Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book examines the increasing importance of engagement with non-academic groups and actors in the co-production of knowledge and real-world influence in academic research.

Introduction ~ Dr Sarah Marie Hall and Dr Ralitsa Hiteva; Dwarfism Expectations ~ Dr. Erin Pritchard; Disability Policy for Nomadic Positionings ~ Prof. Pamela Moss and Dr Michael J Prince; "You're not from 'round here, are you?": Class and accent as opportunity and obstacle in research encounters ~ Dr Sarah Marie Hall; A feminist retrofit: Spaces of encounter in collaborative domestic energy research ~ Prof. Gordon Waitt; Enacting intersectionality: the academic as critic, advocate and policymaker ~Dr. JP Catungal; Encountering "Experts" in the gender-social science-engineering nexus ~ Dr. Ralitsa Hiteva; Participants as experts in the own lives ~ Dr. Michael Richardson; Conclusions, key lessons and tactics: addressing social difference in spaces of engagement.