Real Life Methods ran from October 2005 to January 2009. This website is archived and no longer maintained. For up to date information, please see www.manchester.ac.uk/realities
Journal articles and reports
Selected papers from Real Life Methods.
Bagnoli, A (2009, forthcoming) 'On an Introspective Journey': Travel and Identities in Young People’s Lives, in A. Bagnoli and K. Ketokivi (eds) At a Crossroads: Contemporary Lives between Fate and Choice, European Societies, special issue, Vol. 11 (3).
Clark, A (forthcoming 2009) 'From neighbourhood to network: a review of the significance of neighbourhood in studies of social relations', Geography Compass.
Emmel, N and Clark, A (2008) 'User-engagement with community groups: the nature of engagement'. Qualitative Researcher 8:5-7 June 2008
Irwin, S (forthcoming 2009) 'Locating where the action is: quantitative and qualitative lenses on families, schooling and structures of social inequality', accepted for publication in Sociology.
Irwin, S (forthcoming 2009) 'Family contexts, norms and young people’s orientations: researching diversity' accepted for publication in Journal of Youth Studies.
Irwin, S (2008) 'Subjectivity and Social Structure', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 28 [7/8]: 282-84.
Mason, J (2008) 'Tangible Affinities and the Real Life Fascination of Kinship' Sociology, 42 (1), pp 29-46
Mason, J (2007) 'Re-using Qualitative Data: on the Merits of an Investigative Epistemology' Sociological Research Online, Vol 12, No 3
Mason, J (2006) 'Mixing Methods in a qualitatively-driven way' Qualitative Research, Vol. 6(1), pp. 9-25
Muir, S (2008) 'What Method? Researching Family Backgrounds and Everyday Life'. Qualitative Researcher 7, pp 2-4
Neale, B and Flowerdew, J (2007) 'New Structures, New Agency' International Journal of Children’s Rights March Vol. 15 (1): pp 25-42
Prosser, J, and Loxley, A (2008) Introducing Visual Methods, Methods Review Paper, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
Prosser, J (2007) 'Visual Methods and the Visual Culture of Schools', Visual Studies, Routledge, London. Vol. 22, No. 1, pp 13 – 30.
Prosser, J (2007) 'Visual mediation of critical illness: an autobiographical account of nearly dying and nearly living'. Visual Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Routledge, London, pp 185 – 199.
Wiles, R, Prosser, J, Bagnoli, A, Clark, A, Davies, K, Holland, S, Renold, E (2008) Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual Research, Methods Review Paper, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
