with Duduzile Ndlovu, Wits//
The workshop will look at the different techniques for using poetry in research; in data analysis and presentation of findings. 1. Writing and using poetry to think/talk about researcher identity and location. 2. A hands on session on poetic transcription (I encourage students to bring along interview transcripts to use for this if they have them). 3. As a research communication strategy, how can we translate our research to poetry for greater public engagement.

Readings
• Chilisa, B., Major, T. E., & Khudu-Petersen, K. “Community engagement with a postcolonial, African-based relational paradigm.” Qualitative Research 17.3 (2017): 326–339.
• Dill, L. J., Vearey, J., Oliveira, E., & Castillo, G. M. “‘Son of the Soil… Daughters of the Land’: poetry writing as a strategy of citizen-making for lesbian, gay, and bisexual migrants and asylum seekers in Johannesburg.” Agenda 30.1 (2016): 85–95.
• Faulkner, S., & Faulkner, S. L. “Crank up the Feminism: Poetic Inquiry as Feminist Methodology.” Humanities 7.3 (2018): 85.
• Prendergast, M. “‘Poem is what?’ Poetic inquiry in qualitative social science research.” International Review of Qualitative Research 1.4 (2009): 541–568.

Bio-Note
Dudu Ndlovu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand and a Newton Advanced Fellow 2018-2020 (University of Edinburgh) exploring women’s mobility in the city of Johannesburg using poetry.