Creative Writing For Academics with Kip Jones
Bournemouth University
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th February 2016
Summary: The
Creative Writing workshop will be a unique event in that it will not be a
typical 'writing retreat' (with trees to hug and lots of time to ruminate), but
rather a very active experience with lots of exercises, suggestions and
supportive feedback on participants’ work from Kip Jones and other
participants. The point is to encourage both students and academics who
would like to include more creative writing in their outputs, particularly
those whose writing includes reporting on narrative and other qualitative
methods of research. It also helps immensely in the move to publishing in
the wider world of blogs and online outlets, moving work to media and film,
auto-ethnography and even fiction.
Justification: The
important point of Creative Writing for Academics is to help academics and
students achieve the goal of achieving more of their work read by wider
audiences; in other words, impact. By providing an intense two-day experience
for participants to engage in developing writing skills, the playing field is
levelled and opportunities for facilitated learning developed. By engaging in creative writing, it becomes possible for all to write more clearly, more
simply, even more creatively, when writing not only for academic publications,
but also for outlets previously unimagined.
Methods: The workshop will present
opportunities to work with academic material and expand its means of production
and dissemination to new and creative levels through interfaces with techniques
from the arts and humanities, including blog and magazine writing, film
treatments and scripts, and poetry and fictional exercises. These intellectual exchanges encourage joint exploration of
how researchers can engage with principles and tools from the arts in order to
expand and extend the possibilities of dissemination of research data. Concepts
of creativity itself will evolve and be transformed by participants’ outlooks
and willingness to engage with unfamiliar territory. These processes comprise a
‘facilitated learning’—in that knowledge will be gained as a secondary goal
through a process of developing new relationships through small group
problem-solving and self examination, grounded in personal past experience and
knowledge.
Kip Jones BA MSc PhD is
Reader in Performative Social Science and Qualitative
Research in the Faculties of Media & Communication and Health & Social
Sciences at Bournemouth University. Jones has produced films, videos and audio
productions and has written many articles
for academic journals and authored Chapters in
books on topics
such as masculinity, ageing and rurality, and older LGBT citizens. His
groundbreaking use of qualitative methods, including biography and
auto-ethnography, and the use of tools from the arts in social science research
and dissemination, are distinguished internationally.
Workshop Price: £120. for two days. £90. for students/BU staff
Academics and students at all levels welcome!
Register online at:
http://creative-writing-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk
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