K Henwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 9768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Henwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Henwood |
| SIGNATURE | HENWOOD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4631-5468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 835 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Opening reflexive spaces
The value of maps in geographical and social-scientific research as tools that afford imaginative aesthetic engagement with research topics has become increasingly recognised. We explore here, for the first time, the value of these affordances for interviewing experts. In particular, the imaginative engagement maps can provide may help unsettle routines of thought, and invite reflexivity towards the assumptions on which expert knowledge may rest.…
Who pays for carbon dioxide removal? Public perceptions of risk and fairness of enhanced rock weathering in the UK
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is increasingly recognised as necessary to achieve net zero emissions. Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a novel CDR approach with large mitigation potential. With undefined social and environmental costs, and evolving economic and governance systems, ERW raises issues for public acceptance. A literature gap exists regarding how local communities view the possibility of at-scale deployment in their area. We address th…
Beyond public acceptance
Whilst dominant science-policy framings focus on getting publics to accept widespread infrastructural changes deemed necessary for net zero, social science scholarship has argued for the need to move ‘beyond acceptance’. In this paper we advance on existing studies which tend to emphasise a largely sequential progression from acceptance to ‘beyond acceptance’ approaches. We suggest that this can be more accurately viewed as distinct co-existing a…
I Can’t Imagine Living Anywhere Else”
There is an identified need for housing to decarbonise, yet new technical configurations of homes have implications for the everyday lives and relationships that unfold within them. Active homes, which can generate, store and export electricity, include a range of technologies that may be unfamiliar to residents and alter aspects of everyday life. With a small number of active homes in the UK, little is known about how people find life in these i…
Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes
As significant contributors to CO2, UK homes must be decarbonized. Active Homes represent a possible route to addressing both societal concerns and policy ambitions, while providing comfortable high quality living environments. However, changes to the material structure of homes have potential implications for people’s ability to live well within them. Our qualitative longitudinal (QL) research as part of the living well in low carbon homes proje…
The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation
Major changes to land and sea infrastructure are underway to achieve decarbonisation of energy generation and industrial processes. People who live and work locally alongside energy production and industrial sites will most intensely experience the transitions. There are growing calls within the environment and climate change fields, and aligned social justice and policy research, to address how such change risks producing inequalities from the e…
Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales
Energy system transition is essential to support global decarbonization, and will involve the increasing use of renewable energy and the socio-technical transformation of centralized, fossil fuel systems alongside changes to how supply and demand is met. Localization represents an emerging vision of how this transformation might occur, but any system transformation will be complex, thanks to the multi-level, polycentric modes of governance that a…
Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres
How atmospheric pollution is perceived by urban dwellers has long been a topic of interest within geography and the social sciences, whether to draw attention to environmental injustices, to better understand the materialities and affects associated with polluted air, or to grasp how people ‘tune in’ to polluted matter. In this paper, we draw on three interrelated geographical and social science literatures on polluted air to inform our explorati…
‘This funny place’
Saltmarshes are increasingly recognised for the range of benefits they offer, including coastal protection, flood regulation and carbon sequestration. However, much less is known about how people perceive these environments and their importance for non‐material aspects of human well‐being. As climate change and sea‐level rise render these environments increasingly vulnerable, there is a need to better understand how saltmarshes are valued. This i…
Putting visions in their place
Decarbonizing energy systems by 2050 is an ambitious socio-technical project. Such a transition is likely to have very significant implications for social justice, given the increasing dependence of societies globally on energy services. Eliciting non-expert values and perspectives as part of reflection on the desirability of visions of socio-technical change has long been promoted within RRI. However, RRI has typically focused upstream engagemen…
Living in an Active Home
To meet UK decarbonisation and climate change targets, significant changes to existing and future housing stock will be required. The development of Active Buildings has the potential to contribute to meeting these targets. Active Homes, as a particular type of Active Building, alter how energy is produced, distributed and consumed, as well as how homes are designed, constructed and then lived in. Before occupation, Active Homes are designed and …
