Sketching research

October 2015 to July 2016

Project summary

Lynne Chapman is an urban sketcher and illustrator who was Artist in Residence at the Morgan Centre during 2015/16. She documented the life and work of the centre, and worked with us to explore the similarities between sketching and qualitative research in the ways they interpret and represent everyday lives. Lynne produced her own sketches and worked with Morgan Centre staff to test the potential of the use of sketching in their own research.

Publications

Observational sketching as method - Sue Heath, Lynne Chapman and the Morgan Centre Sketchers. Article in International Journal of Social Research Methodology Volume 21, 2018 - Issue 6.

The art of the ordinary - Sue Heath and Lynne Chapman. Chapter in Mundane Methods: Innovative ways to research the everyday (Eds Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall), Manchester University Press, 2020. 

Contact

Project leader: Sue Heath

Acknowledgements

The project was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence grant.