Paul Gilchrist
I am a Senior Lecturer in human geography in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton. My research is interested in the (political) geographies of sport, leisure and popular culture. Pre-publication drafts of my work are available on this site.
I'm a founder and co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Sport and Politics group and Publications Officer for the Leisure studies Association.
My current research interests are: participatory and community engaged research; the institutionalisation of parkour; mountaineering histories; the politics of food growing communities; poetry and song writing as nineteenth century leisure practices.
I'm a founder and co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Sport and Politics group and Publications Officer for the Leisure studies Association.
My current research interests are: participatory and community engaged research; the institutionalisation of parkour; mountaineering histories; the politics of food growing communities; poetry and song writing as nineteenth century leisure practices.
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research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional
association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research.
Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been
used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the workings of
communities by examining them from the standpoint of those who have everyday experience of
these communities.
Findings – The paper argues that there can no longer be clearly demarcated boundaries between
“academics” and “community partners” in a genuinely co-designed arts research process. Rather, there
are “research partners” who share mutual recognition of skills and experiences that allow them to
commit to a durable “new creative scholarship” that reflects their collective identities.
Social implications – The conceptual framework celebrates the life stories of individuals at the
expense of the grand metanarratives favoured by empirical sociology and mainstream humanities. The
framework reflects the commitment of the authors to create accounts of communities that do justice to
their collective wisdom, dynamism and connectivity, as well as their transience, their needs to
transform and their responses to change, in ways that reflect the lives of those involved rather than the
needs of externally imposed disciplinary regimes.
Originality/value – The conceptual framework is a new approach to qualitative research; its value
lies in putting the participants at the heart of the research process where they not only generate
narrative, but also situate, mediate and remediate it in ways that extend conventional participative
research practices.
research through developing a new approach to arts research that challenges the conventional
association between dominant constructions of community and dominant modes of research.
Design/methodology/approach – A co-design approach, situated in arts practice, has been
used to generate a conceptual framework that offers potential to open up the workings of
communities by examining them from the standpoint of those who have everyday experience of
these communities.
Findings – The paper argues that there can no longer be clearly demarcated boundaries between
“academics” and “community partners” in a genuinely co-designed arts research process. Rather, there
are “research partners” who share mutual recognition of skills and experiences that allow them to
commit to a durable “new creative scholarship” that reflects their collective identities.
Social implications – The conceptual framework celebrates the life stories of individuals at the
expense of the grand metanarratives favoured by empirical sociology and mainstream humanities. The
framework reflects the commitment of the authors to create accounts of communities that do justice to
their collective wisdom, dynamism and connectivity, as well as their transience, their needs to
transform and their responses to change, in ways that reflect the lives of those involved rather than the
needs of externally imposed disciplinary regimes.
Originality/value – The conceptual framework is a new approach to qualitative research; its value
lies in putting the participants at the heart of the research process where they not only generate
narrative, but also situate, mediate and remediate it in ways that extend conventional participative
research practices.