Poetic Inquiry as Research

Heidi van Rooyen is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Prior to this, she was an Executive at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa and chaired the Consortium on Advancing Poetic Inquiry in the Global South.Raphael d’Abdon is Research Fellow at the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa. He is a member of the research projects Consortium on Advancing Poetic Inquiry in the Global South and ZAPP (The South African Poetry Project).

• 1. Embracing poetic inquiry as a decolonial research method - Heidi van Rooyen and Raphael d’Abdon2. The way of poems - Kirsten Deane, Raphael d’Abdon and Angela Hough3. Taking poetry into research - Angela Hough, Yvonne Sliep and Heidi van Rooyen4. Navigating ethical territories in poetic inquiry - Yvonne Sliep, Angela Hough and Duduzile S. Ndlovu5. Assessing the craft and reach of poetic inquiry - Duduzile S. Ndlovu and Heidi van Rooyen6. Conclusion - Raphael d’Abdon and Heidi van Rooyen