Talking methods, talking about methods: Invoking the transformative potential of social methods through animals, objects and how-to instructions

The blog post investigates if we should be spending more time talking about methods. Human Geographers are playing a key role in developing creative, collaborative methodologies that enable researchers to attend to a range of social, political, and environmental phenomena. But methods are not only important in witnessing global challenges or as tools to gather data. As argued in a recent paper, methods themselves can play a role in transforming ideas, practices and knowledge. Methods for Change is an Aspect funded project running in two phases from 2020-2023, which seeks to highlight the value of social science methodologies to the wider world. The project collates innovative and transformative methods and demonstrates how they can create change in a variety of non-academic contexts, including: household consumption practices , infrastructures , waste, health and wellbeing, food , cities and sustainable cities, economic change , gender, age , race and ethnicity. The blog post serves as a useful starting point to understand Ali Browne's and her Co-PI's research.