Successful publishing year for CRISS researchers
Fri, 01 May 2015 13:49:00 BST
Centre for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS) members had a highly productive 2014 in terms of research outputs, with members having a number of top-quality research outputs either published or accepted for forthcoming publication over the course of the past year. These outputs include monographs and edited collections with academic presses and peer-reviewed articles published in leading scholarly. These outputs demonstrate the high quality ongoing research within the Centre, a trend confirmed in the recent REF 2014 results which were extremely positive for CRISS. Although diverse in their approaches and methods, they all engage with the Centre’s core research themes including: gender and sexuality, health and wellbeing, citizenship and social exclusion, and social and political identities. Further information about a number of these published or forthcoming works is outlined below.
Dr Jamie Halsall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, has co-authored a book entitled Sociability, Social Capital, and Community Development: A Public Health Perspective. Published by Springer Publishing, New York, in December 2014, it analyses issues such as the implications for welfare provision in the context of the ‘shrinking state’, as well as the implications of ageing populations and the potential for community activism. The book is comparative in scope, focusing on the UK, Netherlands, USA, China, India, South Africa, Bangladesh and Japan. It is co-authored with Professor Ian Cook (Liverpool John Moores University) and Professor Paresh Wankhade (Edge Hill University).
Dr Catherine McGlynn, Senior Lecturer in Politics, has recently co-authored ‘The party politics of devolution and identity in Northern Ireland’. It was published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, (vol. 16, no. 2, 2014). The article, which was written with Professor Jim McAuley and Professor Jon Tonge (University of Liverpool), examines how party competition in Northern Ireland impacts on the understandings of national identity and citizenship both within Northern Ireland and throughout the UK. The article demonstrates how the UK general election of 2010, and the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 2011, show that the transformation of party competition throughout the UK since devolution has shaped electoral strategies in the region, particularly those of unionist parties.
Dr Santokh Singh Gill, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, has recently published an article based on his research on Sikh men, in the peer-reviewed journal Culture and Religion(vol. 15, no. 3, 2014). The article is entitled ‘“So people know I'm a Sikh”: Narratives of Sikh masculinities in contemporary Britain’ and contributes to wider theoretical debates about hegemonic masculinity, using Sikh men in Britain as a case study. Dr Gill argues that although the performance of Sikh masculinities in localised spaces is dynamic and informed by multiple intersecting discourses (including race, gender, sexuality and faith), British Sikh men negotiate their Sikh masculinity in relation to dominant and hegemonic masculinities to construct specific Sikh masculinities in the post-colonial context.
Dr Jo Woodiwiss, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, has signed a book contract with leading academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan to produce an edited volume that will explore the theme of ‘Opportunities and Challenges for Feminist Narrative Research’. Dr Woodiwiss will co-edit the publication with Kate Smith and Kelly Lockwood from the University’s Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research. The book has developed from a Feminist Narrative Symposium held at the University of Huddersfield in June 2012, and will include contributions from Professor Tina Miller, Professor Adele Jones, Professor Natasha S. Mauthner and Julia Langley. Professor Liz Stanley has agreed to write the foreword to the collection. The collection will include chapters on doing feminist narrative and chapters on situating feminist narrative research, and is due to be published in late 2015.
Dr Chris Gifford, Head of Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Dr Andrew Mycock, Reader in Politics, have co-authored an article in the leading peer-reviewed journal Citizenship Studies(Volume 18, no. 1, 2014). The article ‘Becoming citizens in late modernity: a global-national comparison of young people in Japan and the UK’ contrasts the phenomena of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ citizens in the two jurisdictions, and contributes to wider theoretical debates about types of politics in late modernity. The article was written with their Japanese colleague Professor Junichi Murakami (Kokushikan University, Tokyo), with whom the duo previously collaborated as part of workshops held by the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe (CiCe) Network.
Professor Jim McAuley (Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise) has co-authored a monograph about Northern Ireland’s largest political party, the Democratic Unionist Party. The book is entitled The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power and is published by Oxford University Press. It was co-authored with Professor Jon Tonge (University of Liverpool); Dr Máire Braniff (University of Ulster); Professor Tom Hennessey (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Dr Sophie Whiting (University of Liverpool). The book traces the party’s journey from party of protest to party of government, and assesses the attitudes of the party membership towards power-sharing with nationalists and republicans. The book arose from a Leverhulme Trust funded membership survey of the party (2012-2014).
Professor Surya Monro, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, recently published a co-authored peer-reviewed article in the journal Local Government Studies (vol. 40, no. 6, 2014). The article, Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) Populations: The Role of English Local Government, is written with Professor Diane Richardson (Newcastle University), and bases its findings on the work of a major Economic and Social Research Council funded research project on Organisational Change, Resistance and Democracy: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equalities Initiatives in Local Government (2007-2010). The article suggests that a collision of different forces is currently taking place: the legislation supports the protection of the LGB communities, but this support is undermined by the recession-related and ideologically driven public sector cuts.
Dr Shaun McDaid, Research Fellow, has recently published an article exploring the themes of devolution and power-sharing in Northern Ireland. The article entitled ‘Pragmatists versus dogmatists: understanding the failure of power-sharing in Northern Ireland during the 1970s’ is published in the peer-reviewed journal, British Politics. The article contributes to contemporary theoretical debates about the reasons why the Northern Ireland conflict developed and persisted, premised on consociational theory. Dr McDaid argues that at a time when the Northern Ireland template is being held as an example for other zones of conflict, a fuller appreciation of the nuances of the region’s ethnic politics is all the more important.
Professor Jeff Hearn, Research Professor of Sociology, has recently published a peer-reviewed article in the journal Organization. Professor Hearn’s article is entitled ‘Sexualities, organizations and organization sexualities: Future scenarios and the impact of socio-technologies (a transnational perspective from the global ‘north’)’ and appears in volume 21, issue 2 of the journal. The article analyses alternative future scenarios for organization sexualities, by way of changing intersections of gender, sexuality and organizational forms. It also addresses the impact of globalizations and transnationalizations, specifically information and communication technologies and other socio-technologies, for future scenarios of organization sexualities.
