scholarly journals A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110031
Author(s):  
H.C.R. Bowles ◽  
S. Fleming ◽  
A. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Similar Nature ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Methodological Reflection

Methodological “confessions” are an established genre of ethnographic writing and have contributed to the development of reflexivity in the practice of qualitative research. Yet despite their prevalence, methodological reflections on the specific challenges of conducting ethnography in institutional sport settings have not been developed. The aim of this article, therefore, is to provide a confessional representation of ethnographic fieldwork in a male academy sport environment in the United Kingdom which exhibited several institutional characteristics. Five images are used as stimuli for further methodological reflection in order to illustrate and analyze some practical, ethical, and relational qualities of ethnographic fieldwork. The interpretation and analysis draw attention to strategic ways ethnographers adapt their ethnographic presence in response to specific contextual challenges and constraints. The article concludes with a series of recommendations to guide ethnographic fieldworkers (especially novice ethnographers) in settings of a similar nature.

scholarly journals ‘Where’s the money coming from?’ Manifesto costings and the politics of fiscal credibility in UK general elections, 1955–2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 136914812095102
Author(s):  
Peter Sloman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Electoral Cycles

Tax and spending are central to democratic politics in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, but psephologists have paid surprisingly little attention to the practice of manifesto costings or the ways in which fiscal promises shape voting behaviour. This article uses qualitative research to trace how British parties have used manifesto costings to frame prospective choices for voters since the 1950s and develops a theoretical framework for understanding why warnings about ‘tax bombshells’ and ‘black holes’ in parties’ spending plans seem to be so powerful in Britain. The article suggests that the emphasis which governments have placed on budgetary constraints since the 1976 International Monetary Fund (IMF) crisis may help explain the long electoral cycles the United Kingdom has experienced in recent decades. Whereas retrospective economic evaluations can be difficult for governments to control, forward-looking fiscal debates are structurally weighed towards incumbent parties and offer a powerful way for incumbents to offset the ‘costs of governing’.

scholarly journals New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Space Time ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Impact Processes ◽  
The Social

This article is an investigation of the agency of matter and an exposition of the new materialist methods I have been developing as part of a muti-sited trans-national ethnography that features socially engaged arts practices alongside more traditional ethnographic and qualitative techniques. I think through the agency of matter and consider the temporality of matter as part of its agency, understanding these agents as constitutive features of the research assemblage. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the United Kingdom, I examine how matter’s space-time can impact processes of making the social. I develop theoretical resources for moving the field forward.

scholarly journals More than a Storm in a Teacup? British Nationals in Poland in the Time of Brexit

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5 (68)) ◽  
pp. 259-280
Author(s):  
Stephen Davies ◽  
Małgorzata Kułakowska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Future Plans

The paper will present and analyse the results of qualitative research conducted by Stephen Davies with British nationals residing in Poland. The research questions explore their attitudes towards Britain and Brexit, as well as their future plans connected with their place of residence. The dominant themes of the paper are the questions of belonging and attachment. The analysis is preceded by a short introductory section which presents the context of the Brexit processes, as well as the results of research into EU migrants in the United Kingdom and British nationals living in different parts of the European Union.

scholarly journals Becoming Gamesworkers: Diversity, Higher Education, and the Future of the Game Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 756-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Moral Arguments ◽  
A Site

Higher education qualifications and the training of talent have become increasingly important in game industry and policy discourse in the United Kingdom. This heightened rhetoric and dedicated pots of funding referencing the significance of the games talent pipeline may represent the opportunity to cultivate greater inclusion in the workforce, which continues to be largely homogenous in terms of gender and race. Drawing on qualitative research with stakeholders in five case study institutions, this article highlights the ways in which the production of gamesworker subjectivity by institutions, instructors, and students hinders this possibility. Transparency about the exploitative working conditions and exclusionary norms of the game industry instead becomes the grounds for aggressive and conservative performances of labor bravado, foreclosing collective action, moral arguments about addressing inequalities, and creativity. The article closes by addressing the tension between team-based collaboration and competitive individualism as a site of potential intervention.

scholarly journals Class Diversity and Youth Volunteering in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 95S-113S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Dean
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Widening Access ◽  
The United Kingdom

This article utilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of habitus and cultural capital to offer some explanation as to why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United Kingdom. Recent studies have shown that participation in volunteering is heavily dependent on social class revolving around a highly committed middle-class “civic core” of volunteers. This article draws on original qualitative research to argue that the delivery of recent youth volunteering policies has unintentionally reinforced participation within this group, rather than widening access to diverse populations including working-class young people. Drawing on interviews with volunteer recruiters, it is shown that the pressure to meet targets forces workers to recruit middle-class young people whose habitus allows them to fit instantly into volunteering projects. Furthermore, workers perceive working-class young people as recalcitrant to volunteering, thereby reinforcing any inhabited resistance, and impeding access to the benefits of volunteering.

