A Dramatisation of Research Outcomes: A Verbatim Drama Based on the Lived Experience of Women Casual Academics

Authors

  • Gail Crimmins The University of the Sunshine Coast

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/R27P4J

Keywords:

arts-informed inquiry, dramatisation, drama, casual academic

Abstract

Within this article I offer a brief rationale for de-disciplining and re-disciplining research communication, present a drama script using the narrative experience of six women casual academics from across three Australian universities, and offer a succinct rationale for employing artistic forms of communication more generally, and drama more particularly, for re-presenting lived experience. The article predominantly focuses on the stories of women causal academics in Australian universities.  It is their voices that are privileged and centralised.  Women casual academics make up the majority of academics in Australia, yet they are currently ‘un-voiced’.  This article therefore creates some space for the voices of women causal academics to be heard and known in a form that is congruent to their lived experience

Author Biography

Gail Crimmins, The University of the Sunshine Coast

I am an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast and co-coordinate a large first year course which is compulsory for all students at USC. I am an active researcher into the scholarship of teaching and learning and a feminist researcher who explores the lived experience of women. My two most recent research projects have involved the narrative inquiry of women. The first project was an arts-informed narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics in Australia. The second explored narratives of persistence and coping by mothers with rheumatoid arthritis. Both projects resulted in short films of women relaying their stories of lived experience. I undertake traditional social science research through narrative inquiry and communicates the research findings in theatre, film and academic discourse.

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2016-07-16

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Crimmins, G. (2016). A Dramatisation of Research Outcomes: A Verbatim Drama Based on the Lived Experience of Women Casual Academics. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 1(1), 121–140. https://doi.org/10.18432/R27P4J

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016): Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal

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Art/Research In Action

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