Practice As Research

About Practice As Research

Practice As Research aims to bring together the many different strands of practice-led/based research across all disciplines so as to not be limited by disciplinary conventions, but instead to benefit from cross-disciplinary fertilisation. In the wider academic communities, there are many terms in use to describe the research-practice nexus. For the sake of consistency we adopt the term 'practice as research'. Fundamentally, we consider practice as research any practice that is underpinned by scholarship and academic rigour. The primary aim of Practice As Research is sharing practices, providing constructive feedback and thus enabling the mutual development of understanding around practice as research.

Publisher

Nicole Brown

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Oct 2021

Latest episode

11 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Jun 2026

   Sonic ways of knowing: researching life using sound

   In this session Richard Longman explores how sonic practices can serve as creative modes of organisational inquiry. Richard begins with the Organising Songs series, where he approached popular music not as cultural backdrop but as a way of knowing organisations – their tensions, atmospheres, and affective architectures. Treating each track as an analytic site allowed questions of voice, power, conflict, and emotion to emerge through the grain of sound rather than through thematic reduction. A...

2. 

   22 May 2026

   Creative writing as analysis in research with children: putting a light in the window

   In this session Luci Gorell Barnes presents on how she has used creative writing within analysis in her doctoral research. Luci presents a creative writing method that she developed as part of her PhD analysis, in which she produced ‘portraits’ of individual children. Arundhati Roy (2009, p.134) reminds us to ‘never simplify what is complicated’ and this creative analysis process came out of her desire to deepen her understanding of what she had learned from her encounters with each child rat...

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   27 Mar 2026

   Theatre of the Oppressed: Reflections and Provocations from an Artist/Researcher

   In this session Olivia Maurer presents her experience using practice as research working with participatory theatre in a traditional policy and social science context. Drawing on her ongoing doctoral research, Olivia shares insights on conducting practice as research and how the duality of the artist/researcher identity has impacted her positionality, duty of care, and outcomes of the project. The challenges and potentialities of engaging in PAR within a PhD process are also evaluated. ...

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