Jane Speedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 97689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Speedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Speedy |
| SIGNATURE | SPEEDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3166-8188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Arctic Terns
The Arctic Terns are six creative artists|writers|photographers|poets, who perform the paper you will encounter here. We Arctic Terns engage in collaborative writing and artmaking, connecting with each other, along with some of the other-than-human earth and animal others, through whom our own being-human is extended. We Terns become and write together as an archipelago of ‘singularities’; we have been meeting on Zoom for years, listening to and …
Using Fragments to Uncover Connections Through Call and Response, Resonance, and Dissonance
CANI-net (Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network) has evolved over the last thirty years from being a research center and network at the University of Bristol to holding online monthly “open inquiry space” sessions attended by scholars, educators, and artists around the world. The sessions are flexible, encouraging the presentation of work in progress, ideas just emerging, middling, in a warm, friendly, supportive atmosphere with students…
Remembering Sue
We are members of CANI-Net. 1 Sue Porter was pivotal in our efforts to create and sustain the necessary, loosely fashioned spaces to inquire artfully and collaboratively into our fragile existence on this shared and damaged planet. Then suddenly she died. We were grief-stricken. There was a pause. We reconvened, to honor Sue through the ways of working we had accumulated between us over the past decade. We offer you this glimpse into our collabor…
Arctic Terns
We call ourselves the Arctic terns after the birds that migrate between the northern and southern hemispheres. Three of us live in south-west Britain and three in south-east Australia. We tried to make sense of our lockdown lives and the ways we were imbricated in world events. We wrote and made art in response. We read our work to each other and showed each other our artworks. The material practices we developed helped make the pandemic endurabl…
Something Happened in the Room
A panel convened around the idea of intersubjectivation, loosely conceived as a process of actively, consciously, and reciprocally adjusting the structures and power dynamics of our social relations, thereby mutually (and consensually) reconfiguring our subjectivities and, over time, our wider cultures. Through a series of explorations of how one may elicit, reach, or realize a shared sense of intersubjectivity, the panel reflected on and challen…
Jane's Stroke
This exchange of poems began when Bronwyn Davies heard on email from Jane Speedy's friends in Bristol, United Kingdom, that she had had a massive stroke. Bronwyn responded by writing a poem, sending it to Jane's friends—as a contribution to their emails to each other, in which they expressed their shock and sorrow—and she posted it by snail mail to Jane, hoping one day she would be up to reading it. Some considerable time later, Jane responded wi…
Everyday Fragments on the Ceiling of Room 407
Jane Speedy was leading the community of scholars in the 'open space' session for March 2014 in Room 407. The Narrative Inquiry Centre held an 'open space' session every month on the fourth floor of the Graduate School of Education. In 'open space' sessions, one scholar led with exemplars of work that was troubling them/that they were troubling, after which others contributed their thoughts/comments and writing. Jane Speedy's recent stroke had re…
Riffing off Laurel Richardson
Taking Laurel Richardson's concept of a ‘take three words’ workshop onto the social media site Twitter with its discipline of quick 140 character answers to the question ‘What are you doing now?’ proved to be a surprisingly intimate insight into the everyday sociology of the lives of 12 writers living in 21st century Britain
Inquiring into Red/Red Inquiring
This layered account of an inquiry into ‘red’ emerged out of a collective biography workshop. In the middle of the Wiltshire countryside, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars gathered together to write and make other things and marks on paper that asked questions of, and into, the spaces between words, people, things and their environments. We did not set out to workshop or write into or paint ‘red’ but, rather, it was red tha…
Where the Wild Dreams Are
I come back from seeing my counselor, exhausted and inarticulate, yet strangely calm. I write. I come back from working with a group of clients/coresearchers. We write. I awake from a strange dream about an impossible, yet vivid conversation between two people long since dead. I write. I end up piecing together disconnected fragments of writing that leave traces, as if they are "a simultaneity of stories so far" across the spaces between therapy,…
Collaborative Writing and Ethical Know-how
It may seem incongruous to come across a ‘sole authored’ text amidst a journal special issue on collaborative writing. For my part the contradiction ‘plays’ eloquently with what it might mean to be/come a singular-yet-silted-up-accumulation of a human being. This paper represents not so much an assemblage (although that, too) as a collectively auto/biographical constellation, accumulation, and distillation of the traces that have remained lying a…
Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue
Collaborative Writing in Real Time
In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out in a rented house beside a lake with the intention of writing collaboratively. The writing emerges out of conversations. Our exchanges move back and forth and sideways between talking, writing, reading, and responding to each other's writing. These exchanges are held together and created through cooking, eating, going to the pub, walking, making cocktails, si…
All Googled Out on Suicide
