ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the implications for institutions and the practitioner researchers working within them of embracing attitudes and methods of practice as research. It discusses the challenges of creating the necessary time and conceptual space to implement effective and useful practice as research within the art museum. The programme highlighted the difficulties art museum professionals face in carving out the time needed for prolonged and intensive thinking. Locating museum professionals’ practice as research gives space for practitioner researchers to ask questions, which are explored through a process of enquiry, and generate new insights that go out into the world. Assuming that high-quality practice as research is adopted within the art museum, arguably practitioners and the institution would see benefits across all of the dimensions. The need to formalise the processes of knowledge production in studio-based programmes within universities has led to extensive ruminations on how arts practitioners conduct and present their research.
