Researchers working across disciplines frequently use creative practice but do so in very different ways. Creative work can be a primary methodology in practice research (e.g. composition), it can be a form of data elicitation (e.g. in community engagement) and it can be interpretative or representative (e.g. an artist who interprets or transposes research findings into new forms). Creative practice can allow for innovative findings and modes of engagement not always available through other routes. Yet it is also subject to very different disciplinary norms and assumptions.

Interdisciplinary Research Creative Practice as and with Research Sandpit

This sandpit is open to anyone who is interested in using creative practice in their research and who wants to collaboratively explore the questions it raises. These might be questions about how we engage with creative practice as a form of data – what are the different ways in which we read this work and how do they speak to issues of objectivity, repeatability, and aggregation? These might be questions about ethics and practice – what does creative work uniquely achieve, how can we use it to shape methodologies as well as represent findings, who owns this work, and how can we evaluate its findings? Or they might be questions about collaboration – what are the existing models for working across creative practice and other disciplines and how might we want to challenge or develop them?

We welcome researchers who are interested in any aspect of these questions, from those who use creative practices in their research to evaluation experts, data scientists and researchers from diverse disciplines interested in creative approaches to research or in outcomes from creative practice research.

The sandpit will focus on co-creation of research projects to explore creative practices as and with research. To avoid disappointment, we would like to highlight that the sandpit is not a suitable forum for researchers looking purely for creative practitioner collaborators to interpret existing datasets or to provide a service to existing research. This is an opportunity to engage with creative practice research on its own terms.

The Creative Practice as and with Research sandpit will bring together potential collaborators from across the university to share research interests and ideas. We aim to create connections and begin conversations between researchers from diverse disciplines and perspectives, leading towards ideas for potential new research projects and grant applications.

We are particularly keen to foster new connections between colleagues in the Arts and Social Sciences and those in the Physical and Natural Sciences and Engineering.?

The Sandpit is open to research and academic staff at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, and to research technicians?and research professional services staff at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 who contribute to the design and creation of research projects as part of their job role.?Participants from all disciplines are welcome, with the event offering opportunities to foster interdisciplinary connections and explore new approaches.?An interest in interdisciplinary research and openness to areas beyond your expertise is important.Please note that PhD students are not eligible to apply.

Please direct any queries to Toni Hunt, Project Officer (Research Funding), Research & Innovation Services,?funding@soton.ac.uk.