Practice-Led Research, Research-Led Practice in the Creative Arts

Edited by Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3629-7
$32.50

August, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3628-0
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

This book considers one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise of the creative arts and the growing recognition that creative practice is a valid field of research. The volume shows that creative practice can lead to research insights through what is known as practice-led research, yet unlike other books on practice-led research, the text includes a discussion on the positive impact of research-led practice. Essays cover a wide range of disciplines, including creative writing, dance, music, theater, film, and new media, and contributors are from the U.K., the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They approach the subject from numerous angles, discussing methodologies of practice-led research and research-led practice, their own creative work as a form of research, research training for creative practitioners, and the politics and history of practice-led research and research-led practice within the university. This book will be invaluable for creative practitioners, researchers, students in the creative arts, and academics.

Related Subjects

• Drama

Series

• Research Methods for the Arts and the Humanities (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Hazel Smith is a research professor in the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. She is author of The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing and Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara. She is also a widely published writer, performer, and new media artist. Her latest volume, The Erotics of Geography, is accompanied by a CD-Rom of works with Roger Dean. Roger T. Dean is a research professor in the MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney. He has published five books on improvisation and is a former university president and medical research institute director. A composer-improviser, he is the founder and director of the sound and intermedia ensemble austraLYSIS, of which Hazel Smith is also a member.

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