Reflections on Methods
Reflections on Methods
The repository brings together critical reflections, practical insights, and innovative approaches from across disciplines, with a special focus on fostering inclusive knowledge culture.
In collaboration with the University of Warwick Society and Culture Spotlight, and Health Spotlight, the Methods Hub is thrilled to host the Reflections on Methods repository on interdisciplinary research and social justice.
We invite you to explore our videos and case studies sharing first-hand accounts of using different methods and reflecting on the relationship between method, voice, power, and social justice.
Spotlight reflections on method: video testimonies
First-person narratives and collaborative accounts that share the lived realities and day-to-day applications of research.
Spotlight reflections on method: narratives and cases
Focused case studies from across departments and disciplines, sharing how particular methods were adapted or transformed in an interdisciplinary context and the implications for fostering inclusive knowledge.
Amplifying underrepresented voices: Using composite narratives to explore children’s lived experiences of mental health services in England.
How can researchers meaningfully capture children’s experiences of mental health services while protecting anonymity? Naomi Williams explores the use of composite narratives to amplify the voices of autistic children and young people with intellectual disabilities accessing the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in England. Combining narrative inquiry, creative methods, and co-produced research, the article demonstrates how composite narratives can transform lived experience into powerful, accessible insights for practice, training, and policy.
Listening as Transformation: A conversation with Raymond Hyma and Suyheang Kry on Faciliative Listening Design
How can research become a tool not only for generating knowledge, but also for transforming relationships in contexts of conflict? Raymond Hyma and Suyheang Kry reflect on the development of Facilitative Listening Design (FLD) — a participatory peace research methodology that trains community members to become “listeners” who gather lived experiences through reflective, unrecorded conversations. Developed through peacebuilding practice in Cambodia, FLD centres active listening, relational knowledge, and community engagement to surface insider perspectives while fostering dialogue and understanding. The piece explores the lived experience of listening across difference, the methodological foundations of FLD, and its potential to generate both research insight and social transformation.
Using social network analysis to understand consumer behaviour
Irsa Ajmal explains how she uses social network analysis on large, anonymised real-time datasets to map peer influence—ranging from how mental health may spread through school friendship groups to how consumers adopt new banking innovations. She reflects on the practical realities of big-data research, from messy identifiers and time-dependent diffusion patterns to the value of methodological flexibility and foundational programming skills.
Stepping off the expert pedestal: theatrical archaeology and the importance of co-production
Professor Kate Astbury explores how theatrical archaeology reconstructs lost performances to reveal the interplay between theatre and politics in Napoleonic France. She shares insights from community-driven projects on Caribbean revolutionaries imprisoned at Portchester Castle, highlighting co-production and social justice in reshaping public history.