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INSIGHTS 36 After coding and analysing the interview and follow-on survey materials, several interlocking issues for those involved in delivering social practice emerged: • difficulty articulating social practice, including creating definitions and negotiating roles and values; • unrealistic / unreasonable expectations from project partners (e.g. commissioners, participants, members of the public); • lack of support and infrastructure for social projects; • perceived second class status of social practice in the art world; • validation gap.