Impact of Appreciative Inquiry on Research: Experiences, Reflections and Thoughts for the Future

CONTENTS

1 Introduction

5 About our Contributors

8 Why Appreciative Inquiry is Unlikely to Generate Research Publications

12 Back to Basics: Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry as Not ‘Normal’ Science

17 Appreciative Inquiry as a Process of Generative Theory Building

20 Towards an Appreciative Meta-Inquiry

25 An Appreciative Inquiry into the Role of AI in Research: Findings Regarding an Analysis of Six Cases

30 Appreciative Inquiry at Work – Lessons from Case Study Research for AI Practitioners and their Clients

36 Designing Research with a Positive Lens

42 Using AI and Grounded Theory as a Methodological Framework for Developing Care in Schools

44 Older-People-Researchers’ Views of Appreciative Inquiry

47 Making Magic Doing Research

49 Stakeholder Development and Research through Appreciative

52 Evaluating SCIE Partners’ Council Using Appreciative Inquiry