ABSTRACT

This chapter outlines the multistranded, interdisciplinary methodology we developed to investigate research mobilities which included: interviews and lifelogging with primary teachers in England to explore their encounters with research; corpus linguistics analysis to examine appearances of literacy research in newspapers and Twitter; and cases that drew on a form of sociomaterial ethnography to study the movements of specific literacy research studies and research-informed literacy initiatives across multiple sites. The chapter explains how this methodology enabled multiple examinations of research mobilities generating insights that were rich, dynamic and textured and entangled with one another even if necessarily incomplete.