Kate Milnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 113858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Milnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Milnes |
| SIGNATURE | MILNES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5669-8431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A mapping and discourse analysis of power inequalities and freedom to consent in UK Relationships and Sex Education resources
Although freedom to consent is central to definitions of sexual consent, it is unclear whether and how freedom to consent, and the related concept of power inequalities, are engaged with in existing Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) resources. In this study, we aimed to: (1) identify what RSE resources are recommended for UK 11–14-year-olds that cover power inequalities and/or freedom to consent; (2) analyse pupil-facing material with young p…
More Than ‘Resilience’
Poor mental health among undergraduate students is often addressed through interventions which aim to improve resilience, mindfulness or similar qualities. This shifts the responsibility of improving student mental health onto students themselves and obscures the effect of institutions and societies. This scoping review aimed to identify what is known and what gaps exist in the literature about institutional and societal risk and protective facto…
Doing things you don't wanna do’
Legal definitions of sexual consent emphasise ‘freedom’ as central to valid consent; however, power inequalities may complicate freedom. This paper discusses findings from a two-stage focus group study with young people (aged 13–23) in England exploring the implications of power inequalities for sexual consent. In Stage 1, 77 participants explored and ranked the types of power inequalities they felt were common within young people's sexual relati…
Tensions and potentials of involving young people in discourse analysis
Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of discourse and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants in complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, the authors undertook a Foucauldian discourse analysis of sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging, youth-focused campaigns to identify the discourse…
Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying
Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender- and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people’s understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality). Data coll…
Bullying in Five European Countries
Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to gender expression (Duncan, 1999). Research on sexual bullying is disparate and still developing as a field. This study extends on this research through a mixed-methods analysis of the different forms of sexual bullying and the relationships between them across five European nations. Participants were 253 young people (aged 13–18) from Bulg…
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
Young masculinities across five European countries
We present an analysis of young masculinities based on young peoples’ perspectives derived from a project on sexual bullying. Our qualitative data are based on 41 focus groups with 253 young people (male and female) aged 13–18 across five European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia and England) as well as questionnaire responses. The data were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun, V., and V. Clarke. 2006. “Using Thematic Analysis in …
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Old jokes, new media – Online sexism and constructions of gender in Internet memes
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-construct…
Holistic Experiences and Strategies for Conducting Research With Couples
In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer insight into our experiences of using both types of int…
Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs are they?' Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating
While psycho-medical understandings of 'eating disorders' draw distinctions between those who 'have'/'do not have' eating disorders, feminist poststructuralist researchers argue that these detract from political/socio-cultural conditions that invoke problematic eating and embodied subjectivities. Using poststructuralist discourse analysis, we examine young women's talk around food and eating, in particular, the negotiation of tensions arising fro…
Risking a stigmatised identity
More and more attention is being focused on the so-called ‘risky’ health practices in which young women are engaging, which problematise a range of behaviours. Based on the findings of a larger study, this paper draws on data from 22 in-depth interviews with women aged 18 to 24 years. Discourse analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, was used to analyse the data. The discussion focuses on two related discursive patterns which are central to…
III. Challenging the Sexual Double Standard
Old jokes, new media – Online sexism and constructions of gender in Internet memes
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-construct…
Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs are they?' Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating
While psycho-medical understandings of 'eating disorders' draw distinctions between those who 'have'/'do not have' eating disorders, feminist poststructuralist researchers argue that these detract from political/socio-cultural conditions that invoke problematic eating and embodied subjectivities. Using poststructuralist discourse analysis, we examine young women's talk around food and eating, in particular, the negotiation of tensions arising fro…
Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying
Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender- and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people’s understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality). Data coll…
Holistic Experiences and Strategies for Conducting Research With Couples
In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer insight into our experiences of using both types of int…
Bullying in Five European Countries
Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to gender expression (Duncan, 1999). Research on sexual bullying is disparate and still developing as a field. This study extends on this research through a mixed-methods analysis of the different forms of sexual bullying and the relationships between them across five European nations. Participants were 253 young people (aged 13–18) from Bulg…
