Reprinted 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Practice-led research, research-led practice : towards the iterative cycle web / Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean -- Making space : the purpose and place of practice-led research / Graeme Sullivan -- New media : the 'first word' in art? / Simon Biggs -- Knowledge unspoken : contemporary dance and the cycle of practice-led research, basic and applied research, and research-led practice / Shirley McKechnie and Catherine Stevens -- Practice as research through performance / Baz Kershaw -- Beachcombing : a fossicker's guide to whiteness and indigenous sovereignty / Anne Brewster -- Integrating creative practice and research in the digital media arts / Andrew R. Brown and Andrew Sorensen -- Mariposa : the story of new work of research/creation, taking shape, taking flight / Kathleen Vaughan -- Sustaining the sustainable? Developing a practice and problem-led new media praxis / Keith Armstrong -- Nightmares in the engine room / Jane Goodall -- Acquiring know-how : research training for practice-led researchers / Brad Haseman and Daniel Mafe -- Asking questions of art : higher education, research and creative practice / Judith Mottram -- The academic mode of production / Sharon Bell.