Dr. Ali Black
On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Ali Black, senior lecturer in the School of Education, USC. Dr. Black is a narrative researcher and early childhood educator. Her arts-based research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for dismantling personal/professional binaries and representing lives. Her research and writing is concerned with the power and impact of collaborative and relational knowledge construction.
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Segment 1: The Women Who Write [00:00-17:39]
In this first segment, Ali shares about a group of women writers she created.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- “The Thesis Whisperer” Blog
- “The Women Who Write”
- AARE Conference
- Mountz, A., Bonds, A., Mansfield, B., Loyd, J., Hyndman, J., Walton-Roberts, M., Basu, R., Whitson, R., Hawkins, R., Hamilton, T., & Curran, W. (2015). For slow scholarship: A feminist politics of resistance through collective action in the neoliberal university. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 14(4), 1235-1259.
- “The Slow Academic” Blog
Segment 2: Narrative-based Research [17:40-32:33]
In segment two, Ali discusses her experience as a narrative-based researcher.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- Clandinin, D. J. (2007). Handbook of narrative inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- “The Women Who Write”
Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-04:30]: Ali Requests Feedback for a 2018 Conference Project
In this bonus clip, the following resources are mentioned:
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