Nirmal Puwar has been Sociologist at Goldsmiths, University of London since 2003. Nirmal is recently Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Co-Convenor of the MA Gender, Media and Culture Programme. She co-founded the Methods Lab to mutate relations within and beyond the walls of the academy. Her book Space Invaders (2004) is re-visited for a 20th Anniversary Issue, in the Journal of European Cultural Studies. Live Methods, co-edited with Les Back, is one of eighteen collections she has co-edited. As a Writer-As-Resident she has been writing a book titled One Mile Walk: decomposing and recomposing. Essays on Mint and Ball Hill are a prelude to the book written as braided text. Experiments with a range of research methods and collaboration is central to her work. She is a British Academy Innovation Fellow, focusing on Multi-Cultural Experiments in the Civic Life of a Cathedral.