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>>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 1400 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Colleagues might be interested in a newly published book, 'Blood, Sweat & Theory', which explores interrogative creative practice as research outcome. There's a strong focus in the book on the role of practical work as part of PhD research and submission. I'm unable to forward the flyer via SCUDD, but details of the book can be found at Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Theory-Research-Performance/dp/1907471049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259706469&sr=1-1 Back-of-book information is as follows: Practice-based research is the default approach to postgraduate activity in Drama, Theatre and Performance. Yet it is only recently beginning to yield any rigorous theory-based guides for researchers, practitioners, supervisors and mentors. As a major contribution to the field this book is a vital ‘How To’ (and ‘How Not To’) guide, which identifies the features, attitudes, principles and skills of practice-based research across a range of countries and contexts, forms and applications…including a number of successful PhD projects. Blood, Sweat & Theory reviews research-informed practice and practice-informed research in sections which: analyse key concepts • locate practice-based research within historical, aesthetic and educational settings • challenge received ideas of practice as thesis • distinguish research from reflection and feelings from findings • push practice-based research into new areas of critical inquiry • suggest strategies from first proposal through to submission. The book includes case studies on Applied Drama, Choreography, Multimedia and Digital Art, Solo and Group Performance, Acting, Directing, Performance Writing, Musical Composition and Staging, Mise en Scene, Identity, Autobiography and Autoethnography, Site-Specific Work, Installation Art and Narrative Drama. Case studies contributed by Hala Al-Yamani, Annette Arlander, Johannes Birringer, Elena Cologni, Robert Germay, Helka-Maria Kinnunen, Yves Knockaert, Lee Miller, Felix Nobis, Allan Owens, Helen Paris, Yoni Prior, Leena Rouhiainen and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley. Best wishes, John Freeman School of Arts Brunel University ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________