Overview
Provides the first detailed exploration of how visual and performing artists experience practice in the university research management framework
Updates the 1998 Strand Report into research in the creative arts
Collates and consolidates the commentary on artistic research within the university from visual and performing arts from amalgamation to present day
Provides an empirically tested evidence base from which to develop future policy and practical responses for greater inclusion of artistic research in higher-education management systems
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s.  It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report).
Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work.
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Book Title: Artists in the University
Book Subtitle: Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Authors: Jenny Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5774-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5773-1Published: 12 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5487-8Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5774-8Published: 31 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 229
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics