ABSTRACT
The development of new epistemic communities of permeable practices must include the practice of assessing research. The new modes of research demand specific criticism and assessment better tuned to this 'permeability' between modes of practice. The formal criteria for assessment include that it should be undertaken by three independent experts, all of whom hold PhDs and at least two of whom are international. The assessment committee for Pedersen consisted of experts with broad experience and backgrounds in the field: one being an academic; one being a practitioner and academic; and one a highly recognised practitioner and critic as well as an academic. The doctoral candidate responded in writing to the assessment, as the doctoral regulations allow. The adjudication committee consisted of a creative writer and head of a cross-professional doctoral school in the arts; a mathematician, previous head of a school of architecture and currently head of a practice-based doctoral programme; and a practising sculptor and researcher.
