A Celebration of Arts-Based Research
Please join us for a celebration of the second edition of the Handbook of Arts-Based Research
edited by Patricia Leavy with more than 40 contributors from around the world. A few
contributors will talk informally about their chapters and their work:
Sandra Faulkner, poetic inquiry
Jessica Smartt Gullion, ABR across the disciplines
Patricia Leavy, fiction
Roula-Maria Dib, the creative psyche and knowledge
More than a celebration of a book, this lively and interactive session will be a celebration of arts-
based research. Patricia Leavy will share insights into where the field has been, how it’s evolved,
and where it’s heading. Please join us. All are welcome.

Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State
University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Faulkner’s
interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, inclusive pedagogy, and critical
perspectives on interpersonal and family communication. She often uses poetry, creative
nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner,
and professor. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through
interpersonal communication and personal narrative and the use of arts-based research as
inclusive and critical pedagogy. Her book, Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, &
Practice (Routledge), won an Honorable Mention for the 2021 ICQI Book Award. She received
the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the
2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall “It’s a Way
of Life Award” in Narrative Ethnography, and the 2022 Legacy Award from the National
Communication Association Ethnography Division. 
Dr. Patricia Leavy is a bestselling author, independent sociologist, and internationally known
arts-based researcher. She has authored, coauthored, and edited over 50 books, earning critical
and commercial success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into
numerous languages. Her work has garnered over one hundred book awards including USA Best
Book Awards, Independent Press Awards, International Impact Book Awards, National Indie
Excellence Awards, International Book Awards, New York City Big Book Awards, Firebird
Book Awards, and American Fiction Awards. She has also received numerous career awards
including, the New England Sociological Association 2010 New England Sociologist of the
Year, the American Creativity Association 2014 Special Achievement Award, the International
Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2015 Special Career Award, the National Art Education
Association 2018 Distinguished Contributions Outside of the Profession Award, the American
Educational Research Association 2018 Division D Significant Contributions to Educational
Measurement and Methodology Award, and the American Educational Research Association
2022 Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Learning Award. She has also been honored by the
National Women’s Hall of Fame, was presented an Award for Leadership and Humanitarian
Efforts in Literature and Publishing by We Are the Real Deal, and in 2018 SUNY-New Paltz

established “The Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice.” Dr. Leavy serves on the board
of the London Arts-Based Research Centre. In 2024 the London Arts-Based Research Centre
established “The Patricia Leavy Award for Arts-Based Research.” Her website
is www.patricialeavy.com.
Jessica Smartt Gullion, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University. She has
published ten books, primarily on qualitative methodology, including Qualitative Methods in
Health and Illness, Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action
Research, Diffractive Ethnography: Social Science in the Ontological Turn, and Writing
Ethnography, now in its second edition. 
Roula-Maria Dib, PhD, FRSA is an award-winning scholar, poet, and editor whose work
bridges literature, creative writing, and Jungian psychology. She is the founding director of the
London Arts-Based Research Centre and the editor-in-chief of literary and arts journal, Indelible.
Dr. Dib holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds and is a recipient of the
UK Global Talent Visa, endorsed by the British Academy in recognition of her contributions to
academia. Her work has also earned her the British Council’s Alumni 2022 Award for Culture
and Creativity. Dib’s work explores the rich connections between creative expression and
transdisciplinary scholarship. Her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge,
2020), was shortlisted for the International Association for Jungian Studies book awards, and her
poetry collection, Simply Being (Chiron Press, 2021) has garnered critical acclaim, with poems
nominated for the Pushcart Prize.