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Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative ‘Working’ Relationship

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Together and apart, we have adopted an auto/biographical approach to the work that we do and continue to engage with new (to us at least) and different ways to collect, present and archive data. Our relationship as close friends as well as colleagues is relevant here, in that not only do we support each other in our work, but we also provide each other with a safe space to make mistakes, to share ideas to experiment. In our chapter, we reflect on our individual and collective selves and focus on some of our projects—The Tattoo Project (Deborah), Doing Griefwork Through Fiction and Memoir (Gayle) and Stepford Academics (Deborah and Gayle)—to highlight our collective, creative approach and our challenge to rather than compliance with ‘expected’ approaches and practices within the academy.

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    Griefwork as a social science concept differs from grief work as the psychological concept where the work is done by the grieving person alone.

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Davidson, D., Letherby, G. (2020). Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative ‘Working’ Relationship. In: Parsons, J., Chappell, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31974-8_4

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