Abstract:
This paper explores issues emerging from the authors’ experiences of
collaborative research in Ghana, by researchers from a Ghanaian and a British
university. The text emerges from discussions between partners and in
retrospective reflection on the research process. It is constructed by bringing
together personal accounts of the different authors in which their identities shift
and are reconstructed in the process of the research. Multiple perspectives across
gender, nationality and institutional context create three fault lines to disturb the
research process: the initiation of the research, the methodological engagement of
the team with each other and the subjects, and the way these are played out in
practical issues. The paper explores the problems created by the instabilities
