At the end of 2022, I found out I'd been successful for the first time ever in a funding application

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It was for a research fellowship and it was my first time taking on the role of a researcher

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At the end of January 2023, I started as the Stuart Hall Fellow at Sussex University and began my 2 month project

 

 Here was my research proposal:

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How can creative practices such as poetry, music and creative writing be used as an alternative output for historical research, academic prose and historical archiving?

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As a poet, I wanted to challenge the academic world, and find new and creative ways to use poetry / music / creative writing as an output for research. I wanted to find ways to make learning and academia more accessible, decolonial, creative and poetic.

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Scroll down for my methodology poem,

"The Live Archive" which sums up some

of the project!