Abstract
Doctoral Colloquium keynote speaker
This keynote will explore how practitioners become researchers who create new knowledge through making artefacts. Creative reflective practice is central to the process and in practice-based research, it has become a core research method which can be used to record and interpret emerging knowledge. The talk draws upon my research into creative practice and experience in working with practice-based researchers across different disciplines. Three areas will be discussed:
- reflective practice and its variants as a method in practitioner research
- the artefact in practitioner knowledge development
- practice and research in the world and in academic contexts
I will draw on cases studies of practitioner researchers undertaking post doc projects and show how reflection has been important in artefact and problem led research practices.
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- Dr Linda Candy is a writer and researcher with a deep and enduring interest in how creative practitioners think, act and make creative works. For over 30 years, she has studied the work of artists, designers and technologists focusing on the role of digital systems in amplifying and transforming their creativity. Her book The Creative Reflective Practitioner (2020) gives direct voice to contemporary creative artists and provides insights into the nature of artistic practice and how reflection plays a vital role in creativity. Her previous books include Explorations in Art and Technology (2002, 2018), Interactive Experience in the Digital Age: Evaluating New Art Practice (2014) (with Dr Sam Ferguson) and Interacting: Art, Research and the Creative Practitioner (2011) (with Professor Ernest Edmonds). Her most recent publication in which she authored leading chapters and acted as consulting editor is The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research (2022) (with Professors Craig Vear and Ernest Edmonds). She also writes poetry and travel journals. She is influenced by the writings of great authors of the past and is an avid reader still. Most of all, she is inspired by the dedication and determination of the many creative people she has met over her working life.