Call for Chapter Ideas for a Book on Performative Social Science

I am retiring at the end of February from Bournemouth University. My plan is to do some writing that I have been meaning to get to for some time.  One of the discussions with a publisher is a book about Performative Social Science.

More a doer than a talker, I would like this potential book to be about DOING Performative Social Science (perhaps even the title?). As a subtext possibly: “Creativity in doing research and communicating it to an audience”.  The creativity could be inspiration from any of the arts; that audience can be readers, users, viewers, listeners, participants, communities, etc.

At this early stage, I would be interested in hearing ideas for contributions from you for Chapters for the book. Your Chapter should be an example of how you have used the wide principles of PSS and its aesthetic (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294887963_Performative_Social_Science) in a project of your own – be it research, dissemination, performance, exhibition, community action, publication, etc.

If you would like your idea to be considered in my discussions with the publisher, please send me a short email with your thoughts (nothing too formal yet), and perhaps the area of the arts that informs it.

PLEASE REPLY TO ME AT KIPWORLD@GMAIL.COM ONLY!

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Performative Social Science reaching wider audiences

A Chapter on Performative Social Science for the International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods by Dr Kip Jones has achieved 1500+ reads on ResearchGate.

Performative Social Science (PSS) is an arts-led method of research and dissemination developed by Jones at Bournemouth University over ten years and is recognised internationally. Recently lauded by Sage Publications, they described PSS as pioneering work that will ‘propel arts-led research forward’ and be a ‘valued resource for students and researchers for years to come’.  

Performative Social Science (PSS) is positioned within the current era of cross-pollination from discipline to discipline. Practitioners from the Arts and Humanities look to the Social Sciences for fresh frameworks, whist Social Science practitioners explore the Arts for potential new tools for enquiry and dissemination.

‘Kip Jones brings the genre of what he calls performative social sciences forward with wide-ranging theoretical, academic, and artistic products in a various media that takes up how social scientists can use art for investigation and dissemination.’ —“Embodied Methodologies, Participation, and the Art of Research” by Madeline Fox  

Dr Kip Jones, Reader in Qualitative Research and Performative Social Science retires from Bournemouth University at the end of February, but will continue with PhD supervision on a part-time basis. He has four potential publications in discussion with publishers, including a volume on PSS.