Research Journey
This diagram summarises my loopy spirally creative practice research. It demonstrates how my creative practice has responded to knowledge acquisition, peer review, physical movement through landscape, and increasing confidence in allowing the research to take its own course. Below is a list of the research milestones documented in the diagram:
2014
Complete mandatory research course
Attend NVivo workshop
Research fictocritical writing
Participate in RMIT writing workshops
Create password-protected website as research repository
French & German Bike Ride
The Real Thing essay published SWAMP Vol 15
2015
Participate in RMIT writing workshops
Create iBook to record and present research
Present draft of Place essay at Limina Conference WA
Apply for and gain ethics approval
Develop and test adoptee questionnaire
Contact Australia-wide adoption agencies
Confirmation of Candidature 06/10/15
Research lyric essay writing
Arrange and conduct interviews with adoptees
Present draft of Three ways to essay at IABA Conference SA
2016
German Bike Ride
Launch Murder in Mt Martha
Present Can a meditative essay at AAWP Conference ACT
2017
Attend NonfictioNOW Conference, Iceland
Second Milestone presentation, 28/07/17
Taking the Children Away essay published Back Story Issue 3
Present Our Father essay at AAWP Conference, SA
2018
Canadian Bike Ride
Our Father journal article, published TEXT special issue 51
Undertake art studio workshops
Present Voicing Place essay at AAWP Conference, WA
Launch A Body of Work
2019
Third Milestone presentation, 19/08/19