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.  .