Transformational innovation in home energy
Decarbonisation and climate change targets require multiscale sociotechnical energy transitions that include significant changes to housing stock. In the UK, the development of Active Buildings, which directly seek to be efficient energy producers, have zero carbon emissions and provide grid flexibility, has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting these targets. Active Homes as a particular type of Active Building represent a …
It’s not a very certain future”
Four decades on from the onset of deindustrialisation in the UK and other late-capitalist societies, industrial places are again emerging as key objects of policy discourse. Under the dual pressures of decarbonisation, and the recognition of ‘left behind’ regions as potential hotspots for feelings of political marginalisation, new strategies for clean growth are emerging, aiming to boost local economic and environmental performance. Presenting da…
Valuing Nature for Wellbeing
Contributing to the cultural ecosystem services literature, this paper draws on the in-depth place narratives of two coastal case-study sites in Wales (UK) to explore how people experience and understand landscape change in relation to their sense of place, and what this means for their wellbeing. Our place narratives reveal that participants understand coastal/intertidal landscapes as complex socio-ecological systems filled with competing legiti…
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios
A Missing Link? Capabilities, the Ethics of Care and the Relational Context of Energy Justice
Difficulties experienced in obtaining energy services have been represented as unjust because of how they can prevent people from realising primary human capabilities. Capabilities are relational, being embedded within complex interdependencies between people and socio-material systems. These complexities can cause problems for approaches to energy justice that are based on concepts of welfare rights. We argue that the ethics of care, with its em…
Who cares about Valley people?’ Lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales Valleys
Energy vulnerability is an area of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. In this article we analyse data from a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a deprived ex-mining community in South Wales to explore lived experiences of energy vulnerability in detail. While demonstrating the relevance of caring responsibilities in experiences of energy use and scarcity, we consider the importance of local relationships in helping people to…
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation
What Counts as Success? Wider Implications of Achieving Planning Permission in a Low-Impact Ecovillage
The need for energy system change in order to address the energy ‘trilemma’ of security, affordability and sustainability is well documented and requires the active involvement of individuals, families and communities who currently engage with these systems and technologies. Alongside technical developments designed to address these challenges, alternative ways of living are increasingly being envisaged by those involved in low-impact development…
The bills are a brick wall’
It’s an Old House and That’s How It Works”
In the United Kingdom, the domestic sector is a major contributor of national carbon emissions. Improving the energy efficiency of the existing stock, particularly the oldest and least efficient homes, is therefore of utmost importance if ambitious carbon reduction targets are to be met. Analyzing the rich, narrative data of households living in old, hard-to-treat homes, this paper produces novel insights into the ways in which domestic thermal c…
QR in reflexive mode
Exploring the everyday energyscapes of rural dwellers in Wales
Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies
Family and youth research has highlighted the importance of lifecourse transitions, illustrating how they can have a substantial impact on people’s everyday lives and anticipated futures. Given their apparent significance, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to life transitions – particularly unexpected ones – to explore how they can impact upon everyday energy use. This is a central concern of Energy Biographies proje…
Why mundane energy use matters
Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity
Drawing on interviews with 140 young British males, this article explores the ways in which men talk about their own bodies and bodily practices, and those of other men. The specific focus of interest is a variety of body modification practices. We argue, however, that the significance of this analysis extends beyond the topic of body modification. In discussing the appearance of their bodies, the men we interviewed talked less about muscle and s…
Psycholinguistic and social psychological components of communication by and with the elderly
Accommodating the elderly
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
Qualitative research and psychological theorizing
Unlike other disciplines in the human sciences, psychology has undervalued the role of qualitative research methods in scientific inquiry. This has done a disservice to psychology, depriving its practitioners of skills which can simultaneously liberate and discipline the theoretical imagination. 'Grounded theory' is one useful approach to the systematic generation of theory from qualitative data, and alternative criteria can be advanced for judgi…
From the familiar to the extraordinary
Nearly two decades since the last nuclear power station was built and began operating in the UK, nuclear energy is firmly back on the political agenda domestically and elsewhere in the world. Yet since the 1980s, little research has investigated perceptions of nuclear power in the UK, particularly those of communities living in very close proximity to such facilities. Using biographical narrative interviews (n = 61), we explore how local resident…
