A Celebration of Arts-Based Research
Please join us for a celebration of the second edition of the Handbook of Arts-Based Research edited by Patricia Leavy with more than 40 contributors from around the world. A few contributors will talk informally about their chapters and their work:
Sandra Faulkner, poetic inquiry
Jessica Smartt Gullion, ABR across the disciplines
Patricia Leavy, fiction
Roula-Maria Dib, the creative psyche and knowledge
More than a celebration of a book, this lively and interactive session will be a celebration of arts-based research. Patricia Leavy will share insights into where the field has been, how it’s evolved, and where it’s heading. Please join us. All are welcome.
Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Faulkner’s interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, inclusive pedagogy, and critical perspectives on interpersonal and family communication. She often uses poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative and the use of arts-based research as inclusive and critical pedagogy. Her book, Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, & Practice (Routledge), won an Honorable Mention for the 2021 ICQI Book Award. She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall “It’s a Way of Life Award” in Narrative Ethnography, and the 2022 Legacy Award from the National Communication Association Ethnography Division.
Dr. Patricia Leavy is a bestselling author, independent sociologist, and internationally known arts-based researcher. She has authored, coauthored, and edited over 50 books, earning critical and commercial success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. Her work has garnered over one hundred book awards including USA Best Book Awards, Independent Press Awards, International Impact Book Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, International Book Awards, New York City Big Book Awards, Firebird Book Awards, and American Fiction Awards. She has also received numerous career awards including, the New England Sociological Association 2010 New England Sociologist of the Year, the American Creativity Association 2014 Special Achievement Award, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2015 Special Career Award, the National Art Education Association 2018 Distinguished Contributions Outside of the Profession Award, the American Educational Research Association 2018 Division D Significant Contributions to Educational Measurement and Methodology Award, and the American Educational Research Association 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award. She has also been honored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame, was presented an Award for Leadership and Humanitarian Efforts in Literature and Publishing by We Are the Real Deal, and in 2018 SUNY-New Paltz established “The Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice.” Dr. Leavy serves on the board of the London Arts-Based Research Centre. In 2024 the London Arts-Based Research Centre established “The Patricia Leavy Award for Arts-Based Research.” Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.
Jessica Smartt Gullion, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University. She has published ten books, primarily on qualitative methodology, including Qualitative Methods in Health and Illness, Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research, Diffractive Ethnography: Social Science in the Ontological Turn, and Writing Ethnography, now in its second edition.
Roula-Maria Dib, PhD, FRSA is an award-winning scholar, poet, and editor whose work bridges literature, creative writing, and Jungian psychology. She is the founding director of the London Arts-Based Research Centre and the editor-in-chief of literary and arts journal, Indelible. Dr. Dib holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds and is a recipient of the UK Global Talent Visa, endorsed by the British Academy in recognition of her contributions to academia. Her work has also earned her the British Council’s Alumni 2022 Award for Culture and Creativity. Dib’s work explores the rich connections between creative expression and transdisciplinary scholarship. Her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2020), was shortlisted for the International Association for Jungian Studies book awards, and her poetry collection, Simply Being (Chiron Press, 2021) has garnered critical acclaim, with poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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