When we introduced the updated Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), we offered it not as a checklist, but as a landscape. Now with reflexivity being made explicit, there are 192 evaluative prompts to consider as part of Professional Practice research. That might sound like too much – but it’s intentionally rich. This isn’t a framework […]
June 30, 2025
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 […]
June 30, 2025
In Professional Practice research, we’ve long celebrated the idea that some of the most valuable learning comes from within our own messy, lived experiences. But what happens when that messiness isn’t just inconvenient, but ethically fraught, emotionally overwhelming, or simply too complex for conventional research approaches? That was the starting point for our work on […]
June 30, 2025
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