When we first introduced the Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), it was designed to help Professional Practice researchers navigate the often messy, ethically charged terrain of researching from within their own practice. The framework offered evaluative questions, not as a checklist, but as a landscape – a way to orient and reflect, to challenge and […]
June 30, 2025
Sometimes words are not enough. In our latest collaboration – Riding Waves of Practice – Ruth Myers, Dave Guruge, and I wanted to explore what it feels like to do Professional Practice research when the stories are hard to tell, the methods don’t exist yet, and the path forward is more like surfing chaos than […]
June 30, 2025
How do you create a degree for futures that haven’t happened yet? How do you teach change-making to people who are still discovering what kind of change they want to make? In our paper, Principles for Educational Innovation – A Developmental Evaluation Perspective, Margy-Jean Malcolm and I reflect on the messy, emergent, but ultimately deeply […]
August 28, 2024
Finn Boyle’s Masters of Professional Practice is now on OPRES/Research Bank (https://doi.org/10.34074/thes.6401). This was an absolute pleasure to mentor – the subject matter, the approach, the tikaka, and the ākonga all came together in a perfect demonstration of how professional practice is making a real difference, sometimes in unconventional ways. The nature of my professional […]
June 26, 2023
This collection includes a flurry of diagrams bringing regenerative aspects of sustainability to the fore. As usual, wading through the ever-persistent pillars models, now usually disguised as things such as “sustainable business innovation”. Is it just me, or is the management literature 20 years behind sustainability science? Updating the collection of images describing sustainability. 601. […]
June 30, 2025
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