Alastair Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 137237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4807-7352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis
Handbook of Creative Data Analysis
Doing youth participatory action research (Ypar) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology
Recent years have seen an increased epistemological and methodological interest within sociology in participatory research. Seen as one mode by which to upturn the apparent antagonism between 'town' and 'gown', and as a pragmatic way to render sociology more 'public', participatory research seems to offer resolutions to some of the field's more pressing recent concerns. It also appears to provide redress to continuing institutional pressure to es…
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue
Communicative musicality and the mobile interview: A case-based psychosocial approach
Psychosocial interview-based methodologies have been heavily reliant on what has been long been thought of as a talk-led encounter. Interest in walking as a research method has been driven by the ways in which it alters the research relationship through the kinetic and relational affordances of moving side by side while walking, which also brings place and space into the encounter. However, a walking interview is also an event that occurs in time…
Vulnerable Jugendliche in sich verändernden Risikoumgebungen: Figurationen von urbaner Jugendwohnungslosigkeit in Deutschland, Dänemark und Großbritannien
Dieses Projekt stellt die Frage, wie die COVID-19-Pandemie Prozesse der sozialen Inklusion und Exklusion von wohnungslosen Jugendlichen beeinflusst. Anhand von drei internationalen Fallstudien soll das Verständnis dafür verbessert werden, wie Pandemien die Risiken und die zugänglichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Ressourcen für junge Menschen mit Wohnungslosigkeitserfahrung prägen. Das Wissen, das in dieser vergleichenden Studie entwickelt wird, kann da…
Social Work and the Visual Imagination: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye
A critical discussion of the use of film in participatory research projects with homeless young people: An analysis based on case examples from England and Canada
The focus of this paper is on the complex and sometimes contradictory effects of generating films with and about young people who have experienced homelessness, through participatory research. Drawing on two projects – one in Ottawa, Canada, and the other in Manchester, UK – we scrutinise two key aspects of participatory research projects that use film: first, how to appropriately communicate the complexity of already-stigmatised lives to differe…
A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of the practices and experiences of people working in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation (CSE) partnerships in three coastal towns in England. The study is based on focus groups conducted with 36 practitioners from a range of professional groups, including police, social work, substance misuse, education, specialist youth workers, sexual health, and statutory and non‐statutory child…
The visual matrix: A psycho-social method for discovering unspoken complexities in social care practice
Learning on the move: Exploring work with vulnerable young men through the lens of movement
This paper discusses a practice context in which process and movement are central to the provision of care and support. It draws on data from a research project conducted with The Men’s Room, Manchester, England which used ethnographic and mobile methods to explore the complex task staff undertake in engaging and supporting highly vulnerable young men. The organisation’s commitment to getting alongside these young men includes a mobile and highly…
The Paradoxes of Recovery Policy: Exploring the Impact of Austerity and Responsibilisation for the Citizenship Claims of People with Drug Problems
This article critically examines the implications accompanying the introduction and implementation of recovery‐based policy. The article draws upon research conducted in L ancashire, E ngland, where commissioners have been at the forefront of recent developments in ‘whole system’ models of commissioning. Empirical data are drawn on to make a series of new arguments about the tensions and practice implications of the new recovery agenda. The artic…
Playing by the Rules? Gender Relations in a Football and Mental Health Project
This paper examines gender issues in relation to a mental health project in England, which is based on football metaphor and aimed at engaging men in therapeutic activity. We use the football related analogy of “playing by the rules” to explore how gender was framed, performed, negotiated and contested in the project. We note three different “games” at play within the project: football, gender, and therapy. We argue that gender had a doubled char…
Avoiding the involvement overdose: Drugs, race, ethnicity and participatory research practice
Participatory research (PR) strategies have been used extensively in policy and practice based research in the last fifteen years in the UK. This paper offers a critical reflection on the growth in PR programmes commissioned by statutory bodies as part of attempts to understand the influence of race, ethnicity and racism on issues related to substance misuse policy and practice. The stated aim of many PR programmes has been to alter the role of t…