Meta-Ethnography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Noblit
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Synthesis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Status ◽  
Health Studies

This chapter explains meta-ethnography as created by Noblit and Hare and how the method has been used since. This is the methodology each of the chapters in this volume used to synthesize qualitative research studies of cultural identity. Meta-ethnography is an approach to qualitative research synthesis that is interpretive rather than aggregative. In this volume, we introduce critical meta-ethnography as an approach to informing social theory. It involves identifying the key metaphors or concepts in the selected studies and comparing them. Studies are translated into one another, developing a synthesis that takes the form of an analogy. In recent years, meta-ethnography has been used extensively in health studies, particularly in the United Kingdom. This chapter both clarifies the status of meta-ethnography as a methodology of synthesis based in the translation of studies into each other and addresses the current state of the art of meta-ethnography. The chapter ends by introducing the meta-ethnographies that follow.

Don’t forget your oxygen mask! Caring for ourselves so that we can better care for our clients

2021 ◽  
pp. 135945752199779
Author(s):  
Ali Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Occupational Stressors ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Work Related Stressors

Music Therapists face significant stressors at work which, if not adequately addressed, could lead to stress and burnout. Against the background of a final-year dissertation, this article discusses how Music Therapists use self-care to manage occupational stressors. While the small-scale qualitative research project focussed on how Music Therapists working in hospices in the United Kingdom manage work-related stressors, analysis of the data revealed themes which, it is suggested, seem to apply to the wider music therapy community. Findings indicate that Music Therapists would be well-advised to develop and use self-care strategies to mitigate work-related stressors and thus reduce the potential for ill-health. The article seeks to inform the practice of Music Therapists and concludes with the author’s recommendations.

Courtship Rituals: Imprinting and Interspecies Sociality in the Domestic Breeding of Birds of Prey

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Sara Asu Schroer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Birds Of Prey ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Bird Breeding ◽  
Domestic Breeding

AbstractThis article explores social relationships of birds and humans through the processes of imprinting and courtship rituals in the domestic breeding of birds of prey. The material presented is based on original ethnographic fieldwork among falconers, breeders, and birds, largely in the United Kingdom. The article focuses on the interspecies sociality and agency that emerges from the situated practices of bird breeding. It is argued, through ethnographic examples, that conventional determinist understandings of imprinting do not accurately capture the more porous and flexible ways in which living beings learn to relate to others and their environments.

Researching LGBT+ Youth Intimacies and Social Media: The Strengths and Limitations of Participant-Led Visual Methods

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Marston
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Lgbt Youth ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social

This paper draws on data from an exploratory study into the social media engagements of LGBT+ young people aged 16 to 20 years old, in the United Kingdom, and considers how participant-led visual methods generated insights into different modalities of digitally mediated intimacy. It outlines the methodological paradigms dominating current research on LGBT+ young people’s digitally mediated practices of intimacy and argues that visual methods have been underemployed to date. The participatory visual methods used in this study, including map-making and digital tours of participant’s digital worlds along with visual elicitation interviews, are documented and explored in relation to Berlant’s work on intimacy and theories of networked affect. It also reflects upon the ethical implications of re-presenting social media images and troubles interpretive imperatives within qualitative research.

scholarly journals New Materialism, Ethnography, and Socially Engaged Practice: Space-Time Folds and the Agency of Matter

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 724-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Space Time ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Impact Processes ◽  
The Social

This article is an investigation of the agency of matter and an exposition of the new materialist methods I have been developing as part of a muti-sited trans-national ethnography that features socially engaged arts practices alongside more traditional ethnographic and qualitative techniques. I think through the agency of matter and consider the temporality of matter as part of its agency, understanding these agents as constitutive features of the research assemblage. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from the United Kingdom, I examine how matter’s space-time can impact processes of making the social. I develop theoretical resources for moving the field forward.

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