Jacquelyn Allen Collinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 115539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacquelyn Allen Collinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacquelyn Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Collinson |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Running the Routes Together: Corunning and Knowledge in Action
The mundane, concrete practices of social life have remained underanalyzed, unproblematized, even taken for granted by some social theorists, despite their being constitutive of the very foundation of social life. Despite a growing corpus of ethnographic studies within the sociology of sport, little analytic attention has been devoted to the concrete practices of actually "doing" sporting activity. Based on data derived from a collaborative auto-…
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Get yourself some nice, neat, matching box files!' Research administrators and occupational identity work
To date, qualitative research into occupational groups and cultures within academia has been relatively scarce, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff within universities and colleges. This article seeks to address this lacuna and applies the interactionist concept of ‘identity work’ in order to examine one specific group to date under-researched: graduate research administrators. \nThis occupational group is of sociological i…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
Seeing the way: Visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective
Employing visual and autoethnographic data from a two?year research project on distance runners, this article seeks to examine the activity of seeing in relation to the activity of distance running. One of its methodological aims is to develop the linkage between visual and autoethnographic data in combining an observation?based narrative and sociological analysis with photographs. This combination aims to convey to the reader not only some of th…
Just 'non-academics: Research administrators and contested occupational identity
Surprisingly perhaps, knowledge about occupational groups within academia is relatively scant, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff. The research upon which this article is based aims to fill this gap by focusing upon one specific group, which, to date, has been under-researched: research administrators. Utilizing primarily symbolic interactionist analyses, and based upon qualitative interviews, the project sought to investi…
Artistry and analysis: Student experiences of UK practice‐based doctorates in art and design
During the last decade, doctoral education has been the focus of much international academic attention. This period has also witnessed the rapid growth of practice‐based research degrees in art and design in the UK. To date, however, there has been no extensive empirical research on the subjective experiences of students undertaking this form of doctorate in art and design. This paper, based on qualitative interviews with 50 UK students at 25 dif…
Emotions, Interaction and the Injured Sporting Body
Based on a collaborative autoethnographic research project, this article explores the emotional dimension of the injured sporting body. It takes as its analytic focus the journey, rehabilitative, emotional and narrative, of two middle-aged, non-elite, middle/long-distance runners who experienced serious, long-term knee injuries. The study examines the interactional and narrative elements of the rehabilitative journey, focusing on dimensions of th…
Occupational Identity on the Edge: Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education
Throughout the higher education sector in the UK, recent decades have witnessed the increasing use of fixed-term and part-time labour, to the extent that around 50 percent of academic staff are currently employed on fixed-term contracts and in excess of 90 percent of researchers are employed on fixed-term contracts. Despite the importance of their contribution to the sector as a whole, relatively little research has been undertaken on the lived e…
Running into Injury Time: Distance Running and Temporality
Despite a growing body of research on the sociology of time and, analogously, on the sociology of sport, to date there has been relatively little sports literature that takes time as the focus of the analysis. Given the centrality of time as a feature of most sports, this would seem a curious lacuna. The primary aims of this article are to contribute new perspectives on the subjective experience of sporting injury and to analyze some of the tempo…
Working at a Marginal 'Career: The Case of UK Social Science Contract Researchers
Contract researchers constitute a significant occupational group within the UK higher education system, and the products of their labour are crucial to the research profile of the institutions in which they work and to the sector as a whole. Given the 'marginality' of the contract researcher role, with its attendant insecurities and inferior employment conditions in comparison with 'permanent' faculty, it is perhaps not surprising that relatively…
Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education: Perceptions of Craft Knowledge
The past two decades have witnessed a trend towards the use of fixed-term and part-time contracts in higher education in the UK, where over a third of routine academic work is now carried out by staff on fixed-term contracts (Ainley 1994). As Kogan et al. (1994: 53) have noted, this increased casualisation of academic labour has been driven by the need for universities and colleges to reduce labour costs. The move towards a more ‘flexible’ and ch…
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
Running the Routes Together: Corunning and Knowledge in Action
The mundane, concrete practices of social life have remained underanalyzed, unproblematized, even taken for granted by some social theorists, despite their being constitutive of the very foundation of social life. Despite a growing corpus of ethnographic studies within the sociology of sport, little analytic attention has been devoted to the concrete practices of actually "doing" sporting activity. Based on data derived from a collaborative auto-…
Emotions, Interaction and the Injured Sporting Body
Based on a collaborative autoethnographic research project, this article explores the emotional dimension of the injured sporting body. It takes as its analytic focus the journey, rehabilitative, emotional and narrative, of two middle-aged, non-elite, middle/long-distance runners who experienced serious, long-term knee injuries. The study examines the interactional and narrative elements of the rehabilitative journey, focusing on dimensions of th…
Just 'non-academics: Research administrators and contested occupational identity
Surprisingly perhaps, knowledge about occupational groups within academia is relatively scant, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff. The research upon which this article is based aims to fill this gap by focusing upon one specific group, which, to date, has been under-researched: research administrators. Utilizing primarily symbolic interactionist analyses, and based upon qualitative interviews, the project sought to investi…
Occupational Identity on the Edge: Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education
Throughout the higher education sector in the UK, recent decades have witnessed the increasing use of fixed-term and part-time labour, to the extent that around 50 percent of academic staff are currently employed on fixed-term contracts and in excess of 90 percent of researchers are employed on fixed-term contracts. Despite the importance of their contribution to the sector as a whole, relatively little research has been undertaken on the lived e…
Running into Injury Time: Distance Running and Temporality
