When I think about all the research projects I’ve worked on, I can’t think of one that hasn’t experienced – and actually often benefitted from – things going wrong. Or at least not to plan. This has been quite upsetting – every single time – because I’m a planner; I like spreadsheets, and ticking things off, and colour-coding things, and putting things in order. And yet, as hard as it is for me to admit it, the accidental has actually been a very good friend to me in my research in all sorts of ways…