interviewing. Through the analysis of three diaries written for the Mass Observation Archive, and the everyday food practices …

In Summer 2008 I commissioned a Part 1 Directive on ‘Doing Family History Research’ from the Mass Observation … Mass Observation correspondents as generating sociological knowledge and insight through what I will call ‘dual visionâ …

The Mass Observation Archive presents numerous methodological issues for social researchers. The data are idiosyncratic …€™ plays a real and dynamic part of conducting Mass Observation research. Building on these observations, and drawing on two …

analysing the materials of the post-1981 Mass Observation Project (MOP) in particular. Through discussion lists and events, a …, dedicated scrutiny. During 2009-10, however, the University of Brighton research network Methodological Innovations: Using Mass … Observation (MIMO) brought together 150 international academics, archivists, writers and artists to debate and share methods for …

This paper explores the challenges arising from the ‘re-use’ of Mass Observation Project (MOP) writing (1981 to … data source; choice of analytical tools and approaches; and the Mass Observation writer's role in the research process. By …

This paper explores the relationship between Mass Observation and sociological method. It will demonstrate that often … by Mass Observation frequently positioned as posing problems for sociologists particularly in terms of data analysis and … interpretation. The paper will explore these debates by focusing on two case studies drawn from Mass Observation directives. The …

The paper focuses on the relations between Mass Observation Reports, and the contemporary sociological valuing of … Madge’s and Humphrey Jennings’ notion of Mass Observation as ‘Popular Poetry’, I then consider how Whitmanâ …

This article explores the perspectives of Mass Observation (MO) correspondents on crime investigation and application … limitations of a Mass Observation approach to documenting collective views on the role of forensic technologies in crime …

This paper reports on an analysis of hitherto unexamined documentary data on food held within the UK Mass Observation …