International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Creative Research Methods

We embrace in our research a wide range of creative methodologies of knowledge co-production and community engagement. 

In so doing, ICCSR adopts a reflexive, critical and interdisciplinary stance on researching sustainability from the point of view of multiple stakeholders and question the meanings and processes of impact making that are central to sustainable research collaborations. 

ICCSR methodological approach includes the following:

  • Arts based methodologies including cultural animation
  • Creative ethnography
  • Visual methods
  • Discourse and narrative approaches

Academic leads

Professor Mihaela Keleman

Dr Judy Muthuri

Dr Lara Bianchi

Professor Robert Caruana

Dr Claire Ingram

Dr Lee Matthews 

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Associated publications 

Journal articles

Stephens, V, Matthews, L, Cornelissen, J P, Rowlands, H (2021), Building novel supply chain theory using "Metaphorical Imagination" Journal of Supply Chain Management

Kelemen, M. and Rumens, N. (2019) Pragmatism and co-production in Management and Organisation Studies (2019), Studi di Sociologia, 1: pp 81-92,

Zamenopoulos, T., Kelemen, M. and de SOUSA, S. (2019) The role of boundary objects and processes in co-design: empowerment and democratisation of knowledge, Journal of Co-design, 21:4, 605-624,

Kelemen, M., Rumens, N. and Vo, L. C. (2018) Questioning and Organization Studies. Journal of Organization Studies.

Kelemen, M. and Hamilton L. (2018) Creative processes of impact making: Advancing an American Pragmatist methodology, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management .

McCarthy, L.; Muthuri, J.N, (2018), "Engaging Fringe Stakeholders in Business and Society Research: Applying Visual Participatory Research Methods", Business and Society, Vol.57(1), 131 -173.

Vo, L. C. and Kelemen, M. (2017), Collaborating across the researcher-practitioner divide: introducing John Dewey's democratic experimentalism, Journal of Organisational Change Management

Lam, B., Phillips, M., Kelemen, M., Zamenopoulos, T., Moffat, S. and de Sousa, S. (2018), Design and creative methods as a practice of liminality in community-academic research projects, The Design Journal. 

 
Book chapters

Lin, Y., Kelemen, M., Hamilton, L. (2019), Reaching out across the theory-practice divide? How changing our views of academic impact benefits emergency studies in Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organization of Emergency Services, Paresh et al Eds, Routledge, pp. 122-140.

Kelemen, M. et al (2017), ‘Performing the legacy of animative and iterative approaches to co-producing knowledge’ in Valuing interdisciplinary collaborative research: Beyond impact, (Facer, K. & Pahl, K., Eds), Bristol: Policy Press, pp.107-130.

 
Grants

UoN GCRF grant (£220K) Co-production for Sustainable Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Kenya: A Cultural Animation Approach (PI: Dr Judy Muthuri, CIs: Professor Mihaela Kelemen and Dr Lara Bianchi, ICCSR, partners: Taita Taveta University, Kenya and New Vic Theatre), August 2019-July 2020 

 

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International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Nottingham University Business School
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham NG8 1BB

Tel: +44 (0) 115 846 7854
Email: iccsr@nottingham.ac.uk