Bernie Grummell is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Education and Adult & Community Education, Maynooth University. She previously worked with the School of Sociology and the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin. She is a co-director of the Doctoral programmes in Higher and Adult Education. Research interests include equality and inclusion issues in education.Fergal Finnegan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University and is a co-director of the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education programme. His background is in community education and his research interests include transformative learning, biographical research, social class, equality and higher education.

• The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult EducationBernie Grummell and Fergal FinneganPart 1: Biographical Methods and Oral History2. Biographical Inquiry: A Collaborative and Egalitarian Approach to Adult Education ResearchBarbara Merrill3. Down to the River: People’s Memories and Adult EducationEmilio Lucio-Villegas4. Transition to Adulthood: Learning from Young Adults through the Exploratory Use of Multiple MethodsAndrea Galimberti, Laura Formenti and Mirella Ferrari5. Collaborative Story Telling: The Poetry of Everyday Life and the Challenge of TranscriptionSiobhán MaddenPart 2: The Auto/Ethnographic Imagination6. Doing Ethnographic Research in Adult Education: Reflections on Studying Citizenship in a Study CircleAnnika Pastuhov and Ari Sivenius7. Autoethnography in, and as, Adult Education: Eavesdropping on a ConversationDavid McCormack, Jerry O’Neill, Mary B. Ryan and Tony WalshPart 3: Arts Based Research and Creative Pedagogies8. Finding Voice and Engaging Audiences: The Power of Arts-Based Community EngagementShauna Butterwick and Carole Roy9. Education Will Set You Free: Research Poetry with Prisoners on Adult Education ProgrammesSarah Meaney10. Seeing the Unseen through the Feminist Museum HackDarlene E. CloverPart 4: Critical Mixed Methods and Critical Quantitative Research11. Towards Critical and Dialogical Mixed Methods Resarch: Reflections on Our JourneyAlison Taylor and Milosh Raykov12. The Use of Bibliometrics in Adult Education ResearchErik Nylander, Lovisa Österlund and Andreas FejesPart 5: Digital Research Methods13. Investigating Adult Skills Assessment in ESOnline: A Digital EthnographyCormac O'KeeffePart 6: Sound, Vision and Story-Telling14. Pedagogy of Song and Restorying Hope: Stories and Songs as Social Movement Learning in Ada Songor Salt MovementJonathan Langdon, Melissa Jackson and Sophia Kitcher15. Visual Research Methods and New Masculine SubjectivitiesAnn HegartyPart 7: Research on Embodied Knowledge and Movement16. Research through, and on, Embodied Movement in Orienting One’s Self towards the FutureSilvia Luraschi17. Planning with People: Reflections on Participation and Learning on Deliberative WalksPeter EhrströmPart 8: Creative Dissemination18. Creative, Critical and Democratic Research Dissemination: Learners’ Lives and Further EducationVicky Duckworth and Rob Smith