Capturing Creativity 2025 - Presentation 1: 6th October 2025 - Introducing the Enact Practice Research Data Service (Jenny Evans, Neal White, Scott McLaughlin and Claire Knowles)

<p dir="ltr">Presentation 1 from the 'Capturing Creativity 2025' seminar series, on Monday 6th October, 2025.</p><p dir="ltr">Speakers: Jenny Evans, Neal White, Scott McLaughlin and Claire Knowles.</p><p dir="ltr">Jenny Evans, PI for the Enact Practice Research Data Service and Research Environment and Scholarly Communications Lead at University of Westminster. In addition to her leadership of Enact, Jenny is also responsible for scholarly communications infrastructure (people, skills and platforms) within the Library and Archives Service at the University of Westminster. She was also the PI on the AHRC funded PR Voices scoping project. She has extensive experience of leading research information systems development, enhancing research visibility, and building institutional capacity to support research outputs.</p><p dir="ltr">Professor Neal White (University of Westminster) (Enact Co-I) Co-Director of the Centre for Research and Education and Arts and Media, and brings over two decades of leadership in contemporary art, science, and technology, developing innovative methodologies and infrastructures that bridge research-led practice and digital media.</p><p dir="ltr">Dr Scott McLaughlin (University of Leeds) (Enact Co-I) is Associate Professor in Composition and Music Technology. Scott has been a central part of the practice research community in Music, driving resource-building and discussion. He is on PRAG-UK steering group, Royal Musical Association Practice Research Study Group, and directs Leeds' Centre for Practice Research in the Arts.</p><p dir="ltr">Claire Knowles (University of Leeds) (Enact Co-I) is Associate Library Director for Research & Digital Futures. She brings over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering digital research services, with specialist expertise in repository systems, metadata, and open infrastructures.</p><p dir="ltr">Synopsis: This presentation presents an early overview of the Enact Practice Research Data Service, including introducing the Enact team, describing what the project has been funded to deliver over the next 3 years, and how the team plans to engage with the community and ask for feedback.</p><p dir="ltr">This item contains: MP4 recording of the presentation with transcript and Powerpoint slides.</p>