Creative Media Practice Research Insights

In this episode of Creative Practice Research Insights, Roy Hanney speaks with Michael Schwab , artist, artistic researcher and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research . The conversation explores one of the central challenges in artistic and creative practice research: how practice becomes research in forms that can be shared, encountered, reviewed and published. Rather than...

In this episode of Creative Practice Research Insights, Roy Hanney speaks with Dr Scott McLaughlin, Associate Professor in Composition and Music Technology at the University of Leeds. Scott is a composer and practice researcher whose work explores materiality, agency, indeterminacy and emergent musical structures. He is also closely involved in the development of practice research infrastructure t...

In this episode of the Creative Practice Research Insights Podcast, Roy Hanney speaks with Professor Craig Batty about how universities can develop a sustainable culture of creative practice research. Moving beyond individual projects, the conversation explores the institutional conditions needed to support creative practice research at scale. Topics include leadership, infrastructure, shared lang...

Creative Media Practice Research Insights – Podcast Episode 8 What really happens to creative ideas once they leave the spark stage? How do they change, strengthen, stall, or — occasionally — make it onto a screen? In this episode, we enter the development room with two guests whose careers span the full lifecycle of ideas in the screen industries: Emma Millions is a development producer, screenwr...

Creative Media Practice Research Insights — Episode 7 Where do creative ideas actually come from? How do practitioners notice them, feed them, and decide which ones are worth pursuing? In this episode, I’m joined by writer, producer and storyworld designer Alison Norrington, founder of StoryCentral. Rather than talking about platforms or production pipelines, we explore the earliest and often leas...

This webinar with Dr Matthew Hawkins (Southbank University), one of the Screenworks editorial team, explores how their peer-review model for screen-based creative research could be adapted to non-textual practices. We’ll consider alternative ways to evaluate and validate creative practice research, offering insights for researchers, artists, and academics pursuing practice-based approaches.

In this seminar, Annette Arlander explores the speculative nature of creative practice research. Unlike traditional methods, practice often unfolds in pursuit of a question through intuition and experimentation. Arlander discusses how embracing uncertainty and speculative methods can generate research questions, foster interdisciplinary intersections, and open new insights.

Join filmmaker and academic Nick Cope as he discusses the challenges of completing a PhD by prior publication through practice. Reflecting on his own PhD, Northern Industrial Scratch, he explores documenting and theorising creative work retrospectively, and shares insights on archival research, autoethnography, and the British Scratch video art movement of the 1980s.

In this session, Dr Lyle Skains introduces the Theory of Change model for creative practice research. Using case studies, participants will learn to build pathways to impact in project planning, better articulate societal and cultural effects, and apply these strategies to achieve more focused, impactful outcomes.

This podcast helps creative practice researchers write compelling 300-word contextual statements using a proven structure from REF 2021. Through practical exercises, participants will learn to articulate their research's significance and impact, addressing key challenges faced by creative practitioners.

Join us for a Q&A with Joanne Scott on creative practice as academic research. Aimed at early career researchers, the session offers insights and strategies for articulating practice as scholarship, drawing on Scott’s monograph Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: Doing-thinking in Practice.