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...out by his possessions, which to all intents and purposes is his home – and should be respected as such. A changing city Since the early 1980s, Liverpool has been undergoing economic, physical, social, political, reputational and cultural regeneration. These processes have picked up pace since 2003, when Liverpool was announced as the 2008 European Capital of Culture....

...disenchantments, but these were collapsed into simplifying binaries: hard or soft, in or out, authentic or false, with us or against us. Complexity and nuance – the stuff in trade of good social science research – has little place in such a world. How might researchers respond? Firstly, I think, we need to avoid using methods that categorise people into a set of boxes. Surveys and ‘vox pop’ interview encounters raise some ......

...out the technical method most suited to creating that data. However, this model of research is arguably a mirage that ignores how many researchers actually work. Indeed, for many researchers who are engaged with and motivated by contemporary society, their questions are often produced by formal or informal on-the-ground experimental research. In other words, a research...