Practice Based Research: ’A Journey with Two Maps’
Blog post by Rebecca Hurst, Creative Manchester Research Fellow. On 1 November 2022 I started a 9 month Knowledge Exchange fellowship within the University of Manchester's research platform, Creative Manchester , and working with Lime Arts , the city's NHS Trust arts and health organisation. I am still in the process of discovering what my work entails: defining my role goes arm-in-arm with bringing my practice-based research to bear on existing partner projects and new collaborations. The journey of discovery, and work of coming to an understanding as to how and why I'm going, are happening at the same time. To repurpose a phrase coined by the poet Eavan Boland, practice-based research is 'a journey with two maps'.1 By way of an introduction, I am a writer and researcher. My poetry pamphlet, The Fox's Wedding , was published by The Emma Press in February 2022, and you can also read some of my poems in Carcanet's anthology New Poetries VIII. Born and raised in East Sussex, I now live in Greater Manchester.
