Research, Ethics, and Critical Practice

Research, Ethics, and Critical Practice in the Sensual Encyclopedia explores this field through sensuality, embodiment, human experience, and practical meaning.

Open Data and Intimate Privacy

Open research can strengthen trust and reproducibility, but intimate and embodied data cannot be treated as ordinary files. Responsible sharing uses minimisation, governance, controlled access, and participant-defined limits.

A Research Agenda for Sensuality

A serious research agenda for sensuality must connect sensory experience with embodiment, pleasure, relationship, culture, technology, justice, practice, and evidence without reducing the field to sexuality or wellness.

Preregistration for Sensuality Research

Preregistration records a study’s questions, design, outcomes, and analysis plans before results are known. It separates confirmatory claims from exploration while leaving room for transparent changes and participant-led discovery.

Do you prefer to listen?

If you prefer to listen, many of these themes are also explored through voice in the Sensual Institute podcast, where spoken reflections and audio transmissions offer another way to meet the material.

Reading engages the mind; listening allows the body to receive the same ideas through a different channel.

Both belong to the same body of work.

They simply meet you differently