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Primary EssayWhen a word stops fittingThrough Clyde Street Primary EssayWhen does publication not mean the work is finished?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhat changes between making something and making it usable?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhen does your own position become part of the analysis?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhat happens when another person changes where the inquiry goes?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhat do you do when the evidence is not enough — or changes underneath you?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhen is returning to old work more than repetition?Through Clyde Street Primary EssayWhen does a distant idea earn its place?Through Clyde Street Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen Sharing Becomes a Route for OthersHow a whole-corpus study distinguished deliberate routes for others from availability, curation and useful information.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen a Limit Actually Constrains the AccountHow a whole-corpus study separated consequential limits from cautious wording, reported exceptions and somebody else’s caveat.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen People Become Part of the Inquiry RouteHow a whole-corpus study distinguished person-led traversal from names, links and relationships.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen Biography Does Analytical WorkHow a whole-corpus study distinguished biography that changed an inquiry from memoir, identity and proximity.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen the Inquiry Itself ChangesHow a whole-corpus study distinguished changed inquiry from new information, reflection and intended change.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen the Inquiry Becomes InspectableHow a whole-corpus study distinguished inspectable inquiry from charts, links and technical display.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen Public Work Has a Next LifeHow a whole-corpus study distinguished deliberate revisability from another post, another update and public availability.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen New Words Are Not EnoughHow a whole-corpus study distinguished language repair from metaphor, reframing and broader conceptual change.Evidence Companion / Research Deep-DiveWhen Inquiry Becomes Something You Actually DoHow a whole-corpus study distinguished realised practice from plans, recommendations and participation.Learning EncounterWhat Kind of Information Do You Want to Collect?Learning Encounter 2 — when is information ready to inform practice?Learning EncounterThe Future? What Should We Take Forward?Learning Encounter 5 — choosing possibilities rather than predicting technology Learning EncounterWhat Did the Analysis Actually Contribute?Learning Encounter 4 — evaluation: from a working service to an accountable practice Learning EncounterWho Learns from the Analysis?Learning Encounter 3 — from showing performance to supporting judgement Learning EncounterDoes Video Have a Use?Learning Encounter 1: The use of video in sport Celia Brackenridge, Jean Macheath & missing voicesPerson-Centred CaseWho Is Missing From the Origin Story?Grandmothers, godmothers and the unfinished history of performance analysis Neil LanhamPerson-Centred CaseWhen the Source Says Slow DownNeil Lanham and a history Keith kept revising Mark UptonPerson-Centred CaseWhen New Work Sends You BackMark Upton, Keith Lyons and the questions that returned under changed conditions Darrell CobnerPerson-Centred CaseA Conversation That Kept MovingA case study of how Keith Lyons influenced, encouraged and learned through his long public exchange with Darrell Cobner.Hamish JeacockePerson-Centred CaseFrom Doing to BeingHamish Jeacocke, Keith Lyons and what remains valuable when the tools can do more TrailWhen the Trails CrossThree ways into the people of Clyde Street Alexis LebedewPerson-Centred CaseChanging the ViewAlexis Lebedew, Keith Lyons and a relationship that kept opening another way of seeing Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann & the sociology of knowledgePerson-Centred CaseThe Sociology Keith Carried With HimPeter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, a later return to Stephen Woolgar, and one sociological inheritance Keith carried into performance analysis Ian FranksPerson-Centred CaseA Keystone, Not a BlueprintIan Franks in Keith Lyons’ performance-analysis practice Audrey WattersPerson-Centred CaseA Useful DisturbanceAudrey Watters, Keith Lyons, and what happens when a recurring source makes your assumptions harder to keep Peter DowrickPerson-Centred CaseA Possible Future in the FramePeter Dowrick, feedforward and a long Clyde Street return Gavin Reynolds & the National Sport Information CentrePerson-Centred CaseWorld-Leading Without Saying SoGavin Reynolds, the NSIC and the power of invisible service Olive Banks & Phillida SalmonPerson-Centred CaseWayfinders for a Changing LandscapeOlive Banks, Phillida Salmon and what Keith carried into new terrain Stephen DownesPerson-Centred CaseA Compass Is Not a CommandStephen Downes, Keith Lyons and the work of staying oriented without surrendering judgement Sue, Beth & Sam LyonsPerson-Centred CaseThe People Closest to Clyde StreetSue, Beth, Sam and learning close to home Primary EssayWhat Did Flourishing Mean in