Thinking and doing: ‘Race’ and ethnicity in drug research and policy development in England
The drug treatment and support needs of black and minority ethnic populations have been a policy concern for more than 10 years in England. This paper considers how these needs are currently understood, addressing four particular issues. First, it considers the ways in which ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’ are conceptualized and operationalized in research, practice and policy decisions. Second, it offers a critical oversight of the epistemological …
Voluntary action and illegal drugs: Health and society in Britain since the 1960s, by Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge World on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse, by Lester B…
Doing youth participatory action research (Ypar) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology
Recent years have seen an increased epistemological and methodological interest within sociology in participatory research. Seen as one mode by which to upturn the apparent antagonism between 'town' and 'gown', and as a pragmatic way to render sociology more 'public', participatory research seems to offer resolutions to some of the field's more pressing recent concerns. It also appears to provide redress to continuing institutional pressure to es…
Learning on the move: Exploring work with vulnerable young men through the lens of movement
This paper discusses a practice context in which process and movement are central to the provision of care and support. It draws on data from a research project conducted with The Men’s Room, Manchester, England which used ethnographic and mobile methods to explore the complex task staff undertake in engaging and supporting highly vulnerable young men. The organisation’s commitment to getting alongside these young men includes a mobile and highly…
A critical discussion of the use of film in participatory research projects with homeless young people: An analysis based on case examples from England and Canada
The focus of this paper is on the complex and sometimes contradictory effects of generating films with and about young people who have experienced homelessness, through participatory research. Drawing on two projects – one in Ottawa, Canada, and the other in Manchester, UK – we scrutinise two key aspects of participatory research projects that use film: first, how to appropriately communicate the complexity of already-stigmatised lives to differe…
The Paradoxes of Recovery Policy: Exploring the Impact of Austerity and Responsibilisation for the Citizenship Claims of People with Drug Problems
This article critically examines the implications accompanying the introduction and implementation of recovery‐based policy. The article draws upon research conducted in L ancashire, E ngland, where commissioners have been at the forefront of recent developments in ‘whole system’ models of commissioning. Empirical data are drawn on to make a series of new arguments about the tensions and practice implications of the new recovery agenda. The artic…
Avoiding the involvement overdose: Drugs, race, ethnicity and participatory research practice
Participatory research (PR) strategies have been used extensively in policy and practice based research in the last fifteen years in the UK. This paper offers a critical reflection on the growth in PR programmes commissioned by statutory bodies as part of attempts to understand the influence of race, ethnicity and racism on issues related to substance misuse policy and practice. The stated aim of many PR programmes has been to alter the role of t…
Playing by the Rules? Gender Relations in a Football and Mental Health Project
This paper examines gender issues in relation to a mental health project in England, which is based on football metaphor and aimed at engaging men in therapeutic activity. We use the football related analogy of “playing by the rules” to explore how gender was framed, performed, negotiated and contested in the project. We note three different “games” at play within the project: football, gender, and therapy. We argue that gender had a doubled char…
The visual matrix: A psycho-social method for discovering unspoken complexities in social care practice
Thinking and doing: ‘Race’ and ethnicity in drug research and policy development in England
The drug treatment and support needs of black and minority ethnic populations have been a policy concern for more than 10 years in England. This paper considers how these needs are currently understood, addressing four particular issues. First, it considers the ways in which ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’ are conceptualized and operationalized in research, practice and policy decisions. Second, it offers a critical oversight of the epistemological …
Thinking and doing: ‘Race’ and ethnicity in drug research and policy development in England
The drug treatment and support needs of black and minority ethnic populations have been a policy concern for more than 10 years in England. This paper considers how these needs are currently understood, addressing four particular issues. First, it considers the ways in which ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’ are conceptualized and operationalized in research, practice and policy decisions. Second, it offers a critical oversight of the epistemological …