This article reprises and extends previous work coauthored by a middle-aged, female scholar/ narrative therapist and a group of young men. Those young men, who described themselves collectively as the "Unassuming Geeks" had all spent some time in their lives seriously considering suicide. This article focuses on the moment 10 years later, when the same group met together to mourn the loss of one of their members. This text articulates the collect…
"Encountering "Gerald
This article describes a process of moving in and out of a place of "ordinary, transient and sustainable community" within a collaborative writing group. The group meets together both on- and offline. Over the last 5 years, the authors have developed an every day, meandering, and nomadic practice of being, talking, and writing. This enables frequent encounters with a very precious, precarious, and particular sense of collective energy. The group …
Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play
This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play…
Friend and Foe? Technology in a Collaborative Writing Group
This is a partial account of the journey undertaken by a group of academic nomads in search of collaborative writing space. Never intending to permanently settle anywhere, we chose to explore writing technologies that supported collaborative forms of engagement with our task and with each other. Along the way we took up with, and discarded, a variety of writing technologies. Reflecting teamwork and collective biography practices sustained our wor…
Where the Wild Dreams Are
I come back from seeing my counselor, exhausted and inarticulate, yet strangely calm. I write. I come back from working with a group of clients/coresearchers. We write. I awake from a strange dream about an impossible, yet vivid conversation between two people long since dead. I write. I end up piecing together disconnected fragments of writing that leave traces, as if they are "a simultaneity of stories so far" across the spaces between therapy,…
Collaborative Writing in Real Time
In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out in a rented house beside a lake with the intention of writing collaboratively. The writing emerges out of conversations. Our exchanges move back and forth and sideways between talking, writing, reading, and responding to each other's writing. These exchanges are held together and created through cooking, eating, going to the pub, walking, making cocktails, si…
"Encountering "Gerald
This article describes a process of moving in and out of a place of "ordinary, transient and sustainable community" within a collaborative writing group. The group meets together both on- and offline. Over the last 5 years, the authors have developed an every day, meandering, and nomadic practice of being, talking, and writing. This enables frequent encounters with a very precious, precarious, and particular sense of collective energy. The group …
Friend and Foe? Technology in a Collaborative Writing Group
This is a partial account of the journey undertaken by a group of academic nomads in search of collaborative writing space. Never intending to permanently settle anywhere, we chose to explore writing technologies that supported collaborative forms of engagement with our task and with each other. Along the way we took up with, and discarded, a variety of writing technologies. Reflecting teamwork and collective biography practices sustained our wor…
Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play
This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play…
Arctic Terns
We call ourselves the Arctic terns after the birds that migrate between the northern and southern hemispheres. Three of us live in south-west Britain and three in south-east Australia. We tried to make sense of our lockdown lives and the ways we were imbricated in world events. We wrote and made art in response. We read our work to each other and showed each other our artworks. The material practices we developed helped make the pandemic endurabl…
Everyday Fragments on the Ceiling of Room 407
Jane Speedy was leading the community of scholars in the 'open space' session for March 2014 in Room 407. The Narrative Inquiry Centre held an 'open space' session every month on the fourth floor of the Graduate School of Education. In 'open space' sessions, one scholar led with exemplars of work that was troubling them/that they were troubling, after which others contributed their thoughts/comments and writing. Jane Speedy's recent stroke had re…
Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue
All Googled Out on Suicide
This article reprises and extends previous work coauthored by a middle-aged, female scholar/ narrative therapist and a group of young men. Those young men, who described themselves collectively as the "Unassuming Geeks" had all spent some time in their lives seriously considering suicide. This article focuses on the moment 10 years later, when the same group met together to mourn the loss of one of their members. This text articulates the collect…
Friend and Foe? Technology in a Collaborative Writing Group
This is a partial account of the journey undertaken by a group of academic nomads in search of collaborative writing space. Never intending to permanently settle anywhere, we chose to explore writing technologies that supported collaborative forms of engagement with our task and with each other. Along the way we took up with, and discarded, a variety of writing technologies. Reflecting teamwork and collective biography practices sustained our wor…
"Encountering "Gerald
This article describes a process of moving in and out of a place of "ordinary, transient and sustainable community" within a collaborative writing group. The group meets together both on- and offline. Over the last 5 years, the authors have developed an every day, meandering, and nomadic practice of being, talking, and writing. This enables frequent encounters with a very precious, precarious, and particular sense of collective energy. The group …
Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play
This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play…
All Googled Out on Suicide
