Joy Cranham

Biographic Data

ID201819
NAMEJoy Cranham
GIVEN NAMESJoy
FAMILY NAMECranham
SIGNATURECRANHAM J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bath
ORCID0000-0003-4127-4465
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Discomforting Tangles in University Spaces: ‘Staying With’ Unsettlings in Collaborative Research Pedagogies

    Open AccessCharlotte Hankin, Hannah Hogarth et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2026

    This paper explores the discomforting forces that emerged through unconventional research activations on/with/in/through university spaces. Through sketching, string figuring, and dancing, we examine the embodied sensations and relational tensions that surfaced within collaborative inquiry encounters. Drawing on posthumanist feminist philosophies, we conceptualise (dis)comfort as a relational force emerging within research assemblages and entangl…

  • Al/luring Possibilities: Being Alive With Others

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Suvi Pihkala et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2026

    This article works with the theory-methodology-praxis of lure and allure to muse on, speculate and reimagine possibilities for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise (AWO). We discuss our use of creative academic writing to materialise what happens when we embody the allure of the lure in our writing, and how we summon playfully creative academic writings into new becomings. AWO is a creative mode of theory-praxis which affords…

  • Academic Writing Otherwise: Possibilities and Praxis

    Open AccessC A Taylor, A Benozzo et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2026

    This article opens a space of possibility for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise. Based on a series of activity-activations we explore what academic writing might become when loosed from conventional prescriptions to explain, exemplify, demonstrate, justify, argue, and account for. What happens if we decide to write otherwise? How can we enable writing’s perturbations to proliferate? How can writing otherwise be a mode of p…

  • What Do Doors Do? Door Storyings, Matterings, Adventurings, and Commonings

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Jo Albin-Clark et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2024

    What do doors do? Open Close Invite In Shut Out Jam Stick Wedge open Welcome: Entice and Invite Offer a glimpse into Bar SLAM SHUT Get kicked in Get kicked shut Splinter Warp Hang Sit ajar Gently linger in our minds Cause hurt and separation Affecting thoughts Moments of joy or pain Longing, Waiting Fearful longing, Fearful waiting, Anticipating Wondering Haunting “Come-on-in” This article is based on research-creation experimentations arising fr…

  • Doors: Object Lessons in Un/hinging University Spaces

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Suvi Pihkala et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Education Pedagogy…2024References: 6

    KeywordsKeywordsKeywords: Doors-architectureDoorsArchitectureresearch-creation-doorsobjects-research-creationresearch-creationdoorsuniversity-campus-objectsobjectsresearch-creationuniversity campusobjectsspaceplace

  • Telling it slant with side curved head and curiosity: Posthumanist/feminist materialist creative activations in university spaces

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Hannah Hogarth et al.ARTICLEGender and Education2024References: 10

    This article takes off from the tiny injuries that accumulate, calcify and shape our academic bodies and which live in university spaces and places. The paper moves analytically with the question: how may we insert our non-normative bodies into the material architectures, places and spaces of the university, and disrupt it by our very presence? Composed in post-authorship mode, we discuss the post-personal autoethnographies, research activations,…

  • The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions

    Open AccessHannah Hogarth, C A Taylor et al.ARTICLEQualitative Inquiry2023

    This article uses the figuration of the volcano to demonstrate the disruptive and irruptive power of post-qualitative research. The article’s volcanic irruptions aim to keep data on the move, to show how data continually and slowly proliferate in rhizomatic, nomadic, and unforeseen ways via different, ongoing experimentations, instantiating the processual research practices of knowledge-ing. This article includes, and celebrates, empirical materi…

  • Towards a More Capacious, Kindly and Caring Criticality: A Post-Critical Manifesto for Ethical-Relational-Creative Reviewing

    Open AccessC A Taylor, Joy Cranham et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Teaching and…2023Cited by: 1References: 9

    The words ‘criticality’, ‘critical’, and ‘critique’ can often summon up painful, exposing, and difficult experiences. In a higher education system shaped by hierarchical cultures, abuses of power, performative metrics and competitiveness, many of us are often positioned as (and internalise a sense of ourselves as) lacking. This imputed sense of ‘lack’ begins early in our educational careers and its affective impress often stays with us. As PhD st…

  • Concept-ing with the gift: Walking method/ologies in posthumanist research

    Open AccessCarol A Taylor, Hannah Hogarth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Posthumanism2023Cited by: 6References: 18

    This article takes off from a project entitled Get Up and Move! which used walking as a methodology to envisage research in higher education beyond the human and outside individual, instrumental and competitive codings. The Get Up and Move! project activated new research possibilities for walking as an attentive, situated, emplaced and embodied practice of posthuman thinking, doing and becoming; it experimented with walking’s posthuman generativi…