The Future Reflections Research Group investigates the theory and practice of art research as an emerging and transgressive field of inquiry. Founded in April 2007 this collaboration is comprised of a core group of three Ph.D. student researchers based at Chelsea College of Art and Design (London, UK) with divergent art practices, skills and sensibilities. Overarching these differences, however, is an interest in exploring practice-led research through various forms of collaborative art making, informed by approaches ranging from discourse analysis and dialogic theory to pedagogical and performative practices.

Future Reflections Research Group's outputs include performative presentations, critical/creative writing and relational artworks as research. Some of the questions guiding Future Reflections' recent projects include: When is art research? How can research be art? Where's the "work" in art research? Where is the knowledge(s) in the art Ph.D.? Currently, Future Reflections Research Group is exploring the art research conference as the group's primary site for interlocution by working reflectively and reflexively within/through the conference as a particular and emergent discursive site.