ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the empirical study of Student-Led Improvement Science Projects in a hospital setting and outlines the research strategy in relation to the theoretical orientation of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and education. It also describes how the fieldwork was set up, including the initial meetings and the ethics process. For ANT, participants are considered as assemblages of human and non-human entities whose realities are contingent to the networks they are connected to and the worlds they reside in. Images and pictures can be problematic as these tend to assume a representation of the data and can sometimes reinforce boundaries around objects. However, Decuypere and Simons describe figures as ‘descriptive objects in their own right’ and as a way to highlight relations. The diagrams and images drew attention to the relations between entities and the assemblages of heterogeneous materials that gathered in different practices.
