In this seminar, Dr Mhairi Thurston discusses Practice As Research in counselling. “You feel as though someone’s chipped a bit out of your heart and your soul”. Practice as research in counselling: The development of a model of counselling for sight loss. This talk outlines the mental health impacts of sight loss, through lived experience and through research. It charts the development of a model of counselling for people with sight loss, using practice as research in counselling. A quasi-j...

Creativity In Education: International Perspectives

Practice As Research aims to bring together the many different strands of practice-led/based research across all disciplines so as to not be limited by disciplinary conventions, but instead to benefit from cross-disciplinary fertilisation. In the wider academic communities, there are many terms in use to describe the research-practice nexus. For the sake of consistency we adopt the term 'practice as research'. Fundamentally, we consider practice as research any practice that is underpinned by scholarship and academic rigour. The primary aim of Practice As Research is sharing practices, providing constructive feedback and thus enabling the mutual development of understanding around practice as research.