The baglady-storying provocation

The aim of this Game Changer is to put to work storying as a vessel to make kin, rhizomatically connecting others through the intimacy of sharing and (re)making knowledge(s) together. This event will bring researchers together from across disciplines and interests, nurturing connections, and spaces anew to cut across communities of researchers and inquirists. By creating stories together that will collide, disperse, cross-pollinate, and compost with thingly-power (Bennett, 2010) in/with/through our emergent #baglady~narrative~methodology of affirmative praxis (Ovington et al., Forthcoming) to initiate collegiality and further develop how researchers can work~together and apart to disrupt dominant qualitative research practice. In this Gamechanger event, participants will collectively engage in arts-based storytelling inspired by Haraway (2016) around the topic of making Higher Education more accessible, with the aim of thinking differently about how to engage with diversity and challenging the existing Widening Participation agenda.