[Commlist] MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

Provoking Practice: new forms of impact, reach and significance.
Rethinking the Cultural Value of Creative Practice Impact, Reach and 
Significance.

Following Hewlett, Bond and Hinrich-Krapel’s 2017 publication The 
Creative Role of Research: Understanding Research in the Creative and 
Cultural Sector a range of observations emerged concerning long-standing 
issues relating to the role and understanding of creative practice in UK 
Higher Education, especially it’s social and cultural impact. Released 
between the 2014 and the 2021 REF exercises, the report highlighted a 
number of on-going concerns including the inconsistency of narrative 
approaches to evidencing impact, approaches to successfully quantifying 
public benefit and the need for greater consideration of longer-term 
impact more suited to creative and cultural practice. This is of course 
not new to practitioners in H.E. and yet the challenges remain regarding 
what practice-based impact looks like in the creative and cultural 
sector and how it should be defined.
Consequently, this Practice Network Symposium aims to frame practice 
through the lens of research impact (whether practice-led, 
practice-based, practice as research, or research for creative 
practice). We especially invite responses from practitioners engaged in 
any research-related activities across the range of media represented by 
MeCCSA, whose practice presentations can respond to questions, themes 
and ideas that include, but are not limited to:

•	Sharing of approaches to narrativising impact claims for creative practice
•	Examples of creative practice artifacts as research objects in their 
own right
•	Showcasing of metrics of value and meaningful impact in creative practice
•	Case studies that explore constraints around the pursuit of creative 
research
•	Evaluations of cultural value and return on social investment
•	Responses to the challenge of creative practice in a metrics-driven 
H.E. environment
•	Provocations and proposals that acknowledge the cultural value of 
creative practice
•	Strategies for addressing issues of diversity and inclusion in 
creative media practice research

Proposals may take the form of scholarly papers on these or other 
relevant themes, or presentations of practice-based, practice-led, 
practice as research or research for creative practice work from all 
manifestations of creative and media activity across the full range of 
interests represented by MeCCSA.

Non-traditional forms of presentation (for example, 
lecture-performances, videos, photo essays, installations, media 
artworks, short films, interactive websites, roundtable discussions 
etc.) are encouraged.

Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a special issue 
of Media Practice and Education in 2021.

Please send abstracts/proposals (250 words approx.) for all 
presentations, papers, artworks or screenings, outlining their aim and 
form, along with a short biography (50 words approx.) to: 
(admin /at/ practice21.net)

The symposium convenors are:
Roy Hanney, Senior Lecturer Media Production
Darren Kerr, Associate Professor, Head of Film and Digital Arts

Abstracts/proposals should be received by Wednesday 31st March 3rd 2021.

Hosted by the Faculty of Business, Law and Digital Technologies, Solent 
University, on the 24th/25th June 2021, the event will take place in the 
University’s purpose-built conference centre, The Spark, an easy train 
journey from Central London.

http://practice21.net

The MeCCSA Practice Network champions practice within the Media, 
Communications and Cultural Studies Association, ensuring that those 
that teach and research practice have a strong voice within the subject 
association and beyond. They are dedicated to maintaining and developing 
links with the creative industries and relevant national and 
international networks and associations.

The MPE/MeCCSA Practice 2021 symposium is supported by MeCCSA Practice 
Network
https://www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/practice-network/

Download Link for PDF: 
https://practice21.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MPE-MeCCSA-Symposium-2021-CFP-FINAL-vr1-2.pdf 



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