Practice-Based Research: The Role of HUSK in Knowledge Development

Practice research involves curiosity about practice. It is about challenging complex practices through a critical and co-productive examination of concrete practices and how ideas are created, adopted, and spread. By involving the relational complexities within practice and by strengthening the relational and organizational linkage between research and practice, the relevance of research may transcend the process of generalizing and disseminating research findings. In this analysis, the author uses the theoretical approach of actor relations to analyze the HUSK projects in their efforts to develop new forms of collaboration between research, practice, education, and service users to build knowledge about improving the quality of social services.