FURTHER INFORMATION, INCLUDING SPEAKERS, REGISTRATION FEE AND
BOOKING CONTACT:
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
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 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.
This symposium aims to explore these issues through presentations and discussion
groups. Speakers include Mica Nava (UEL), John Adams (Bristol), Robin Nelson
(MMU), Rona Lee (RHUL - TBC), Cahal McLaughlin (RHUL), Michael Chanan
(UWE), Helen Bendon (Middlesex). 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.
Registration fee is £40 including lunch and refreshments.
For booking information please email Alison Jones at [log in to unmask]
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