routledge companion to research in the arts

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and
performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It
provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying,
structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the
nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the
establishment of this subject over the last decade.

Contributions
are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in
the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and
political environment of national research funding, and in the
international environment of trans-national cooperation and
communication. The book is divided into three principal sections –
Foundations, Voices and Contexts – each with an introduction from the
editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each
section.

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including:

• the
  diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and
  scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution
• the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research
• traditional
  and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to
  professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences
• a
  consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based
  languages in the formation and communication of understandings.

This
comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution
to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for
addressing these, and other, topical issues. It will be essential
reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and
universities, as well as individual researchers, research supervisors
and doctoral candidates.