Weaving and untangling: using craft and creative process as a researcher-practitioner across the doctoral journey

In this presentation, Cynthia shares some of the ways in which she has been making use of creativity in multiple ways throughout her doctoral research work, including as reflexive practice and as data co-creation with participants. Cynthia Kinnunen is a music educator, community musician, and doctoral researcher based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. As a practitioner, she is influenced by community music principles, responsively blending pedagogy and participation in her musicking activities. In her current doctoral research, she is engaging with multiple methods, including a/r/tography and narrative inquiry, in a relational and creative exploration of the experiences of women participating in her community music ensemble, including herself as practitioner with a multi-modal iterative and reflexive process.