Dissertation
An Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry into the Lived Experience of Women Casual Academics
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast
2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00569
Abstract
In this PhD dissertation I present an account of a person-centred, feminist research project that explores the lived experience of women casual academics in Australia. Casual academics comprise more than 60% of academics employed in Australia, most of whom are women. Yet very little is known about the lived experience of these women. As I understand lived experience to be known and communicated through story and narrative, I employ a narrative epistemology as a foundation to this research project's design and communication. In addition, I understand lived experience to be fully embodied, messy and contextually situated. I therefore employ a narrative inquiry to elicit the emotionally and cognitively lived experience of six women casual academics from three different universities in South East Queensland. I then re-present these stories in the form of proto-verbatim theatre. Proto-verbatim theatre is a contemporary form of performance which employs the words and stories of research participants within a highly theatricalised aesthetic. The form of the genre makes explicit the constructedness of the re-presentation and cognitively and emotionally engages an audience in the stories of Others. I employ this form as it is congruent with the fully embodied stories of the research participants and their doubly Othered status as women and casual academics.
Details
- Title
- An Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry into the Lived Experience of Women Casual Academics
- Authors
- Gail Crimmins
- Contributors
- Bill Allen (Supervisor)
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00569
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Education - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449564802621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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