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Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research

In Praise of Detours

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Editors:
  1. Charlotte Wegener

    1. Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  2. Ninna Meier

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  3. Elina Maslo

    1. Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Breaks new ground in the study of how personal experiences can positively influence research
  • Aims to inspire researchers globally to write more creatively
  • Proposes 'detours' as an untapped source of analytic insight

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Editors’ Introduction: The Power of ‘Showing How It Happened’

    • Ninna Meier, Charlotte Wegener, Elina Maslo
    Pages 1-7

  3. Different Vantage Points, New Insights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Wonder of Things as They Are: Theorizing Obesity and Family Life with Art

      • Lone Grøn
      Pages 11-27

    3. Into the Wild Time: Notes from a Traveller

      • Christina Berg Johansen
      Pages 29-42

    4. That’s Responsibility

      • Chris Smissaert
      Pages 43-54

  4. Research Life: Life and Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. In Between: Creative Spaces and Detours as Part of a Researcher’s Life

      • Lene Tanggaard
      Pages 57-69

    3. An Unexpected Detour from Ivory Tower to Action Research

      • Jody Hoffer Gittell
      Pages 71-77

    4. Deliberate Detours as Paths to Emergent Knowledge Creation

      • Karen Ingerslev
      Pages 79-91

    5. Worth, Wonder and Worry in the Accelerated Academy

      • Rasmus Hoffmann Birk
      Pages 93-102

    6. There Is No Such Thing as a Journal Paper

      • Sarah Gilmore, Nancy Harding
      Pages 103-116

  5. How We Know: Making Sense of Methods and Field Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Unanticipated Outcomes of Research: Learning and Development at Work

      • Stephen Billett
      Pages 119-130

    3. Knowing Across Time and Place

      • Ninna Meier
      Pages 131-141

    4. Staying on Topic: Doing Research Between Improvisation and Systematisation

      • Constance de Saint-Laurent
      Pages 143-152

  6. Coping with Complexity: Writing to Understand What We Do

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Metaphorical Structuring of Pattern Analysis

      • Camilla Kølsen Petersen
      Pages 155-168

    3. Telling Tales of the Unexpected

      • Elisabeth Willumsen
      Pages 169-179

    4. Writing My Way Home

      • Charlotte Wegener
      Pages 181-191
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About this book

This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited out of traditional research papers – can elicit important analytical insight. The book reveals how the unplanned, accidental and even obstructive events that often occur in research life, the ‘detours’, can potentially glean important results.


The authors introduce the process of ‘writing-sharing-reading-writing’ as a way to expand the playground of research and inspire a culture in which ‘accountable’ research methodologies involve adventurousness and an element of uncertainty. Written by scholars from a range of different fields, academic levels and geographic locations, this unique book will offer significant insight to those from a range of academic fields. 





Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Charlotte Wegener

  • Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ninna Meier

  • Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Elina Maslo

About the editors

Charlotte Wegener is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her work concerns innovation with a specific focus on education, workplace learning and research methodology. She is co-author of The Open Book: Stories of Academic Life and Writing or Where We Know Things.


Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she teaches and supervises students in organisational sociology. With Charlotte Wegener, she is developing Open Writing and resonance conceptually and as a field of research.


Elina Maslo is an Assistant Professor in the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she teaches second language learning, as well as within the Masters Programme for teachers of Danish as a second and foreign language. Her main research interests are learning spaces — multiple, diverse, changing, fluid, complex, always in construction – in and outside the school, and at the workplace.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research

  • Book Subtitle: In Praise of Detours

  • Editors: Charlotte Wegener, Ninna Meier, Elina Maslo

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60216-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60215-8Published: 10 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86808-0Published: 24 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60216-5Published: 27 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2755-4503

  • Series E-ISSN: 2755-4511

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Research Methodology, Personality and Social Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Philosophy of Mind

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