Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research

Charlotte Wegener is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her work concerns social innovation and learning. She is also a writing coach and runs creative academic writing workshops.Ninna Meier is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches organisational sociology. Her expertise lies within the areas of organizational change processes, and the role of context in qualitative research.Elina Maslo is a self-employed teacher and consultant in “STUDIO- Exciting language learning” and language supervisor at VEVO, and an independent researcher in the field of language and learning.

• 1.- Editors’ Introduction to the second edition: Detours and Returns.- Part 1: Different Vantage Points, New Insights.- 2.- The Axiological Turn of Creativity Research: A Detour through Creative Preservation.- 3.- The Wonder of Things as They Are: Theorizing Obesity and Family Life with Art.- 4.- Sketches of Slow. Thoughts and experiments in letting knowledge development take its time.- Part 2: Research Life: Life and Research.- 5.- In Between: Creative Spaces and Detours as Part of a Researcher’s Life.- 6.- Reflections on My Unexpected Detour from Ivory Tower to Action Research.- 7.- Deliberate Detours as Paths to Emergent Knowledge Creation.- 8.- Worth, Wonder and Worry in the Accelerated Academy.- 9.- The Tale of Ronia: Reentering Life and Research Through Creativity and Care.- Part 3: How We Know: Making Sense of Methods and Field Work.- 10.- The Unanticipated Outcomes of Research: Learning and Development at Work.- 11.- Knowing Across Time and Place.- 12.- Why I hate coding and what (I think) I learned from listening to this sensation.- Part 4 Coping with Complexity: Writing to Understand What We Do.- 13.- I am Navigating a Cloud of Meanings.- 14.- Detouring with Jeff Buckley: Writing Across Time and Space.- 15.- “Give It a Name and It Will Be Yours”: How Opportunities to Reflect on Essential Questions Can Create Space for Learning.- 16.- Confessions of a Procrastinator.- 17.- Epilogue or Why Creative Detours (Often) Have Happy Endings.