Research Poetry

The use of poetry as a form of data representation and dissemination in academia is not unknown but is untypical. ‘Social science writing is supposedly emotionless, the reader unmoved’ (Richardson 1993: 706), but in her five-page poem Louisa May representing the life-history of a single mother, she claims to model a way of telling that creates in its readers and listeners bodily and emotional responses. This section features my work on two extended research poems from conceptualisation to performance. Both (Glass and Poetry in Emotion) explore and articulate research questions through language and poetic form and in performance, extend the way in which our research can be communicated.

Glass

Glass

Glass is a research poem, drawing on qualitative data collected for the research project Gender(s) at Work

Poetry in Emotion: Writing Up Emotional Labour is grounded in my own experiences of conducting research during COVID-19

Poetry in Emotion

Poetry in Emotion is a research poem based on my experiences of the research project: Dear Diary: Equality implications for female academics of changes to working practices in lockdown and beyond (Carruthers Thomas 2022).