Olivia Turner explores the need for ‘ethical curatorial practices’ that ‘inherently question power dynamics’ through George Vasey’s talk, Curating Complexity, and his time as Curator at the Wellcome Collection
Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief.
In the first of three articles for The Polyphony, Olivia Turner reflects on ethics in creative practice research in the critical medical humanities, following a workshop she organised at Newcastle University. She begins with the issue of consent.
Sabina Dosani explains the process that led her to creative writing research methods in exploring recurrent miscarriage.
Jane Hartshorn continues her reflections on the challenges of creative writing practice as research while living with chronic illness.
Jane Hartshorn, who started a practice-based PhD in poetry in 2018, explores the tension between leaning into the chaos of chronic illness and attempting to accurately reflect it.
Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis.
Char Heather considers the radical potential of sickness stories to crip and to queer what is considered ‘credible, coherent, complete, interesting, moving, and morally sound’.
Char Heather explains why chronic illness stories can productively trouble standard ideas about narrative arc and resolution.
Freya Verlander reflects on an experiment leading seminar participants on a virtual ‘skin safari’. Part of the series ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, guest edited for The Polyphony by Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton.
