1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research
The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research presents a cohesive framework with which to conduct practice-based research or to support, manage and supervise practice-based researchers. It has been written with an inclusive approach, with the intention of presenting deep and meaningful knowledge for the benefit of all readers.
This handbook has been designed to present specific detail of practice-based research by outlining its shared traits with all forms of research and to highlight its core distinguishing features into a cohesive, principled and methodical approach. To this end, the handbook is presented in five sections: 1. Practice-Based Research, 2. Knowledge, 3. Method, 4. The Practice-Based PhD and 5. Practitioner Voices. Each section begins with a leading chapter that outlines each of the distinct areas as they relate to practice-based research. This is followed by a series of contributing chapters that discuss pertinent themes in more detail.
Practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds will find these chapters helpful:
- research students or final year graduates will be introduced to the principled nature of practice-based research
- PhD researchers embarking on a research project or are in the flow of research will find this guidance supportive
- professionals such as designers, makers, engineers, artists and creative technologists wishing to strengthen their research into their practice will be guided through the principled and focused nature of practice-based research
- supervisors, managers and policy makers will benefit from the potential and rigour of practice-based researchers in the pursuit of new knowledge.
Section 1 – Practice-based Research
1.1. Practice-based Research
Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds and Craig Vear
1.2. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practice-based Research
Jonathan Michaels
1.3. The Academisation of Creativity and the Morphogenesis of the Practice-Based Researcher
Mike Philips
1.4. The Studio and Living Laboratory Models for Practice-based Research
Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds
1.5. Practice-based Research at SensiLab
Jon McCormack, Alon Ilsar, Tom Chandler, Mike Yeates, Elliott Wilson, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Nina Rajcic, Maria Teresa Llano and Sojung Bahng
1.6. Working the Space: Augmenting Training for Practice-based Research
Becky Shaw
1.7. Understanding Doctoral Communities in Practice-based Research
Sian Vaughan
1.8. Research Doctorates in the Arts – A Perspective from Goldsmiths
Janis Jefferies
1.9. The PhD in Visual Arts Practice in the USA: Beyond Elkins’ Artists with PhDs
Bruce Mackh
1.10. The Relationship between Practice and Research
Gavin Sade
Section 2 – Knowledge
2.1. Knowledge
Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds and Craig Vear
2.2. Theory as an Active Agent in Practice-based Knowledge Development
Linda Candy
2.3. Mapping Practitioner Knowledge: A Framework for Identifying New Knowledge through Practice-based Research
Craig Vear
2.4. Mapping the Nature of Knowledge in Creative and Practice-based Research
Kristina Niedderer
2.5. Un-knowing: A Strategy for Forging New Directions and Innovative Works through Experiential Materiality
Garth Paine
2.6. Appreciative Systems in Doing and Supervising Curatorial Practice-based Research
Lizzie Muller
2.7. The Art Object Does Not Embody a Form of Knowledge Revisited
Stephen Scrivener
2.8. Research, Shared Knowledge and the Artefact
Ernest Edmonds
Section 3 – Method
3.1. Method
Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds and Craig Vear
3.2. The Common Ground Model for Practice-based Research Design
Falk Hübner
3.3. Finding the Groove: The Rhythms of Practice-based Research
Brigid Costello
3.4. Practice-based Research in the Visual Arts: Exploring the Systems of Practice and the Practices of Research
Judith Mottram
3.5. Crafting Temporality in Design: Reflecting on and Extending the Creation of Chronoscope
Amy Yo Sue Chen and William Odom
3.6. Thinking Together through Practice and Research: Collaborations across Living and Non-living Systems
Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio (AKA Cesar & Lois)
3.7. Site: An Inventories Approach to Practice-led Research
Graeme Brooker
3.8. Reflective Practice Variants and the Creative Practitioner
Linda Candy
3.9. Reflection in Practice: Inter-disciplinary Arts Collaborations in Medical Settings
Anna Ledgard, Sofie Layton and Giovanni Biglino
3.10. Making Reflection-in-Action Happen: Methods for Perceptual Emergence
Jennifer Seevinck
Section 4 – The Practice-based PhD
4.1. The Practice-based PhD
Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds and Craig Vear
4.2. A Play Space for Practice-based PhD Research
Sophy Smith
4.3. The Sound of My Hands Typing: Autoethnography as Reflexive Method in Practice-based Research
Iain Findlay-Walsh
4.4. Navigating the Unknown: A Dramaturgical Approach
Hanna Slättne
4.5. The Practice of Practice-Based Research: Challenges and Strategies
Andrew Johnston
4.6. Community-building for Practice-based Doctoral Researchers: Mapping Key Dimensions for Creating Flexible Frameworks
Sian Vaughan
4.7. Strategies for Supporting PhD Practice-based Research: The CTx Ecosystem
Craig Vear, Sophy Smith and Stacie Lee Bennett-Worth
4.8. Ethics through an Empathetic Lens: A Human-Centred Approach to Ethics in Practice-based Research
Falk Hübner
4.9. The Practice-based PhD: Some Practical Considerations
Ernest Edmonds
Section 5 – Practitioner Voices
5.1. Practitioner Voices
Craig Vear
5.2. A New Framework for Enabling Deep Relational Encounter through Participatory Practice-based Research
Alice Charlotte Bell
5.3. Risk, Creative Spaces and Creative Identity in Creative Technologies Research (or Why it’s OK for Academic Creative Technology Outputs to look Scrappy and be Buggy)
Oliver Bown
5.4. FEEDBACK: Vibrotactile Materials Informing Artistic Practice
Øyvind Brandtsegg and Alexandra Murray-Leslie
5.5. Co-evolving Research and Practice - _derivations and the Performer-developer
Ben Carey
5.6. Publishing Practice Research: Reflections of an Editor
Maria Chatzichristodoulou
5.7. From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research
Balandino Di Donato
5.8. The Curious Nature of Negotiating Studio-based Practice in PhD Research: Intimate Bodies and Technologies
Kerry Francksen
5.9. Encounters at the Fringe: A Relational Approach to Human-robot Interaction
Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders
5.10. The Impact of Public Engagement with Research on a Holographic Practice-based Study
Pearl John
5.11. Project-based Participatory Practice and Research: Reflections on Being ‘in the Field’
Gail Kenning
5.12. Bearing Witness - the Artist within the Medical Landscape: Reflections on a Participatory and Personal Research by Practice
Sofie Layton
5.13. Organisational Encounters and Speculative Weavings: Questioning a Body of Material
Debbie Michaels
5.14. Improvising as Practice/Research Method
Corey Mwamba
5.15. Dreaming of Utopian Cities: Art, Technology, Creative AI, and New Knowledge
Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri
5.16. Curating Interactive Art as a Practice-based Researcher: An Enquiry into the Role of Autoethnography and Reflective Practice
Deborah Turnbull Tillman
5.17. Please Touch!
Marloeke van der Vlugt
Biography
Craig Vear is Research Professor at De Montfort University, where he is a director of the Creative AI and Robotics lab in the Institute of Creative Technologies. His research is naturally hybrid as he draws together the fields of music, digital performance, creative technologies, Artificial Intelligence, creativity, gaming and robotics.
