E09 - Portrait: Patricia Leavy on Arts-Based Research

We meet with Patricia Leavy to ask her six questions about the emergence, definition, methodologies, challenges and future of ABR. We also discuss the importance of getting research out of the academia through public scholarship, as well as her personal fiction-based research practice, which has led her to publish many social fiction novels.   ABOUT OUR GUEST Dr. Patricia Leavy (http://www.patricialeavy.com/) is an independent sociologist, best-selling author and editor. She has published extensively in the field of qualitative and mixed methods research and is a leading proponent of Arts-Based Research (ABR). Using fiction-based research as one of her methods, she has published critically acclaimed novels, including the Candy Floss Collection, a 2020 edition of three of her previous social fiction books.   LINKS • Handbook of Arts-Based Research, Guildford Press, 2018 (https://www.guilford.com/books/Handbo...) • Method Meets Art Third Edition, Guilford Press, 2020 (https://www.guilford.com/books/Method...) • The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2020 (https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...) • The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, Oxford University Press, 2019 (https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...) • Candy Floss Collection, Brill, 2020 (https://brill.com/view/title/57304?rs...) • Low-Fat Love Stories, Sense Publishers, 2017 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789...) First broadcast in April 2020 on CHOQ.ca (https://www.choq.ca/)