Hi Everyone,
I wanted to bring your attention to some work we are doing in the UK in relation to capturing practice research and making it more discoverable based on the work we have done here at the University of Westminster to develop the Haplo (and now Cayuse) Repository.
Some definitions in case you are unfamiliar with the term:
Practice research
"An umbrella term that describes all manners of research where practice is the significant method of research conveyed in a research output. This includes numerous discipline-specific formulations of practice research, which have distinct and unique balances of practice, research narrative and complementary methods within their projects."
Research narrative
"In a practice research output, a research narrative may be conjoined with, or embodied in, practice. A research narrative articulates the research enquiry that emerges in practice."
Bulley, James and Şahin, Özden. Practice Research – Report 1: What is practice research? P1. London: PRAG-UK, 2021. https://doi.org/10.23636/1347.
Practice research outputs are often made up of multiple components, and can include non-text and text outputs and a narrative statement.
We have currently got two surveys out - one aimed researchers and practitioners and one aimed at institutional and organisational support teams.
If you or colleagues would be interested in finding out more and/or filling in our surveys - please take a look at our
Practice Research Voices (PR Voices) project blog and this
PR Voices survey blog post.
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Jenny Evans
Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead
University of Westminster
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