摘要: This is a personal account of the re-evaluation an artists’ sketchbook project, which I made during period struggle to write academic Ph.D. thesis in way that would draw on my creative practice as artist. The research (for submission January 2014) explores evaluation qualitative impact creativity community projects, through empirical field trials. Part this has included use and development methods, exploration issues interpretation data these raise. article describes how experience participating Writing-PAD HEA seminar using collage, earlier year, prompted me re-examine project make useful connection between arts writing.