Open research questions in Artistic and Creative Research
39 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,594 Artistic and Creative Research papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
The study recommends further investigation of AI-generated literature with a focus on the ethics, authorship, and meaning of mechanisms of creativity.
When algorithms write literature: A comparative study of Sally Rooney’s Mr Salary and its AI simulation · 2026 · DOIIts use was limited to AI-assisted wording refinement: summarising author notes, improving sentence-level clarity, refining phrasing, and assist- ing with the organisation of material already developed by the authors.
AI-assisted creative arts research: a reflexive methodological framework for ethical use · 2026 · DOIThe interpretation of AI company terms of service remains unclear because they grant users output rights, but it is uncertain if these rights trans- T. Advanced AI systems need sophisticated curatorial methods for management because basic simplified approaches are insufficient.
Whilst Barnard (2017) acknowledges that both hardware and software date quickly and multimodal writers must be invested in new innovations, the implications are not fully elucidated.
Abstract While the humanities have become a multimodal domain in which visual culture is immanent and various new cross-disciplinary perspectives and theories are being employed to investigate the relationship between artistic and literary forms of representation, artists’ writings remain understudied and underappreciated.
Due to the fact that love of “writing” as one of the language skills is not yet established among the EFL university students, the effort of finding out an innovative way of helping them to establish love of creative writing is a must.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF ESTAFET WRITING GAME AND PICTURE BASED-CREATIVE WRITING TO NURTURE LOVE OF WRITING · 2019 · DOIThis paper further argues that relatively little is known about the affordances of being a teacher-writer due to the multi-faceted nature of the subject and the prominent research interest in examining the developing the skills or confidence of writing teachers, rather than examining those teachers who already identify as skilled or confident writers.
Oh! Who is me?: Conceiving of the writer in the English teacher identity · 2015We found that the task of articulating interpretive thematic statements is a significant challenge for these students, in some cases because the nature of interpretative understanding remains elusive to them and in others because they struggle with finding the language to express this understanding in a concise form.
When these things have been duly noted, however, there remains to be re- marked that for Richard I1 the creative act does what it has always been able to do.
Whether similar groups emerge with regard to AI fiction and if the average user will be interested in them remains to be seen.
Within this space, the disciplinary, and possibly epistemological, boundaries of artistic research vary widely depending on the nature of the research question and the methodologies the researcher employs to address it.
While Philosophy for Children (P4C) and related movements have increasingly emphasised the role of emotion in philosophical education, non-Western literary traditions remain underexplored in this context.
Limited research exists, however, on how this literate practice, paired with virtual and in-person museum visits, influences young people’s self-expression.
Teaching poetry using Instagram: An international, interdisciplinary study with adolescents mobilizing literacy and the arts · 2024 · DOIMetaphors situated within critical reflections provide powerful insight into how preservice teachers (PSTs) understand their experiences and the world around them, particularly in areas like writing which is consistently understudied in teacher education programs.
Writing Conferences Are Like the Big Bad Wolf: Metaphors As Critical Reflection for Preservice Teachers · 2024 · DOIHowever, there is only limited research to help understand how the unique qualities of the artist’s book as a medium – and the processes and methods used in its creation – can be positioned to scaffold a process of mediating knowledge and hierarchies of practices.
The need to project oneself into an uncertain future, and the lack of guidelines for doing so, generally plunges students into a perplexity that leads them to be very conservative in their projects.
Stimulating Entrepreneurial Students’ Imagination to Think About the Future: The Benefits of Science-Fiction Writing · 2023 · DOIThe scientific and practical significance of the study is that fiction is a great spiritual force that provides a wise conceptual understanding of the problems of society and individuals, but the question of the influence of this important basis on creativity remains an open, unexplored side.
The importance of Tleubergen Jumamuratov’s legacy in the development of creative thinking of future journalists · 2023 · DOIThe second: the home-schooling conditions of Sydney’s twin pandemic waves, which for many, merged the homespace and workplace in ways not yet fully understood.
That is not to say that her book is limited to the domain of poetry but more that her focus on poetry reveals more general insights by treating poetry as quintessential of the iconic arts.
While being a sign of respect as trying to keep the original text alive, this translation can open the ways for the text’s other adaptations for several scales of space medium or even different disciplines that have not been studied in this context yet.
Previous studies have found mixed results regarding the effects of vividness on the attractiveness, comprehensibility, and memorability of educational texts.
Originality: Few studies have offered detailed insight into how young people reflect upon their development as translingual writers in their spare time and which strategies they identify as important to do so.
These conditions include but are not limited to an increasing number of venues to place such work; the growing obligations for professors in the arenas of teaching, advising, and service; changes in and impact of scholars' relationship to job security, tenure, and prestige; and limited resources.
Literature from the perspective of Western philosophy remains to be embedded in a “deficit” opinion that points at “fixing” Black males in special education rather than valuing the individuality of each pupil.
The voice of a gifted Black male with dyslexia represented through poetry: an auto-ethnographic account · 2016 · DOIThis article seeks to address the gap in the literature by illustrating how the use of poetry as interview stimulus material can help poetry education research to clarify the connection between teachers’ and students’ beliefs and practices in relation to poetry and pedagogy.
Poetry education research as an anchorage of thought: using poetry as interview stimulus material · 2015 · DOI
Most-cited papers in Artistic and Creative Research
- From Passion to Compassion: A Caring Inquiry into Creative Work as Socially Engaged Art · Sociology · 2020 · 50 citations
- Beyond the author: Artificial intelligence, creative writing and intellectual emancipation · Poetics · 2024 · 49 citations
- “It Made Me Think in a Different Way”: Bilingual Students’ Perspectives on Multimodal Composing in the English Language Arts Classroom · TESOL Quarterly · 2021 · 36 citations
- Arts‐based responses to teaching poetry: a literature review of dance and visual arts in poetry education · Literacy · 2021 · 28 citations
- Learning to Breathe Again: Found Poems and Critical Friendship as Methodological Tools in Self-Study of Teaching Practices · Studying Teacher Education · 2021 · 26 citations
- What if?: becoming response-able with the making and mattering of a new relationships and sexuality education curriculum · Professional Development in Education · 2021 · 24 citations
- Learning to Imagine · The British Journal of Aesthetics · 2021 · 23 citations
- Writing as a craft: Re-considering teacher subject content knowledge for teaching writing · Research Papers in Education · 2021 · 22 citations
- Cultivating writerly virtues: Critical human elements of multimodal writing in the age of artificial intelligence · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy · 2023 · 21 citations
- The poetic humanity of teacher education: holistic mentoring for beginning teachers · Professional Development in Education · 2021 · 21 citations
Most recent work
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- ‘Call it what you want’: Ethical value in the lyrics of Taylor Swift and its educational application for betterment · Journal of Moral Education · 2026
- Poetry as a space for action: bibliotherapy and social adaptation in war-affected communities · Journal of Poetry Therapy · 2026
- Opportunities to develop literary competences · L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature · 2026
- Making sense of complexity: an autoethnography of humanities doctoral writing · Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education · 2026
- Creativity Meets Technology: The Role of AI Poem Generator in Enhancing Students’ Writing Skills · IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature · 2026
- From Theory to Performance · Art/Research International A Transdisciplinary Journal · 2026
- Creativity as National Capital: Expanding the UAE’s Global Leadership through Cultural and Technological Investments · Gulf Education and Social Policy Review (GESPR) · 2026
- Developing Literary Competence for Grade 3 Students Through Children’s Poetry Teaching in Primary Schools · International Journal of Social Science and Human Research · 2026
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: CURRENT TRENDS, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS, AND INDUSTRY IMPACT · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
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