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Research paper thumbnail of A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond

Sociological Research Online

In this project we forward insights about the importance of being in ‘the room where it happens’ ... more In this project we forward insights about the importance of being in ‘the room where it happens’ – creating tactility and togetherness in the research encounter – for research with children and young people in times of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Created in response to the intense uptake of digital methods catalysed by COVID-19, in this project we productively re-imagine moments from our creative visual research with children and young people from before the COVID-19 pandemic. This re-imagining began early in 2020 and has continued to evolve, incorporating our shifting perspectives and ‘thinking with’ the scholarship of leading creative methodologists. The creative output is in the form of a ‘Prezine’ which is our concept and is a portmanteau bringing together ‘Prezi’ a presentation tool, and ‘zine’. The Prezine charts our creative conversation, moving between four connected rhizomes of thinking about creative research with children and young people: ‘the room where it happens...

Research paper thumbnail of Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland

University of Glasgow, Dec 1, 2020

This research was able to gather a large number of perspectives thanks to the incredible support ... more This research was able to gather a large number of perspectives thanks to the incredible support and participation of people directly affected by the issues we were studying. We express the deepest gratitude to all the people who took the time to share their experiences with us. We also thank our research partners who steered and supported the research in significant, tangible ways. We hope we have reflected all your experiences accurately and with integrity. The study would not have been undertaken without the funding and support of the Chief Scientist Office, through its Rapid Research in Covid-19 Programme, and we are grateful for this. Deepest thanks also are owed to Dr James Carnie, head of research in the Scottish Prison Service for facilitating and ensuring the success of our prisoner survey.

Research paper thumbnail of A Bourdieusian Critique Identifying the Speech/Silence Binary as Doxic Logic within Feminist Praxis

Research paper thumbnail of Minimalist Theory of Fiction and the Icthinking® Method as a Background for New Insights to Autism

The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of a... more The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of abstract versus concrete thinking. This approach has its benefits but fails to explain all features of language use. For example, some concepts change their meaning in different contexts in contrast to concepts that are more rigid in their uses, such as mathematical concepts. This idea has its background in Minimalist theory of fiction (MTF), a theory that considers ‘skills to use words’ essential for understanding fiction, contrasting with theories that require pretending or make believe to understand fiction. From this background, the theory of Integrative Complexity (IC), and the method animating for practice, ICthinking®, can be of particular use to autistic people. The interventions develop meta-cognitive skills and are supportive of autistic people. From these starting points, we introduce new research hypotheses for developing educational methods especially for autistic people. Art...

Research paper thumbnail of Plan UK State of Girls Rights' in the UK 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Palgrave handbook of disabled children’s childhood studies

Disability & Society

The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhood studies, editedby Katherine Runswick-Cole,... more The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhood studies, editedby Katherine Runswick-Cole, Tillie Curran and Kirsty Liddiard, London, PalgraveMacmillan, 2018, 661 pp., £128.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-13-754446-9, £160.00(hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13-754445-2 Amanda Ptolomey

Research paper thumbnail of I SEE! Scotland: Tackling Sectarianism and Promoting Community Psychosocial Health

Journal of Strategic Security, 2016

For over a decade, Eolene has developed and evaluated cognitive complexity interventions to reduc... more For over a decade, Eolene has developed and evaluated cognitive complexity interventions to reduce and prevent destructive conflict through participatory research and end-user partnerships in diverse communities, using the cross-culturally validated measure, integrative complexity (IC)

Research paper thumbnail of MINIMALIST THEORY OF FICTION AND THE ICTHINKING® METHOD AS A BACKGROUND FOR NEW INSIGHTS TO AUTISM

European Journal of Special Education Research https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejse/article/view/3598/6233, 2021

The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of a... more The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of abstract versus concrete thinking. This approach has its benefits but fails to explain all features of language use. For example, some concepts change their meaning in different contexts in contrast to concepts that are more rigid in their uses, such as mathematical concepts. This idea has its background in Minimalist theory of fiction (MTF), a theory that considers 'skills to use words' essential for understanding fiction, contrasting with theories that require pretending or make believe to understand fiction. From this background, the theory of Integrative Complexity (IC), and the method animating for practice, ICthinking®, can be of particular use to autistic people. The interventions develop meta-cognitive skills and are supportive of autistic people. From these starting points, we introduce new research hypotheses for developing educational methods especially for autistic people.

