Kate Pahl & Richard Steadman-Jones 
Collaborative Research in Theory and Practice 
The Poetics of Letting Go

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and ‘poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways of seeing, inquiring and representing ideas. The book’s chapters are interwoven with ‘Interludes’ which provide alternative forms to think with and another vantage point from which to regard phenomena, pose a question and seek insights or openings for further inquiry, rather than answers. Altogether, the book celebrates collaboration in complex, exploratory, literary and artistic ways within university and community research.

About the author

Kate Pahl is Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Metropolitan University. Richard Steadman-Jones is a Senior University Teacher in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. Lalitha Vasudevan is Professor of Technology and Education and Vice Dean for Digital Innovation at Teachers College, Columbia University.