Clyde Street?Hope, failure and what matters beyond success in Clyde Street Primary EssayWhen Does Connection Become Community?What the public evidence can and cannot justify Primary EssayWhen Challenge Gives Way to ListeningCritical friendship under pressure in Clyde Street Primary EssayR U OK? as an Everyday QuestionCare, memory and connectedness across Clyde Street Hub / CapstoneWhat Is Ours to Do?Responsibility, relationships and the limits of control across Clyde Street Hub / CapstoneHuman Lives in Clyde StreetFour routes through care, relationship, community and human possibility Primary EssayWhat Can a Place Make Possible?From rooms and kiosks to cafes, campuses and commons Primary EssayThe Long Conversation Between Practice and Research Primary EssayFor or With?Rethinking the relationship in performance analysis Primary EssayTravel CompanionWhat did Keith Lyons mean by a name Clyde Street leaves unfinished?Hub / CapstoneLearning and Agency in Clyde StreetWhat nine routes reveal about support, possibility and the room to act TrailFeedforwardCould evidence do more than point backwards?Primary EssayKeeping Play in Serious SportWhat Keith kept returning to across coaching, specialisation and optimisation Primary EssayWhat Do You Call Someone Who Helps a Coach Learn?Meddlers, co-pilots, fellow travellers and the problem of naming support Primary EssayLearning WithThe relational work behind professional learning Primary EssayWho Owns the Learning?Personal learning, unequal opportunity and the work of support Primary EssayFrom Review to Pre-viewWhen assessment becomes part of learning Primary EssayWhen a Public Record Can Be Corrected Hub / CapstonePublic Knowledge in Clyde StreetSix doors into what happens after an idea enters a public record Primary EssayWhen Expertise Makes RoomA short Clyde Street trail through humility, deference and guidance Primary EssayWhen Does Failure Become a Route?Primary EssayStory as a Way of Knowing Primary EssayWhen Openness Meets a Boundary Primary EssayWho Gets to Speak?Primary EssayWhat Can an Observer Know?Clyde Street keeps showing that “observation” is not one problem with one technical solution.Primary EssayWhat Has to Travel with Knowledge?Clyde Street keeps returning to the problem of what must survive around an idea if somebody else is to find it, understand it and use it later.Primary EssayWhat Happens to a Prediction After the Future Arrives?Clyde Street’s forecasts become most useful when the before-state survives the result.Primary EssayA History with Missing PiecesWhat Clyde Street reveals when neat origin stories stop working.Hub / CapstoneDon’t Just Keep the AnswerWhat four Beyond the Breadcrumbs trails reveal about preserving the conditions of knowing.Gateway / EntranceWhat Clyde Street can teach us about inquiry — Full evidential versionEleven practices, the distinctions that sharpen them, and four harder lessons from 2,051 Clyde Street records Gateway / EntranceWhat Clyde Street can teach us about inquiry — Short gatewayEleven practices from 2,051 Clyde Street records — and the distinctions that stop them becoming slogans.Gateway / EntranceEntering Clyde StreetFrom a 1984 paper to questions carried through Clyde Street Gateway / EntranceWhat Keith Was SeeingThe questions, compasses and people Keith Lyons left visible in Clyde Street AfterwordWhat Happened to 5.0?Tony Charge, Keith Lyons and the space between qualitative and quantitative, artificial and augmented intelligence AboutWhy Beyond the Breadcrumbs?Clyde Street began as home.Start at the groundStart in Clyde StreetChoose a Clyde Street post and see where that breadcrumb travels.Keith’s recurring questionsQuestions Keith Kept Returning ToFollow a question family Keith returned to across Clyde Street.Curated viewIntelligence Augmentation & AICurated navigational matrix Curated viewSeeing, Observation & RepresentationCurated navigational matrix Curated viewHistory, Memory & RevisionCurated navigational matrix Curated viewEvidence, Sources & ProvenanceCurated navigational matrix Curated viewLearning, Agency & ParticipationCurated navigational matrix Curated viewGender, Representation & Missing KnowledgeCurated navigational matrix Curated viewInstitutions, Governance & Organisational ChangeCurated navigational matrix Curated viewAnalyst Profession, Learning & LabourCurated navigational matrix Curated viewDistant Ideas & DomainsCurated navigational matrix Curated viewPerformance Analysis Under UncertaintyCurated navigational matrix Curated viewPeople Focused BlogsCurated navigational matrix Curated viewPeople & EncountersCurated navigational map Curated viewWhat Should Make Something a Matrix? 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What do you do when the evidence is not enough — or changes underneath you?

Then, if it earns you: When a Limit Actually Constrains the Account

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What happens when another person changes where the inquiry goes?

Then, if it earns you: When People Become Part of the Inquiry Route

Why this breadcrumb?

These two pieces examine a related inquiry at different scales while keeping distinct source trails.

How are these trails made?

A governed breadcrumb

When does your own position become part of the analysis?

Then, if it earns you: When Biography Does Analytical Work

Why this breadcrumb?

These two pieces examine a related inquiry at different scales while keeping distinct source trails.

How are these trails made?