The symposium organisers are please to announce our Keynotes for “Provoking Practice: new forms of reach, impact and significance” the MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network ONLINE Symposium happening on Friday 25th June, 2021.

Creative Practice Research in the Age of Post Pandemic Confusion: Professor Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is the Head of School for Film, Media and performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts.

Valuing the research that artists and media makers actually do: Professor Desmond Bell is a Research Fellow at the National College of Art and Design Dublin, where he was previously Head of Academic Affairs and Research.

For further details visit our website: https://practice21.net/keynotes/

Although the keynotes will be delivered asynchronously via our website there will be an opportunity to engage in discussion and debate around the themes raised in the keynotes in a live panel session. More details of how and when this will happen will be released shortly.

Meanwhile our CfP is still open and you submit via our website until the deadline of 30th April 2021.

The Practice Network Symposium aims to frame practice-led, practice-based, practice as research and research for creative practice through the lens of research impact as we run up to 2021 REF. We especially invite responses from practitioners engaged in any research related activities across the range of media represented by MeCCSA, whose practice presentations can respond to questions, themes and ideas that include, but are not limited to:

•	Progressing a decolonising agenda for media practice research examining the commitment to anti-racism and methods to support under-represented and under-resourced communities;
•	Sharing approaches to narrativising impact claims for creative practice;
•	Measuring meaningful impact in creative practice research;
•	Case studies of creative practice as participatory method; 
•	Evaluations of cultural value and return on social investment;
•	Responses to the challenge of demonstrating impact in a metrics-driven H.E. environment;
•	Provocations and proposals that address the cultural value of creative practice research;
•	Strategies for addressing issues of diversity and inclusion, and articulating the impact of such strategies, in creative practice research.

Proposals may take the form of:

i.	Scholarly papers to be presented in the form of a 10-minute pre-recorded video for asynchronous delivery to delegates. 
ii.	Online media such as video essays, screenings and other forms of creative or critical content for asynchronous delivery to delegates.
iii.	Interactive and/or participatory experiences for either synchronous or asynchronous delivery to delegates.  
iv.	Provocations or proposals for online participatory panel discussions and/or open space breakout discussion topics.

The symposium organisers will consider all online presentations of practice-based research, practice-led research, practice as research or research for creative practice work, from all manifestations of creative and media activity across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA.

Non-traditional forms of presentation (for example, lecture-performances, videos, photo essays, installations, media artworks, short films, interactive websites, roundtable discussions etc.) are encouraged.

Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a special issue of Media Practice and Education in 2021.

Please submit abstracts/proposals (300 words) for all presentations, papers, artworks or screenings, outlining their aim and form, along with a short biography (150 word) via the online submission form: https://practice21.net/subsmissions/ 

The symposium convenors are:
Roy Hanney, Senior Lecturer Media Production
Darren Kerr, Head of Film and Digital Arts

Abstracts/proposals should be received by Friday 30th April 2021.

Hosted by the Faculty of Business Law and Digital Technologies, Solent University, on the 24th/25th June 2021, the event will take place online and full details will be posted on our website in advance. You can register on the website for our mailing list for direct updates to your inbox

The MPE/MeCCSA Practice 2021 symposium is supported by MeCCSA Practice Network
https://www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/practice-network/ 

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