"Mesearch and the Performing Body is a timely and articulate call for visibility and attention to be given to experiences of ageing by those who age. In Mesearch we see a call for increased debate of the relationality within artistic practice, where self-inquiry informs creative outputs." (Dr Fiona Bannon, University of Leeds, UK) "This work is of genuine originality. There is little existing research on the relationship of self-age(ing) of either dance or (even less) drag. The author offers a counterbalance of a considered framework of autoethnography (he posits the neologism 'mesearch'). Edward deliberately courts the personal alongside a poetic style of writing that rests amongst the academic." (Professor Simon Piasecki, Liverpool Hope University, UK) "The interdisciplinary, autoethnographic scope of Edward's book is refreshingly original, and makes a significant contribution to the fields of performance and embodiment studies. In focusing on three performance pieces to consider how embodiment and subjectivity are interrelated, Edward supplies specific and tangible 'hooks' on which the theory is hung.

" (Professor Emma Rees, University of Chester, UK) "Contemplating research and worried by how to manage objectivity? Don't be. Here's a refreshing book of less than 100 pages that, with due rigour, contributes to a more creative research agenda - and one that involves critical analysis of sociological and practice-based literatures and that foregrounds the value of (inevitable) subjectivity in research." (Dr Paul Simpson).