"This book is, over and above anything else, a personal book -- and although the research ranges from small scale qualitative to large scale quantitative, within each paper we can 'hear' the voices of practitioner-researchers. It is also a political book -- not promoting one concerted message for change in any particular area, but on its desire to push the need to create and use this kind of research to effect change, to influence policy, and to shape the future of the sector... One of the aims of this book is to represent a guide, a first step perhaps, towards the creation of such a research-informed profession. Although such notions may seem a little optimistic or grandiose, the quality of the papers presented in this book, and the realities they explore, do leave you with a sense that with such dedicated practitioner-researchers as these this may not be so farfetched." Reviewed by Rebecca Hodgson in Higher Education Review, Summer 2008
