A few weeks ago we/I/my class learned about the poster contest hosted by the MFECOE's Office of Research and Graduate Education, which all graduate students were encouraged to participate in...but which apparently none of us knew about. Dr. Misha encouraged us to use some of our creative ethnography from class as a basis for our paper, so we started looking into it and even though the turnaround time for this project was lightning fast, we managed to pull something together.
The graduate school will print our posters for us—for free!—which is pretty cool because when Andrew was at BYU and Duke we had to pay to print posters. They want four business days to print a poster, however, so you have to plan at least that far in advance.
I needed to pick up the poster on Friday, which meant we had to turn it in by Tuesday of last week. That's one week exactly to the day from when we first heard about it! We planned to submit it by Monday, just to give us a cushion. So we met about things on the afternoon of Good Friday and I put the poster together over the weekend and submitted it to be printed last Monday, picked it up on Friday as planned. And then presented today.
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Our poster talked about our experiences working through some creative ethnography exercises (engaging in poetic inquiry) and how these exercises could be used as both method and message in creative research.
Here's a picture of me with my co-authors Shriya and Sarah Anne, as well as Burcu Şentürk, a visiting scholar from Turkey, who had been shadowing in our class this last semester:
We were surprised—and pleased—at the end of the conference when we were announced as the winning poster in our category! It was fun to get to work with Sarah Anne and Shriya on this (as well as in the other class we're in together where we're studying similar things).
Not a bad way to end the semester!
Do you have a close up of your poster that I could share with my new faculty as an example? From Mom.
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