[Blog] The pitfalls and potential of researching and teaching ‘stuff’

This piece is by Benjamin Thorne (Lecturer at Kent Law School, and PhD graduate of Sussex Law School) and Matthew Evans (Senior Lecturer in Law, Politics and Sociology at Sussex and Visiting Researcher in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – and editor of this blog). It reflects on the authors’ experiences of navigating disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in contemporary academia and highlights both pitfalls and possible advantages of attempting to work beyond disciplinary boundaries.