Research matters – does it? Really? David Wagstaff, visiting fellow at the Centre for Individual and Organisational Development, Sheffield Business School, asks some searching questions The meaning of this column’s title bothers me. Does coaching research actually matter? If so, what, and more interestingly, how, should we go about it? Some see research as a rather obscure activity, unrelated to the real world, conceptual, experimental – the stuff of university laboratories and libraries. However, there is another view of it¹ as practice-related,...