[Candrama] CfP. CATR 2023. “At the Edge of Visible: Practice-Based Research, Scholarly Recognition, and the Challenge of Ethics”

[Natalie Alvarez]

*CATR 2023. Performing Shores/The Shores of Performance*


*Call for Roundtable Participants:* “At the Edge of Visible: Practice-Based
Research, Scholarly Recognition, and the Challenge of Ethics”


*Note: This roundtable will take place in person during the portion of the
conference hosted by Dalhousie University, June 15-17, 2023.*



*CONVENORS: *

Natalie Álvarez, Toronto Metropolitan University

Kim Solga, Western University


Many researchers in our community identify as practice-based. In the course
of our work, we routinely experience the need to communicate that work’s
value to those familiar with more traditional, positivist, scholarly modes.
We also often find ourselves struggling to justify our work’s logic, goals,
and methods to our institutional research ethics boards (REBs), as we
navigate their social science-driven protocols in order even to be allowed
to begin our work.



Neither of these issues is new; PbR (or PaR) has been a part of theatre and
performance research for decades now. What is, perhaps, new is an
increasingly institutional drive toward equity, inclusion, and
decolonisation. Could such a turn, perhaps, make space for practice-based
researchers to begin to shift the dial on what kind of work is seen, heard,
measured, enabled, and institutionally recognized?



The goal of this roundtable is to gather a wide range of perspectives on
the ways in which scholar-artist and other practice-based researchers
communicate the nature, value, and impact of their work to university
administrators, and where and how they find creative ways to navigate the
research ethics process. Our hope for this session is not only to share
ideas and resources, but also to take practical tactics and potential
strategies back to our home institutions.



Our framing questions are:



1)    what are the creative ways in which performance
practitioner-researchers are making their work legible and visible within
post-secondary research contexts?

2)    how is the ethics review process impacting, or even shaping, the way
that work is born out in practice?



We welcome creative, rich reflections on one or both of these questions
from artists, scholars, and administrators familiar with institutional
evaluation, tenure and promotion, and research ethics processes, from
across the career spectrum.



Please send your name, institutional affiliation (if any), and a statement
of interest sharing your perspective and what you might contribute to the
panel (up to 250 words) to Natalie Álvarez (natalie.alvarez at torontomu.ca)
and Kim Solga (ksolga at uwo.ca) by *March 31, 2023*.


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Natalie Álvarez, PhD (she/her)


*Associate Dean, Scholarly, Research and Creative Activities*

*Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies*

The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson
University)*

416-979-5000 ext. 544898


****In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto
Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach.
Learn more about our next chapter
<https://www.ryerson.ca/next-chapter/?utm_source=campaigner&utm_campaign=2022_apr_hr_supportingrolloutnewname&utm_content=aocomms&cmp=1&utm_medium=email>.*

** We acknowledge that Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’.
The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas
and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the
land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all
newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace,
friendship and respect.*
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