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Coming soon. One of the very first things I wrote was an account of having asthma. I wrote this aged 12 in 1982 at the request of my paediatric consultant. I had been hospitalised on and off for over a year, and I told him ‘he didn’t understand’ what having asthma was really like. He…

So we go inside and we gravely read the stonesAll those people, all those livesWhere are they now? With loves, and hates and passions just like mineThey were born and then they lived and then they diedIt seems so unfair, I want to cry* Cemeteries might not be the first place that springs to mind…

I have received funding from the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and the LIAS Archives and Special Collections Fellowship to undertake research on Norbert Elias and Illya Neustadt in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s. They were both Head of Sociology at the University of Ghana, Accra. (c) John Goodwin, University of Ghana, Accra, 2008. My dear…

Goodwin, J. (2023) Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future, Sociology. Vol/57, No. 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221127106

Edwards, R., Gillies, V., Mokwena, L., Goodwin, J., Garrington, C. (Producer), & Brighty-Glover, K. (Illustrator and Project Lead). (2024, May 14). Thanks For Typing: Slivers and footnotes: recognising wives and women in sociology [Audio podcast episode]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.qmrb6556

Youth Opportunities: Reanimating Data as Found Poems of Transition, Resistance and Representation – forthcoming Qualitative Inquiry This article presents three thematic found poems based on reanimated data from interview transcripts, interview schedules, speeches, commentary, research ephemera, notes, and personal reflections related to school-to-work transition and youth training in 1980s Britain. This was a time of…

Parsons and Goodwin 2025 This article discusses the uses of collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as a tool for reflecting on fieldwork experiences conducted as part of a restudy of two ethnographic studies by Pearl Jephcott from 1954 and 1964. We approach CAE in a novel way; through “dialogic exchange” which is presented as transcript excerpts. Through…

 DOI: 10.19080/GJAA.2025.14.5558865

 In this paper, I discuss my personal experiences with visual research methods to examine how I have discovered and utilised ‘found’ photographs as part of my creative research practice. Found photographs, these ‘traces of what has happened’, provide valuable material and analytical potential to creatively explore themes and issues while presenting the data in different…