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After reading this chapter, you should know:

 how to generate your research archive – the data that you will find yourself working with on a day-to-day basis;

 about some potential sources of materials you may want to consider working with, ranging from newspaper articles to blogs to recordings of counselling sessions; and

 about some examples of how I and other researchers found, collected and analyzed various materials.

The range of possible sources of material to conduct research on is massive and potentially never-ending. We now have a large range of different technologies that allow you to generate, access, store and engage with a vast array of materials. Among many things, the technologies of the printing press, camera, photocopier, audio recorder, video camera, computer, smartphone and the Internet are all key to contemporary research practice. These mundane and relatively invisible technologies both enable us to conduct our research and, perhaps more importantly, now direct the focus of our research.