexuality) Research Team.Perspective Narrative Analysis: analyzing data creatively within a participatory research group. Chloe East, Feydakeen Smith, Iris, Zaynab Charafi, Zoe Fordham, Annie Champion, and Carys Jones.Pushing the boundaries
Analyzing the unspoken: finding the richness created in dialogue with people who cannot speak. Katherine Broomfield.
Speculative a/r/tography. Kathryn Coleman, Sarah Healy, Abbey MacDonald, and Peter J. Cook.
Between two worlds: a shared (shamanic) journey of creative qualitative data analysis and researcher identity. Karen Hammond and Nick Fuller.
Conclusion. Alastair Roy, Dawn Mannay, and Helen Kara.
Index.