About this book
Some experiences resist being put into words, especially for students and staff navigating unfamiliar academic and cultural terrain.
The Situational Application Framework sets out a rigorous, field-tested methodology for using LEGO® Serious Play® not as a facilitation exercise, but as a legitimate qualitative research tool capable of surfacing belonging, voice, and transition in ways that conventional interviews routinely miss.
Drawing on over a decade of doctoral and published research, Dr Benjamin Olusola Ajibade traces the development of this framework from its origins in a doctoral study of Nigerian nursing students transitioning into UK higher education, through its extension into assessment feedback, staff belonging, and curriculum decolonisation work.
The book sets out the four-principle Situational Application Framework — context sensitivity, participant voice and positioning, meaning-making through construction, and researcher reflexivity — alongside a full doctoral evidence base, a complete practical guide to running a LEGO® Serious Play® session, and concrete implications for nursing and health professions education.
For nursing and health professions educators, qualitative researchers, doctoral students, and student support practitioners.
