Selected publications
Selected publications from Realities and Real Life Methods. Click on a title to go to the relevant publisher's page (all open in a new browser window).
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Publications with methodological/method focus
Mason, J & Dale, A (2011) 'Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method' Sage
May, V. & Griffin, A. (forthcoming 2011) ‘Narrative analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis’ in Seale, C. (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (3rd ed), London: Sage.
Bagnoli, A. and Clark, A. (2010) ‘Focus Groups with Young People: A Participatory Approach to Research Planning’, Journal of Youth Studies, 13(1), 101-119.
Clark, Andrew and Prosser, Jon and Wiles, Rose (2010) Ethical issues in image-based research. Arts and Health, 2 (1). pp. 81-93. ISSN 1753-3015
Davies, K. (2010) 'Knocking on Doors: recruitment and enrichment in a qualitative interview based study' International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Davies, K. (forthcoming) Making Sense of Family Resemblance: the Politics of Visual Perception in Jamieson, L., Simpson, R. and Lewis, R. (eds) ‘Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process’
Mason, J. and Dale, A. (eds) Understanding Social Research:Thinking Creatively about Method, London: Sage, 2011
Mason, J and Dale, A, ‘Creative Tensions in Social Research’, in Mason, J. and Dale, A. (eds) Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method, Sage: London, 2011
Mason, J and Davies, K, ‘Qualitative and Sensory Methods in Researching Family Relationships’, in Mason, J. and Dale, A. (eds) Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method, Sage: London, 2011
Bagnoli, A (2009) 'Beyond the standard interview: the use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods' Qualitative Research, special issue on qualitative research and methodological innovation, Vol 9, No 5, 547-570.
Bagnoli, A. (2009) ‘Researching Identities with Multi-method Autobiographies’, in B. Harrison (ed.) Life Story Research, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, London, Sage, 376-397. First published in Sociological Research Online, 9(2).
Emmel, Nick and Hughes, Kahryn (2009) 'Small–N access cases to refine theories of social exclusion and access to socially excluded individuals and groups'. In: The Sage handbook of Case-Based Methods. Sage: London.
Gough, B (2009) 'A psycho-discursive approach to analysing qualitative interview data, with reference to a father—son relationship', Qualitative Research, special issue on qualitative research and methodological innovation, Vol 9, No 5, 527-545.
Irwin, Sarah (2009) 'Locating where the action is: quantitative and qualitative lenses on families, schooling and structures of social inequality'. Sociology, Vol 43 (6) 1123-1140.
Mason, J and Davies, K (2009) 'Coming to our senses? A critical approach to sensory methodology' Qualitative Research, special issue on qualitative research and methodological innovation, Vol 9, No 5, 587-603.
Prosser, J. and Bagnoli, A. (2009) ‘Exploring Young People’s Lives: Using Visual Methods within a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Study’, in M. Martha Lengeling (ed.) Selection of Articles from the Second International Qualitative Research Conference, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 265-274.
Smart, C (2009) ‘Shifting Horizons: Reflections on qualitative methods’ Feminist Theory, special issue on feminist methods, Vol. 10, No 3, 295-308
Emmel, Nick and Clark, Andrew (2008) User-engagement with community groups: the nature of engagement. Qualitative Researcher, Vol. 8, 5-8.
Irwin, Sarah (2008) 'Data analysis and interpretation: emergent issues in linking qualitative and quantitative evidence'. In: Handbook of emergent methods in social research. Guilford Publications: New York.
Mason, J. ‘Tangible Affinities and the Real Life Fascination of Kinship’ Sociology, 42 (1), pp 29-46, 2008
Prosser, Jon and Loxley, Andrew (2008) 'Introducing Visual Methods'. Discussion Paper. National Centre for Research Methods. Available from http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/420/
Wiles, R, Prosser, J, Bagnoli, A, Clark, A, Davies, K, Holland, S and Renold, E (2008) Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual Research. NCRM Working Paper.
Mason, J. ‘Re-using Qualitative Data: on the Merits of an Investigative Epistemology’ Sociological Research Online, Vol 12, No 3, May 2007
Mason, J. ‘Mixing Methods in a qualitatively-driven way’ Qualitative Research, Vol. 6(1), pp. 9-25, 2006. Reproduced in A. Bryman (ed) Qualitative Research 2, Sage, 2007.
Publications with substantive focus
Smart, C. (2011) 'Relationality and Socio-Cultural Theories of Family Life' in R. Jallinoja and E.D. Widmer (eds), Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian ISBN 9780230284289
May, V. (forthcoming 2011) ‘Changing notions of lone motherhood in 20th century Finland’, Women’s History Review.
Mason, J. ‘What it Means to be Related’ in V. May (ed) Sociology of Personal Life, Basingstoke: Palgrave (forthcoming 2011)
Davies, K. (forthcoming) ‘I’ll be there for you’?: Friendship and Personal Life in May, V. (ed) The Sociology of Personal Life London: Routledge
May, V. (forthcoming 2010) ‘Lone motherhood as a category of practice’, Sociological Review.
Nazroo, J.Y. (2010) ‘Health and health care’. In Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century, A. Bloch and J. Solomos (eds.), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian, 112-137
Bagnoli, Anna (2009) On an Introspective Journey’: Travel and Identities in Young People’s Lives. European Societies, 11 (3), 325-345.
Clark, Andrew (2009) 'Experiences of moving through stigmatised neighbourhoods'Population, Space and Place, 15 (6). pp. 523-533
Clark, Andrew (2009) 'From neighbourhood to network: a review of the significance of neighbourhood in studies of social relations'. Geography Compass, 3 (4). pp. 1559-1578
Irwin, Sarah (2009) 'Family contexts, norms and young people’s orientations: researching diversity'. Journal of Youth Studies, 12 (4). pp. 337-354
Smart, C (2009) ‘Making Kin: Relationality and Law’, in A. Bottomley and S. Wong (eds) Changing Contours of Domestic Life, Family and Law: Caring and Sharing, Oxford: Hart Publishing.
May, V (2009) ‘How families still matter’ in Devine, F. & Heath, S. (eds) Doing Social Science, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Irwin, S (2008) 'Subjectivity and Social Structure'. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28 (7/8). pp. 282-284
Smart, C. (2007) Personal Life: New Directions in Sociological Thinking, Cambridge:Polity