ABSTRACT
Inspired by the methods of Mass Observation (MO), the Sharing Practice Project, usually known as the Share Project (SP), collected diaries from academics in UK Higher Education over the course of the academic year September 2010 to August 2011. Diarists had to register with the Share Project website, and had to enter text there every month. Along with MO, Share Project diaries are an irreducibly qualitative instrument designed to elicit descriptively rich material that cannot be adequately represented in a quantitative fashion. The Share Project consists of three separate, but related, strands of enquiry relating to how academics share teaching practice, how they represent their teaching practice, and how they change their teaching practice. The Share project was funded 2008-2012 by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) Project Strand, administered by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
