ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects the broad issue of marginalised research in education/social science generally through its use of methodologies that give a voice to those at the fringe of the dominant discourse. It uses the case study of researching community policing to justify the significance of researching on the fringes and to provide potential suggestions for investigating the margins within an organisation dominated by cultural expectations of both its operation and its research. The chapter explains the recent study into community policing in the Queensland Police Service and present suggestions for social science researchers of similar marginal departments within mainstream organisations. This research approach provided an effective alternative to mainstream policing research and could also apply to similar organisational departments that operate at the fringe of their mainstream colleagues. The researcher explains, how community policing was contributing to organisational outputs, and value was added to the community policing role.
