David Calvey Publishes Book Chapter

The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights From Projects That Never Were Vol: 17

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but the lessons learnt have important similarities.

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Dr David Calvey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is interested in undercover research in the social sciences. David has been intellectually intrigued by studies of deception for a number of years and have published and taught in this area. He has also studied bouncers in the nocturnal environment as a study of a stereotype of masculinity in their role as gatekeeper/regulator of after-dark city spaces. Another research interest is resistance and disobedience at work, both in corporate call centres and micro creative business contexts. David has looked into Ethnographic Methodology and forms of auto-ethnography; Ethnomethodology as a form of social theory; extreme lifestyles such as combat sports and lastly, humour studies, particularly polemic stand-up comedy.