Resources + Ethics

Ethics:

Research Ethics Guidance for Practice Research:

• All ethics applications are now done through the Phoenix system

University of Leeds protocols for practice research degrees:

• The practice-led PhD programme has its own set of protocols which outline details of transfer/assessment/submission/etc, and can be found on the page for the code of practice for research degree candidatures.

PhD Induction Video for practice-led candidates:

• This video was made for an induction session in 2023.

Practice Research Resources (incl. autoethnography resources):

• PRAG-UK (Research England funded) reports on practice research by James Bulley & Özden Şahin. These are an excellent and comprehensive state-of-the-nation document for what practice research looks like in UK academia, with much practical guidance.
  • PRAG-UK Reports on practice research.
• Stone, S, Redhead, L. and Long, T. (2017) An annotated bibliography and webography of sources related to practice research. Canterbury: Centre for Practice Based Research in the Arts. (Unpublished)

• Visioning the Future’ – Artistic Doctorate in Ireland (2020). Excellent talks and discussions from this seminar series, all archived. See the 'artistic doctorate ireland' website.
• PRAG-UK is the Practice Research Advisory Group. A cross-disciplinary HE initiative to increase the visibility and accessibility of UK Practice Research and its impact, and to make this research more searchable internationally. There’s an excellent series of curated blogs as well.
• [MOOC] ‘Artistic Research in Music – an Introduction’, an online-learning course created by the Orpheus Institute.
• Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates – European project for supervisors/students across artistic disciplines. Includes excellent toolkits and support.
• SAR (Society for Artistic Research)
• Research Catalogue. Online database and host of Artistic Research for JAR (Journal of Artistic Research), and others.
• Autoethnography resources:
  • Autoethnography is a commonly-used method for practice research projects, but because it is imported (from anthropology and social science disciplines) it's important to read widely into the detail of the method, and to find examples that relate to your project (from your discipline, or further afield) and align with your research aims and questions.
  • A good starting text is Autoethnography by Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis.
  • This toolkit by Eve Lin (UAL) provides some useful guidelines and exercises - Revision: An Autoethnography Study toolkit 2023 (access only for UoL staff/students).
  • This is living Autoethnography reading list (MS Word doc, compiled by Aylwyn Walsh) that goes further and more specific, so you might something here that's closer to your project, but also read the above text by Adams et al. (access only for UoL staff/students).
  • Chris Wiley (Music, Uni of Surrey) has a good website listing more sources.