ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the position of practitioner-researcher doctoral students within higher music education. It also considers recent developments in practice-as-research (PaR) methodology, a research methodology that has developed in other performing arts disciplines, but has only recently been taken up within the music community. The chapter also discusses how the work of the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) has contributed to the development of PaR methods in relation to the performing arts with a particular focus on practical music PhD projects, and will then consider the collaborative partnership it has with the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in relation to its PhD programme and how the PaR methodology is being used to generate methods appropriate to individual projects. It concludes with a review of the work achieved so far, as it considers the development of a method for PaR within the higher education (HE) sector.
