Creative Practice in doctorates

This month sees the publication of a special issue of the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education on “Creative Practice and Doctoral Education”, guest-edited by Sian Vaughan and Jacqueline Taylor from RAAD.

Collectively the papers in this special issue demonstrate and critique the influence of creative practice on doctoral education and expose continuing tensions around policy and processes. Bringing together the often-separate discourses on practice research and creative methods, the special issue explores the impact of the models and methods of creative practice beyond disciplines traditionally viewed as creative, identifying how doctoral education is responding to creative practice through institutional systems and structures.  In their editorial Vaughan and Taylor argue that supporting creative practice in doctoral education is about addressing concerns of equivalence and legitimacy through appropriate translations and flexibility in institutional processes and procedures. Crucially it also entails acceptance of difference - whether of different methods, formats, or ways of knowing and doing – and enabling spaces for difference in doctoral education.

Read the guest editorial (open access) : Positioning creative practice in doctoral education