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Queer methodologies emphasise the value of collating affective stories, non-linear narratives, and visual data in order to understand the experiences of diverse queer communities, and as a strategy for radical social transformation. This project explores what 'queer transformation' might mean and how it can be acheived through methodological, collaborative, and creative innovation.

Questions the project explores include:
• Strategies for developing queer methodologies
• The forms we use to retell or record the stories created and curated through queer methods
• The audiences and the afterlife of these creative research data
• Strategies for embedding knowledge exchange and engagement beyond the academy
• Formats for (and challenges of) non-traditional reporting and archive curation
• What does queer transformation mean in and out of the academy?
• Can the concrete utopias (Munoz, 2009; Wang, 2023) imagined through artistic practice be included in co-produced academic enquiry and/or policy-orientated investigation?
• Can queer disruption be achieved in institutionally sponsored work?
• How can publishing schedules, impact case studies, or funding bodies accommodate exploratory, radical, transformative, and non-linear stories, communities, and artistic productions?
• What are the ethical and social imperatives and implications of producing non-standard outputs for academic projects?
• How do we archive performance and other non-textual data?
• What are the cultural, legal, and social afterlives of artefacts produced in queer, creative projects?
•  Who is served by queer research on queer communities, identities, spaces, people, and lives?
• How do we share ideas and information in ways which reflect the methods used and communities affected?

We began exploring these questions in our conference, hosted at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, in June 2024.