Interrogating Ourselves: Reflections on Arts-Based Health Research

Authors

  • Michael J. Hodgins The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Katherine Boydell University of New South Wales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-15.1.2018

Keywords:

reflexivity, narrative, arts-based, health research, field notes

Abstract

This article is deliberately unconventional in style and reflects a conversation between us—Katherine, senior scientist/principal investigator and Michael, research coordinator—as we embark on an arts-based health research study to explore the theoretical, methodological and ethical challenges faced by scientists, artists and trainees who are "doing" arts-based health research (ABHR). Our narrative is based on reflexive and observational field notes that we kept during the research process. We draw on ELLIS and BOCHNER's (2000) autoethnographic practices of writing reflexively about the ways in which the self informs one's work as a researcher. As a beginning, we each reflect upon our own perspectives on the importance of the arts in our lives. We then move to a conversation between us regarding using the arts in the process of both doing research and disseminating research that illustrates some of the key issues in the field.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1401106

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Author Biographies

Michael J. Hodgins, The Hospital for Sick Children

Michael HODGINS is a research coordinator at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Canada.

Katherine Boydell, University of New South Wales

Katherine M. BOYDELL is senior scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children and professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Published

2013-11-15

How to Cite

Hodgins, M. J., & Boydell, K. (2013). Interrogating Ourselves: Reflections on Arts-Based Health Research. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-15.1.2018

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