Being nosey
Abstract
Within this chapter, I use a collection of extended data excerpts from the study as the basis from which I think through issues connected to my time in the field, as well as embodied research more broadly.
Although the collection of data necessarily involves the body to some degree, certain settings, methodologies and questions support the generation of a more tangible and explicit form of researcher embodiment.
Such social spaces often provide vivid and dramatic empirical case studies from which one might explore the places occupied by the bodies of researchers. This ‘interrogation of situatedness’ enables the opportunities and biases embedded within the researcher biography, body and physical capabilities to be cast in sharper relief.