Overview
This research programme spans fourteen academic disciplines and produces twenty papers documenting institutional accommodation failure across multiple institutions. The methodology, dataset, and computational architecture are novel in the literature.
Full paper texts will be available following the resolution of active legal proceedings. Titles, target journals, and methodological summaries are provided below.
Novel Methodology
Double-Blind Autoethnography
The researcher did not know they were researching. The institution did not know it was being studied. Both records were produced independently. Freedom of information returns force convergence. No observer effect on either side.
This methodology has no existing precedent in the qualitative literature. It emerged from circumstance – institutional records and parallel creative output, produced without research intent, later recognised as datasets documenting the same phenomena from opposite sides.
Iron Gate Doctrine
An ethical framework for AI-assisted academic and professional practice. The forensic provenance chain proves human authorship through timestamped, hashed documentation of every human input, machine processing step, and output. The tool enables the production of the researcher’s directing – it does not replace the direction itself.
The saws did the cutting. But the carpenter built the house.
Forensic Correlation Methodology
A computational provenance architecture linking human direction to machine-assisted output with cryptographic verification. Open-source implementation: forensic_correlation_log.py.
Disciplines
- Critical Disability Studies
- Qualitative Methodology
- Veterans Studies
- Law & Society
- AI Ethics & Philosophy of Technology
- Clinical Psychology
- Housing Policy
- Education & Pedagogy
- Computer Science
- Cultural Studies
- Housing Economics
UK Research Relevance
The institute’s research has direct application to UK legal and policy frameworks:
- Equality Act 2010 – the duty to make reasonable adjustments and the Public Sector Equality Duty map directly onto accommodation failure patterns documented in this research
- Armed Forces Covenant – veterans’ transition research applies to UK military-to-civilian pathways
- Housing Act 1988 / Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 – housing policy research spans both Canadian and UK tenancy frameworks
- UK GDPR – forensic provenance architecture is designed for cross-jurisdictional compliance
Papers
| # | Title | Target Journal | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Unconscious Archive | Journal of Autoethnography | Draft complete |
| 2 | Net vs. Swamp: Three Veterans, Three Outcomes | Journal of Veterans Studies | Draft complete |
| 3 | The Banner/Hulk Coexistence Model | Disability Studies Quarterly | Internal ceiling reached |
| 4 | The Capability Paradox | Studies in Social Justice | Internal ceiling reached |
| 5 | Double-Blind Autoethnography | Qualitative Inquiry | Near ceiling |
| 6 | The Gates: AI-as-Accommodation | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies | Near ceiling |
| 7 | The Iron Gate: Provenance, Authorship, and AI Ethics | AI & Ethics | Conceptual |
| 8 | Before the Bench, Behind the Credential | Canadian Journal of Law & Society | Conceptual |
| 9 | The Sheepdog Model | Housing Studies | First draft |
| 10 | The Contemporary Document | Qualitative Inquiry | First draft |
| 11 | [Title withheld – pending proceedings] | Canadian Lawyer Magazine | First draft |
| 12 | The Collective Unconscious Archive | Journal of Popular Music Studies | Conceptual |
| 13 | Capitalism 101 in the Name of Communism | Harvard Negotiation Law Review | Conceptual |
| 14 | The Murphy Model: Socialist Capital Reinvestment in Housing | Housing Studies / J. Urban Affairs | Conceptual |
Total corpus: Twenty papers across fourteen disciplines.
Postgraduate Thesis
“Keys to the Cuffs”
Full title: The Capability Paradox: Institutional Misrecognition, Unconscious Documentation, and the Architecture of Accommodation Failure in Veteran Transition
Mixed-methods: qualitative narrative + quantitative provenance data + computational tool architecture. Ten-institution pattern. Fourteen academic disciplines. Forensic-grade, multi-layer institutional analysis novel in scope.
Contact
MachenTagar | England & Wales | uk@machentagar.ca