[-empyre-] January at empyre - Research in Practice

[Kirk Woolford]

Ooops, 

Sorry, forgot to add the link to John Adam's paper on practice research outputs. 

http://ref2014.creativefutur.eu/?p=151


and an excerpt

"Largely in response to student demand for practice-oriented course, HE institutions since the 1970s have recruited professional practitioners into art, performance and media departments. This influx of knowledge and experience has provided huge institutional benefits, adding credibility and prestige to media work, introducing new approaches to creative and professional practice teaching, strengthening links with creative media artists and practitioners in the media industries, and opening new relations with public sector and community organisations. It has also opened up the potential of creative practice as research. The structures and forms of practice research are well understood in the science and social sciences but, until comparatively recently, intellectual engagement through the written word has dominated the creation and dissemination of thought in the arts and humanities. The limitations of this logocentricity have been widely discussed and research through practice is now an established mode; an increasing number of academics possess a PhD achieved through practice research, and radical approaches to teaching through practice-based pedagogies have also opened up the potential of practice research. The complex collaborative and technical processes that characterise media research through practice increasingly develop in the context of co-produced or collaborative studio or 'laboratory' based work.

However, some members of staff professionally committed to different forms of creative and professional practice feel they are swimming against the current of research in the Arts and Humanities"



Best regards, 
Kirk 


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Kirk Woolford
School of Media, Film, and Music
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