Embodied Research Methods

David Knights is Professor in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. His recent empirical research has been on academics and veterinary surgeons and his theoretical interests are lie in the field of the body and ethics, gender and diversity, identity and power, and management and leadership. He recently co-edited a book: Mabey C and D. Knights, Leadership Matters?: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century, (New York: Routledge, 2017). He was a co-founder and co-editor of Gender, Work and Organization from 1994-2016.

This book will not only provoke its readers to think differently about embodiment. It will also get them to change the way they carry out their social investigations.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSPrelimsIntroduction: The embodied turn in social science researchChapter 1. Disembodied methodologyChapter 2. Embodied methodologyChapter 3. Initiating an embodied research processChapter 4. Embodied immersion and ethnographic fieldworkChapter 5. Embodying interviews and conversationsChapter 6. Recording and documenting embodied livesChapter 7. Embodied analysis and interpretationChapter 8. Embodied writing and disseminationChapter 9. Truth and politics in embodied researchConclusion: Embodied imagination in future researchNotesReferencesIndex