Overview
Based at the University of Central Lancashire, we bring together researchers at all career stages, including PhD students, senior academics, and those just embarking on research. our ethos is to provide a supportive, encouraging, and critical culture of working together.
Our projects
Our projects are both impactful and significant, and at the cutting edge of a dynamic range of discipline areas where some can be found below:
- In Certain Places
- Media Innovation Studio
- Artlab Printmaking Studio
- Silicate Research Unit
- StoryLab – Skills Training for Democratised Film Industries
- Café Royal Books
Much of our research is multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary by nature, and some exemplars can be found below:
- Arts and Wellbeing Research Group
- Visual Studies Research Group
- Dance and Somatic Practice Research Group
- Media Innovation Research Group
- Music Research Group
- Place and Communities Research Group
Erik is a filmmaker, professor of media practice and Director of Research. His research revolves around cinematic story and narratives. Erik leads creative practice research and supervises PhD students in the field. He publishes filmmaking practice research and runs a large AHRC …
Heather teaches across the MA/BA Fine Art courses and is a research active member of staff. She is currently undertaking a part-time practice-based PhD at Newcastle University due for completion in 2022. Her PhD research concentrates on Kurt Schwitters' 'Merz Barn Wall' (1947). M…
Aims and Objectives
Our aims and objectives are to:
- provide a home and support for research staff, their projects, and research students across the arts, media, and creative practices
- advocate and enable creative practices and critical engagement
- provide an infrastructure that supports transdisciplinary approaches to projects
- celebrate the breadth and depth of creative practice research undertaken in the faculty, and beyond
- make visible and accessible the impacts of creative research projects from the regional to the global
- encourage the development of our research bidding culture and a peer review procedure for external funding bids
- develop and support the postgraduate research student experience
We will do this by:
- managing a postgraduate research student training programme, open and invited research events, and an ambitious guest speaker programme
- providing a branded context, advocacy and policy support for research centres, groups, and projects
- shaping and disseminating the creative practice research narrative, research profile, and research culture, including through innovative social media engagement
- designing and managing a creative practice research mentoring scheme
UCLan researchers help raise £1.7m for local communities in West Cumbria
Dr Ursula Pool and Dr John Scanlan have been working with a consortium of local partners, in West Cumbria, to develop an Arts Council England bid - ‘Creative People and Places’.
Wednesday 26 January 2022Shaping Civic Space: Increasing cultural engagement and informing policy through temporary public art
ICP, an art-led research project, has involved a programme of temporary public artworks which have increased cultural engagement and informed policy within the city of Preston.
Friday 17 September 2021Making Histories Visible
This research seeks to explore and address the lack of visibility of the work of Black women visual artists in museum collections and temporary displays of contemporary art in Britain.
Wednesday 8 September 2021
