We are delighted to announce another Capturing Creativity seminar series which will take place during October 2025, organised and hosted by Bath Spa University and Loughborough University. 

The seminars are likely to be of interest to librarians, REF support staff, and practice researchers in the UK and beyond.  The aim of the series is to promote best practice around capturing and showcasing creative practice research via university research repositories, and the submission of this research to the REF. 

The seven seminars in the 2025 event are as follows, with full details of each event available via the booking links below.  

Monday 6th October 2025, 14:00 – 15:00 BST 

• Introducing the Enact Practice Research Data Service
• Speaker: Jenny Evans, University of Westminster 
• Click here to book this event

Thursday 9th October 2025, 15:00 – 17:00 BST  

• Two presentations: 
• (1)    Pathways to Practice Research: Developing Projects and Pedagogies in Contemporary and Experimental Music
• Speakers: Mira Benjamin, Lauren Redhead, Scott McLaughlin, Pete Furniss
• (2)    Practice Research Diaries: a project report
• Speakers: Claire Knowles, Scott McLaughlin and Rachel Proudfoot
• Click here to book this event

Wednesday 15th October 2025, 11:00 – 12:00 BST 

• Beyond the Screen and the Page: articulating creative practice as research
• Speaker: Roy Hanney, Southampton Solent University
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Friday 17th October 2025, 10:00 – 12:00 BST  

•  Two presentations:
• (1)    The importance of context: integrating creative outputs into research assessment and REF preparation
• Speakers: Hannah Wilson and Catherine Maffioletti 
• (2)    The Practice Research Narrative Guide: an Open Access tool for articulating creative and practice research
• Speakers: Michael Duncan and Moya Fox
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Tuesday 28th October 2025, 14:00 – 15:30 GMT  

•  The Future of Practice Research Symposium held at MMU, 9th June 2025
• Speakers: Paul Micklethwaite, Kristina Niedderer, Daniel Morrell, Manchester Metropolitan University
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 Thursday 30th October 2025, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT 

•  Organic Metal: Two worlds collide – documenting and showcasing a cross-genre collaboration
• Speaker: Dr. Mark Mynett, University of Huddersfield
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 Friday 31st October 2025, 11:00 – 12:00 GMT 

•  Capturing Creativity 2025 Friday Fika – an opportunity for colleagues to meet and talk informally about issues around supporting practice research.  Event will not be recorded. 
• Click here to book this event

 We look forward to welcoming as many visitors as possible to these online events.   

 As in previous years, events will be recorded and slides and recordings, etc. will be made available via BathSPAdata, Bath Spa University’s research data repository, following the event. 

Previous event recording collections can be found via the below links: 

• Drake, Claire (2023). Capturing Creativity, 2023 – Conference 18th September 2023. BathSPAdata. Collection. https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.6842109 
• Drake, Claire (2024). Capturing Creativity Week 2024 – Conference event slides and recordings. BathSPAdata. Collection. https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.7469703.v2 

If you have any queries about the events, please contact Claire Drake via repositories@bathspa.ac.uk