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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figure -- Foreword by Michalinos Zembylas -- About the editors -- 1. Re-searching margins: An introduction -- Research unease -- The story behind the stories -- What is this book about? -- Doing ethical research differently: Educational research as an epistemic and socially just project -- Reflection and reflexivity -- Storying our framework: Framing our story -- Research narratives -- Critical tales of research ethics -- Re-searching with/in the margins -- The search for ethical and socially just research -- Ethics in research: Researching ethically -- Learning from the margins -- Research ethics: Perspectives and positions -- Toward ethical research: Principles of research design -- A final note -- 2. Select literature: Re-view|Re-new -- Researching difficult knowledge -- Researching margins: Drawing difficult knowledge towards knowing and being -- Epistemologies of otherness -- Re-searching the difficult-ontology and the emerging axiological core -- Understanding the difficulty of 'Difficult' -- Emancipation for 'Other' knowledge-theories to reclaim | insurgent difference -- Ontology and messiness -- 'New-Old': Indigenous stand-point and Indigenous relationality -- Research and researcher subjectivities -- A note on holding space -- A closer examination -- Conclusion -- 3. Research narrative 1: Islam, Muslim communities, sexuality education and schooling: A delicate balancing act -- Ideals adrift -- Sexuality education: Interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, critical -- Going solo: Research tensions from within -- Towards responsive and responsible research ethics with and for the Australian Muslim community -- Ethical research with Muslim communities: A delicate balancing act -- Siffa: Ethics of character -- Sulook: Ethics of attitude.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to attempt to theorise difference as encountered by a team of six diverse researchers interested in addressing cultural and religious diversity in sexuality education. Drawing Todd's (2003, 2011a, b) concepts of "the crossroads", "becoming present" and "relationality" in conversation with Barad's (2003, 2007, 2012) ideas around relationality and intra-activity, the paper explores how "difference" in team research might be re-conceptualised. The aim is to theorise difference, differently from Other methodological literature around collaborative research. Typically, this work highlights markers of difference based on researcher identity (such as gender and ethnicity) as the source of difference in research teams, and examines how these differences are worked through. The aim of this paper is not to resolve difference, but understand it as occurring in the relational process of researchers becoming present to each other. Difference that is not understood as the product of the individual (Barad, 2012), may engender an orientation to ethical relationality, whereby research teams might hold in tension a conversation between the individual and the collective.Design/methodology/approach– This paper is philosophical and methodological. It draws on conceptual understandings from feminist educational philosophy and new materialisms. Findings are based on empirical experiences of a team of researchers exploring cultural and religious difference in sexuality education. Its aim is to re-think the ontology of "difference" as conventionally understood in qualitative methodological literature around team research.Findings– The contribution to conceptualising difference in research teams is to apply Todd's (2011a) theoretical work around "becoming", "relationality" and the "crossroads" and further delineate it with Barad's (2012) concept of intra-activity. Combining these theorist's ideas the paper offers a conceptualisation of difference that is not the product of individual researcher identities that manifests at the point of collision with (an)other identity. Rather, difference becomes intra-actively in meeting at the crossroads where the "who" is formed. The author argues it is a configuration that cannot be known in advance, and that blurs individuals (and contingent identities) in its uniqueness.Practical implications– Although conceptual in nature, this paper can be seen as having implications for working with difference in research teams. Drawing on Todd (2003, 2011a) what becomes important in attending to difference in research teams is being openly receptive to the Other. For instance, that the differences of perspective in relation to a research project are not melted into consensus, but that the singularities are always held in relation to each-other.Originality/value– This paper takes new and emerging ideas in educational philosophy and new materialisms around relationality and applies them to a re-thinking of "difference" in qualitative methodological literature. The result is to offer a new ontology of "difference" as experienced by members of a qualitative research team. It also brings the work of Barad and Todd into conversation for the first time, in order to think ethically about how researchers might work with difference.