This article reprises and extends previous work coauthored by a middle-aged, female scholar/ narrative therapist and a group of young men. Those young men, who described themselves collectively as the "Unassuming Geeks" had all spent some time in their lives seriously considering suicide. This article focuses on the moment 10 years later, when the same group met together to mourn the loss of one of their members. This text articulates the collect…
Collaborative Writing and Ethical Know-how
It may seem incongruous to come across a ‘sole authored’ text amidst a journal special issue on collaborative writing. For my part the contradiction ‘plays’ eloquently with what it might mean to be/come a singular-yet-silted-up-accumulation of a human being. This paper represents not so much an assemblage (although that, too) as a collectively auto/biographical constellation, accumulation, and distillation of the traces that have remained lying a…
Who was Pierre Rivière? Introduction to the special issue
Collaborative Writing in Real Time
In this article we record, recount, and reflect on a 48-hour period in which we hang out in a rented house beside a lake with the intention of writing collaboratively. The writing emerges out of conversations. Our exchanges move back and forth and sideways between talking, writing, reading, and responding to each other's writing. These exchanges are held together and created through cooking, eating, going to the pub, walking, making cocktails, si…
Riffing off Laurel Richardson
Taking Laurel Richardson's concept of a ‘take three words’ workshop onto the social media site Twitter with its discipline of quick 140 character answers to the question ‘What are you doing now?’ proved to be a surprisingly intimate insight into the everyday sociology of the lives of 12 writers living in 21st century Britain
Inquiring into Red/Red Inquiring
This layered account of an inquiry into ‘red’ emerged out of a collective biography workshop. In the middle of the Wiltshire countryside, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars gathered together to write and make other things and marks on paper that asked questions of, and into, the spaces between words, people, things and their environments. We did not set out to workshop or write into or paint ‘red’ but, rather, it was red tha…
Where the Wild Dreams Are
I come back from seeing my counselor, exhausted and inarticulate, yet strangely calm. I write. I come back from working with a group of clients/coresearchers. We write. I awake from a strange dream about an impossible, yet vivid conversation between two people long since dead. I write. I end up piecing together disconnected fragments of writing that leave traces, as if they are "a simultaneity of stories so far" across the spaces between therapy,…
Jane's Stroke
This exchange of poems began when Bronwyn Davies heard on email from Jane Speedy's friends in Bristol, United Kingdom, that she had had a massive stroke. Bronwyn responded by writing a poem, sending it to Jane's friends—as a contribution to their emails to each other, in which they expressed their shock and sorrow—and she posted it by snail mail to Jane, hoping one day she would be up to reading it. Some considerable time later, Jane responded wi…
Everyday Fragments on the Ceiling of Room 407
Jane Speedy was leading the community of scholars in the 'open space' session for March 2014 in Room 407. The Narrative Inquiry Centre held an 'open space' session every month on the fourth floor of the Graduate School of Education. In 'open space' sessions, one scholar led with exemplars of work that was troubling them/that they were troubling, after which others contributed their thoughts/comments and writing. Jane Speedy's recent stroke had re…
Something Happened in the Room
A panel convened around the idea of intersubjectivation, loosely conceived as a process of actively, consciously, and reciprocally adjusting the structures and power dynamics of our social relations, thereby mutually (and consensually) reconfiguring our subjectivities and, over time, our wider cultures. Through a series of explorations of how one may elicit, reach, or realize a shared sense of intersubjectivity, the panel reflected on and challen…
Remembering Sue
We are members of CANI-Net. 1 Sue Porter was pivotal in our efforts to create and sustain the necessary, loosely fashioned spaces to inquire artfully and collaboratively into our fragile existence on this shared and damaged planet. Then suddenly she died. We were grief-stricken. There was a pause. We reconvened, to honor Sue through the ways of working we had accumulated between us over the past decade. We offer you this glimpse into our collabor…
Arctic Terns
We call ourselves the Arctic terns after the birds that migrate between the northern and southern hemispheres. Three of us live in south-west Britain and three in south-east Australia. We tried to make sense of our lockdown lives and the ways we were imbricated in world events. We wrote and made art in response. We read our work to each other and showed each other our artworks. The material practices we developed helped make the pandemic endurabl…
Using Fragments to Uncover Connections Through Call and Response, Resonance, and Dissonance
CANI-net (Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network) has evolved over the last thirty years from being a research center and network at the University of Bristol to holding online monthly “open inquiry space” sessions attended by scholars, educators, and artists around the world. The sessions are flexible, encouraging the presentation of work in progress, ideas just emerging, middling, in a warm, friendly, supportive atmosphere with students…
The Arctic Terns
The Arctic Terns are six creative artists|writers|photographers|poets, who perform the paper you will encounter here. We Arctic Terns engage in collaborative writing and artmaking, connecting with each other, along with some of the other-than-human earth and animal others, through whom our own being-human is extended. We Terns become and write together as an archipelago of ‘singularities’; we have been meeting on Zoom for years, listening to and …
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