The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis

Helen Kara is a researcher, author, teacher, and speaker specialising in research methods, particularly creative methods, and research ethics at We Research It Ltd. Dawn Mannay is Professor of Creative Research Methodologies at Cardiff University. Alastair Roy is Professor of Social Research at the University of Central Lancashire.

1. Introduction - Dawn Mannay, Alastair Roy, and Helen Kara





Section 1: Creative Analysis of Quantitative Data


2. Five Survive Lockdown: Re-Visualising Survey Data as a Graphic Novella - Kate Carruthers Thomas


3. Visually Mapping the Interplay between Pandemic Interest Groups and ‘the Vulnerable’ in Newspaper Accounts, 2018–2022 - Stuart Neilson and Neil Kenny


4. Using Discourse Analysis to Inform Content Analysis: A Pragmatic, Mixed Methods Approach Exploring How the Headteacher Role is Articulated in Job Descriptions - Alexandra Morgan, Andrew James Davies, and Emmajane Milton


5. Word Clouds as Creative Data Analysis – What Can They Tell Us AboutStudent Views of Learning Something New? - Louise Gascoine, Kate Wall, And Steve Higgins





Section 2: Creative Embodied Analysis


6. Analysing Creative Multimodal Data for a Scientific Audience - Jennifer S. Leigh, Jennifer R. Hiscock, Sarah Koops, Anna J. Mcconnell, Cally J.E. Haynes, Claudia Caltagirone, Marion Kieffer, Emily R. Draper, Anna G. Slater, Kristin M. Hutchins, Davita Watkins, Nathalie Busschaert, and Larissa K.S. Von Krbek


7. Object-Work as a Creative Approach to Data Analysis in Embodied Inquiry - Nicole Brown


8. A Composite Approach to Analysis for Embodied Methodology - Rachel Kurtz and Laura Mazzoli-Smith


Part 3: Creative Performative Analysis


9. Rewriting in Role: Inviting Readers through Imagination - Claire Coleman


10. A Mosaic of Siblings of Cystic Fibrosis: A Creative Dramaturgical Analysis - Amie Hodges


11. Theatrical Research-Based Performance: An Analytic Method Using Theatre in an Educational Context - David Duncan





Section 4: Creative Visual Analysis


12. Co-Creation of a Sensory Assemblage as Data Analysis - Melanie Roberts and Anne Collis


13. Creating Artworks From Data - Charlotte Barratt


14. Using Emoji As a Creative Tool for Data Analysis - Anuja Cabraal and Lauren Gawne





Section 5: Creative Written Analysis


15. I Poems and Polyvocality: Experiences of Using a Combined Qualitative Creative Analysis Technique to Strengthen the Voices of Research Participants and Aid Reflexivity - Jacqueline Dodding and Hazel Partington


16. Composite Narratives, Developing Characters: A Method of Creative Data Analysis in Developing Public Engagement Artefacts - Lauren White, Adam Carter, and Katherine Davies


17. Beyond the Brick Wall: Transdisciplinary and Creative Research through Scholarly Personal Narrative and Lilyology - Dawn Wink





Section 6: Creative Arts-Based Analysis


18. Slow Stitch: Reflexive Creative Analysis and Meaning Making - Naomi Clarke


19. The Analogue Journey Method - Karen Gray and Emma Lazenby


20. Using Creative Mapping Methods to Analyse Multimodal Data - Erin Roberts, Merryn Thomas, Karen Henwood, and Nick Pidgeon





Section 7: Existing Methods Adapted in Creative Ways


21. Embracing Creativity in Familiarisation - Louise Couceiro


22. How to Be Creative When Creativity is Policed - Shehr Bano Zaidi


23. Visual Grounded Theory: A New Way of Seeing, Knowing, and Constructing Theories Grounded in Data - Jacquie Ridge


24. But is it Professional? Pairing Creative Practice and Thematic Analysis to Illustrate Organisational Culture - Kyla Tully





Section 8: Analysis with Participants


25. Using Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement and Co-production to Enrich the Analysis, Interpretation, and Utilisation of Sexual Health Research - Mar Estupiñán Fdez. De Mesa, Melvina Woode Owusu, Makeda Gerressu, Gwenda Hughes, and Catherine H. Mercer


26. Creative Collaborative Data Analysis: Co-Constructing and Co-Analysing the Data Together - Jessica Mannion and the R&S (Relationships and Sexuality) Research Team


27. Perspective Narrative Analysis: Analysing Data Creatively within a Participatory Research Group - Chloe East, Feydakeen Smith, Iris, Zaynab Charafi, Zoe Fordham, Annie Champion, and Carys Jones


Part 9: Pushing The Boundaries


28. Analysing the Unspoken: Finding the Richness Created in Dialogue with People who Cannot Speak - Katherine Broomfield


29. Speculative A/R/Tography - Kathryn Coleman, Sarah Healy, Abbey Macdonald, and Peter J. Cook


30. Between Two Worlds: A Shared (Shamanic) Journey of Creative Qualitative Data Analysis and Researcher Identity - Karen Hammond and Nick Fuller





31. Conclusion - Alastair Roy, Dawn Mannay, and Helen Kara