I’ve been recording interviews since June, and we currently have 17 done. With only one more booked, we’ve been looking over the transcripts, listening to the audio recordings and making notes. We we feel we have what we need to be able to move to the analysis and writing phase.

Each member of the team will make notes highlighting what they see as key categories of answer, key themes or key issues. We’re fixing up a date to meet via Skype in October to compare notes.

At that point we hope to see some ways these notes line up. There might be some big divergences, but these might also be interesting in themselves.

We’ll discuss how we might structure a working paper or report based on these themes or issues. After some more detailed and systematic analysis of the transcripts we’ll publish this as a free PDF online in early 2020. There’ll be the chance to give comments and feedback on this.

After that we will examine one or more of these key issues in greater depth in a more specialist publication, for an academic journal. That’s likely to be a slow process – because we’re busy, and because of peer review and the inevitable rounds of revisions that will ensue.