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ItemNo Preview AvailableIn Search of Non-Linear Futures: Feminist Methodological-Analytical Strategies for Reading Against the Grain(Informa UK Limited, 2024-01-01)
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ItemA matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2024-03)This article explores why women miss out in the transition from the educational system to the labour market. Using nationally representative longitudinal data (2001–18) from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, we compare how long after graduation it takes men and women with tertiary qualifications (n = 2030) to achieve key labour market milestones: (1) getting a full-time job; (2) getting a permanent contract; (3) earning an average wage; (4) finding a job that matches their skill level. We find significant gender differences in reaching these milestones, confirming that time is a critical dimension for understanding gendered inequalities in the returns to education. We attribute findings to incompatible ‘timescapes’ across the institutions of education, family and employment. The more flexible timescape of education allows women to succeed, but the inflexible timescape of employment (particularly when combined with family responsibilities) impedes them from turning educational achievement into labour market progress.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Hope Burden: Envisioning a better world is hard work, even when you’re young(Sociological Review Foundation, 2022-04-05)
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ItemTelling Life Stories Using Creative Methods in Qualitative Interviews(Routledge, 2019)This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the value of different methodological approaches to the study of life narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary methods.
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ItemWhat is ‘publicly available data’? Exploring blurred public-private boundaries and ethical practices through a case study on Instagram(SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2020)This article adds to the literature on ethics in digital research by problematizing simple understandings of what constitutes “publicly available data,” thereby complicating common “consent waiver” approaches. Based on our recent study of representations of family life on Instagram, a platform with a distinct visual premise, we discuss the ethical challenges we encountered and our practices for moving forward. We ground this in Lauren Berlant’s concept of “intimate publics” to conceptualize the different understandings of “publics” that appear to be at play. We make the case for a more reflexive approach to social media research ethics that builds on the socio-techno-ethical affordances of the platform to address difficult questions about how to determine social media users’ diverse, and sometimes contradictory, understandings of what is “public.”
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ItemActor-network theory and qualitative interviews(Sage Publications, 2020)Introducing eight analytical approaches that are key to successful social science research, this book helps you get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis.
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ItemTowards a Sociological Understanding of Sexting as a Social Practice: A Case Study of University Undergraduate Men(SAGE Publications, 2020)This article makes the case for understanding young people’s engagement with ‘sexting’ as a social practice. Moving away from the dominant focus on teenagers and (sexual) risk and instead approaching sexting as an ‘everyday’ practice sheds light on how sexting is perceived and situated as a normalised part of contemporary youth culture. Drawing on 10 focus groups with 37 undergraduate men in Melbourne, Australia, our data reveal young men’s significant emphasis on consent, mutuality and respect, marking out ‘appropriate sexting’ practices as distinct from harassment or image-based abuse. Nonetheless, the centrality of a transactional approach to sexting questions those seemingly positive dispositions. Social practice theory permits sophisticated understanding of these nuances, seeing them as bound up and produced in correspondence with the broader meanings, embodied skills and material artefacts that are associated with sexting.
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ItemThe currency of images: risk, value and gendered power dynamics in young men’s accounts of sexting(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021)This paper examines contemporary gender relations among young people by taking young men’s experiences with and understandings of “sexting” as a case in point. Based on a focus group study with university undergraduate men in Melbourne, Australia, we analyse what is seen as having value and what is seen as constituting a risk when engaging in sexting, and how this is perceived as different for men and women. We demonstrate how value and risk are closely intertwined in the focus group discussions and how the body is central in the production and negotiation of both these dimensions. This is made particularly clear in the two ‘figures’ that participants described as embodying the perceived risks; “the creep” and “the slut”. This paper illustrates the w ays gendered bodies and sexual value are central to the ways ‘double standards’ operate in sexting and persist in contemporary gender relations.
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ItemParticipation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2020)Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of ‘resilience’, ‘participation’, ‘risk’ and ‘voice’. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a cast of candid and insightful accounts from youth researchers situated within the humanities and social sciences.