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Practice Research: Further resources

An introduction to capturing practice research on Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO) with guidance on a range of relevant open research practices

Further resources

If you want to find out more about  current thinking and debates around practice research, Sophie Stone, Lauren Redhead and Tim Long have produced a very helpful Annotated Bibliography and Webography of Sources Related to Practice Research that examines the resources available to support practice researchers.

The PRAG-UK website has a resources page of publications and websites on practice research.

The Creativity & Cognition Studios website has a guide on practice research primarily aimed at postgraduate researchers that includes extensive references and bibliographies.

Many of the books and journals on these lists are available in the Library. A selected list of resources on practice research with links to Library Search is available below.

Books, journals, reports and websites

Ludivine Allegue, Simon Jones, Baz Kershaw and Angela Piccini (eds.), Practice-as-Research in Performance and Screen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Christopher Bannerman, Joshua Sofaer and Jane Watt (eds.), Navigating the Unknown: The Creative Process in Contemporary Performing Arts (London: Middlesex University Press, 2006)

Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt (eds.), Material Inventions: Applying Creative Arts Research (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014)

Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt, (eds.), Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (London: Tauris, 2010)

Michael Biggs and Henrik Karlsson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012)

Barbara Bolt, Art beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004)

Henk Borgdorff, The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012)

William Brooks (ed.), Experience music experiment: pragmatism and artistic research (Leuven: University of Leuven, 2022)

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Richard Siegesmund (eds), Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice (London: Routledge, 2008)

Paul Carter, Material Thinking: The Theory and Practice of Creative Research (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004)

Hilary Collins, Creative research: the theory and practice of research for the creative industries (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019)

Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton (eds), Fieldwork for future ecologies: radical practice for art and art-based research (Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2022)

Chloé Déchery (ed.), Performing collaboration in solo performance: a duet without you and practice as research (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2022)

Mine Doğantan-Dack (ed.), Artistic Practice as Research in Music (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015)

James Elkins (ed.), Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art (New Academia Publishing, 2014)

John Freeman, Blood Sweat and Theory: Research Through Practice in Performance (Farringdon: Libri Publishing, 2010)

Tony Godfrey and Megan Brewster Aldrich (eds.), Understanding art objects: thinking through the eye (Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2009)

Carole Gray and Julian Malins, Visualizing Research: A guide to the Research Process in Art and Design (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2004)

Mika Hannula, Juha Suoranta, and Tere Vadén, Artistic Research: Theories, Methods and Practices (New York: Peter Lang, 2014)

Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley (eds.), The Creative Critic, Writing as/about Practice (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)

Jonathan Impett (ed.), Artistic Research in Music: Discipline and Resistance, artists and researchers at the Orpheus Institute (Leuven: University of Leuven, 2017)

Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson, Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

J. Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Jole (eds.), Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issue (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2008)

Patricia Leavy, Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (New York, The Guilford Press, 2020)

Katy Macleod and Lin Holdridge (eds.), Thinking through art: reflections on art as research (London: Routledge 2009)

Shaun McNiff, Art-Based Research (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006)

Robin Nelson, Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Robin Nelson, Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Agnieszka Piotrowska (ed.), Creative practice research in the age of neoliberal hopelessness (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

Anna Reid, Neal Peres Da Costa and Jeanell Carrigan, Creative Research in Music: Informed Practice, Innovation and Transcendence (New York: Routledge, 2021)

Shannon Rose Riley and Lynette Hunter (eds.), Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Simon Shepherd, The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean (eds.), Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh  University Press, 2009)

Ben Spatz, What a body can do: Techniques as Knowledge, Practice as Research (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015)

Graeme Sullivan, Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts (London: SAGE Publications, 2010)

Thomas Thwaites, The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011)

Laurene Vaughan (ed.), Practice-based Design Research (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)

Craig Vear, The Routledge international handbook of practice-based research (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022)

Walsh, Susan, Barbara Bickel and Carl Leggo (eds), Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016)

The following journals all include discussions about current thinking and debates around practice research.

Applied Theatre Research

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts

Contemporary Theatre Review

Design Issues

Digital Creativity

Ethnomusicology Forum

International Journal of Art & Design Education

International Journal of Creative and Arts Studies

International Journal of Music Education

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Journal of Applied Arts & Health 

Journal of Visual Art Practice

Leonardo

Media International Australia

Media Practice and Education

Nordic Journal of Art & Research

Performance Research

Research in Dance Education

Studies in Art Education

Studies in Theatre and Performance

TDR: The Drama Review

TEMPO

Theatre Topics

James Bulley and Ozden Sahin, Practice Research - Report 1: What is practice research? and Report 2: How can practice research be shared? (London: Practice Research Advisory Group UK (PRAG-UK), 2021)

Jenny Evans, Adam Vials Moore, Helen Bailey, Jenny Basford, Rachael Kotarski, Joshua Mead, Holly Ranger and Neal White. Practice Research Voices (PRVOICES): Final report and recommendations (London: University of Westminster, 2023)

Tom Jackson, Claire Knowles, Scott McLaughlin, Rachael Kotarski, Alex De Little, Matthew Warren and Andrew Horne, Sustaining Practice Assets for Research, Knowledge, Learning and Engagement (SPARKLE): Final Report and Recommendations (Leeds: University of Leeds, 2023)

Laura Molloy, Draft Recommendations: Sustainable Data Practices for Artists and Art Stakeholders (Oxford: University of Oxford, 2021)

Tahani Nadim and Rebecca Randall. Defiant Objects: Non-standard research outputs in Institutional Repositories (London: Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011-2013)

Elizabeth Price and Nina Wakeford, Document of the testimony, deliberation and reflection of the Artist Citizens Jury 2022 (London: Goldsmiths CCA, 2023)

Zubin Kanga, Mark Dyer, Caitlin Rowley and Jonathan Packham, Technology and Contemporary Classical Music: Methodologies in Practice-Based Research (Southampton: National Centre for Research Methods, 2024)

Artistic Research Reports

Centre for Dance Research

Centre for Performance Research

Centre for Practice Research in the Arts

Creativity & Cognition Studios

ELIA (European League of Institutes for the Arts)

Music and/as Process

Orpheus Institut

Practice as Research in Performance: (PARIP)

Practice Research Advisory Group UK (PRAG-UK)

PR Voices

Practice as Research blog by Simon Ellis

ResCen: Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts

RMA Practice Research Study Group

RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) Blog

Society for Artistic Research

Theatre & Performance Research Association

Unit for Sound Practice Research 

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