Despite a growing body of research on the sociology of time and, analogously, on the sociology of sport, to date there has been relatively little sports literature that takes time as the focus of the analysis. Given the centrality of time as a feature of most sports, this would seem a curious lacuna. The primary aims of this article are to contribute new perspectives on the subjective experience of sporting injury and to analyze some of the tempo…
Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education: Perceptions of Craft Knowledge
The past two decades have witnessed a trend towards the use of fixed-term and part-time contracts in higher education in the UK, where over a third of routine academic work is now carried out by staff on fixed-term contracts (Ainley 1994). As Kogan et al. (1994: 53) have noted, this increased casualisation of academic labour has been driven by the need for universities and colleges to reduce labour costs. The move towards a more ‘flexible’ and ch…
Get yourself some nice, neat, matching box files!' Research administrators and occupational identity work
To date, qualitative research into occupational groups and cultures within academia has been relatively scarce, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff within universities and colleges. This article seeks to address this lacuna and applies the interactionist concept of ‘identity work’ in order to examine one specific group to date under-researched: graduate research administrators. \nThis occupational group is of sociological i…
Working at a Marginal 'Career: The Case of UK Social Science Contract Researchers
Contract researchers constitute a significant occupational group within the UK higher education system, and the products of their labour are crucial to the research profile of the institutions in which they work and to the sector as a whole. Given the 'marginality' of the contract researcher role, with its attendant insecurities and inferior employment conditions in comparison with 'permanent' faculty, it is perhaps not surprising that relatively…
Artistry and analysis: Student experiences of UK practice‐based doctorates in art and design
During the last decade, doctoral education has been the focus of much international academic attention. This period has also witnessed the rapid growth of practice‐based research degrees in art and design in the UK. To date, however, there has been no extensive empirical research on the subjective experiences of students undertaking this form of doctorate in art and design. This paper, based on qualitative interviews with 50 UK students at 25 dif…
Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education: Perceptions of Craft Knowledge
The past two decades have witnessed a trend towards the use of fixed-term and part-time contracts in higher education in the UK, where over a third of routine academic work is now carried out by staff on fixed-term contracts (Ainley 1994). As Kogan et al. (1994: 53) have noted, this increased casualisation of academic labour has been driven by the need for universities and colleges to reduce labour costs. The move towards a more ‘flexible’ and ch…
Running into Injury Time: Distance Running and Temporality
Despite a growing body of research on the sociology of time and, analogously, on the sociology of sport, to date there has been relatively little sports literature that takes time as the focus of the analysis. Given the centrality of time as a feature of most sports, this would seem a curious lacuna. The primary aims of this article are to contribute new perspectives on the subjective experience of sporting injury and to analyze some of the tempo…
Working at a Marginal 'Career: The Case of UK Social Science Contract Researchers
Contract researchers constitute a significant occupational group within the UK higher education system, and the products of their labour are crucial to the research profile of the institutions in which they work and to the sector as a whole. Given the 'marginality' of the contract researcher role, with its attendant insecurities and inferior employment conditions in comparison with 'permanent' faculty, it is perhaps not surprising that relatively…
Occupational Identity on the Edge: Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education
Throughout the higher education sector in the UK, recent decades have witnessed the increasing use of fixed-term and part-time labour, to the extent that around 50 percent of academic staff are currently employed on fixed-term contracts and in excess of 90 percent of researchers are employed on fixed-term contracts. Despite the importance of their contribution to the sector as a whole, relatively little research has been undertaken on the lived e…
Artistry and analysis: Student experiences of UK practice‐based doctorates in art and design
During the last decade, doctoral education has been the focus of much international academic attention. This period has also witnessed the rapid growth of practice‐based research degrees in art and design in the UK. To date, however, there has been no extensive empirical research on the subjective experiences of students undertaking this form of doctorate in art and design. This paper, based on qualitative interviews with 50 UK students at 25 dif…
Emotions, Interaction and the Injured Sporting Body
Based on a collaborative autoethnographic research project, this article explores the emotional dimension of the injured sporting body. It takes as its analytic focus the journey, rehabilitative, emotional and narrative, of two middle-aged, non-elite, middle/long-distance runners who experienced serious, long-term knee injuries. The study examines the interactional and narrative elements of the rehabilitative journey, focusing on dimensions of th…
Seeing the way: Visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective
Employing visual and autoethnographic data from a two?year research project on distance runners, this article seeks to examine the activity of seeing in relation to the activity of distance running. One of its methodological aims is to develop the linkage between visual and autoethnographic data in combining an observation?based narrative and sociological analysis with photographs. This combination aims to convey to the reader not only some of th…
Just 'non-academics: Research administrators and contested occupational identity
Surprisingly perhaps, knowledge about occupational groups within academia is relatively scant, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff. The research upon which this article is based aims to fill this gap by focusing upon one specific group, which, to date, has been under-researched: research administrators. Utilizing primarily symbolic interactionist analyses, and based upon qualitative interviews, the project sought to investi…
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Get yourself some nice, neat, matching box files!' Research administrators and occupational identity work
To date, qualitative research into occupational groups and cultures within academia has been relatively scarce, with an almost exclusive concentration upon teaching staff within universities and colleges. This article seeks to address this lacuna and applies the interactionist concept of ‘identity work’ in order to examine one specific group to date under-researched: graduate research administrators. \nThis occupational group is of sociological i…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
Running the Routes Together: Corunning and Knowledge in Action
The mundane, concrete practices of social life have remained underanalyzed, unproblematized, even taken for granted by some social theorists, despite their being constitutive of the very foundation of social life. Despite a growing corpus of ethnographic studies within the sociology of sport, little analytic attention has been devoted to the concrete practices of actually "doing" sporting activity. Based on data derived from a collaborative auto-…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)