Blood Sweat & Theory

Practice-based research is the default approach to postgraduate activity in Drama Theatre and Performance. Yet it is only recently beginning to yield any rigorous theory-based guides for researchers practitioners supervisors and mentors. As a major contribution to the field this book is a vital 'How To' (and 'How Not To') guide which identifies the features attitudes principles and skills of practice-based research across a range of countries and contexts forms and applications...including a number of successful PhD projects. Blood Sweat & Theory reviews research-informed practice and practice-informed research in sections which:analyse key concepts • locate practice-based research within historical aesthetic and educational settings • challenge received ideas of practice as thesis • distinguish research from reflection and feelings from findings • push practice-based research into new areas of critical inquiry • suggest strategies from first proposal through to submission.The book includes extensively written case studies of projects from Hala Al-Yamani Annette Arlander Johannes Birringer Elena Cologni Robert Germay Helka-Maria Kinnunen Yves Knockaert Lee Miller Felix Noble Allan Owens Helen Paris Yoni Prior Leena Rouihainen and Joanne 'Bob' Whalley.