The most significant results and publications of the project and a discussion about these
The most significant result and contribution to new knowledge emerging from this project is that it shows how diverse forms of narrative and life writing genres play a significant role as a methodological tool in the shaping of new knowledge in the humanities, social sciences and the art based research. The project has resulted in the development of a model for a theory and method of situated writing underbuilt by philosophies, theories and applied practices, which shows how these different levels interacts. The design of the project in its published form will be a short monograph in three parts. The first part is the publishing of a trilogy of peer reviewed autobiographical narratives of untimely academic novellas, the second part develops a theory and method for situated writing and the third part provides practical guidelines for readers who wish to work with their own writing. The integrated approach is in itself an important result. It makes possible for readers to access the novellas as a collection, and to gain knowledge about the epistemological and theoretical foundations of textual and visual narrative genres such as diaries and letters, and photography. An important contribution of the project, which is of interest to an interdisciplinary community of academic readers, is that it addresses the topic of academic writing and the academic author at work, and communicates what a writing life that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries can become. Thus, the project addresses issues and dilemmas in academic life, research and teaching, that are otherwise difficult to bring up and contributes to problem solving strategies in research and education by its practice based orientation. The project fills a gap within existing literature by its particular focus on the novella form and contributes to innovative original auto/biographical narrative scholarship in the growing interdisciplinary field of critical, creative and reflexive forms of writing and visual methods in academe. By making use of literary fiction to create the tone and style of narrative writing, this project invites not just alternative ways of writing, but also opens up for alternative readings. An important contribution to new knowledge is the way the project develops a complex notion of situated epistemology and intersectionality, addressing social, economic, political and personal relations of power and the complexity of social life through class, gender and whiteness as well as spatial locations. Thus, this intersectional approach includes analytical strategies to look at privilege and subordination and includes institutional spaces and landscape for understanding power. Researchers that take on auto/biographical life writing projects will benefit from the discussion about relational ethics in this project.

The outcome of the project apart from the publications    
This project has contributed to a number of results besides the publication, such as extended national and international collaborations and opportunities to communicate the innovative contribution of the project with diverse audiences. The untimely academic novella has attracted interest in Swedish academia in particular in architecture, design and art based research. This interest has been strengthened through the project where the novellas become a collection accompanied by a theory and method for situated writing. In regard to internationalisation, which is presented in more detail in a forthcoming section, the project has resulted in developing and strengthen links to research and teaching in social work, autoethnography and life writing studies during the visit at University of Sussex, UK. The project has resulted in two invitations as key note speaker to the following conferences: ‘The Art of Research Conference: Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations’, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 29-30 November 2017 http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi/keynotes.html; and ‘Improving Practice through Reflexive Research’, Metanoia Institute, London 21-23 March 2018. During the project time the project leader has been invited to become one of Routledge Featured Authors: https://www.routledge.com/authors/i16307-mona-livholts. The project has generated new research questions that is accounted for for under a separate heading.

New research questions emerging from the project
A theme leaping through this project is the relationship between academic authoring and narrative life writing as theory and practice. Thus, the project interweaves personal life with institutional and structural conditions that shape academic authoring and make possible or limit specifik ways of knowledge. During the last decades, the methodological aspects of writing have been acknowledged across the humanities, social sciences and art based research. However, there is a lack  lack of research initiatives that offers communicative spaces for conversations with academic authors about their writing and the communicative aspects with readers and diverse audiences within and outside academia. A new research question generated from this project is how we can learn more about the contribution from diverse genres of writing to communicate with different audiences by creating spaces for a series of conversations in the form of publicly staged interviews, film- and recorded talks with researchers across arts, the humanities, and social sciences.
 
The internationalisation of the project
A two months international visit has been conducted at the Centre for Social Work Innovation in Research (CSWIR), University of Sussex, UK. Located in the School of Education and Social Work, this Centre contributes to advance international profile and impact of research on innovative interdisciplinary approaches to social work. It brings together social work scholars, professionals, and students, and provide a distinctive ground for research and innovation focusing on the changing nature of social relations of social work and other social action interventions. During Livholts visit the project was presented and discussed at a seminar with the title: ‘Situated Writing as Methodological Tool in Social Work Research and Teaching’ (2017-05-15). This interdisciplinary project has resulted in strengthened research collaboration with the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research (CSWIR), University of Sussex, which invited Livholts to become a member of their international advisory board. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/socialwork/cswir/index. During the visit at University of Sussex Livholts presented a paper based on the project which developed methodological aspects of the project to autoethnography and social fiction: ‘The Professor’s Chair and Other Untimely Academic Novellas. Autoethnography as Social Fiction. 2017-06-15—16. Voicing Experience: The 4th British Conferenc e of Autoethnography, Sussex University UK. During the visit in Sussex new international contacts has been established with The Centre for Life History and Life Writing, University of Sussex and The Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.