Course Summary
This course applies to all HDR candidates who conduct practice-based creative practice research. This can be within particular creative practice research disciplines or across disciplines.
Creative practice research is research in the medium of creative practice itself. This course will help you to locate yourself within the creative practice research paradigm and to develop the research techniques, skills and practices that will contribute to developing and articulating your specific research trajectory, and to manoeuvre more confidently throughout your candidature.
In particular, this course will enable you to explore and gain a deeper understanding of the key aspects of the creative practice research paradigm, its operational presuppositions, contexts, techniques, and background. It will further develop your critical and reflective skills, alert you to the potential and opportunities of creative thinking in relation to your practice research and dissertation, as well as enable your exploration of the relationships between the various components of creative practice research: i.e., artefacts/exhibitions, text, verbal presentations, performances, and events. This will allow you to successfully progress with the development of your creative practice research with a view towards forthcoming milestone reviews - particularly the mid-candidature and completion presentations.
The course will showcase different perspectives on creative practice research strategies and knowledge creation. Knowledge frameworks, methods and methodologies, and research contexts and communities of practice, will be foregrounded by case studies.
The course facilitates ongoing peer support networks. You will be encouraged to communicate your work and research interests through seminar and symposia discussion with peers, including peer feedback.