I have never seen coaching practice and coaching research as separate things. As a practitioner why would I want anything other than to understand how it works. As a researcher why would I want anything other than to know why it matters.
I am committed to making research accessible and relevant to practitioners, both through researching the issues that are most significant for me as a practitioner, through making research available and accessible through my education and supervision activities, and through exploring the issue of evidence-based practice itself.
“People do coaching research for a number of different reasons. They may do so out of pure intellectual curiosity, to fulfil a course requirement, or for some instrumental reason associated with a career in academia or elsewhere. Untlimately, however, the key characteristic of research in an applied discipline is that it creates something that eventually might be applied in some way to the practice of that discipline.”
Jackson, P & Cox E (2020) ‘The dissemination and implementation of research-based coaching knowledge ’ in P Jackson and E Cox, Doing Coaching Research