The invitation to curate an exhibition of the Drawing Research Interest Group (DRIG’s) work emerg... more The invitation to curate an exhibition of the Drawing Research Interest Group (DRIG’s) work emerged in 2013, as a parallel but related part of the Mobility of the Line exhibition. The aim was to show an extended range of approaches to and understandings of drawing, through staff and research student work-in-progress and examples of research into applied drawing practices. The common interest in the line’s utility underpins DRIG. It is a notion debated and interpreted in a range ways by the group: as an arts practice, a research method and as having multiple and cross-disciplinary applications. The potency and utility of the line can result from ancient or contemporary technologies of mark-making. There is sometimes a sense in higher education that drawing has been overtaken; that it is lodged in pedagogical past where observational drawing formed a core part of an art school training. The Utility of the Line exhibitors could be seen as part a long tradition of drawing, but one that ...
The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods, 2020
This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual ... more This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual research, touching on how drawing in and for research might best be understood and noting some of the cultural associations that need to be taken into account. It then explores four categories of methods: using drawing to investigate concepts and experiences; using drawing for in-depth inquiry into individual perceptions and experiences; using drawing as a dialogic method between participant and researcher; and researcher-based drawing. The chapter then concludes with a summary of issues and guidelines for researchers thinking of using drawing methods, looking briefly at researcher skills and expertise, participants and participation, drawing technologies, materials and time, ethics and analysis.
Panel dicussion moderated by Ellen Aslaksen. Time: Wednesday 23 January 2019. Venue: Main auditor... more Panel dicussion moderated by Ellen Aslaksen. Time: Wednesday 23 January 2019. Venue: Main auditorium, KHiO
This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing ... more This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing practices within the UK health system. It takes a lateral exploration into some of the contexts and methodological considerations involved in designing arts-health research. Based on a paper given at the Visual Methods Symposium in 2015, it has been substantially extended and revised.
This provocation focuses on research into the widespread manual drawing practices used between he... more This provocation focuses on research into the widespread manual drawing practices used between health professionals and patients in secondary care. These are drawings routinely produced ‘live’ and in front of the patient or colleague, experienced sequentially (mark by mark) in the moment of their production and sometimes retained, as having documentary (medical records) or personal value. Can these drawing practices be illuminated by Barthes’ comic strip theories of ‘relay’, in terms of the sequential unfolding of images, and ‘anchorage’, in which texts (or textual annotations and speech) pinpoint meanings that would otherwise circulate more ambiguously? What other interpersonal triggers and cultural factors bear on this approach to clinical communication? Is this type of drawing, selective, schematic, in-the-moment and interwoven with text as it is, seen as able to provide a quicker, or deeper, understanding for the patient or colleague? As a first stage in establishing groundwork ...
Poets have written about wars throughout the twentieth century - questioning, protesting and, som... more Poets have written about wars throughout the twentieth century - questioning, protesting and, sometimes, celebrating the nature and purpose of conflict. Attracting an enthusiastic popular readership, war poetry has often been seen as a way of remembering and re-imagining wars. This Guide examines the genesis and development of the genre of war poetry in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the role of the two world wars in the literary and cultural construction of a 'war poetry' category. It draws upon a range of key historical and contemporary critical responses, from poetic memoir and journalism to academic criticism, to demonstrate the rich diversity of expectations and evaluations elicited by the developing genre.
Health professionals routinely draw for patients, carers and colleagues as part of clinical commu... more Health professionals routinely draw for patients, carers and colleagues as part of clinical communication to describe, explain and record. The drawings that result are either discarded, kept by patients or become part of a patient’s records. Some health professionals also draw when engaged in teaching and training in clinical contexts. Very little literature has acknowledged that such drawing regularly takes place and there does not appear to have been formal research into the reasons, benefits or disadvantages of these drawing practices. This study examined the perceptions of seven UK health professionals, from different specialties, who draw as part of their daily professional practice. In this qualitative study, the researchers carried out in-depth individual interviews, during which they invited participants to make exemplar drawings. The findings included that for nearly all, drawing was a flexible, sensitive and spontaneous method of visualising information. In making explanat...
An overview of the current status of the genre and an examination of war poetry's relationsh... more An overview of the current status of the genre and an examination of war poetry's relationship to the literary canon. This chapter also considers the idea of war poetry as bearing a 'special' relationship to the history of wars and looks at the biographical emphasis of criticism.
The invitation to curate an exhibition of the Drawing Research Interest Group (DRIG’s) work emerg... more The invitation to curate an exhibition of the Drawing Research Interest Group (DRIG’s) work emerged in 2013, as a parallel but related part of the Mobility of the Line exhibition. The aim was to show an extended range of approaches to and understandings of drawing, through staff and research student work-in-progress and examples of research into applied drawing practices. The common interest in the line’s utility underpins DRIG. It is a notion debated and interpreted in a range ways by the group: as an arts practice, a research method and as having multiple and cross-disciplinary applications. The potency and utility of the line can result from ancient or contemporary technologies of mark-making. There is sometimes a sense in higher education that drawing has been overtaken; that it is lodged in pedagogical past where observational drawing formed a core part of an art school training. The Utility of the Line exhibitors could be seen as part a long tradition of drawing, but one that ...
