In this chapter, we describe and critically examine the tensions and failures that emerged around a study of Whiteness among a racially diverse research team and the harm this caused to colleagues of Colour. Following, Whiteness is examined as a series of discursive moves that frame and guide activity among interlocutors. Analysis of the mechanisms through which the White researchers instantiated an institutional space of Whiteness on the research project unearthed significant discomfort among the authors along the lines of race and status. We draw on the concept of tensions and Pais’s notion of failure to discuss the difficulty of balancing discussions of ideologies versus individuals, racialisation versus intersectionality, agency and power, and academic versus practical change.