Triangle

The Creative and Digital Research Cluster (CDRC) advance excellent and impactful research by fostering interactions, interdisciplinary partnerships, and effective knowledge exchange across creative and digital research within the Arts and other Faculties. While anchored at the University of Nottingham, the CDRC engages and collaborates regionally, nationally, and internationally to drive innovation and sectoral leadership.

Strategic priorities

  • Championing creative practice as a transformative research methodology, highlighting its critical value, intellectual contribution, and potential to deliver societal and cultural impact.
  • Providing strategic leadership to embed interdisciplinarity at the core of research and knowledge exchange activities, enabling collaboration across disciplines and sectors.
  • Driving critical and creative engagement with emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and immersive production, to shape responses to complex global challenges and to inform public understanding and influence policy.

Through these priorities, the CDRC seeks to amplify the visibility and influence of creative and digital research, fostering innovation, enabling knowledge exchange, and establishing lasting partnerships across academic, cultural, and industry sectors.

Leadership team

This is drawn from the three Schools in the Faculty of Arts:

The leadership team is supported by Dr Sarah Martindale who will enable connection with colleagues within the School of Computer Science and beyond, in particular in relation to fostering interdisciplinarity.

Get involved in the CDRC

University of Nottingham colleagues who would like to get involved in the CDRC should email Helen Sykes to be added to the mailing list: helen.sykes@nottingham.ac.uk

Events

Forthcoming events

These include a:

  • symposium for regional partners
  • networking event showcasing best practice in interdisciplinary research
  • symposium to lead the recognition and evaluation of the vital contribution of interdisciplinarity in challenge-led research and knowledge exchange.

Past events

  • CDRC launch, 6 March 2024.
  • CDRC showcase: ‘AI, Creativity and Embodiment’, Music Recital Hall, University of Nottingham, 5 July 2024.
  • CDRC symposium: 'Creative Practice as Research'. City as Lab, University of Nottingham, 27 September 2024.