ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises a meta-reflection on the ways in which institutional university research processes create constraining and enabling conditions for researchers to work with time, and locates these in wider discussions of the temporality of the contemporary university. It argues that University timescapes and chronopolitics are appropriate subjects not only of sociological and philosophical inquiry, but of methodological critique and reflection. The chapter begins to tease out how we might reflect on university temporalities as epistemologically constitutive, and asks how the timescapes of the university shape the nature of the knowledge that is being created. Finally, it suggests how we as qualitative researchers can recognise these temporalities precisely as methodological, and therefore formative of the knowledge that we are producing.
