Contributors to this edited collection argue for an emotional rebellion in the academic world, arguing that the presentation of research as ‘objective’ conceals the subject positions of researchers and the emotional imperatives that often drive research.

Foreword; Janet Fink Introduction: Why Emotion Matters; Tracey Loughran and Dawn Mannay  Part 1: Reflexivity and Research Relationships  Chapter 1. Role Transitions in the Field and Reflexivity: From Friend to Researcher; Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott   Chapter 2. With a Little Help From My Colleagues: Notes on Emotional Support in a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Project; Agata Lisiak and Łukasz Krzyżowski  Chapter 3. The Positional Self and Researcher Emotion: Destabilising Sibling Equilibrium in the Context of Cystic Fibrosis; Amie Scarlett Hodges  Chapter 4. ‘It’s Not History. It’s My Life’: Researcher Emotions and the Production of Critical Histories of the Women’s Movement; Kate Mahoney  Chapter 5. ‘You Just Get On With It’: Negotiating the Telling and Silencing of Trauma and Its Emotional Impacts in Interviews with Marginalised Mothers; Dawn Mannay Part 2: Emotional Topographies and Research Sites   Chapter 6. Approaching Bereavement Research with Heartfelt Positivity; Katherine Carroll   Chapter 7. ‘The Transient Insider’: Identity and Intimacy in Home Community Research; Erin Roberts   Chapter 8. Emotions, Disclosures and Reflexivity: Reflections on Interviewing Young People in Zambia and Women in Midlife in the UK; Sophie Bowlby and Caroline Day  Chapter 9. Shock and Offence Online: The Role of Emotion in Participant Absent Research; Aimee Grant   Chapter 10. Love & Sorrow: The Role of Emotion in Exhibition Development and Visitor Experience; Deborah Touth-Smith  Part 3: Subjectivities and Subject Positions Chapter 11. The Expectation of Empathy: Unpacking Our Epistemological Bags while Researching Empathy, Literature, and Neuroscience; Lauren Fowler and Sally Bishop Shigley   Chapter 12. ‘Poor Old Mixed-Up Wales’: Entering the Debate about Bilingualism, Multiculturalism and Racism in Welsh Literature and Culture; Lisa Sheppard   Chapter 13. The Emotion of ‘Doing Ethics’ in Healthcare Research: A Researcher’s Reflexive Account; Geraldine Latchem-Hastings  Chapter 14. Being Both Researcher and Subject: Attending to Emotion within Collaborative Inquiry; Mary Morris and Andrea Davies   Chapter 15. Blind Spots and Moments of Estrangement: Subjectivity, Class and Education in British ‘Autobiographical Histories’; Tracey Loughran  Afterword; Tracey Loughran and Dawn Mannay

"This volume troubles, provokes and challenges, bringing into sharp relief the lived realities of social research. All of the contributions here pay attention to the emotional landscape in which our research journeys are situated and through which our research is intimately experienced. Emotions are often an absent presence in our research stories, always there but often not acknowledged, and rarely understood as part of the very essence of what makes research both social and authentic. The authors in this book are, therefore, to be commended for telling it like it is, for having the conversation and for reminding us that research is indeed about thinking, doing and feeling." - Professor Amanda Coffey, Cardiff University, UK