Theoretical objects, inventiveness and creative-critical writing: Searching for the spaces of inventiveness in between

This day-long talk/workshop with research staff and students at University of Glasgow aimed to inspire and help shape current and future written work and foster an exchange of thoughts and a collaborative reading and writing through registers creative and critical. We offered a supportive and generous space which encouraged collaborative reinvention and exploration within and around current PhD and other research projects and works-in-progress. Using the mode of creative-critical writing (The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018) as an overriding theme for the event, we discussed, challenged and embraced, on theoretical and practical levels, the possible forms of written submission for a PhD thesis as well as forms of writing for publication. We asked: what is ‘good’ academic writing? And what does it mean to be critical?