This is the first publication in the Methods Lab series.

is a collection of 26 cutting-edge experimental multi-modal, sensory, participatory and practice-based research projects

This catalogue of methods draws on the wealth of cutting-edge critical and creative social research from the Goldsmiths Sociology Department to offer an engaged guide to doing research with a range of unexpected things.

It builds a case for an understanding of contemporary social research as interdisciplinary, responsive, dynamic and vital in studying and shaping social worlds.

• Through hands-on discussions of the practicalities, ethics, and politics of doing social research, this catalogue showcases a wide range of examples of what methods might mean and do.
• It builds a case for an understanding of contemporary social research as interdisciplinary, responsive, dynamic, vital, and urgent in studying and shaping social worlds.
• Contributors present the methodological puzzles they have become knotted with and offer textured yet clear paths through the problems and issues. The resulting short and imaginative case studies offer new ways of teaching, learning, and doing lively and rigorous research.This is research as close-up observations, infrastructural interventions and imaginative play. How to Do Social Research With … will be essential for anyone interested in expanding their repertoire of social research methods.

•  A collection of short films made a few years ago by Goldsmiths sociology staff and students, present and past, on the objects, materials, media, atmospheres they do research with.

For more about the Methods Lab Series.