Human Creativity is fundamental to vibrant culture. The Creative industries in the U.K and throughout the world contribute to well-being, economic health, the expansion of human knowledge, and our understanding of what it means to be a human being. The University of Huddersfield produces internationally leading research in a number of areas related to Creativity. This research engages and develops a diverse portfolio of research methodologies that crosses a number of disciplines. Creativity research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and this is reflected in the areas represented in this ASRI.
These Research areas include:
Researchers involved in these areas are embedded in established research partnerships throughout the world, and continue to contribute in important ways to the creative industries, cultural dialogues and our understanding of the creative impulse.
Public Engagement is a particularly strong feature of much of the work undertaken in this area, developing methodologies and approaches that draw upon the public’s high interest and participation in creative practice, and explore the uses of creativity to enhance human experiences, build community, and express individual and group understandings of the human condition.
Research centres associated with the area of research development include:
Stylistics Research Centre
Centre for Participatory Culture
CeReNeM: Institute for Research in New Music
CMCI: Centre for Music, Culture and Identity
ReCePP: Research Centre for Performance Practices
CICP: Center for International Contemporary Poetry (including The Ted Hughes Network)
CHICAM Centre for History, Culture and Memory
CEADA: Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture
CUDAS: Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability