Ali Black
Ali Black is an innovative arts-based and narrative researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali's research engages narrative, memoir, autoethnography, and aesthetic pedagogies.
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Ali is interested in research inquiry using arts-based research methods
- Narrative and visual inquiry
- Memoir
- 'Research as writing'
- Autoethnography, self-study, narrative constructions of the 'self'
- Digital, visual and aesthetic pedagogies
- Arts-based representations
She is interested in understanding lives and learning
- Participatory research with children
- Child/nature relationships
- Academic identities
- Women's lived experience
- Gender studies and agency
- Wellbeing and holistic education
- Explorations of creativity, connection, identities, relationships
- Relational knowledge construction
Websites
Books
Articles
I am Keith Wright's daughter: Writing things I 'almost' cannot say
Published: Jul 10, 2018 by Life Writing
Authors: Alison L Black
Using creative writing and storying I piece/peace together my relationship to/with my father. Writing the things I ‘almost’ cannot say—and have not been able to say for most of my life—is a storying in and through the dark, a storying in and through the wounding, and a storying in and to healing.
Digesting a life: Embodying transformation through creative writing
Published: Jul 10, 2018 by New Writing
Authors: Alison L Black
What does essential transformation entail? How does the caterpillar become a butterfly? What supports transformation inside the cocoon? This paper considers these questions alongside embodied struggles, experiences and insights of living a life.