From reel to real – a systematic review of the evolution and relevance of live cinema as a contemporary cinematic experience
Despite its burgeoning popularity, live cinema navigates a tightrope walk between authenticity and commercialisation.
Research for Creative Practice
Alchemists Gold – REF Practice Boxes for disseminating creative practice research
Analysis of the Central School of Speech and Drama’s 2021 REF submission, ‘practice boxes’ as an option for creative practice researchers.
Narrative Alchemy: Crafting Your 300-word REF Contextual Statement
Articulating the essence of creative practice research within a 300-word REF contextual statement is both daunting and critical.
Exploring the Challenges of Articulating Creative Practice Research – a MeCCSA 2023 Round Table Report
The Rebellious Research roundtable at MeCCSA23 asked: how can the value of creative practice research be effectively articulated?
The best questions are often the last questions: making sense of experimental creative practice as research
Unpacking practice/research, and the challenge of formulating a research question in experimental creative inquiry.
In the belly of the beast: Legalism vs Epistemology & the Ethics of Self-plagiarism
I asked a genuine question about self-plagiarism and it lead to a full and frank debate which I have tried to summarise in this blog post.
Shadow Sites, Peripheral Spaces, Embodied Places: the 48-hour film challenge as a locus for film industry project networks
Shadow Sites, Peripheral Spaces, Embodied Places: the 48-hour film challenge as a locus for film industry project networks
As We Have Watched: what now arises from a reconsideration of the concept of interactive digital narrative.
We live in a post-Bandersnatch age for interactive digital narrative, by which I mean, its release is a watershed moment.
Dancing to Balkan Music: ethnomusicology, cultural appropriation or cultural exchange?
One of the really engaging things about the research I have been undertaking is that it feels like I have reconnected with a passion that I had lost touch with.
The Writers Toolbox & Free Writing I
We usually kick off the writing sessions with a creative exercise followed by a little goal setting and brief discussion with partners. This aims to loosen up our creative ideas and to help us focus on what we are trying to do. then the rest of the day we just write. It is a joy let me tell you.