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Arts Research: Innovative Practices, a postgraduate course introduced at The University of Auckland in 2012, is attractive to students from across the arts disciplines and educational sectors wishing to engage in arts-based educational research. The course entices students to critically explore emerging visions and theoretical concepts that broaden research practices in the arts through approaches such as narrative, autobiography, performative ethnography, reader’s theatre, poetic inquiry, and a/r/tography. Emphasis is placed on the ‘visual’ as a powerful research tool. In this paper, an example of a Master of Education (MEd) thesis by Meng-Jiun Penny Lin (2015) offers a ‘snapshot’ of insights into how research in more than one arts discipline can be creatively conceptualised, conducted and reported in innovative ways. This cross-disciplinary postgraduate study provides an inventive model for others embarking on arts research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we consider and offer a review of the edited volume, Contemporary British Autoethnography (2013). Within this volume, the editors, Short, Turner, and Grant, bring together 15 autoethnographic representations, which address issues of subjectivity, voice, writing, knowing, and being. Each contributor offers insights located within a particular field(s), while simultaneously sharing perspectives related to the qualitative community more generally. In this paper, we provide a brief summary of each chapter and also offer several questions generated after engaging with this volume. We invite others to participate in considering how this volume may be applied to their own research and everyday lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Life after Leaving is an innovative, creative, and amazing autoethnographic work in which Tamas explores how women struggle to make sense of loss, get recovery, and experience the loving, longing, fear, uncertainties, trust, hope, and frustration after leaving spousal abuse in the form of a performative and arts-based dramatic story. In this paper I review this book mainly from two aspects: data trustworthiness and data analysis. For qualitative researchers and our doctoral students in education or social studies, the success of this book would encourage all of us to bravely use various and more advanced approach to present our studies and dissertations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doing research into the everyday lives of one's own children allows for a unique in‐depth insight into the complexities of educational life. This article discusses the ethical dilemmas of this kind of research including issues of power, consent, emotional involvement, objectivity, and researcher positioning, arguing that research is always a risk‐filled endeavor requiring vigilant ethical astuteness and moment‐to‐moment judgments, which are particularly radicalized when doing research with intimate others such as one's children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shamus Khan's Privilege and Christine Walley's Exit Zero are autobiographically grounded analyses of social class in the United States. Drawing on memory, personal documents, the telling ethnographic incident, and relevant social theory, each brings to light some of the ways that current neoliberal socioeconomic policies constrict people's life chances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]