ADVANCE NOTICE;
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
in association with
THE JOURNAL OF MEDIA PRACTICE
ARTICULATING MEDIA PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
A One Day Symposium
Friday 17 June 2005
Speakers to be confirmed. For more information contact Dr Charlotte Crofts at
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With the RAE 2008 in mind, the symposium seeks to explore media practice in
research contexts and examine some current examples of research in and through
practice.
According to the AHRB Review of Research Assessment (September 2003), there
was need for a clearer articulation of the research process - including research
methods, context and significance - in practice-led research that was submitted to
the last RAE. It is therefore essential that faculties, departments and academic
practitioners who are applying for funding and/or intending to submit practice in RAE
2008 should understand ways in which practice may be effectively articulated,
documented and contextualised as research.
The AHRB suggest that ‘practice-led research’ should incorporate a scholarly
apparatus that enables other researchers to asses the value and significance of the
results of the research, and that completed work should have a record or ‘route map’
of the research process. Similarly the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
Panel Report on the last RAE exercise valued practice that could give ‘a reflexive
account of itself as research’, but found that many practitioners did not explain ways
in which the work constituted an original investigation in a research context.
This symposium aims to explore these issues through presentations and discussion
groups. Themes will include constructing practice in research contexts; a review of
current practice / research models; the nature and forms of peer review and
dissemination; the formulation of practice research aims and methods. Ideas and
proposals that emerge from these sessions will be developed with a view to
publication in the Journal of Media Practice.
Provisional Timetable
10.00-10.30 Registration & Tea/Coffee
10.30-11.45 Morning Session A
Welcome and Introduction to Symposium
Defining Practice / Research Contexts - Presentations (15-20 mins).
Q&A / Discussion (30min)
11.45-12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00-1.00 Morning Session B
Examples of Practice / Research - three speakers presenting current models of
practice in a research context (15 mins each). These to be supported by screening /
exhibition / extracts of practice.
Q&A / Discussion (30min)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Afternoon Session C
Peer Review: Disseminating and Evaluating Practice-led Research
Small group discussions on how practice / research can be evaluated by the
academy, comparisons with other peer-review systems within the academy
(referreed journals, etc). How might media practice move forward in this area?
3.15-3.30 Tea/Coffee
3.30-4.30 Afternoon Session D
Plenary - feedback on the discussion groups and general discussion of the day's
events with regard to how best to articulate media practice as research within the
academy.
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