Ebook: Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Yet until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research. Designed specifically as a research training tool, the book is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book’s framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance, each contextualised by a theoretical essay and complete with references. More than a handbook, the volume draws on thinkers including Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory, demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarly research. Practice as Research takes pains to elaborate methodologies, contexts and outcomes, and to emphasise the process of enquiry and its relationship to the research write-up or exegesis. Published in a new paperback edition, this is an indispensable tool for educators and students.