What is it about?
This paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy and the use of the arts in producing and disseminating research. Four central areas of tension associated with academic legitimacy are described: balancing structure with openness and flexibility, academic obligations of truth and accuracy, resisting typical notions of what counts in academia, and expectations vis-a-vis measuring the impact of arts-based health research. It is argued that thee is a need to reconsider what counts as knowledge and to reconceptualise notions of evaluation and rigour in order to effectively support the effete translation of arts-based health research.
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Why is it important?
With the burgeoning literature on arts-based health research, there is a need to critically examine the tensions associated with engaging in this work.
Perspectives
This article stems from a pan Canadian study of researchers, artists and trainees who are involved in arts-based health research. They identified the need to explore different ways of conducting and disseminating research and the ways in which their contributions 'count'.
Professor Katherine M Boydell
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: transcending hegemonic conventions, Qualitative Research, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1468794116630040.
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