Arts-Based Research in the Social and Health Sciences: Pushing for Change with an Interdisciplinary Global Arts-Based Research Initiative

Leveraging the Power of Online Qualitative Inquiry in Mixed Methods Research: Novel Prospects and Challenges Amidst COVID-19

“…According to McNiff (2008) , “knowing through the arts takes place in ways that are distinctly different yet complementary to more logical cognition” (p. 3). In a seeming echo of the transformative perspective, Gerber et al (2020) assert that arts-based research involves “artistic integration in order to activate knowledge around the necessity to address social constructs, activism, and advocacy” (p. 10).…”

Innovations in Arts-Based Research: ABR Provocations From the 16th International Congress of Qualitative Research

“…However, underlying the philosophy, typologies and lively, creative debates is a central premise upon which most arts-based researchers may agree. The premise is that imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices (Gerber, 2020;Gerber et al, 2020) interact with and disrupt stagnant, destructive and nonprogressive ideas, socio-cultural systems, and hegemonies through creative and transformative forays into deterritorialization. Representing a pluralistic, ambiguous, and complex onto-epistemological lens, these forays take us into the unknown, or beyond what is known, revealing new compassionate dimensions, illuminating insights, re-imagining and transforming reparative processes and reconstructing narratives.…”

“…These features embrace and are applied at varying degrees along a continuum defining three intersectional forms of ABR (See Table 1). The three categories are arts-related research, arts-informed research, and arts-based research practice (Archibald & Gerber, 2018;Cole & Knowles, 2008;Gerber et al, 2020). If we compare all three approaches on the continuum, we can see the degree of alignment with singular or dialectic philosophical approaches, the degree of engagement in and application of the arts from peripheral to central or from illustrative exemplars to artsbased investigative practices, and, the degrees of researcher involvement and the interaction with participant generated content (Leavy, 2020).…”

“…In these approaches the role of the researcher may vary from more interpretive meaning-making roles to more immersive, interactive and reflective generative arts practices during critical aspects of the arts-informed research project. In addition to these approaches along the continuum there are arts-based research practices in which the arts-based investigation, generated by the researcher, becomes the primary method of conceptualization, investigation, analysis, synthesis, and dissemination (Gerber et al, 2020;McNiff, 2008). Inherent in ABR practices is the centrality of an aesthetic intersubjective philosophy; and, the researcher's iterative immersive and dialogic investigative arts-based practices throughout the generation, analysis, interpretation, representation, and dissemination of the results.…”

Integrating Arts in a Collaborative Research Process: An Arts-Informed Inquiry

“…Researchers (and often participants) engage in artmaking with the purpose of generating knowledge. The philosophical tenets of ABR include a) art can portray truths about the self and others, b) the arts are a powerful tool for self-awareness, c) emphasizes nonverbal ways of knowing, d) involves embodied, holistic, and visionary ways of knowing (Gerber et al, 2020).…”