Collaborative Writing as Inquiry - Tapa dura

Collaborative Writing as Inquiry is a new and overdue contribution to the recently burgeoning literature on writing as a branch of qualitative inquiry. The book places a diversity of approaches to collaborative writing alongside each other, and explores these methods and the spaces between them as critical arts-based inquiry practices within the social sciences. It is not intended or written as any kind of a handbook, more of a scrapbook, containing summative and rich prologues to each section, and substantive chapters (some adapted from work previously published in international peer-reviewed journals), fragments and snippets of 'writing in progress', as well as more extensive excursions into a range of approaches to writing collaboratively, including: collective biography; call and response (to people, to landscapes and to 'what happens' in the writing spaces); 'take three words'; poetic writing; and writing in scholarly communities and/or on retreat. This book illuminates, investigates and interrogates these emergent spaces, particularly as a critical gesture towards the individualised, market-driven agendas and neo-liberal practices of the contemporary academy.

Jane Speedy is Professor Emeritus in Education at the University of Bristol. She has directed a university centre for narrative inquiry over the past ten years, and now follows her own research interests in collaborative writing and in feminist and arts-based inquiry.Jonathan Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the fields of loss, autoethnography, collaborative writing as inquiry, and arts-based research.