Research at the Conservatoire is about inspiring innovative directions for our art forms, fresh insights into their processes and practices, and new perspectives on their role in our economies, cultures and ecologies. We create world-leading and internationally excellent research and pursue outcomes that include new artworks and performances, exhibitions, recordings and writing.The aim of Knowledge Exchange (or KE) is to develop the Conservatoire’s relationship with the wider world. It’s a new expression for an old idea: that the work and expertise of Conservatoire staff is there to be used, to have an impact, but also to be shaped by the needs and priorities of the diverse communities of which the Conservatoire is a part. KE at the Conservatoire reflects a basic artistic impetus: to make a difference.