The Making Academic

Section One: Playing with identity and place 1. Making as Wellbeing: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Academic Maker Identities in Higher Education 2. Constructing myself as an academic: states of flow and multi-membership to balance vulnerability with creativity 3. When having a meltdown is a Good Thing 4. Answering The Craftsman’s Call To Be Academic 5. Finding my place in academia through mixed-media embroidery practice 6. Finding Me in the Midst of Chaos Section Two: Developing, growing and maintaining self-care and wellbeing 7. Knitting and spinning: How fibre craft can support you as an HE professional 8. Crafting academic connections across time and disciplines 9. Rediscovering the self: Music for wellbeing, aesthetic, and making 10. Sanctuary in spice: The kitchen as a space of wellbeing for a migrant woman in academia 11. Mapping Terrain: Stitching Gariwerd 12. A Proximal Conversation Section Three: Thinking, telling and sharing stories 13. Thinking through and speaking to: A daily stitching story 14. Made to Measure 15. Creative carding: ‘Life giving and receiving in the academy’ 16. Patterns of Wear: Wardrobe Research and Self Care Through A Daily Hand Sewing Practice 17. Making time for making: The complexities of a creative practice-led PhD through 3,500 hexagons Section Four: Developing and informing scholarly inquiry 18. Making friends: creativity as a catalyst for conneciton and community 19. Unravelling Researcher Bias through Doodling 20. Everything you don’t have to do: how fostering individual creative practice enables others to create 21. Musical flourishing as a music teacher educator 22. Attuning to jazz in the process of becoming a ‘making academic’ 23. The Power of a Pinchpot: Embracing Imperfection and Spontaneity in our Academic and Artistic Lives Section Five: Power, aesthetics and knowing 24. The Promise of Creative Education in Neoliberal Times: Ideology, Sensibility, and Natality 25. The Craft of Academic Podcasting: Creating and Curating Connections and Living Knowledge 26. Re-representations of self: A turbulent journey towards Honan’s (2007) swinging rope bridge 27. Creativity through blogging: A duet in an academic key 28. The Interplay of Artistic Practice, Academic Identity, and Aesthetic Considerations: A Personal Journey 29. I am out with lanterns: a printmakers' path to academic authenticity 30. Making shimmers 31. Cultivating Safety, Connection, and Emotional Regulation: Insights from the Intersection of Art, Education, and Research