The final event of the current incarnation of PaRNet was held on the 18th December 2018 and I am sure all who attended would like to extend a massive thank you to Rommi Smith who made sure that this event took place by taking on most of the organising. Practice*Research can cover a multitude of different research practices. The attendees at PaRNet events have always come with diverse projects from many different universities. These have included music, design, fine art, theatre, dance, therapy, curation, poetry, performance, education, architecture. At times this has made it difficult to pitch workshops that can appeal to everyone, but more often it has encouraged people to make connections and borrow from one another’s disciplines. PaRNet has always been about supporting doctoral students with the particular requirements of a P*R PhD. Practitioner-researchers have demonstrated their PhD projects and we have spent many hours discussing what a P*R thesis might look like. Always central to PaRNet has been the principle of ‘doing-thinking’ - to borrow from the title of Joanne Scott’s book listed below – I’m a practical person, I’d much rather be trying something out than hearing how it could be done. In December 2018, we returned to the University of Leeds - the site of the first PaRNet event in 2015 - for a training day led by Dr Kate Fox. Kate was a participant at that earlier event, but returned in December with her thesis complete and viva surpassed – ready to offer advice, but most importantly to get us practising. We experimented with writing in different roles that have emerged from our projects, in my case as student and promoter. Kate shared her archive of detritus, the bits that were created as part of the PhD, but didn’t ultimately make it in; we created our own. One participant commented that they enjoyed ‘talking about the nuts and bolts of writing a performance-based practice-as-research PhD’, whilst another appreciated seeing ‘the accumulation of work that goes into a finished PhD’. At the end of the day participants shared resources that they have found useful. Some of these are books about practice, about practice*research, about theory and some are examples of practice*research that have helped to inspire participants. My suggestion Alison Light’s Common People is in this last category; an account of her rigorous genealogical research, which provides a focussed social history, reflections on the practice of family history and creative meditations. It might not be as useful for everyone else’s research as it is for mine, but it is a good read! The list we created is at the bottom of this post and below that is a collection of P*R theses available online. Please let me know if you know of any more online P*R theses that we can add to this list. The organisers of the network are reaching/have reached the conclusion of their PhDs. There may be new networks emerging from the White Rose Universities, but I think these are likely to shift focus as required by current students. There is already an Ethnographic Exchange operating and there is talk of a group exploring creative methods. PaRNet was a network that we needed and I know from feedback that people valued the sense of community, support and friendship that we built. Thank you to WRoCAH for supporting us throughout – even when we massively overran our schedule! And thank you to everyone who has helped to organise events, to everyone who ran workshops, to everyone who supported others, to everyone who attended an event, to everyone who asked a question or offered an answer, to everyone who helped create a welcoming learning space; basically thank you to everyone who became a part of PaRNet. PaRNet Bibliography from 18 December 2018 Barrett, Estelle, and Barbara Bolt, eds, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2010) Coessens, Kathleen, Darla Crispin and Anne Douglas, The Artistic Turn: A Manifesto (Ghent: Orpheus Instituut, 2009) Clarke, Paul, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye and Johanna Linsley, Artists in the Archive, Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance (Oxon: Routledge, 2018) Cocker, Emma, ‘Tactics for Not Knowing – Preparing for the Unexpected’, in On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, ed. by Rebecca Fortnum and Elizabeth Fisher (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013) Extract: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/79084/79085 Eshun, Kodwo, More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction (London: Quartet Books, 1999) Freeman, John, Blood, Sweat & Theory: Research Through Practice in Performance (Faringdon, Oxfordshire: Libri Publishing, 2010) Goodall Jr, H. L., Writing the New Ethnography (Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2000) Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, M Archive: After the end of the world (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018) Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018) Hilevaara, Katja, and Emily Orley, eds, The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, (London & New York: Routledge, 2018) Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) Light, Alison, Common People: The History of an English Family (London: Penguin, 2014) Nelson, Robin, and others, Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances, ed. by Robin Nelson (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Nierhaus, Gerhard, ed., Patterns of Intuition: Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composition (Springer: Dordrecht, 2015) Pirsig, Robert, M., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (London: Vintage, 2004) Scott, Joanne, Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) https://intermedialpraxisandpar.wordpress.com/ Joanne Scott’s Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research was developed from her thesis, which can be read online – the link in the list below. Smith, Hazel, and Roger T. Dean, eds, Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) Practice*Research Theses online Fox, Kathryn Elizabeth, Stand Up and Be (En) Countered: Resistance in solo stand-up performance by Northern English women marginalised on the basis of gender, class and regional identity (Doctoral thesis, University of Leeds, 2017) http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/20722 French, Jade, Art as Advocacy. Exploring curatorial practice by learning disabled artists as a site for self-advocacy (Doctoral thesis, University of Leeds, 2017), http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/19432 and http://www.artasadvocacy.co.uk/ Scott, Joanne, Live Intermediality: A New Mode of Intermedial Praxis (Doctoral thesis, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, 2014) http://crco.cssd.ac.uk/466/1/Live_Intermediality.pdf Spence, Jocelyn C, Performative experience design: theories and practices for intermedial autobiographical performance (Doctoral thesis, University of Surrey, 2015) http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807190/
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