Research Creation
Research-creation combines artistic expression and academic research, fostering knowledge and innovation through creative and scholarly practices. It involves critically informed work across various media or art forms, going beyond interpretation, technological development, or curriculum creation. In your SSHRC application, a successful research-creation proposal should address research questions, provide theoretical context, and outline a well-considered methodology. You may include a website link to showcase artistic samples relevant to your proposed research.
Resources
SSHRC support materials
- Guidelines for Research-Creation Support Materials
- Preparing an application involving Research-Creation for Insight and Insight Development Grants
- Preparing an Application Involving Research-Creation
Articles and Reports
- "How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation" by Natalie Loveless. Duke University Press, 2019.
- Research-Creation: Intervention, Analysis and "Family Resemblances" (Chapman and Sawchuck, 2012).
- Hart Cohen Review of Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts (Cohen, 2010).
- Maternal Ecologies, a Story in Three Parts. In: Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments, Amber Kinser, Kryn Freehling-Burton and Terri Hawkes, Eds. Demeter Press, (Loveless, 2014).
- The iterative cyclic web (Smith and Dean (2010) propose a model that illustrates the relationship between practice-led research and research-led practice, as well as the integration of creative work and basic research).
- Making Space: The Purpose and Place of Practice-Led Research (pdf) (Sullivan, 2010)
- Integrating Creative Practice and Research in the Digital Media Arts (Brown and Sorensen, 2010).
Books
- Practice as Research in the Arts; Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances. Robin Nelson, Ed. Palgrave, 2013. Available online here.
- Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies. Shannon Rose Riley and Lynette Hunter, Eds. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Read the Introduction here.