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Slivers and footnotes: recognising wives and women in sociology
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
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Youth Opportunities
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…
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Between the Field and Elsewhere: Using Dialogic Collaborative Autoethnography in Ethnographic Restudies
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…
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Revisiting Ethnographies from Sociology’s Past: A Research Note on ‘Other Voices’ in Pearl Jephcott’s Work
DOI: 10.19080/GJAA.2025.14.5558865
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Encounters with ‘Found’ Photographs: Analytical Potentials for Sociology, Visual Anthropology and Ethnography
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…
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Locating the Auto/biographical

Locating the Auto/biographical: sociological exchange through ‘walking with’ Nelson Sullivan John Goodwin and Laurie Parsons 2020
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Live Sociology – Coalville
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UK Youth Research
The blog relating to ESRC fiunded Making of the ‘precariat’: unemployment, insecurity and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions’ can be found here. This blog is now inactive but is retained here for reference. New blog postings will appear on madeinleicester or the Jephcott or Elias blog pages.
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Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Summary of a two day conference

Worth a look
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Learning for the past: What is a classic ?
We have been undertaking retudies for some time now and thinking about the need to revisit classic studies as part of our sociological analysis. Here is the introduction to a paper we have been working on and need to finish soon. John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor Following our various journeys in and around numerous past/historical/legacy…