Creating a Practice Research community of practice workstream

We aim to bring together an intersectional community that spans all stakeholder groups – researchers, practitioners, librarians, developers, research data managers, repository managers, research managers, archivists, records managers and curators!

Repository Fringe, Edinburgh, June 2018

PRAG-UK Town Meeting, London, Jan 2019

Capturing practice research: improving visibility and searchability, London, March 2019

Open Repositories, Hamburg, June 2019 (One presentation, one panel session, 2 x 24×7 presentations and one poster all covering practice research)

ORCID Regional Meeting March 2020

RDMF20: RDM and Data sharing/openness in the arts, June 2020

PIDapalooza, January 2021

Research Excellence Framework 2021 submission, March 2021

Publication of the PRAG-UK reports, July 2021

Jisc Digital Research Community Event on Practice Research, September 2021

UK Reproducibility Network Event, November 2021

aimos conference, November 2021

FORCE11, December 2021

NISO Plus 2022, January 2022

Conversations we have had over the past three years have demonstrated that these communities need connecting up!

This will inform development post project / platform bid to ensure practice research is captured, made discoverable and re-usable, enabling its impact to be recognised and also inform planning for the next UK Research Excellence Framework.

We are in the process of building a Community Advisory Group to act as our critical friends. While we had originally planned to recruit to this group via our survey unfortunately changed timescales has made this impossible. If you are interested – please do get in touch with the team!