Interview with Rachel Hann on Practice Research

JAWS, 2019

My embracing of ‘practice research’ (see Hann 2015) seeks to bring the established positions on conducting research through practice together under one heading. Indeed, I had become tired of the circular arguments that would occur about the differences between practice as/ through/based/led research. While these were useful at a granular level, they often side-stepped the larger issues of how practice-researchers across disciplinary areas operate within universities and research ecologies. ‘Practice research’ is loose enough that it does not privilege any of these sub-debates, while also being new enough that it invites a focus on the future.