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Creative and arts-based research is undertaken by scholars, artists, and designers who employ artistic processes as methodological tools for inquiry, commonly referred to as arts-based methods. This approach is also known as arts research, artistic research, or research-creation.

Janinka Greenwood, in their article for the The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, summarizes Arts-based research as "encompass[ing] a range of research approaches and strategies that utilize one or more of the arts in investigation. Such approaches have evolved from understandings that life and experiences of the world are multifaceted, and that art offers ways of knowing the world that involve sensory perceptions and emotion as well as intellectual responses". The entire open access entry, which provides a detailed overview of the field, including a list of further readings, can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.29. 

"Arts-based research" is just one of many terms used to identify these practices, which can vary by country, the personal preference of a practitioner, or the time of publication. When conducting your research, you can also try terms like:

  • art-informed research
  • practice-based research
  • practice-led research
  • arts-based education research
  • research creation
  • artistic research

 

Author Patricia Leavy describes arts-based research as "any social research or human inquiry that adapts the tenets of the creative arts as a part of the methodology ... the arts may be used during data collection, analysis, interpretation and/or dissemination" (Jones & Leavy, 2004, pp.1-2)

Jones, K., & Leavy, P. (2014). A Conversation Between Kip Jones and Patricia Leavy: Arts-Based Research, Performative Social Science and Working on the Margins. The Qualitative Report, 19(19), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1232
 

In this video below, Arts-Based Research: Definition, Procedures & Application, Dr. Patricia Leavy gives an introduction and overview of art-based research.

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