On November 5, the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) hosted Listening Differently: Creative Methods for Meaningful Interviews, a hybrid workshop led by CSLP Student Affiliate Guillaume Jabbour as part of the EmpowerGrad series.
This event brought together graduate students from multiple disciplines. The session invited participants to rethink traditional qualitative research practices by exploring innovative and participatory approaches to interviewing. Drawing on the work of anthropologist Sarah Pink (2015), Jabbour encouraged attendees to consider the interview as a relational and multisensory process—one that weaves together people, place, memory, and interaction.
Over the course of the workshop, participants discussed a range of creative and reflexive methodologies, including mobile, mediated, and participant-led interviews, before putting ideas into practice through a mock interview exercise. The conversation also delved into the ethical and decolonial dimensions of qualitative research, highlighting ways to foster reciprocity and disrupt power dynamics between researcher and participant.
Guillaume Jabbour (right), a CSLP Student Affiliate, organized the session.