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Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations (2022)
Journal Article

Making autoethnography outlines a method for combining the practices of making (sewing and crochet) and interpretive writing to capture the relationality of the self and materials. I discuss how I have developed my fascination with making as a condui... Read More about Making autoethnography: crafting intimate, social and material relations.

Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling (2022)
Journal Article

Geographical scholarship on making has established the interrelations between makers, materials and space. With this paper I explore how this scholarship can be developed to incorporate time through paying close attention to the time of making. Drawi... Read More about Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling.

The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making (2022)
Journal Article

The individual and social therapeutic benefits of spending time making have received both popular and academic endorsement. These testimonials often promote the sentiment that the benefits of making are experienced in the doing rather than what is ma... Read More about The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making.

A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday (2022)
Journal Article

Teleology shapes the design of much geographical research through the requirement to identify outcomes. In contrast, the theoretical orientation of geographical research on the everyday promotes a relational and visceral approach to resist the teleol... Read More about A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday.

The Social Life of Busyness (2021)
Book

The Social Life of Busyness engages with the assumption that busyness is taking over everyday life by exploring busyness at work, at home and during leisure time.

A manifesto for failure: Depersonalising, collectivising and embracing failure in research funding (2020)
Journal Article

The odds of failure are greater than those for success when applying for research funding. Yet academics are expected to be successful and win research funding to advance their own careers and the esteem of their institutions. This intensification of... Read More about A manifesto for failure: Depersonalising, collectivising and embracing failure in research funding.

Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity (2020)
Journal Article

Objective The goal of this project was to develop a systematic framework through which interventions promoting intergenerational solidarity in 11 countries could be assessed. Background Although intergenerational solidarity—the exchange of mater... Read More about Lessons Learned From 11 Countries on Programs Promoting Intergenerational Solidarity.

The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space (2020)
Journal Article

Talk of busyness is everywhere. Obsessions with being busy mediate the temporalities of working and family life. The assumption that busyness is universal suggests a unified experience of temporality in the 21st century. This paper responds to this n... Read More about The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space.

Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK (2019)
Journal Article

The promotion of young enterprise is central to European Union youth policy, particularly since the financial crisis of 2007/2008. Expectations that young people need to be enterprising and eschew dependency on formal structures of salaried employmen... Read More about Young entrepreneurs and non-teleological temporality in Portugal and the UK.

Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities, with commentaries from Peter Adey, Clare Holdsworth, Hayden Lorimer, Peter Merriman, Tim Schwanen and Elaine Stratford (2019)
Journal Article

Book review.

Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’ (2019)
Journal Article

The busyness of everyday life has received considerable popular and academic attention in recent years. The narrative developed in popular literature is that busyness is the defining temporality of the twenty-first century. While these subjective con... Read More about Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’.

Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2018)
Journal Article

Objectives This study reviews qualitative research into the sociocultural meanings and subjective experiences that midlife men in the United Kingdom (UK) associate with their drinking. In the UK, average weekly alcohol consumption is highest among mi... Read More about Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education (2018)
Journal Article

Young people are increasingly called upon to invest in educational qualifications, experience opportunities and other character forming activities in order to stand out from the crowd. This fetishizing of generic distinctiveness is promoted throughou... Read More about Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education.

Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices (2017)
Journal Article

In recent years teenagers have reported a decline in under-age drinking at the same time as their access to public space has been increasingly curtailed. In this paper we explore the spatial practices and drinking behaviours of a group of teenage gir... Read More about Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices.

Life Course (2017)
Book Chapter

Geographical research is concerned with the spatial context of human behaviors. Yet a focus on space should not preclude a focus on time, as both dimensions infer each other. The development of life course approaches in social sciences provides a fra... Read More about Life Course.

Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016)
Journal Article

Background Older people who drink have been shown to have better health than those who do not. This might suggest that moderate drinking is beneficial for health, or, as considered here, that older people modify their drinking as their health deterio... Read More about Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday (2015)
Journal Article

Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the exper... Read More about Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday.

Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life (2015)
Journal Article

Older people consume less alcohol than any other adult age group. However, in recent years survey data on alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom have shown that while younger age groups have experienced a decline in alcohol consumption, drinking b... Read More about Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life.

Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2015)
Journal Article

Background Increases in alcohol related mortality and morbidity have been reported among older people in England over the last decade. There is, however, evidence that drinking is protective for some health conditions. The validity of this evidence... Read More about Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

“Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation (2015)
Journal Article

This article considers the significance of family context for intergenerational drinking practices. Socialisation approaches to drinking behaviours assume that people carry forward actions and ideals that are developed in formative settings during ch... Read More about “Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation.

The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity (2015)
Journal Article

Faced with uncertain futures associated with precarious/casualised employment or unemployment, young people are increasingly encouraged to invest in practices of distinction that enable them to stand out from the crowd in the pursuit of employability... Read More about The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity.

Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol (2015)
Journal Article

There has been a shift in the most recent UK Government's Alcohol Strategy (2012) from personal responsibility towards a model of shared responsibility for young people's drinking. On closer examination of the strategy, however, it appears that rathe... Read More about Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol.

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering (2013)
Journal Article

There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfar... Read More about Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering.

Population and Society (2013)
Book

Family and Intimate Mobilities (2013)
Book

The book considers how mobility is not just about bringing people together but how it also allows for time apart.

Parental smoking and children's anxieties: an appropriate strategy for health education? (2013)
Journal Article

While the prevalence of smoking has declined in the UK in recent years, class differentials in smoking behaviour have become more marked and smoking is increasingly recognised as a causal factor in inequalities in health. Health education initiatives... Read More about Parental smoking and children's anxieties: an appropriate strategy for health education?.

Children and parenting (2012)
Book Chapter

University Support for Student Volunteering in England: Historical Development and Contemporary Value (2011)
Journal Article

'Seize that chance!' Leaving home and transitions to higher education (2005)
Journal Article

This paper interrogates assumptions surrounding the practices of leaving home and going to higher education in England and Wales. As more students from non-traditional backgrounds are encouraged to go to university, this is leading to greater diversi... Read More about 'Seize that chance!' Leaving home and transitions to higher education.

Leaving the home in comparative perspective: Negotiating processes and meanings (2005)
Book Chapter

There is now a considerable body of, largely quantitative, data available dealing with the process of leaving the parental home in a wide range of countries. Such data show a tendency for the process to be delayed or obscured through one or more retu... Read More about Leaving the home in comparative perspective: Negotiating processes and meanings.

Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood (2005)
Book

This book addresses important aspects of youth transitions, by considering cross-cultural differences in leaving home experiences and the inter-relationships between transitions to adulthood, the achievement of independence and leaving home. This... Read More about Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood.

Analysing Census Microdata (2000)
Book

The use of census microdata - which is the extremely detailed information collected through the 'ultracensusing' of a small number of households at the time of the last census - forms an important part of many research activities in subject areas as... Read More about Analysing Census Microdata.

Dr John Thomas Arlidge and Victorian Occupational Medicine (1998)
Journal Article

Leaving home in Spain: A regional analysis (1998)
Journal Article

This paper compares regional patterns of leaving home in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s based on analysis of the 1991 Spanish Sociodemographic Survey. The purpose of this analysis is to demonstrate that while nationally Spain is representative of a... Read More about Leaving home in Spain: A regional analysis.

Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991 British Census: Evidence from microdata (1997)
Journal Article

The 1991 British Census was the first to ask a question on ethnic group. This Research note provides a brief review of the development of the question and then uses the Samples of Anonymised Records, also newly available in 1991, to explore the const... Read More about Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991 British Census: Evidence from microdata.

Ethnic differences in women's employment (1997)
Journal Article

This paper uses the 1 per cent household file from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for the 1991 Census and the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to explore variations in patterns of employment and occupational attainment among women from different... Read More about Ethnic differences in women's employment.

Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920 (1997)
Journal Article

The progress of industrialization throughout the nineteenth century had profound effects on health and mortality. One relationship that contemporaries found particularly alarming was the potentially damaging effect that the employment of women in ind... Read More about Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920.