Centre for Applied Research in the Arts

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The Centre for Applied Research in the Arts (CARA) is based in the School of the Arts at the University of Hull.

It features researchers in Drama, Music and Screen often working in collaboration with colleagues across the University and beyond. CARA recognises the growing number of projects in the School that involve research about or with the arts that have a direct “real-world” application. For example, projects may involve arts-based practice in education, health or community settings, or engage with issues, such as the environment.

There is a strong emphasis in CARA on pursuing research that has impact, that is, which has an effect on, change or benefit beyond academia, such as to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, or quality of life. University colleagues in CARA are keen to collaborate with external practitioners and organisations, exchange knowledge with partners and build projects with impact.

The centre currently has principal foci in:

Ecological and Environmental Arts (including arts research methods and outputs that relate to issues such as: global warming and climate change; plastics or other petrochemical pollution; patterns of natural (i.e. non-human) migration and the sustainability of flora, fauna and particular global or local environments);

Arts, Health and Wellbeing (including the intersections between arts research and creative outputs that have potential applied impact in relation to physical and mental health; levels of fitness and emotional wellbeing; social cohesion; work/life balance; the Arts and mental, physical or intellectual resilience and/or mental and emotional transcendence);

Arts and Education (including projects that have a direct bearing on the ways in which current communities and cultures teach or learn; the development of alternative pedagogies, or modes of engagement with education. These include enhanced uses of digital and distance learning and teaching; the uses of forest schools and environmental education; performance and/as pedagogy in school and university curricula; music in education; and theatre and drama in education).

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University of Hull
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