Books

Please search our catalogue below for resources specifically tailored towards Practise as Research.

Books -

Allegue, L., Jones, S., Kershaw, B., and Piccini, A.  (eds). (2009). Practice-as-Research in Performance and Screen. Hampshire & New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Arlander, A. et al. (2018) Performance as research: Knowledge, methods, impact. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Auslander, P. (1999). Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London & New York: Routledge.

Barrett, E. and Bolt, B. (eds). (2010). Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. I.B. Tauris & Co, London.

Biggs, I. (2009). Art as research: creative practice and academic authority; a project- based examination of the politics of art-led research in a doctoral context. Saarbrücken: Vdm Verlag.

Eco, U.  (1989). The Open Work. Trans. Anna Cancogni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Freeman, J. (ed). (2010). Blood, Sweat and Theory: Research through Practice in Performance. UK: Libri Publishing.

Halberstam, J. (2011). The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Ingold, T. (2013). Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Kroll, J. and Harper, G. (eds). (2012). Research Methods in Creative Writing. Hampshire & New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social, An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Law, J. (2004). After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. London: Routledge.

MaNiff, S. (1998). Art-based Research. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Lyall, C. et al (eds). (2011). Interdisciplinary Research Journeys Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Nelson, R. (2013). Practice as Research in the Arts; Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistance. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reason, M. and Rowe, N. (2017). Applied Practice, Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art. London, Bloomsbury Publishing.

Smith, H. and Dean, R. (eds). (2009). Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh.

Sullivan, G. (2010). Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts. London et al, Sage Publications.

Vear, C, Linda C, and Ernest Edmonds . (2021) "The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research". Abingdon: Routledge.

Book Chapters -

Haseman, B. (2010). Rupture and Recognition: Identifying the Performative Research Paradigm in Barrett and Bolt (Eds), Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. I.B. Tauris & Co, London.

Sullivan, G. (2009). Making Space, in Smith and Dean (eds), “Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts”. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh.