We meet with Patricia Leavy, editor of the Handbook of Arts-Based Research (Guilford Press, 2018), 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.
Dr. Patricia Leavy 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.
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