Frizell, Caroline and Rova, Marina. 2025. 'Can we walk a little slower? Ethics as a portal to hope, humility and playfulness in a precarious world.'. In: 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 7 - 10 January 2025. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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This presentation begins with the inquirers; two women with a shared conviction that moving bodies become a starting point through which all experience travels. The presentation animates the inquiry into the nature of research ethics as the authors meander on the banks of the river Aire. One author said to the other: ‘there is something about giving the time and the space to stumbling through ideas that are not yet formed and emerge as we stumble into them… ‘ The other replied ‘I’m really aware that I’ve been covering myself in this fabric given to me by my dance teacher….I’m thinking now …here …about legacy and modelling and having someone's example…’ The process of moving into practice-research requires complexities of care at every level and this presentation embraces that principle in its conception, its creation and its manifestation. The authors argue that ethics is the continuous presence that hovers in the conceptualising of research, the languaging of research, the methodology, the application, the processing of what is gathered and in the communication of the discoveries. As such, ethics is entangled in both the implicit and the explicit stages of practice research. The presentation will invite you to consider how moving bodies are all at once relational, non-neutral, situated, context dependent: biological, psychological, cultural, political, social, environmental and more. Practice research that moves with wonder and awe within thoughtful ethical parameters has the potential to create knowledge that itself fosters cultures of care.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	moving bodies, ethics, cultures of care
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) > Centre for Community Engagement Research Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS)
Dates:	Date Event 10 January 2025 Completed
Event Location:	University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Date range:	7 - 10 January 2025
Item ID:	38249
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2025 17:28
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2025 17:28
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38249

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