ARTICULATING MEDIA PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM
17 JUNE 2005
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
in association with
JOURNAL OF MEDIA PRACTICE
Registration fee is £40 including lunch and refreshments.
For booking information please email Alison Jones at [log in to unmask]
PLEASE RETURN YOUR BOOKNG FORM TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE BY
WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2005
THEMES
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.
DEFINING MEDIA PRACTICE RESEARCH CONTEXTS
Mica Nava (University of East London)
Robin Nelson (Manchester Metropolitan University)
John Adams (University of Bristol)
EXAMPLES OF PRACTICE / RESEARCH
Supported by screening / exhibition / extracts of practice
Rona Lee (RHUL - TBC)
Cahal McLaughlin (RHUL)
Michael Chanan (UWE)
Helen Bendon (Middlesex).
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?
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.
Ideas and proposals that emerge from these sessions will be developed with a view
to publication in the Journal of Media Practice.
OVERVIEW
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 assess 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.
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