Creative Approaches to Research

Creative Approaches to Research is a new transdisciplinary online journal for creative research. It reflects the convergences between epistemology, pedagogy and technology. It incorporates multiple forms of text including academic and creative writing, sound, images, and multi-media.

Creative Approaches to Research recognises the need to extend the range of voices and ways for doing, reporting, and discussing research. The journal contributes to discussions on alternative forms of research and representation. It is underpinned by the premise that there are multiple ways of experiencing, knowing, and communicating.

The use of multidimensional texts in Creative Approaches to Research reflects the notion that there is no single, correct way to have an experience, or transmit knowledge of that experience. Creative approaches to research have the potential to reveal richness and complexity, and invite multiple levels of engagement that are cognitive, emotional and multi-sensory. Creative Approaches to Research questions what research is, what it might become, and how a journal might best reflect that evolution.

The journal is published twice yearly in June and December. We invite your contributions to this generative and co-creative conversation about multidimensional ways of representing, engaging, and interacting with ideas.

Creative Approaches to Research is a member of CrossRef and CrossCheck. As well as being hosted by its primary partner Informit, Creative Approaches to Research is available via ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and EBSCO journal databases.

EISSN 1835-9442

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Editorial board

Executive editors

Dr Julie White, La Trobe University, julie.white@latrobe.edu.au
Associate Professor Laura Brearley, Monash University
Associate Professor Carlene Boucher, RMIT University

Editorial committee

Dr Estelle Barrett, Deakin University
Dr Barbara Bolt, Melbourne University
Professor Nita Cherry, Swinburne University
Dr Kelly Clark/Keefe, Appalachian State University
Dr Carla Corroto, Radford University
Associate Professor Domenico de Clario, Monash University
Associate Professor David Forrest, RMIT University
Dr Kipps Horn, RMIT University
Professor Elaine Martin, Victoria University
Professor Mark Minchinton, RMIT University
Associate Professor Robert Nelson, Monash University
Dr Monica Prendergast, Lesley University
Professor Pat Sikes, University of Sheffield
Professor Margaret Somerville, Monash University
Dr Mark Vicars, Victoria University
Dr Tony Welch, QUT

Creative Approaches to Research list of issues

Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2009
Volume 2, Issue 1, 2009
Volume 1, Issue 2, 2008
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2008

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We are currently seeking contributions that focus on the process of undertaking creative research at Masters and Doctoral levels. We are interested in the experience of both doing and supervising this type of research. We also encourage contributions from people who teach creative research methods and methodologies.

Submission details

Submissions should be 4000–8000 words in length and include a 100-word abstract and brief author bio. Please register and send your submission online via the Journal Management System (JMS).

Submissions are accepted on the basis that they have not been previously published and are not under consideration elsewhere. A style guide and journal guidelines are available on the JMS.

Peer-review policy

Contributions to Creative Approaches to Research are evaluated by the editorial committee and two external referees. Submissions to the Student Exemplar section will be reviewed by the editorial committee.

Copyright notice

Copyright is vested in each of the contributors in respect of his or her contribution, provided that on re-publication, due acknowledgment is made to Creative Approaches to Research. The editorial committee reserves the right to make stylistic alterations in the interests of clarity.