WHAT IS PARIPS REMIT?
PARIP’s successful AHRB application outlined the following context for the research, methods of project activity and costs / organization (edited for length): CONTEXT The pursuit of practice as research has become increasingly important during the past ten years to the research cultures of the performing arts and related disciplines involving performance media as the contribution of the arts and cultural industries to national health and prosperity has climbed up the political agenda. A growing numbers of performing arts/media departments in HE are now offering higher degrees which place practice at the heart of their research programmes. The main professional association representing drama, theatre and performance in HE, SCUDD, in 1994 established a working party to draw up guidelines on practice as research, and in the 1996 RAE the Drama, Dance and Performing Arts panel (UoA66) for the first time included it as an area of research fully equivalent to traditional approaches. The debat
