Engaging with Doctoral Work during the Pandemic

Article Information

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2022) 8(1):113–125 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2022/8/14

Engaging with Doctoral Work during the Pandemic

Abstract

This article describes the acceleration toward digital conferencing that happened due to COVID-19 safety procedures as well as how one’s ancestral legacy of trauma could affect how one dealt with the arrival of the pandemic as a collective trauma. This paper describes the researcher’s experience in developing “embodied digital storytelling” as a post-phenomenological art-based research methodology as well as how the use of this methodology intertwined with the study of ancestral legacy and the arrival of a pandemic. The reader will follow the researcher’s experience in developing the methodology, finding her topic, and conducting her research during the pandemic. The article ends with an account of reclaiming a sense of belonging despite all the challenges discussed.

Keywords: embodied digital storytelling, ancestral legacy, collective trauma, COVID-19 pandemic.

摘要

本文描述了祖辈的创伤遗传如何影响一个人应对随着全球性疫情而来的集体创伤, 以及数字会议由于新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 的安全措施加速发展。文章 描述了研究人员将“具身化数字叙事”发展为一种基于艺术的后现象学研究方法的经验, 以及如何使用这种方法与祖辈遗传和全球疫情来袭的研究紧密结合。读者将跟随研究人员了解她在全球疫情期间发展研究方法、发现课题并进行研究的经验。文末讲述了尽管历经所有文中提及的挑战, 重新获得一种归属感。

关键词： 具身化数字叙事、祖辈遗传、集体创伤、新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 全球性疫情。