As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact.Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showcases rich, diverse case studies from both early-career and established researchers. Covering everything from research design and analysis to ethics and dissemination, the book addresses the un...

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas.The book's chapters are interwoven with ‘I...

An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn f...

Twisted 50 volume 1 is a deliciously dark slice of contemporary horror literature. Reading it is like attending a late night secret banquet where you know each course will serve up something unexpected, forbidden and unforgettably chilling. Take your private seat now for 50 luscious courses of terror, from 50 of the strongest voices in modern horror.

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham.Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography and collaborative ethnography, this...

Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable, creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base. Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to ‘account for’ collaborative research, or to help collaborators in challenging their assumptions about t...

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With policy makers in mind, contributors discuss in clear and accessible language what co-producti...

I was fortunate enough to have grown up in Lac Vert, a small town in North-Central Saskatchewan during the 1950s-60s.Sonny Poolroom is a memoir - a collection of memories of events and my reaction to them. If you lived in a prairie town during those years, you will have had many of these experiences as well, or knew someone who did.Steve HawrishokJuly 2024

If you, or a friend, are in the market for a pool this season, this guide is for you.This easy-to-read concrete pool buyers' guide will help answer the five most-often asked questions from prospective buyers of pools:How do I choose my pool builder/designer?What kind of pool should I buy?How do you build a concrete pool?What features should I consider?How do I know if it's a fair price?The information in this book...

Have you been displaced from a job, company, or industry... or do you want to change careers, start a side hustle, or become a full-time entrepreneur? Especially if you're a Boomer or Gen Xer, you may not have the tools you need to make that change, and if that's the case, this book is for you.· Have you been fired?· Laid off?· Feeling the financial squeeze of the pandemic?· Sick of where you find yourself, even if you're looking at retirement and not sure w...

Reporter Deanne Mulhenney & medical examiner Sara Poole risk their lives in a dangerous attempt to bring a brutal murderer to justice in this noir thriller set in 1968 Los Angeles. Politics, mob wars, and a thriving drug trade have unleashed an assassin like no other. Evidence suggests the killer is a female with terrifying skills...and tastes.

Music therapists are trained to use their first study instrument in clinical practice, yet existing literature focuses almost exclusively on the use of piano, basic percussion and voice.This illuminating book brings together international music therapists who use a diverse range of musical instruments in their clinical work: the clarinet, the piano accordion, the flute, the cello, the trumpet and flugelhorn, the bassoon, the violin, the viola, the harp, the guitar, lower brass instr...