Knowing differently : setting the scene

We have described this collection as exploring the research methods (arts-based, reflexive, collaborative) that allow researchers to access their own and their participants’ experiential knowing in richer ways. Knowing differently as a title also hints at the diversity of this collection. The book consists of chapters from different writers on a range of innovative methods of research and analysis that use literary forms, performance and visual arts, action methods, collaborative and interdisciplinary inquiry. Writers are drawn from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas in the health and social sciences, including sociology, psychology, education, public health, nursing, education, social work, creative arts therapy, and management. The methodologies they discuss can be applied across all these fields.