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Book Review: Patricia Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·June 4, 2024·4 min read
Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research is a comprehensive guide that navigates the intricate landscape of qualitative research from the writing phase to publishing.
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Conclusion to this Special Issue: A Peek into My Catalog

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 18, 2024·6 min read
Story-worlds were magical—they transported me to different places where I’d meet new people, and learn about their lives in visceral ways.
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My Career Part Two: A Philosophy of Love

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 18, 2024·30 min read
In Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
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My Career Part One: Philosophy of The Arts

Patricia Leavy·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Special Issues
·May 17, 2024·26 min read
There’s also a larger goal underscoring my work. I aim to create a philosophy of the arts and a philosophy of love.
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Start Again and Sparkle Always with Celestial Bodies

Xan Nowakowski·
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·May 17, 2024·25 min read
I’d take the past and make it straight, Even though it’s complicated, We’ve got time to start again, I don’t know if you can hear me…
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The Impact of Patricia Leavy’s Social (Sociological) Fiction

J.E. Sumerau·
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·May 17, 2024·16 min read
Gratitude is a recurring theme I hear from readers of Patricia Leavy’s social fiction. This is an essay about Patricia Leavy novels.
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Patricia Leavy Is the Social Fiction Doyenne

Alexandra Lasczik·
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·May 17, 2024·20 min read
Patricia Leavy is a genuine trailblazer, the real deal, an inspiration.
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Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

Ash Watson·
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·May 6, 2024·13 min read
Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.
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Fiction as Research? We Can Do That?

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
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·May 6, 2024·12 min read
Leavy is more than the mother of the social fiction movement in the social sciences; she’s its fairy godmother.
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Social Fiction: How Leavy Pioneers a New Genre

Christine Sleeter·
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·March 15, 2024·23 min read
Christine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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Between Low-Fat Love and A Big Life

U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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·February 27, 2024·31 min read
This piece is intended to give you a sense of the ways in which I use Low-Fat Love in the classroom and why just using it makes the world a better place.
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Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s Body of Work: An Introduction to This Special Issue

Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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·February 13, 2024·14 min read
Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo writes the introduction to this special issue celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s work.
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