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