ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a model for research that crosses multiple disciplines of scholarly and creative inquiry called research-based practice. A comparison of the seminal collections on practice as research (PaR) by Robin Nelson and Ludivine Allegue et al. reveals that discussions of politics of knowledge are central to the evolving PAR-discourse. Research-based practice enables a single project to meet the very different criteria of knowledge and utility of artistic, scientific, and social fields; in turn, research results can impact a broad range of discourses at once. In PAR projects opportunities for creativity are prioritized throughout the research process. When undertaking scientific, experimental research about the causal relationship between a phenomenon and an intervention that acts upon it, variables that potentially could affect PAR process have to be reduced in order to eliminate alternative explanations. In the case of Acts of Memory research-based practice solved the problems of methodological incompatibility and stratified roles.