The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods, 2020
This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual ... more This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual research, touching on how drawing in and for research might best be understood and noting some of the cultural associations that need to be taken into account. It then explores four categories of methods: using drawing to investigate concepts and experiences; using drawing for in-depth inquiry into individual perceptions and experiences; using drawing as a dialogic method between participant and researcher; and researcher-based drawing. The chapter then concludes with a summary of issues and guidelines for researchers thinking of using drawing methods, looking briefly at researcher skills and expertise, participants and participation, drawing technologies, materials and time, ethics and analysis.
Panel dicussion moderated by Ellen Aslaksen. Time: Wednesday 23 January 2019. Venue: Main auditor... more Panel dicussion moderated by Ellen Aslaksen. Time: Wednesday 23 January 2019. Venue: Main auditorium, KHiO
This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing ... more This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing practices within the UK health system. It takes a lateral exploration into some of the contexts and methodological considerations involved in designing arts-health research. Based on a paper given at the Visual Methods Symposium in 2015, it has been substantially extended and revised.
This provocation focuses on research into the widespread manual drawing practices used between he... more This provocation focuses on research into the widespread manual drawing practices used between health professionals and patients in secondary care. These are drawings routinely produced ‘live’ and in front of the patient or colleague, experienced sequentially (mark by mark) in the moment of their production and sometimes retained, as having documentary (medical records) or personal value. Can these drawing practices be illuminated by Barthes’ comic strip theories of ‘relay’, in terms of the sequential unfolding of images, and ‘anchorage’, in which texts (or textual annotations and speech) pinpoint meanings that would otherwise circulate more ambiguously? What other interpersonal triggers and cultural factors bear on this approach to clinical communication? Is this type of drawing, selective, schematic, in-the-moment and interwoven with text as it is, seen as able to provide a quicker, or deeper, understanding for the patient or colleague? As a first stage in establishing groundwork ...
Poets have written about wars throughout the twentieth century - questioning, protesting and, som... more Poets have written about wars throughout the twentieth century - questioning, protesting and, sometimes, celebrating the nature and purpose of conflict. Attracting an enthusiastic popular readership, war poetry has often been seen as a way of remembering and re-imagining wars. This Guide examines the genesis and development of the genre of war poetry in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the role of the two world wars in the literary and cultural construction of a 'war poetry' category. It draws upon a range of key historical and contemporary critical responses, from poetic memoir and journalism to academic criticism, to demonstrate the rich diversity of expectations and evaluations elicited by the developing genre.
Health professionals routinely draw for patients, carers and colleagues as part of clinical commu... more Health professionals routinely draw for patients, carers and colleagues as part of clinical communication to describe, explain and record. The drawings that result are either discarded, kept by patients or become part of a patient’s records. Some health professionals also draw when engaged in teaching and training in clinical contexts. Very little literature has acknowledged that such drawing regularly takes place and there does not appear to have been formal research into the reasons, benefits or disadvantages of these drawing practices. This study examined the perceptions of seven UK health professionals, from different specialties, who draw as part of their daily professional practice. In this qualitative study, the researchers carried out in-depth individual interviews, during which they invited participants to make exemplar drawings. The findings included that for nearly all, drawing was a flexible, sensitive and spontaneous method of visualising information. In making explanat...
An overview of the current status of the genre and an examination of war poetry's relationsh... more An overview of the current status of the genre and an examination of war poetry's relationship to the literary canon. This chapter also considers the idea of war poetry as bearing a 'special' relationship to the history of wars and looks at the biographical emphasis of criticism.
This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing ... more This open access paper takes as its starting point ongoing research into manual clinical drawing practices within the UK health system. It takes a lateral exploration into some of the contexts and methodological considerations involved in designing arts-health research. Based on a paper given at the Visual Methods Symposium in 2015, it has been substantially extended and revised.
This book was produced to mark the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Brighton School o... more This book was produced to mark the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Brighton School of Art. Entitled 'Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: from arts and manufactures to creative and cultural industries', it was edited by Philippa Lyon and Jonathan Woodham. This ...
The guide examines the genesis and development of the genre of war poetry in the twentieth centur... more The guide examines the genesis and development of the genre of war poetry in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the role of the two world wars in the literary and cultural construction of a 'war poetry' category. Drawing on a range of key historical and contemporary critical responses, from poetic memoir and journalism to sophisticated academic criticism, the guide demonstrate the rich diversity of expectations and evaluations elicited by the developing genre.
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods, 2019
This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual ... more This chapter consider key contexts and theoretical considerations in using drawing within visual research, touching on how drawing in and for research might best be understood and noting some of the cultural associations that need to be taken into account. It then explores four categories of methods: using drawing to investigate concepts and experiences; using drawing for in-depth inquiry into individual perceptions and experiences; using drawing as a dialogic method between participant and researcher; and researcher-based drawing. The chapter then concludes with a summary of issues and guidelines for researchers thinking of using drawing methods, looking briefly at researcher skills and expertise, participants and participation, drawing technologies, materials and time, ethics and analysis.
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