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Foley, Ronan, Bell, Sarah L., Gittins, Heli, Grove, Hannah, Kaley, Alexandra 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-1604, McLauchlan, Anna, Osborne, Tess, Power, Andrew, Roberts, Erin and Thomas, Merryn
(2020)
“Disciplined research in undisciplined settings”: Critical explorations of in situ and mobile methodologies in geographies of health and wellbeing.
Area, 52 (3).
pp. 514-522.
ISSN 0004-0894
Abstract
In situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data-gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer-term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection of wider methodological and theoretical thinking across human geography, especially in relation to mobilities, performative, co-productive, and active ways to access and produce knowledge. In addition, the past few decades have seen increased access to geo-spatial technologies and tools to both locate and record experiential place-based knowledge. Such methods are capable of producing important new knowledge concerning the emergence (or foreclosing) of health and wellbeing in and through place, yet they are often perceived as “risky,” drawing researchers out of their traditional researcher-controlled environments. Based on discussions developed during and since a July 2018 in situ and mobile methods workshop, this paper discusses the benefits of negotiating the (at times) somewhat messy and unpredictable research encounters that can unfold through such methods. It incorporates examples from recent and ongoing doctoral and post-doctoral research in health and wellbeing using out situ (in situ outdoors) methodological approaches in Britain and Ireland – including go-along interviews, video ethnography, elicitation, and biosensing. Three core themes are presented, concerning the value of mobile and in situ methods in: (1) supporting an ethic of care; (2) attending to more-than-human dynamics of health and wellbeing; and (3) integrating matter and meaning in contemporary efforts to understand how health and wellbeing unfold and accrete in and through place.
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| Additional Information: | Data sharing statement: Data sharing is not applicable as no new data were created for this paper. Funding Information: Economic and Social Research Council for funding Dr Sarah Bell's Future Research Leaders fellowship (ES/N015851/1), which also contributed to the funding of the Hack Day event; the Irish Health Research Board (SPHeRE/2013/1) for funding Hannah Grove's research; the Economic and Social Research Council [ES/J50001X/1] for funding Tessa Osborne's research; the ESRC (studentship award) funded Alexandra Kaley's research and she would also like to thank her PhD supervisors, Christine Milligan and Chris Hatton for their advice and intellectual contribution to this work; the CoastWEB project (Erin Roberts and Merryn Thomas, with Principle Investigators Karen Henwood and Nick Pidgeon) formed part of the Valuing Nature Programme, which is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (award NE/N013573/1); finally Heli Gittins would like to acknowledge the KESS funded research programme in partnership with The Woodland Trust and Actif Woods Wales. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | health,in situ research,mobile methodologies,technologies,wellbeing,geography, planning and development,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2025 01:05 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 01:02 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98082 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/area.12604 |
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