This book takes a fresh "how to" approach to Practice as Research. At the "performance turn" it argues that old prejudices should be abandoned and that a PaR methodology and its modes of "doing-knowing" should be fully accepted in the academy. It refines Robin Nelson's earlier models for PaR but sustains the dynamic and dialogic interplay between different modes of knowledge-production in a multi-mode research inquiry. It advances strategies for articulating and evidencing the research inquiry and offers practical guidance to practitioner-researchers on how to conduct a PaR inquiry. With reference to examples drawn from a decade of supervisory, examining and audit experience, Nelson addresses - and offers answers to - the many questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain. To broaden the perspective and take account of differing levels of acceptance and development of programmes in PaR around the word, in Part II of the book six international contributors respond to Part I and afford cross-sights from the standpoint of their territory.

本书对 "作为研究的实践 "采取了一种新的 "方法"。在 "绩效转向 "方面，它认为应该放弃旧有的偏见，学术界应该完全接受 "实践-知识 "的方法论及其模式。它完善了罗宾-尼尔森早期的 "绩效研究 "模式，但维持了多模式研究调查中不同知识生产模式之间的动态和对话式的相互作用。它提出了阐明和证明研究调查的策略，并为实践者-研究者提供了关于如何进行PaR调查的实用指导。通过参考十年来监督、审查和审计经验中的例子，Nelson解决了学生、专业从业人员研究者、监管者和审查者在这个领域提出的许多问题，并提供了答案。为了拓宽视野，并考虑到世界各地对注册会计师课程的不同接受和发展水平，在本书的第二部分，六位国际贡献者对第一部分做出了回应，并从他们的立场出发提供了交叉观察。