Voluntary action and illegal drugs: Health and society in Britain since the 1960s, by Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge World on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse, by Lester B…
Avoiding the involvement overdose: Drugs, race, ethnicity and participatory research practice
Participatory research (PR) strategies have been used extensively in policy and practice based research in the last fifteen years in the UK. This paper offers a critical reflection on the growth in PR programmes commissioned by statutory bodies as part of attempts to understand the influence of race, ethnicity and racism on issues related to substance misuse policy and practice. The stated aim of many PR programmes has been to alter the role of t…
Playing by the Rules? Gender Relations in a Football and Mental Health Project
This paper examines gender issues in relation to a mental health project in England, which is based on football metaphor and aimed at engaging men in therapeutic activity. We use the football related analogy of “playing by the rules” to explore how gender was framed, performed, negotiated and contested in the project. We note three different “games” at play within the project: football, gender, and therapy. We argue that gender had a doubled char…
Learning on the move: Exploring work with vulnerable young men through the lens of movement
This paper discusses a practice context in which process and movement are central to the provision of care and support. It draws on data from a research project conducted with The Men’s Room, Manchester, England which used ethnographic and mobile methods to explore the complex task staff undertake in engaging and supporting highly vulnerable young men. The organisation’s commitment to getting alongside these young men includes a mobile and highly…
The Paradoxes of Recovery Policy: Exploring the Impact of Austerity and Responsibilisation for the Citizenship Claims of People with Drug Problems
This article critically examines the implications accompanying the introduction and implementation of recovery‐based policy. The article draws upon research conducted in L ancashire, E ngland, where commissioners have been at the forefront of recent developments in ‘whole system’ models of commissioning. Empirical data are drawn on to make a series of new arguments about the tensions and practice implications of the new recovery agenda. The artic…
The visual matrix: A psycho-social method for discovering unspoken complexities in social care practice
Social Work and the Visual Imagination: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye
A critical discussion of the use of film in participatory research projects with homeless young people: An analysis based on case examples from England and Canada
The focus of this paper is on the complex and sometimes contradictory effects of generating films with and about young people who have experienced homelessness, through participatory research. Drawing on two projects – one in Ottawa, Canada, and the other in Manchester, UK – we scrutinise two key aspects of participatory research projects that use film: first, how to appropriately communicate the complexity of already-stigmatised lives to differe…
A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of the practices and experiences of people working in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation (CSE) partnerships in three coastal towns in England. The study is based on focus groups conducted with 36 practitioners from a range of professional groups, including police, social work, substance misuse, education, specialist youth workers, sexual health, and statutory and non‐statutory child…
Vulnerable Jugendliche in sich verändernden Risikoumgebungen: Figurationen von urbaner Jugendwohnungslosigkeit in Deutschland, Dänemark und Großbritannien
Dieses Projekt stellt die Frage, wie die COVID-19-Pandemie Prozesse der sozialen Inklusion und Exklusion von wohnungslosen Jugendlichen beeinflusst. Anhand von drei internationalen Fallstudien soll das Verständnis dafür verbessert werden, wie Pandemien die Risiken und die zugänglichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Ressourcen für junge Menschen mit Wohnungslosigkeitserfahrung prägen. Das Wissen, das in dieser vergleichenden Studie entwickelt wird, kann da…
Communicative musicality and the mobile interview: A case-based psychosocial approach
Psychosocial interview-based methodologies have been heavily reliant on what has been long been thought of as a talk-led encounter. Interest in walking as a research method has been driven by the ways in which it alters the research relationship through the kinetic and relational affordances of moving side by side while walking, which also brings place and space into the encounter. However, a walking interview is also an event that occurs in time…
The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis
Handbook of Creative Data Analysis
Doing youth participatory action research (Ypar) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology
Recent years have seen an increased epistemological and methodological interest within sociology in participatory research. Seen as one mode by which to upturn the apparent antagonism between 'town' and 'gown', and as a pragmatic way to render sociology more 'public', participatory research seems to offer resolutions to some of the field's more pressing recent concerns. It also appears to provide redress to continuing institutional pressure to es…
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)