Nurturing Academic Excellence: The Transformative Impact of Writing Support Programs in Universities
The journey to finding one’s voice in the scholarly world is often fraught with self-doubt as shown in this recent insightful study.
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?
Open Access Publishing Models – a MeCCSA conference round table review
The Open Access Publishing roundtable at the MeCCSA 2023 conference asked if we are facing a revolution in how academics disseminate research.
Making Projects Real in an HE Context (Workshop)
An exploration of the tension that arises between projects in the real world and projects within the higher education context.
The Neoliberal ‘real’ in UK higher education
The neoliberal real is a disciplinary discourse of power and exclusion in UK higher education that universities need to resist.
An ecologies and ecosystems approach to understanding the creative and cultural economy
Reporting from Effecting Change a symposium for an ecosystems and ecologies approach to understanding the creative and cultural economy.
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.
Effecting Change: mapping the value of creative and cultural industries
Effecting Change is a half-day symposium on creative industries hosted by Solent University in association with Creative Network South.
Read, Write, Blog, Reflect (Case Study)
In this case study, Roy Hanney outlines a ‘read write blog reflect’ approach, designed to improve students’ academic reading and writing skills.
Writing Praxis: promoting critical reflection among media practice students through blogging in Project-led Problem-based Learning (Conference Proceedings)
The paper explores writing praxis through research undertaken into the implementation of course blogs on an undergraduate media practice programme.