Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learned contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of post-compulsory education. Featuring a foreword by internationally-renowned proponent of art-based research Professor Shaun McNiff, this book will be informative and useful to arts researchers and educators, addressing key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly changing higher education environment.
Professor Ross W. Prior is best known for his work in applied arts and health as founding principal editor of the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, established in 2009. In 2015 he was appointed the inaugural Professor of Learning and Teaching in the Arts in Higher Education at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. At the time of publication he is a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His latest book is Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching (Intellect).