Making the Familiar Strange: Practice Research within Academia

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Making the Familiar Strange: Practice Research within Academia (Scottish Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities & Queen Margaret University)
Creative Practice Research is growing in attention as an acceptable methodological research approach. Indeed, it is useful in exploring those domains which are perhaps more affective, ephemeral or relational, and as such can often work very freely between disciplines. However, it could also be highly focused on particular processes and practices, centred in creative production. Recently Creative Practice Research projects have been apparent in healthcare contexts, water management policy, management and infrastructural studies, social work, as well as expected domains such as arts, literature, crafts and performance domains. Problematically, however, it is a methodology that seems to be at odds with traditional academic structures due to its process-based, messy and unpredictable methods, and is often critiqued for its high subjectivity and/or a lack of rigour. How can such research approaches work effectively and appropriately within the confines of acceptable research activities?

Period	26 Apr 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	EdinburghShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National