ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the later stages of research projects: it focuses on the impact of different decisions about modes of analysis, and, particularly, about how the various findings from social scientific inquiries are represented and shared. We try to combine two kinds of account. The first concerns the process of writing a report of the research (including the choices and trade-offs that are involved); the second a series of ‘takes’ on the work of a single school, one of the many that we studied, that aims to show the multiple ways in which we sought to represent the ‘subjects’ of our research, and that also – we hope – illustrates the distinctiveness of what our project tried to achieve. To put it in theatrical terms, we aim to offer an insight into the mechanics of research ‘staging’ and to show something of the achieved work, the ‘play’ itself.
