Practice-based Arts Research

Open Access Week 2022: Open Access and Practice Based Research

by Nina WattsOpen Access, Open Research, REF, Repository, Scholarly Communications, Uncategorised, VRE, WestminsterResearch October 27, 2022October 26, 20220 comments

Today’s post focuses on how practice-based research may benefit from being made more effectively shared. At Westminster we have prioritised improving our institutional repository (WestminsterResearch) to better support non-text based (also known as non-traditional) output types.See article : Evans, Jenny, Nina Watts, Taylor Mudd, and Tom Renner. 2022. “From Legacy to Next Generation: A Story …

Make your practice-based arts research open

by jennyeOpen Access, Research Data Management, Scholarly Communications October 20, 20200 comments

We recognise that research in practice-based arts has qualities unique to the range of disciplines encompassed in this area – from fine and performing arts to architecture and design. These include recognition that: you create a dynamic, changing body (portfolio/collection) of work your research isn’t necessarily ‘funded’ (so often isn’t included in funder open access …