Capturing Creativity is an annual online webinar series that has been taking place since 2023 and which aims to promote best practice around the recording and showcasing of Arts creative practice research, and the submission of this research to the REF.  The webinar series is organized jointly by Bath Spa University and Loughborough University.

With the generous funding from CaSDaR, we now have a new website!  Please do take a look.

The schedule for Capturing Creativity 2026 is now available via the website where you can find full information about all this year’s events plus booking links.   

This year, thanks to the funding from CaSDaR, there will also be a new PGR competition which we will be launching at the conference.   We will also share details of the competition via this jiscmail list later in October.

For a summary of the events, see below.  Please follow the booking links to find full details of each event and to book your place.   We very much look forward to welcoming you to Capturing Creativity 2026!

CAPTURING CREATIVITY 2026 SCHEDULE: 

Monday 26th October, 2026.  14.30 – 16.00 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 1 – Enact, MORPHSS, and the NI Practice Research Framework – updates from three large-scale, funded projects 

Enact: Jenny Evans, Scott McLaughlin and Neal White 

MORPHSS: Miranda Barnes, Jenni Adams and Samuel A. Moore 

NI Practice Research Framework: Freda Casey and Brian Bridges 

Booking link 

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Wednesday 28th October, 2026. 10.30 – 12.00 GMT. 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 2 – Repositories and Arts Creative Practice Research 

Glasgow School of Art (ePrints): Amy Robinson and Nicola Siminson 

Robert Gordon University (Worktribe): George Bray 

Cardiff Metropolitan University (Figshare): Sharha Sharha 

University of Bristol (Pure): Kate Holmes 

Booking link 

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Friday 30th October, 2026.  10.30 – 11.30 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 3 – Looking at ways of confidently representing thinking demonstrated in, or through, making for REF 2029 

Professor Mike Collier, University of Sunderland 

Booking link 

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Monday 9th November, 2026.  14.00 – 15.00 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 4 – The Right to Belong: Developing a Toolkit for Artists’ Archiving at the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) 

Ruth Hallinan, NIVAL 

Booking link 

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Wednesday 11th November, 2026.  10.30 – 12.00 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 5 – Arts research journals – innovative approaches to presenting arts creative practice research 

Mike Fletcher, ARJAZZ 

Michael Schwab, Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) 

Charlotte Crofts, Catherine Gough-Brady and Alex Nevill, Screenworks 

Elaine Speight and Andy Broadey, Creative Practices Research Journal 

 Booking link 

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Thursday 12th November, 2026.  08.00 – 09.00 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 6 – The End of an ERA: Streamlining the Evaluation of Creative Research in Australia 

Zoe Shacklock, Swinburne University of Technology 

Booking link 

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Friday 13th November, 2026.  15.00 – 16.00 GMT 

Capturing Creativity 2026: Event 7 – Friday Fika 

A friendly, supportive coffee catch-up meeting where librarians, research support staff, and creative practice researchers can discuss matters creative practice research.   Do come along and feel free to ask questions (and bring coffee and biscuits!) 

Booking link 

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Please note that all events are recorded (where possible) and that recordings and slides (where available) are shared CC-BY after the event via Bath Spa University’s data repository, BathSPAdata, and via the new website.  

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