ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how communities of practice-based researchers have developed methodological approaches which mobilise their practice within the context of research. To do so, the chapter draws on theories of practice and how this has shaped approaches to practice-based research. It then considers the way some communities of practice-based researchers have considered it to be a new paradigm 1 and highlights different approaches to research in comparison to other fields of research and within practice-based research. This highlights key concerns practice-based researchers address as they move between different practices of research within academic settings and those of a specific professional field or discipline. These concerns are focused on the way practitioners position themselves and their practices as research, and how they conceptualise non-traditional research outcomes as expressions of new knowledge.
