Gender, Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott College Court Conference Centre University of Leicester July 9th 2015 Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980), in a research career spanning some forty years, made an outstanding contribution to British social science research. Her key works, including Girls Growing Up (1942), RisingContinue reading
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Pearl Jephcott: The Legacy of a Forgotten Sociological Research Pioneer
Our paper on the legacy of Pearl Jephcott is available online first: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/22/0038038514530536.abstract Abstract While the lives and works of many sociologists have now been well documented, numerous sociologists at the ‘coal face’ of social research remain ignored. Consequently, beyond the contributions of those more ‘well-known’ scholars, considerably more needs to be done to examineContinue reading “Pearl Jephcott: The Legacy of a Forgotten Sociological Research Pioneer”
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