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What do we do?

The work of a2ru Research is guided by three basic questions:

What is arts integration?
Why does arts integration matter?
How do you “do” arts integration?

The answers we provide to these three questions help A2RU partners meet their knowledge, communication, and program implementation goals.

How do we do it?

We consider it a cycle, mapped as follows:

We start with data. Some of that data comes from the literature of arts-integration and associated fields, but most comes first-hand from three major a2ru studies conducted between 2012 and the present.

Using a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, we derive insights from this data. A2RU partner concerns determine where we focus our analysis, for example on tenure and promotion policy, interdisciplinary collaboration, or “amplifying” arts integration on individual campuses.

In the maker tradition, we translate our research insights into tools, games workshops, rubrics, maps, agendas, and publication. These resources make it easy and practicable for partners to put our insights into practice.

Situating Creative Practice as Research Workshop

Explore when, why, and how artists and designers might frame their work as research.

2022 Conference Videos

View the archive from our 2022 conference, "Exploring Artistic Research"

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Arts Data Pilot at the University of Michigan

This 2023 reports summarizes findings from the first phase of a collaborative study with the University of Michigan Arts Initiative

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Emerging Creatives Workshop

An immersive interdisciplinary creative experience for students.

Arts-Integrated Research Examples

Video Presentation: Mapping (and Exploring) Impacts of the Arts in Higher Education

Veronica Stanich speaks to the Center for Interdisciplinarity at Michigan State University

Supporting Artists on STEMM Research Teams: Why and How

A study in partnership with the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)

Using the Arts to Flip Understanding Workshop

Combine arts-making and analysis to gain new perspective on your non-arts work.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Reading List

Key scholarly resources on collaboration among the arts and other disciplines

Webinar: Cluster Hires & Cross-Disciplinary Appointments

A 2018 session from our Circuits series

Tenure & Promotion Canvas Worksheet

A worksheet to identify & describe an institution tenure & promotion landscape.

Implicit/Explicit: Delve Deeper Into Tacit Practices

A deck for faculty and academic leaders who are charged with aligning tenure and promotion policy with institutional values of arts integration and interdisciplinarity

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration Research Brief: Patterns and Practices for Positive Leadership

Tenure & Promotion Research Brief

Patterns of Best Practice

A new a2ru research project in development

External Reviewers for Tenure & Promotion

An exclusive benefit for institutional members

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Discussion Prompts

The Case for Arts Integration Book

Collaboration Workshops

Learn tools for effective collaboration across difference.

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Tenure & Promotion Reading List

Defining Basic Terms: “The Arts” and “Integration”

The Case for Arts Integration Workbook

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What is Research?

What Is Arts Research?

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The Collaboration Kit

A workshop-in-a-box for collaborative know-how

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What’s Next? A Decision Support and Ideation Tool for Research Planning

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Impacts Map

This visual overview of of the impacts of arts integration and interdisciplinarity in the university is a tool for case-making, communication, and further inquiry.