<p>In our fourth episode Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar reflects on the conflicted experience of disrupted fieldwork. Can we sustain a life of the mind during lockdown? How does this relate to the foreclosed field? Under these conditions there is a power in writing but also a necessity to pause, helping us mourn the loss of a research project that can never be the same.</p>

Yvonne Daly and Aimée Muirhead on moving to remote interviewing as opposed to in-person focus groups

The suddenness of Covid-19 means that those currently undertaking fieldwork or planning to begin it in the near future had little time to prepare for lockdown measures and what they meant for their research. The scale of the disruption means that fieldwork as it is traditionally conceived simply cannot take place for the foreseeable future. 

In Unlocking Lockdown researchers from all career stages offer personal narratives about their experience of grappling with these challenges, as well as the insights and ideas they've generated along the way.