Research paper thumbnail of A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond

Sociological Research Online

In this project we forward insights about the importance of being in ‘the room where it happens’ ... more In this project we forward insights about the importance of being in ‘the room where it happens’ – creating tactility and togetherness in the research encounter – for research with children and young people in times of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Created in response to the intense uptake of digital methods catalysed by COVID-19, in this project we productively re-imagine moments from our creative visual research with children and young people from before the COVID-19 pandemic. This re-imagining began early in 2020 and has continued to evolve, incorporating our shifting perspectives and ‘thinking with’ the scholarship of leading creative methodologists. The creative output is in the form of a ‘Prezine’ which is our concept and is a portmanteau bringing together ‘Prezi’ a presentation tool, and ‘zine’. The Prezine charts our creative conversation, moving between four connected rhizomes of thinking about creative research with children and young people: ‘the room where it happens...

Research paper thumbnail of Left out and locked down: impacts of COVID-19 for marginalised groups in Scotland

University of Glasgow, Dec 1, 2020

This research was able to gather a large number of perspectives thanks to the incredible support ... more This research was able to gather a large number of perspectives thanks to the incredible support and participation of people directly affected by the issues we were studying. We express the deepest gratitude to all the people who took the time to share their experiences with us. We also thank our research partners who steered and supported the research in significant, tangible ways. We hope we have reflected all your experiences accurately and with integrity. The study would not have been undertaken without the funding and support of the Chief Scientist Office, through its Rapid Research in Covid-19 Programme, and we are grateful for this. Deepest thanks also are owed to Dr James Carnie, head of research in the Scottish Prison Service for facilitating and ensuring the success of our prisoner survey.

Research paper thumbnail of A Bourdieusian Critique Identifying the Speech/Silence Binary as Doxic Logic within Feminist Praxis

Research paper thumbnail of Minimalist Theory of Fiction and the Icthinking® Method as a Background for New Insights to Autism

The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of a... more The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of abstract versus concrete thinking. This approach has its benefits but fails to explain all features of language use. For example, some concepts change their meaning in different contexts in contrast to concepts that are more rigid in their uses, such as mathematical concepts. This idea has its background in Minimalist theory of fiction (MTF), a theory that considers ‘skills to use words’ essential for understanding fiction, contrasting with theories that require pretending or make believe to understand fiction. From this background, the theory of Integrative Complexity (IC), and the method animating for practice, ICthinking®, can be of particular use to autistic people. The interventions develop meta-cognitive skills and are supportive of autistic people. From these starting points, we introduce new research hypotheses for developing educational methods especially for autistic people. Art...

Research paper thumbnail of Plan UK State of Girls Rights' in the UK 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Palgrave handbook of disabled children’s childhood studies

Disability & Society

The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhood studies, editedby Katherine Runswick-Cole,... more The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhood studies, editedby Katherine Runswick-Cole, Tillie Curran and Kirsty Liddiard, London, PalgraveMacmillan, 2018, 661 pp., £128.00 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-13-754446-9, £160.00(hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13-754445-2 Amanda Ptolomey

Research paper thumbnail of I SEE! Scotland: Tackling Sectarianism and Promoting Community Psychosocial Health

Journal of Strategic Security, 2016

For over a decade, Eolene has developed and evaluated cognitive complexity interventions to reduc... more For over a decade, Eolene has developed and evaluated cognitive complexity interventions to reduce and prevent destructive conflict through participatory research and end-user partnerships in diverse communities, using the cross-culturally validated measure, integrative complexity (IC)

Research paper thumbnail of MINIMALIST THEORY OF FICTION AND THE ICTHINKING® METHOD AS A BACKGROUND FOR NEW INSIGHTS TO AUTISM

European Journal of Special Education Research https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejse/article/view/3598/6233, 2021

The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of a... more The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of abstract versus concrete thinking. This approach has its benefits but fails to explain all features of language use. For example, some concepts change their meaning in different contexts in contrast to concepts that are more rigid in their uses, such as mathematical concepts. This idea has its background in Minimalist theory of fiction (MTF), a theory that considers 'skills to use words' essential for understanding fiction, contrasting with theories that require pretending or make believe to understand fiction. From this background, the theory of Integrative Complexity (IC), and the method animating for practice, ICthinking®, can be of particular use to autistic people. The interventions develop meta-cognitive skills and are supportive of autistic people. From these starting points, we introduce new research hypotheses for developing educational methods especially for autistic people.