Sandboxing in Practice
Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects, and Figures
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This is the essential guide to the innovative qualitative research technique of sandboxing.
Originating from play therapy, sandboxing enables children, young people, and adults to create three-dimensional scenes using miniature figures and everyday objects in a sand-filled tray. Creating these sand scenes offers opportunities for individuals and groups to reflect on and represent memories, everyday experiences, and ideas about the future, which are then shared and discussed.
Offering an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners, this comprehensive book:
- introduces a creative and engaging approach to qualitative data generation;
- features key international case studies, real-world examples, and thoughtful reflections on the method's strengths and limitations;
- equips readers with the tools needed to effectively implement sandboxing in their research journey.
By drawing on creativity, reflexivity, ethics and expertise this book unlocks sandboxing's potential to transform your research with an inventive and imaginative approach.
Dawn Mannay
Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University. Her research interests revolve around class, education, families, identity, and inequality. Dawn employs participatory and visual methods in her work with communities, and she has facilitated a number of international creative methods workshops. Dawn was the principal investigator on a study exploring the education of care-experienced children and young people, and she is currently involved in a project for the Welsh Government, facilitating the online community of practice--ExChange: Care and Education. Dawn edited a collection for the University Wales Press, Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (2016) and wrote the sole authored text for Routledge, Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (2016). Her most recent work, Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships, coedited with Dr. Tracey Loughran, was published by Emerald in 2018.
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Victoria Timperley
Victoria Timperley is Lecturer in Education at Cardiff University.
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