Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research

Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts researchers with various socio-cultural disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as team examine the varied funerary experiences needs established minorities recent migrants in England Wales. Focusing on researchers’ personal death bereavement their performances minority majority ethnic migrant identities, highlights embodied nature fieldwork. It argues that reflection aspects intersectional researcher identity is necessary for rigorous fieldwork practice takes transparency politics into account. facilitates deeper understanding positionality both interlocutors, situated co-production knowledge. In doing so, illustrates conducting research diverse contributes better complexity multifacetedness social phenomena.