Cr/ia (Creative Research / Instituting Art) Training Series: Arts-Based Methodologies in Research

Cr/ia will offer four training sessions in arts-based methodologies aimed at addressing questions of power in knowledge production, and at improving the ability of research methods to grasp affective, ephemeral and embodied knowledge. The training sessions are open to all PGR students and staff from the University of Leicester for a maximum of 25 participants. Please write to lias@le.ac.uk if you would like to book a place also indicating any accessibility needs.    

Embodying consent: With yourself, with others and during research

• Friday 14 February 2025. 11.00am-2.00pm (with break) *** please wear comfortable clothing 
• Attenborough Arts Centre, Main Hall.  
• Zoe Goodman, Anthropologist and Facilitator at Rebellious Care
• Alice Tilche, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies, University of Leicester 

Creative Writing and Research  

• Wednesday 19 March 2025. 2.00pm-4.00pm
• Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 1.
• Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage, University of Leicester 

Place-based methods. 

• Tuesday 29 April 2025. 2.00pm-4.00pm  
• Attenborough Arts Centre, Studio 3.  
• Rosemary Shirley, Associate Professor in Museum Studies, University of Leicester 

‘Your silence will not protect you’: Arts-based techniques to surface challenging power dynamics and normalise conflict

• Thursday 22 May 2025. 11.00am-2.00pm *** please wear comfortable clothing 
• Attenborough Arts Centre, Main Hall.  
• Zoe Goodman, Anthropologist and Facilitator at Rebellious Care

Cr/ía is a LIAS Flagship group and outward-facing and interdisciplinary hub for arts-centred research across the University of Leicester. With a shared commitment to foregrounding the value of the arts - socially, and as a form of knowledge - our work has two inter-linked strands: Creative Research: art as knowledge, language and method (Lead: Alice Tilche). Instituting Art: art at the conjunction of practices, places, publics and policies (Lead: Isobel Whitelegg). If you would like to find out more about our work, please feel free to contact us.