Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of figures and tables xi
4. Notes on contributors xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Arts-based research as a method to understand and give voice to marginalised groups
7. Using arts-based methods to explore existential issues around ageing 13
8. Arts- and music-based activities and nondeliberative participatory research methods: building connection and community 24
9. Arts-based methods to co-create knowledge and reconstruct power relations with marginalised women in and through research 33
10. Autoethnographic playwriting and performance for self-healing and advocacy 45
11. Using photography to research the ‘other’: the validity of photography for social work research – a visual case study from China 55
12. Mixed arts-based methods as a platform for expressing lived experience 68
13. Arts-based methods to support and reveal new mothers’ and families’ experiences: a positive parenting and feminist approach 77
14. Using arts-based research to listen to, and give voice to, children in social work
15. “I don’t like the cameras in the house. They’re looking at us all the time”: the contribution of Photovoice to children in a post-hospitalisation programme 89
16. Arts-based research work with migrant children 102
17. Using creative art research approaches to assess arts-based interventions with children in post-disaster contexts 117
18. Arts-based research as a way for researchers and community members to understand communities
19. Murals and photography in community engagement and assessment 129
20. Forum theatre as participatory action research with community workers 139
21. A/r/tography, rhizomatic storytelling, and ripple effects mapping: a combined arts-based and community mapping methodology to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 expressive arts support groups for frontliners in the Philippines 148
22. Art and artefact: displaying social work through objects 162
23. Building research capacity: scaffolding the process through arts-based pedagogy 170
24. Art as a way of improving participatory action research: an experience with youngsters with an intellectual disability and their families 181
25. Epilogue 198
26. Index 200