1. Practitioners at the centre: Concepts, strategies, processes and products in contemporary music research -- 2. Evolving an artistic research culture in music: An Analysis of an Australian study in an international context -- 3. (Re-) searching artists in artistic research: Creating fertile ground for experimentation at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent -- Encouraging and training conservatoire students at undergraduate and taught-postgraduate level towards fluency in the thought-processes and methods of artistic research -- 5. Research degrees in the Conservatoire context: Reconciling practice and theory -- 6. Research skills in practice: Learning and teaching practice-based research at RNCM -- 7 -- 8. The 'little r' in Artistic Research Training -- 9. Some challenges of practice based/centred enquiry -- 10. Addressing the politics of practice-based research and its potential contribution to higher music education -- 11. Creative arts research assessment and training in Hong Kong -- 12. Complicated conversations: Creating opportunities for transformative practice in higher education music performance research and pedagogy -- 13. No two are the same: A narrative account of supervising two students through a Doctor of Musical Arts program -- 14. Weaving together disparate threads: Future perspectives for research and research education.  .

This volume is an innovative collection that transcends national boundaries and provides new knowledge about approaches to research and research education in music.  The collection brings together leading thinkers and practitioners in music research from Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. The book is designed to serve as a resource for university music departments and conservatoires, and offers insights into the development of research programs in this context.