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Doing things you don't wanna do’
Legal definitions of sexual consent emphasise ‘freedom’ as central to valid consent; however, power inequalities may complicate freedom. This paper discusses findings from a two-stage focus group study with young people (aged 13–23) in England exploring the implications of power inequalities for sexual consent. In Stage 1, 77 participants explored and ranked the types of power inequalities they felt were common within young people's sexual relati…
Tensions and potentials of involving young people in discourse analysis
Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of discourse and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants in complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, the authors undertook a Foucauldian discourse analysis of sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging, youth-focused campaigns to identify the discourse…
Young masculinities across five European countries
We present an analysis of young masculinities based on young peoples’ perspectives derived from a project on sexual bullying. Our qualitative data are based on 41 focus groups with 253 young people (male and female) aged 13–18 across five European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia and England) as well as questionnaire responses. The data were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun, V., and V. Clarke. 2006. “Using Thematic Analysis in …
III. Challenging the Sexual Double Standard
III. Challenging the Sexual Double Standard
Risking a stigmatised identity
More and more attention is being focused on the so-called ‘risky’ health practices in which young women are engaging, which problematise a range of behaviours. Based on the findings of a larger study, this paper draws on data from 22 in-depth interviews with women aged 18 to 24 years. Discourse analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, was used to analyse the data. The discussion focuses on two related discursive patterns which are central to…
Cos girls aren't supposed to eat like pigs are they?' Young women negotiating gendered discursive constructions of food and eating
While psycho-medical understandings of 'eating disorders' draw distinctions between those who 'have'/'do not have' eating disorders, feminist poststructuralist researchers argue that these detract from political/socio-cultural conditions that invoke problematic eating and embodied subjectivities. Using poststructuralist discourse analysis, we examine young women's talk around food and eating, in particular, the negotiation of tensions arising fro…
Holistic Experiences and Strategies for Conducting Research With Couples
In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer insight into our experiences of using both types of int…
Old jokes, new media – Online sexism and constructions of gender in Internet memes
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-construct…
Young masculinities across five European countries
We present an analysis of young masculinities based on young peoples’ perspectives derived from a project on sexual bullying. Our qualitative data are based on 41 focus groups with 253 young people (male and female) aged 13–18 across five European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia and England) as well as questionnaire responses. The data were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun, V., and V. Clarke. 2006. “Using Thematic Analysis in …
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
Tensions and potentials of involving young people in discourse analysis
Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of discourse and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants in complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, the authors undertook a Foucauldian discourse analysis of sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging, youth-focused campaigns to identify the discourse…
Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying
Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender- and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people’s understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality). Data coll…
Bullying in Five European Countries
Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to gender expression (Duncan, 1999). Research on sexual bullying is disparate and still developing as a field. This study extends on this research through a mixed-methods analysis of the different forms of sexual bullying and the relationships between them across five European nations. Participants were 253 young people (aged 13–18) from Bulg…
Doing things you don't wanna do’
Legal definitions of sexual consent emphasise ‘freedom’ as central to valid consent; however, power inequalities may complicate freedom. This paper discusses findings from a two-stage focus group study with young people (aged 13–23) in England exploring the implications of power inequalities for sexual consent. In Stage 1, 77 participants explored and ranked the types of power inequalities they felt were common within young people's sexual relati…
More Than ‘Resilience’
Poor mental health among undergraduate students is often addressed through interventions which aim to improve resilience, mindfulness or similar qualities. This shifts the responsibility of improving student mental health onto students themselves and obscures the effect of institutions and societies. This scoping review aimed to identify what is known and what gaps exist in the literature about institutional and societal risk and protective facto…
A mapping and discourse analysis of power inequalities and freedom to consent in UK Relationships and Sex Education resources
Although freedom to consent is central to definitions of sexual consent, it is unclear whether and how freedom to consent, and the related concept of power inequalities, are engaged with in existing Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) resources. In this study, we aimed to: (1) identify what RSE resources are recommended for UK 11–14-year-olds that cover power inequalities and/or freedom to consent; (2) analyse pupil-facing material with young p…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Harassment (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works)