Catherine Trundle, Tarryn Phillips, Susan Wardell and Sumaira Khan are holding a workshop in Melbourne in 2024, to explore the The value of creative ethnography in health research

Creative ethnographic techniques are proliferating. These include creative methods for generating projects and research questions, creative methods of gathering data and engaging participants, and creative means for presenting research. What are the values of these approaches for health research? Being novel and unconventional, how can we explain their value within established health science forums? Should health ethnographers explain their contributions within the logics of established, prestigious and more positivist health science norms, or should they rather try to support alternative, more emergent academic, creative and social spaces? What are the ethical, political, social and practical consequences for different actors when engaging with creative ethnography?