%0 Web Page %A Sawdon, Phil %A Tormey, Jane %D 2008 %T Are ambiguous research outcomes undesirable? %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/Are_ambiguous_research_outcomes_undesirable_/9332477 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/16940270 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/16940273 %K untagged %K Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified %X This paper supports the position that interpretation in the visual and performing arts is fundamentally different from other disciplines. Specifically – in responding to the question: “Are un-ambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?” we argue that ambiguous research outputs are both desirable and inevitable – and that “interpretation” should not be constrained by the requirement of unambiguous language and that practice-based research should strive to demonstrate its findings by methods most appropriate to the mode of practice in question. %I Loughborough University