Description

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This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range "beyond" the arts and a case for intra-disciplinarity in Practice Research as an influence in the formation of the "future university". A comparison is made between Artistic Research and Practice Research recognizing that research through practices with being-doing-knowing is central to both. Acknowledging the current crisis in legitimation, a broad view is taken of how things might be known by an onto-epistemology for the twenty-first century foregrounding the bodymind but sustaining rationality and community by way of Other/other dialogic exchange. Perspectives from around the world in Part II offset the more Eurocentric emphasis in Part I.

About the Author

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Formerly Director of Research, and Professor of Theatre and Intermedial Performance, (2010 - 2015) at University of London, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Robin Nelson (in semi-retirement) is now an Emeritus Professor. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Manchester Metropolitan University where for many years he was Head of the practice-based, interdisciplinary Department of Contemporary Arts. Robin has published widely on the performing arts and media and is still occasionally engaged in intermedial theatre practice.