Spark: A Book Review

Spark, a social research novel by Patricia Leavy, innovatively explores the complexities of doing collaborative, complex research. The story follows Sociology Professor Peyton Wilde during a week-long research seminar in Iceland with, as her invitation reads, "some of the greatest thinkers of o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Ashleigh
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: NSUWorks 2019
Subjects:
Arts-Based Research
Creativity
Methodological Design
Social Fiction
Sociological Fiction
Quantitative
Qualitative
Comparative
and Historical Methodologies
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Statistics
Iceland
Online Access:https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol24/iss5/8
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4050&context=tqr
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Summary:Spark, a social research novel by Patricia Leavy, innovatively explores the complexities of doing collaborative, complex research. The story follows Sociology Professor Peyton Wilde during a week-long research seminar in Iceland with, as her invitation reads, "some of the greatest thinkers of our time." With an intriguing setup, swift plotline and lively characters, Leavy reaches to the heart of key concerns in interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research. Such concerns are well-discussed in the wider scholarly literature; Leavy uniquely handles and examines these concerns in fiction in a way that will be valuable to teachers and students alike. Spark makes an impressive contribution to fiction-based inquiry.

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