Alongside their continuing growth in the popularity, both practice research in creative disciplines and arts‐based methods in research in the social sciences have histories now spanning several decades. In doctoral education, art and design education research sits within and across two distinct fields – the art and design doctorate and the education doctorate – each field with their own disciplinary traditions and conventions and expectations of doctorateness. For postgraduate researchers and supervisors alike, this brings challenges and barriers that are often perceived as hierarchical and othering. Reflecting on my attempts to locate in an existing global dataset those art and design education doctorates in which practice research and/or creative methods feature, I expose the complexities of the terrain. This paper reveals tensions and acknowledges where boundaries between disciplinary approaches may be artificial, porous or invisible to those interloping. It is imperative that postgraduate researchers and their supervisors acknowledge the complexity, slipperiness, and fluidity of distinctions between practice research in art and design, and creative methods in education research. I argue for the need for confidence in holding space for this uncertainty whilst seeing lineages of precedence that open up possibilities for future research.

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边界何时不是边界？在艺术与设计教育博士研究中探索创意实践的张力和潜力


随着它们的持续普及，创意学科的实践研究和社会科学研究中基于艺术的方法现在都有几十年的历史。在博士教育中，艺术与设计教育研究位于两个不同的领域内和之间——艺术与设计博士和教育博士学位——每个领域都有自己的学科传统和惯例以及对博士学位的期望。对于研究生研究人员和导师来说，这带来了挑战和障碍，这些挑战和障碍通常被认为是等级制度和他者化的。反思我试图在现有的全球数据集中找到那些以实践研究和/或创造性方法为特色的艺术和设计教育博士学位，我揭示了地形的复杂性。本文揭示了紧张关系，并承认学科方法之间的界限可能是人为的、渗透的或对那些干预者来说是不可见的。研究生研究人员及其导师必须承认艺术和设计领域的实践研究与教育研究中的创新方法之间区别的复杂性、滑稽性和流动性。我认为需要有信心为这种不确定性留出空间，同时看到为未来研究开辟可能性的优先谱系。