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publishing

Practice (as) Research

PaR Centre of Excellence

Seminar topics

  • Shifting Definitions (from PRAG)
  • Ways of Sharing PaR - traditional academic formats, online journals specialising in practice research, publishing on FigShare
  • Publishing Challenges - peer review processes, open access, copyright, sustainability and discoverability
  • Opportunities - the capacities of PaR to change outdated academic publishing practices

seminar outline

plus...

Breakout room discussions of publishing experiences

shifting definitions

practice research - 'an umbrella term that describes all manners of research where practice is the significant method of research conveyed in a research output. This includes numerous discipline-specific formulations of practice research, which have distinct and unique balances of practice, research narrative and complementary methods within their projects.'

shifting terms

research narrative - in a practice research output, a research narrative may be conjoined with, or embodied in, practice. A research narrative articulates the research inquiry that emerges in practice

(Bulley and Şahin 2021a, p.1).

Structure of an output

(according to PRAG)

outputs

An example compositional structure of an output may be:‐

Summary/Abstract

  • Context/Introduction
  • ‐Research inquiry/Questions in practice‐
  • Method statements
  • ‐Practice, description of practice, or documentation of practice (as a proxy)‐
  • Insights/Discussion of ways of knowing‐
  • Conclusion and references

(Bulley and Sahin 2021a, p.5)

Ways of Sharing

  • Dissemination of practice - performance/exhibition/concert etc.
  • Peer reviewed articles, chapters and monographs
  • Personal/project websites
  • Institutional repositories/data management platforms (e.g. USIR/FigShare)

Case study - combining modes of publication

Ways of sharing

• Multimedia short monograph: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-60234-3

• Body Space Technology – 2 articles, including video material: https://www.bstjournal.com/article/id/6836/

• Article in Journal of Artistic Research: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/301815/301816

• Multimedia blog for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal: http://theatredanceperformancetraining.org/2019/07/new-processes-for-digital-encounters-with-wild-green-spaces-by-jo-scott/

• FigShare – 2 collections of materials: https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.c.4690961

• Book chapter offering an account of practice research: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/avatars-activism-and-postdigital-performance-9781350159327/

• Website – outlines all projects and intersects with research outputs in terms of documentation held there: https://joanneemmascott.com/category/projects/

Current publishing options (journals)

JOurnals

Journal of Embodied Research:

https://jer.openlibhums.org/

Journal of Artistic Research

https://jar-online.net/en

ScreenWorks

https://screenworks.org.uk/

Conventional Journals that offer a range of publication forms, beyond conventional written articles - ask questions!

Institutional publishing

Institutional

Options

Reflections on FigShare

  • DOI is important and useful
  • Useful workflow with USIR

BUT

  • Clunky
  • Arguably not fit for our purposes
  • FigShare are reluctant to update capacities

Other possibilities

  • Wordpress pages: http://www.c21mp.org/practice-research-publications/

  • PDFs with links: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24827/

  • Project websites (for multi-component outputs): http://www.iamnotapieceofmeat.com/

  • New Research Information system?

challenges

Open Access and Plan S:

“with effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.” (Bulley and Sahin 2021b, p.57)

Copyright:

CC-By licence needed to be compliant with these policies:

CC BY: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

Possible Solutions?

‘To address some of the copyright and licensing issues with practice research outputs, one successful method that has emerged is to use short excerpts of documentation of practice (as a proxy for practice) within practice research outputs. This approach helps to protect important revenue streams from the licensing of professional practice documentation for practice researchers some of whom may be on fractional institutional contracts ‘

It is possible to share practice research outputs that contain copyrighted material used with permission (such as third party images), by licensing the overall research output with a Creative Commons license and then adding a notice about the specific content that is copyrighted to the third party within the output.

(Bulley and Sahin 2021b, p.55)

challenges and opportunities

opportunities

As Sthttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/565417/571444 even Hill (Director of Research at Research England) observes, practice research presents a huge opportunity for the modernising and revitalising of research communication in the present day:

“I think you could almost argue that practice research is in a position to be inventing its dissemination route for the digital era, and can learn all the lessons about what’s gone wrong over 400 years in written research communication and actually get it right, rather than be stuck with a 16th, 17th century model that we’re trying to fit into a different world.”

(Bulley and Şahin 2021a, p.1)

A practice research advisory body could undertake to help support the effective sharing of practice research outputs in the future:

a) to explore the most appropriate formats for the generation, dissemination and preservation of practice research;

b) to discuss the adoption of a collective ‘project’ research output item type across global research systems;

c) to involve research support professionals, practice researchers and policymakers in developing guidance and recommendations for the long-term dissemination, preservation and storage of practice research;

d) to explore the need and feasibility for a new peer review model for practice research publication;

e) to commission further reporting surrounding practice research and Open Access;

f) to investigate the founding of an Open Library of Practice Research (OLPR). This open library would:

i. harvest and host peer-reviewed practice research outputs;

ii. provide specific support for the novel formulations of practice research that will emerge in future.

iii. embody principles of Open Access.

Peer Review

  • Issues with following purely academic models for the review of Practice as Research
  • What can we draw from other areas of critical review in the creative disciplines?
  • How does this align with the institutional requirements?: Originality, Significance, Rigour

Topics for discussion - please add notes to the padlet!

Breakout

discussions

• How and where do you currently publish the findings/outputs of your practice research?

• What types of platforms – digital and physical - currently support the publication of your research in the institution? Which do you use outwith the institution to share your research?

• What is your experience of peer reviewing practice as research as a reviewer or reviewee? What broader experiences of reviewing practice have you engaged in that could inform peer reviewing of practice as research?

• What do the new open access requirements mean for you? In what ways can you adapt your publishing to account for any copyright restrictions?

https://uos.padlet.org/ads342_63107/cg0ark432onwghsj

references

Bulley, James and Şahin, Özden. (2021a). Practice Research - Report 1: What is practice research? London: PRAG-UK, 2021. https://doi.org/10.23636/1347.

Bulley, James and Şahin, Özden. (2021b). Report 2: How can practice research be shared?. London: PRAG-UK, 2021. https://doi.org/10.23636/1347.

References

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