Too often in formal academic work, we spend our time waiting. Waiting to be sure, waiting for all the evidence to come in (even though we know it is never ‘complete’), waiting for reviews, waiting for publication timelines. There is often good reason to wait.

But there is also something to be said to start laying the bread crumbs along the way, offering thoughts that are emergent and forming. This component of our work tells stories unmediated by fully completed analysis, speaks of fragments that are important even if we don’t fully know why, allows people and spaces to tell their own stories without the researcher’s mediation, and allows open-ended questions to remain rather than be hidden.

For the first of our breadcrumbs, see here. For stories and narratives we post monthly, see our blog here.