Abstract
This chapter revisits the Practice as Research (PaR) cultures of Aotearoa and Australia to discover a “mixed bag”; though they are quite well established, confusions remain. Despite national research audit in both countries, criteria are not consistently clear: Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) in Australia distinguishes between creative practice per se and research, whilst the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) 2017 in Aotearoa appears still to elide the two. Similarly, a clear distinction between PaRPhD and PD is being eroded, with some doctoral candidates in both countries seemingly lacking the knowledge base PhD requires. The elision of research and creative practice leads to expectations in some quarters for work of national/international excellence (as in Nordic countries) and enhanced funding to this end. The chapter concludes with hopes that the next research rounds (2023, 2025) will bring refined sets of criteria.
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2018: 5–6.
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See file:///Users/suzanne/Desktop/era_2018_submission_guidelines.pdf, accessed 08/07/21.
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See Guidelines for the 2018 Quality Evaluation assessment process available at https://www.tec.govt.nz/funding/funding-and-performance/funding/fund-finder/performance-based-research-fund/, accessed 08/07/21.
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Little, 2013: 119–120.
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Goldson, 2020: 230.
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See: https://www.otago.ac.nz/administration/policies/otago515603.html, accessed 09/07/21.
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In an email to the author, 7 June 2021.
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In an email to the author, 31 May 2021.
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In a personal email, 14 June 2021.
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Nelson, R., Little, S. (2022). Australasia. In: Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90542-2_8
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