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This second edition of my 2013 book aims to take an overview of the developments and achievements of the “Practice as Research (PaR) initiative” in the eight years since the first edition, and to offer an update in thinking and practices. It is concerned with academic research and specifically with how innovative, intelligent practices might count in the academy. Worldwide, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have experienced considerable change over the past three decades. Under a force-field of influences, formerly free-standing institutions centred in practical learning—for example, artschools and conservatoires— have been drawn into the university sector with the consequent need to adjust qualification frameworks, curriculum structures and pedagogic practices and, notably, to embrace a research dimension. Even “arts universities,” formed from previously free-standing artschools/conservatoires, have been subject to this influence. People tend not to like disruption and change, and the resistances to be considered in what follows are understandable. But whilst the drift to corporatism under a neoliberal economy undoubtedly has its downsides, moments of destabilization also afford opportunities. In the midst of change, the question arises of whether the future of the arts is strongest in the broad university sector with an increasing tendency to inter-disciplinarity or in sustaining discrete arts institutions.