Practice-led research
In Practice-led Research an original investigation is undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding. It is research where some of the resulting knowledge is embodied in an artefact. It can include the invention of ideas, images, performances and artefacts which can range from paintings and buildings, to software and poems.
Here’s a selection of books aimed to get you inspired and thinking about practice-led research.
Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and ArtEngages with a diversity of contexts, locations and arts forms - including theatre, music and fine art - and brings together theoretical, political and practice-based perspectives on the question of 'evidence' in relation to participatory arts practice in social contexts.
Blood, Sweat and Theory by This resource identifies the essential characteristics of practice-based research across a range of countries, contexts, forms, and applications.
Creative Communities: regional inclusion & the artsThis is the first major collection to reimagine and analyse the role of the creative arts in building resilient and inclusive regional communities. This book re-conceptualizes the very meaning of regionalism and the position - and potential - of creative spaces in non-metropolitan centres.
Inclusive Arts Practice and Research by Interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts.
Method Meets Art (2nd ed) by A highly accessible introduction to arts-based research (ABR), this widely used text provides a practical guide for researchers who want to uncover information that traditional methods cannot capture.
Practice As Research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry by Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. This book is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programs.
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts by Addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research.