Meeting the Challenges of Intensive Parenting Culture
In recent years, academics have shown interest in the phenomenon of intensive parenting, which has predominantly focused on mothers as primary caregivers. In this article we seek to move beyond approaches which invoke a maternal lens in order to consider fathers’ experience of intensive parenting in relation to their lives with partners. Drawing on data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men over the transition to fatherhood we explore men’…
Taking one day at a time
This article explores how unexpected life course events can potentially be experienced as problematic by challenging anticipated future trajectories. Using data from a qualitative longitudinal study of men interviewed about fatherhood, we consider four unanticipated events in the context of family formation which are variously experienced as propelling men forwards, imposing a pause, or regressing to a previous life course phase. In these situati…
Researching lives through time
Laughing it off? Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk1
Over the past two decades, an increasing number of risk researchers have recognized that risks are not simply objective hazards but that the meanings of risk are discursively negotiated, dynamic and embedded within the wider social relations that constitute everyday life. A growing interest in the complexity and nuances of risk subjectivities has alerted sociocultural researchers not only to what is said in a risk situation, but also to how it is…
Elderly self-disclosure
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Beyond the qualitative paradigm
The case for qualitative research in psychology is considered. We argue against the idea that qualitative research is merely a matter of technique or method, and question the utility of viewing it as a unitary paradigm. Rather, the links between epistemology, methodology, and method are explored within three theorized strands of qualitative inquiry, making reference to illustrative projects. Each strand is organized around a different approach to…
Why mundane energy use matters
We are a community [but] that takes a certain amount of energy’
Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood
Issues of time and change are foregrounded in qualitative longitudinal research (QLL1) and are considered here in the context of contemporary fatherhood. From a wider sample of 46 men interviewed as part of the QLL Timescapes network, we draw on two case studies of men who became fathers for the first time in 2000. This paper considers the men’s relationship to involvement and the linked concepts of exclusion and redundancy, terms which emerged f…
Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies
Family and youth research has highlighted the importance of lifecourse transitions, illustrating how they can have a substantial impact on people’s everyday lives and anticipated futures. Given their apparent significance, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to life transitions – particularly unexpected ones – to explore how they can impact upon everyday energy use. This is a central concern of Energy Biographies proje…
Remaking the Link
Historical and contemporary developments in feminist thinking on theory and method are considered. The critique of positivism is outlined, together with the affinity between feminist research and qualitative methods. Dilemmas are raised concerning: a false dualism between quantity and quality; ethical concerns; and writing in the personal. There are contradictory positions within the contemporary argument for methodological pluralism, such that i…
Formulating age
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios
Women and later life
It’s not a very certain future”
Four decades on from the onset of deindustrialisation in the UK and other late-capitalist societies, industrial places are again emerging as key objects of policy discourse. Under the dual pressures of decarbonisation, and the recognition of ‘left behind’ regions as potential hotspots for feelings of political marginalisation, new strategies for clean growth are emerging, aiming to boost local economic and environmental performance. Presenting da…
Qualitative Research, Reflexivity and Living with Risk
In qualitative research, marginality and reflexivity are often closely interwoven. An emic research strategy has provided major stimuli to qualitative psychological investigations. In light of questions posed about conceptualizing marginality, discussion has progressed. A range of ways of practicing epistemic reflexivity now help guard against the idea of any one researcher stance, method or form of inquiry guaranteeing knowledge via unmediated p…
The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation
On paternal subjectivity
Using Timescapes 'Men as Fathers' (MAF) project data, qualitative longitudinal (QL) and psychosocial case study approaches are showcased for studying the making of paternal subjectivity in and through time. The accounts of two men from self-defined 'working' and 'middle-class' backgrounds are explored, focusing on how their lines of flight as paternal subjects are shaped by tensions between a push towards new subjectivities and the pull of old di…
Young men in 'crisis
Psycholinguistic and social psychological components of communication by and with the elderly
Elderly self-disclosure
Accommodating the elderly
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
Formulating age
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
Qualitative research and psychological theorizing
