Davis, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-4076, Matthews, A., Mihut, G. et al. (4 more authors) (2024) Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage. Qualitative Research. ISSN 1468-7941
Abstract
Composite storytelling as a social qualitative research method represents a growing spirit of creativity to explore themes of social injustice. This article discusses the potential methodological affordances and challenges of such approaches when used to collectively unsettle, interrogate and (re)imagine what it means to become an academic of working-class heritage. The participatory project discussed in this paper involved eight social science and humanities academics in UK-based elite higher education institutions. In a series of storytelling sessions, the participants created narrative encounters to foster moments of critique and analysis to explore the complex social realities of their routes into and through academia as people of working-class origins. Working alongside an illustrator, the participants used empirical insights to create composite stories in multimodal comic formats. Through this work, we seek to prompt further discussions about the generative possibilities of pursuing similar methods in the social sciences and beyond to challenge forms of social injustice.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | working-class, composite stories, comic-based research, academic identity, elite universities, emotions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Teaching Innovation (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2024 14:45 |
Last Modified: | 14 May 2024 14:45 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14687941241245954 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212503 |