The Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment (CHASE), Centre for Culture and Everyday Life and the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film invite you to participate in a Creative Methods Workshop: The Video Essay Format: Lecture, followed by Workshop (Lunch Provided) Presenter/Facilitator: Dr. Alan O Leary, Aarhus University, Denmark Overview In an online world dominated by the audiovisual, video essay-making is rapidly becoming a core academic skill for research and analysis, across disciplines. (Lee 2021; OLeary 2023). This workshop will focus on interests across disciplines in humanities, social sciences, public health and environmental research interested in creative methodologies and their capacity to interrogate different kinds of data and tackle complex challenges. It will encourage participants to explore the specific affordances of the Video Essay, considering how the specific interactions between images, sound and text alter our traditional understanding of knowledge production. This (relatively) new form of research also requires new approaches to evaluation, critical engagement and archiving as well as the understanding of sites and platforms for dissemination and digital publishing. The workshop will provide a means to critically explore the formal and methodological parameters of the video essay: how is it defined? In what ways is it different from the essay film? (Is it different?) How does it sit alongside other visual methods? What does the video essay offer fields such as visual anthropology/sociology? How can it be productively utilised as a form of ethnographic or autoethnographic and critically-reflexive knowledge production?