Unlike other disciplines in the human sciences, psychology has undervalued the role of qualitative research methods in scientific inquiry. This has done a disservice to psychology, depriving its practitioners of skills which can simultaneously liberate and discipline the theoretical imagination. 'Grounded theory' is one useful approach to the systematic generation of theory from qualitative data, and alternative criteria can be advanced for judgi…
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Women and later life
Unsettling Relations
Unsettling Relations
UnsettlingRelations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles is a collection of challenging and readable essays by five women, each of whom is involved in feminist politics and academic teaching/research. As its title suggests, the book is concerned with the university as a set of social relations which are involved in the production of power and privilege, together with feminist struggles to resist and change them. Framed in this general …
Qualitative social psychology
Beyond the qualitative paradigm
The case for qualitative research in psychology is considered. We argue against the idea that qualitative research is merely a matter of technique or method, and question the utility of viewing it as a unitary paradigm. Rather, the links between epistemology, methodology, and method are explored within three theorized strands of qualitative inquiry, making reference to illustrative projects. Each strand is organized around a different approach to…
Resisting Racism and Sexism in Academic Psychology
The article discusses resistance to racism and sexism within academic psychology. Its contents are linked together by the chronology of my own experiences, presenting a personal/political view. Focusing upon Social Identity Theory in particular, I point out that even critical perspectives in the social psychology of prejudice and discrimination tend to neglect black people's experiences of racism and represent an impoverished approach to the soci…
Adult Mother-Daughter Relationships
Theoretical developments are considered in two waves of research which inform our understanding of adult mother-daughter relationships. The first wave introduces the perspective of feminist object relations theory. The second addresses the issue of re-visioning sister-hood. Both combine a concern for feminist issues and psychoanalytic theory, exploring the unconscious relational dynamics of mothering and daughtering as they are implicated in the …
Remaking the Link
Historical and contemporary developments in feminist thinking on theory and method are considered. The critique of positivism is outlined, together with the affinity between feminist research and qualitative methods. Dilemmas are raised concerning: a false dualism between quantity and quality; ethical concerns; and writing in the personal. There are contradictory positions within the contemporary argument for methodological pluralism, such that i…
Race' in psychology
This article addresses the ways in which the subject of 'race' is discussed in psychology and the issues this raises for teaching. It argues that psychological work provides contrary possibilities. On the one hand, it helps to reproduce negative racialized constructions of those constructed as Other (particularly black people). On the other, it allows challenges to such constructions. For example, the 'race' and IQ controversy, and the periodic r…
VI. Social Psychology
Psychological Knowledge and the Moral-Political Viewpoint
Young men in 'crisis
The ‘good father’
The study investigates men's responses to contemporary sociocultural transformations in masculinity and fatherhood, and revised expectations of them as fathers. Four cultural and academic perspectives on ‘new fatherhood’ are described: a progressive psychosocial transformation agenda, attempts to reinstate traditional family values, a mix of optimism and resistance to change in men and fathers' relationshipto the gender order, and criticism of ne…
Grounded theory in psychological research
Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity
Drawing on interviews with 140 young British males, this article explores the ways in which men talk about their own bodies and bodily practices, and those of other men. The specific focus of interest is a variety of body modification practices. We argue, however, that the significance of this analysis extends beyond the topic of body modification. In discussing the appearance of their bodies, the men we interviewed talked less about muscle and s…
Beyond hypercriticality
Grounded Theory
The ethics of socio-cultural risk research
In socio-cultural risk research, an epistemological tension often follows if real hazards in the world are juxtaposed against the essentially socially constructed nature of all risk. In this editorial, we consider how this paradox is manifest at a practical level in a number of ethical dilemmas for the risk researcher. (1) In terms of strategies for seeking informed consent, and for addressing the power inequalities involved in interpretative and…
Risk, framing and everyday life
Multiplicity, variability and incongruity in the meanings of risk encountered throughout the research process (and beyond) are key foci of inquiry within socio-cultural risk research, which attaches considerable importance to appreciating participants' perspectives, orientations and contextual understandings. These foci are also associated with epistemological and methodological dilemmas since in risk research, as in social science more widely, r…
Sociology (57 works) · Psychology (45 works) · Epistemology (27 works) · Political science (27 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Social science (25 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Qualitative research (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works)