Resurrected analysis : Navigating time between two environmental projects in Finland
(2025) In Area- Abstract
This paper considers the ways in which research projects linger beyond their ‘official’ endings, and how to deal with this. Building on conversations in human geography and related disciplines on slow research, performed endings, and the practical and socio-political complexities of data storage and analysis over time, I relate some experiences with my research on the Finnish Saimaa Ringed Seal, which resurfaced years later via a new project. Should I re-engage or leave it as a discrete period of previous work? An end to funding or finishing the write-up does not necessarily sever the connection between a researcher and their data. I argue that social research can be an ongoing, slow, and personal process. My aim is to encourage both... (More)
This paper considers the ways in which research projects linger beyond their ‘official’ endings, and how to deal with this. Building on conversations in human geography and related disciplines on slow research, performed endings, and the practical and socio-political complexities of data storage and analysis over time, I relate some experiences with my research on the Finnish Saimaa Ringed Seal, which resurfaced years later via a new project. Should I re-engage or leave it as a discrete period of previous work? An end to funding or finishing the write-up does not necessarily sever the connection between a researcher and their data. I argue that social research can be an ongoing, slow, and personal process. My aim is to encourage both new and more experienced researchers to reflect on how we think about data and analysis when projects may live on in our minds or in boxes in a cupboard.
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- author
- Garson, Katja LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- in press
- subject
- keywords
- data analysis, endings, Finland, previous project[s], slow research, time
- in
- Area
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85214412685
- ISSN
- 0004-0894
- DOI
- 10.1111/area.12991
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 738544f1-7980-420c-b909-bf33ea1415be
- date added to LUP
- 2025-03-12 15:32:34
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 14:52:26
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title = {{Resurrected analysis : Navigating time between two environmental projects in Finland}},
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