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The purpose of this chapter is to explore what can happen when creative practice research meets ethnography. While ethnography has a long and proud history, creative practice is a relative newcomer as a research methodology. It is a bricolage where methods such as participatory action research are appropriated and adapted to fit into the worldviews and epistemologies that underpin creative practice research. This chapter will argue that there is much to be gained if ethnographic strategies are pressed into the service of creative practice research. At the same time, ethnographers have much to learn from creative practice research with its emphasis clearly being on the making or doing of a creative output from a creator's or insider's perspective informed by critical thinking and an interrogation of others that have gone before them. There is also much ethnographer can poach from creative writing pedagogies such as the importance of work shopping and a practical knowledge of genre conventions and narrative forms.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65316-7_1

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