University of Hertfordshire School of Creative Arts School Research
	Research into Practice Cluster
projects Non-traditional Knowledge and Communication Arts-Based Research Academic Research in Areas of Design Practice The Experiential Knowledge Project Research into Practice production cluster publications Working Papers in Art and Design journal Research into Practice Conference Research Training Course research seminars at UH research degrees at UH	Research into Practice is a centre of excellence investigating the fundamental nature of research in the creative and performing arts. It is an international collaboration between the Universities of Lund (Sweden), Tartu (Estonia), Mackenzie (Brazil) and the Technical University Delft (Netherlands), coordinated by the University of Hertfordshire (UK). The Research into Practice cluster contains funded projects investigating so-called practice-based or arts-based research. The projects are staffed by postdoctoral researchers that have a common interest in the theoretical and foundational aspects of advancement in the creative and cultural industries, and what it means to undertake research in these disciplines. The projects aim not only to problematize these issues, but to offer models of how one might respond to them either in terms of methods or in terms of outcomes. In so doing they provide scholarly resources for the academic community in art, design, architecture, and related subjects; provide a point of reference for doctoral studies, and contribute to the development of a robust framework for academic research in the arts and humanities broadly conceived. The cluster philosophy is that research in the creative and cultural industries forms part of the larger context of academic research as a whole, both in the Universities and elsewhere when supported by research funding agencies. Having this starting point facilitates research into practice, and research into research, because it enables comparisons with other arts and humanities subjects. It does not prohibit the conclusion that research in the creative and cultural industries is quite different, but it does enable the construction of arguments as to the nature of that difference if found. Whether different or not, descriptions of the nature of research need to be understood by the broader academic community in order to be respected and to have impact. For this reason the cluster attempts to use the language of academic scholarship to describe the essential features of research in emerging disciplines such as the creative and cultural industries, and to provide explicit arguments in response to the foundational issues that such studies raise. Current Staff Prof Michael Biggs Research Group Leader m.a.biggs@herts.ac.uk Dr Daniela Büchler Senior Research Fellow d.m.buchler@herts.ac.uk Visiting Researchers Prof Jen Webb Visiting Professor (2012) Jen.Webb@canberra.edu.au Prof Lars-Henrik Ståhl Visiting Professor Architecture and Built Environment, LTH , University of Lund, Sweden Lars-Henrik.Stahl@arkitektur.lth.se Dr Gunnar Sandin Visiting Research Fellow Architecture and Built Environment, LTH , University of Lund, Sweden Gunnar.Sandin@arkitektur.lth.se Dr Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima Visiting Researcher Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil Gabriela.lima@uol.com.br Dr Rafael Perrone Reader in Architecture Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil racperrone@gmail.com Dr Henrik Karlsson Royal Swedish Academy of Music henrikkarlsson@msn.com Former Staff Dr Helen Cornish Research Assistant (2008-2010) Dr Bren Unwin Visiting Research Associate (2008-9) Dr Roberto Rocco Research Assistant (2008-2011) r.c.rocco@tudelft.nl
Prof Michael Biggs Professor of Aesthetics School of Creative Arts University of Hertfordshire College Lane, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, UK tel +44 (0)1707 285341 fax +44 (0)1707 285350 e-mail r2p@herts.ac.uk