The Future of Practice Research Symposium

Monday 9th June 2025, Grosvenor East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Opening address by Professor Martyn Evans and Professor Kristina Niedderer

Panel presentations:

• REF and Disciplinary challenges. Speaker: Rebecca Emmett (REF panel D representative from Research England)

• Charting the state of the art and where it could/should go: A co-design approach to developing research infrastructure to enable ‘FAIR’ PR. Speaker: Jenny Evans (Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead · University of Westminster. PI on PRVoices)

• Capturing the ephemeral: what do Practice Researchers want and need? New horizons and the future of sharing practice. Speaker: Prof Nick Fells (Professor of Sonic Practice, University of Glasgow. PRAG-UK Chair)