Community Information

Community Duration: Spring 2025

Meeting Schedule, Modality & Location: 

• Friday, January 31, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (in-person in Olscamp 106)
• Friday, February 21, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Friday, March 14, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Friday, April 4, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (online via Zoom)
• Friday, April 25, 10:00-11:00 a.m. (in-person in Olscamp 106)

Community Participants:

All BGSU faculty, adjunct instructors, graduate students, and staff are welcomed and encouraged to participate. Registration will be limited to 10 participants.

Community Description:

The Creative Research Collective Community of Practice is a community designed to explore and discuss research practices that intersect with arts-based methods, critical ethnography, and feminist reflexivity. This community welcomes anyone interested in discovering how creative, interdisciplinary approaches can enhance and expand research beyond traditional methodologies. In each session, we will engage with diverse examples, including arts-based research (such as narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, theater/film, and visual art), critical performance research, critical ethnography, and feminist reflexivity, as alternative ways of knowing and doing research. Through this collective, we aim for participants to gain insights into new and innovative methodologies that can enrich their individual research and teaching practices.

Community Learning Outcomes:

By participating in this community, you will be able to:

• Understand arts-based research, critical ethnography, and feminist reflexivity as creative approaches to knowledge creation.
• Identify various artistic mediums—including narrative, fiction, poetry, theater/film, and visual art—as tools for interdisciplinary and critical research.
• Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the relationships between art, research, and diverse methodologies.
• Develop writing skills that enhance the ability to articulate creative research practices effectively, making use of descriptive, narrative, and analytical techniques.

Participant Expectations:

As a member of this community, you are expected to:

• Meet the community learning outcomes.
• Actively participate in and attend at least 80% of the community's meetings.
• Complete deliverable activities and assignments assigned by the facilitator(s). 
• Complete all assigned readings and review previous readings prior to sessions.