Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:
- Part I Planning
- Chapter 1 Methods Dialogue:
- Chapter 2 Planning a Research Project:
- Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary Acts:
- Chapter 4 Mixing Methods in a Multi-Sited, Collaborative Project:
- Chapter 5 Methods Dialogue:
- Part II Doing
- Part III Interpreting
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Planning a Research Project:
Early Steps
from Part I - Planning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:
- Part I Planning
- Chapter 1 Methods Dialogue:
- Chapter 2 Planning a Research Project:
- Chapter 3 Interdisciplinary Acts:
- Chapter 4 Mixing Methods in a Multi-Sited, Collaborative Project:
- Chapter 5 Methods Dialogue:
- Part II Doing
- Part III Interpreting
- Index
- References
Summary
Maggie B. Gale explores ways of both framing and structuring the beginnings of a research project, and finding what might be called a ‘research niche’. She uses the case study of an emerging research project to articulate different possible approaches to conceptualizing the starting point, direction, and shape of a project, as well as working practices which might be useful in research design and method. The chapter also explores a series of working principles for avoiding the pitfalls of research distractions, without missing out on the serendipitous discoveries which a more unstructured process might allow. Gale’s own research on Elsa Lanchester illustrates the principles.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
References
Bachelard, G. (2011 [1943]). Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement. Trans. E. R. Farrell & C. F. Farrell. Dallas, TX: Dallas Institute.Google Scholar
Bratton, J., & Peterson, G. T. (2013). ‘The Internet: History 2.0?’ In Wiles, D. & Dymkowski, C., eds., The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 299–313.Google Scholar
Gagnier, R. (2010). ‘Twenty-First-Century and Victorian Ecosystems: Nature and Culture in the Developmental Niche’. Victorian Review, 36(2), 15–20.Google Scholar
Gale, M. B. (2020). A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939: Citizenship, Surveillance and the Body. Abingdon: Routledge.Google Scholar
Gale, M. B., & Featherstone, A. (2011). ‘The Imperative of the Archive: Creative Archive Research’. In Kershaw, B. & Nicholson, H., eds., Theatre and Performance Methodologies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 17–40.Google Scholar
Ginzburg, C. (1980). ‘Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method’. Intro. A. Davin. History Workshop, 9(1), 5–36.Google Scholar
Griffiths, T. (2016). The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft. Victoria, Australia: Black.Google Scholar
Ingold, T. (2013). Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Abingdon: Routledge.Google Scholar
Justus, J. (2019). ‘Ecological Theory and the Superfluous Niche’. Philosophical Topics, 47(1), 105–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lanchester, E. (2018). Elsa Lanchester: Herself. 2nd ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.Google Scholar
Light, A. (2007). Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service. London: Fig Tree.Google Scholar
Light, A. (2020). A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation. London: Penguin.Google Scholar
McWilliam, R. (2014). ‘Elsa Lanchester and Bohemian London in the Early Twentieth Century’. Women’s History Review, 23(2), 171–87.Google Scholar
Worsley, V. (2021). Always the Bride: A Biography of Elsa Lanchester. Orlando, FL: BearManor Media.Google Scholar