The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods, and Cases offers original perspectives that situate embodiment as a necessary element in human research. It brings together philosophical foundations of embodiment research with application of embodied methods from several disciplines. Part I suggests ways that embodied epistemology may bring deeper understanding to current research theory, and describes the ways in which embodiment is an integral part of the research process. In Part II, chapters propose novel ways to operationalize embodied data in the research process, and include Somatic Systems of Analysis, Movement Systems of Analysis, Embodied Interviews and Observations, and Creative and Mixed Methods. Each chapter proposes a method case; an example of a previously used research method that exemplifies the way in which embodiment is used in a study.

It is suited for many fields of study such as psychology, sociology, behavioral science, anthropology, education, and arts-based research. It will be useful for graduate coursework in somatic studies or as a supplemental text for courses in traditional research design.

Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD is a somatic psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has been teaching somatic psychology and embodied research at universities and training programs in the US and internationally for the past 18 years. Dr. Tantia also co-edited The Routledge International Handbook on Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy: Approaches from Dance Movement and Body Psychotherapy (2019) with Helen Payne, Sabina Koch and Thomas Fuchs.

The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods and Cases
ISBN: 9781138367081