{"id":4162,"date":"2025-04-11T04:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?page_id=4162"},"modified":"2025-04-11T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:37:18","slug":"practice-based-research-anxiety-epiphany-and-other-feelings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/practice-based-research-anxiety-epiphany-and-other-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice-Based Research: Anxiety, epiphany, and other feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2024\/12\/17\/phd-seminar-series-spring-2025\/\">WSA PhD Seminar Series<\/a>, 7 May 2025 (Location: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/pgr-rooms\/\">PGR Rooms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MzNmNzQ3ZGEtMjc1OC00YjE5LWFhOWItMGRlMzExMjMwYzlk%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c268db73-b491-4169-8cc9-6da0c0730869%22%7d\">MS Teams<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div>Creative practice-based research is compelling and rewarding, but also disconcerting. Its open and exploratory nature is why we love it, but is also why people question whether it is &#8216;proper&#8217; research &#8212; even though all rich and meaningful research should be an unfolding creative process. In this session David Gauntlett will talk about\u00a0some of the feelings in practice-based research and encourage you to share some of your own.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2025\/04\/panic2-620x430-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4172\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2025\/04\/panic2-620x430-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2025\/04\/panic2-620x430-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2025\/04\/panic2-620x430-1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 85vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgauntlett.com\">Professor David Gauntlett<\/a> is Canada Research Chair in Creative Practice at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, where he helps to run a major practice-based PhD program. He was previously Director of Research at\u00a0Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of ten books, including <i>Making is Connecting<\/i> (2011\/2018), and <i>Creativity<\/i> (2022). He makes music as Sculpture Projects and runs the record label, Unfolding Records. His next book is\u00a0<i>Practice-Based Research and Research-Creation: An Introductory Guide<\/i> (2027).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSA PhD Seminar Series, 7 May 2025 (Location: PGR Rooms and MS Teams) Creative practice-based research is compelling and rewarding, but also disconcerting. Its open and exploratory nature is why we love it, but is also why people question whether it is &#8216;proper&#8217; research &#8212; even though all rich and meaningful research should be an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/practice-based-research-anxiety-epiphany-and-other-feelings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice-Based Research: Anxiety, epiphany, and other feelings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99787,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4162\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}