Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is a specialist in creative and arts-led research methodologies, which he practises in his own work and encourages students to try in the field trips he leads in cities from Liverpool to New York. Richard's books include Georges Perec's Geographies (2019), Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012), Sex, Politics and Empire (1996), and Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1997).

INTRODUCTION
Definitions
~ Social research
~ Creativity and creative
~ Writing and creative writing
Synergies between creative writing and social research
What follows
DOING CREATIVE WRITING
Introduction
Doing it yourself: getting started
~ Reading for writing
~ Small steps and time frames
~ Warm-up exercises
Putting yourself in the picture
~ Writing in the first person
~ Diaries and journals
Observation and description
~ Autoethnography
~ Observational writing and the implied observer
~ Stories and storying
~ Collecting and transcribing stories
Writing about ideas: essays and lists
~ Essays
~ Lists and listing
Doing it yourself: following through
~ Drafting and editing
~ Seeking and receiving feedback
~ Writing together
DOING RSEARCH, GENERATING DATA, WORKING WITH PARTICIPANTS
Introduction
~ Rationale
~ Ethics
Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research
~ What is a participant?
~ How to invite or recruit participants
Workshops and groups
~ How to draw participants together into a cohesive group
~ Playful workshops
~ Getting started, warming up
~ How to write, review and revise together: workshopping
~ Scope
Working with individuals
~ Varying roles for participants and facilitators
Data and findings: process and product
~ Observing and documenting the creative writing process
~ Product: outputs and impacts
EXPLORING AND ARTICULATING FINDINGS
Introduction
Data analysis
~ Fiction in data analysis
~ Poetry in data analysis
~ Play and screenplay writing in data analysis
Dissemination
~ Visual methods of writing for dissemination
~ Performance for dissemination
~ Comedy in dissemination
Finding and telling stories; storying
SEARCHING AND QUEER(ING) WRITING
Introduction
Searching
Queer(ing) writing