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 […]
August 28, 2024
Professional practice research integrates both a practice challenge or opportunity, and professional development, usually an articulation of a professional framework of practice. These two sides need to play nicely. This integrated approach can make it challenging to describe and summarise, especially when all the exemplars are for more traditional research. This template is adapted from […]
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 […]
December 6, 2022
As Covid rumbles on though the third wave, Blowing Bubbles continues to connect with positive podcasted conversation. Adding to the archive here: 425. Sliding to Thriving Community Bubbles Ben Sandford, 15/08/22 426. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Bubbles – SarahGalbraith 427. Bubbles Beyond Zeroes and Ones – Sherlock Licorish 428. Bubble Matters – Bill Southworth […]
June 30, 2025
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