The Research Library and Archives house a curated collection of completed, ongoing, and emerging research projects situated at the intersection of phenomenology, movement, and meaning-making. Together, they function as the intellectual core of Stories of Elsewhere, offering access to experimental inquiries that combine rigorous scholarship with reflective and embodied modes of knowing and diverse forms of representation.

At their foundation is phenomenological research, a methodological approach that investigates the structures of lived experience from the first-person perspective. Rather than treating individuals as detached observers, phenomenology centres perception, emotion, memory, and embodiment as fundamental ways through which people encounter and make sense of the world. This research asks not only what people do, but how it feels to live through particular moments, movements, and transitions within dynamic and situated contexts.

Many of the projects featured here are also autoethnographic or collaboratively ethnographic, blending personal narrative with cultural analysis. These approaches allow for deep introspection while situating the self within broader social, historical, and spatial frameworks. Some projects trace academic fieldwork across literal geographies—through travel, migration, and site-specific inquiry—while others map internal landscapes of transformation, identity, and relationality.

This integrated space includes methodological experiments, where traditional academic forms are reimagined through creative writing, dialogic inquiry, and multimodal formats. Alongside these are a range of completed academic outputs—including published papers, peer-reviewed book chapters, and conference presentations—as well as works-in-progress and other scholarly contributions. These materials provide theoretical grounding and contribute to ongoing critical conversations. Collectively, they push the boundaries of what research can look like and how it can be communicated—engaging the senses, emotions, and ethical complexities that conventional texts may struggle to convey.

Together, the Research Library and Archives invite readers, scholars, and fellow practitioners to engage with phenomenology not as a static philosophy, but as a living method—one that unfolds through encounter, reflection, and the continual re-negotiation of meaning across shifting terrains of thought, practice, and form.