Anna Einarsdóttir
Biographic Data
| ID | 157155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Einarsdóttir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Einarsdóttir |
| SIGNATURE | EINARSDÓTTIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8689-6351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Broadcasting LGBT+ support: The scope and limitations of presenting allyship
Purpose Advance knowledge about LGBT+ allies, their role and contribution, and how they voice support. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on an innovative video booth methodology capturing short video messages recorded by LGBT+ allies. A video booth is like a passport photo booth with an affixed tablet for video recording. The booth was placed in eight organisations during LGBT+ history month, inviting people to talk about their wo…
Do I have to say I'm gay: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact
Using data generated from a 'video booth', this paper explores how LGBT+ identifying individuals and allies navigate public visibility in front of a video camera. The video booth was set up in eight different NHS organisations in the UK to enable users to record short messages (30 s maximum) about their working life and/or experiences of LGBT+ employee networks, using a self-operated tablet system. The workplace context had an impact on how peopl…
Trapped in the abject: Prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
Family matters: Women who 'marry' women in Iceland
This article is based on study among women who 'married' other women in Iceland. It reveals complexity and controversial issues of visibility and acceptance, and illustrates the differing reception that same-sex partnership recognition receives in public, within families and within the non-heterosexual community in general. While same-sex partnership recognition has the potential to shape public opinion in positive ways, marriage neither guarante…
Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace
The disclosure of lesbian, gay or bisexual identity is generally presented as a conscious act of leaving heterosexuality. Such interpretation fails to take into account the dynamic processes involved in constructing non-heterosexual identities and to what degree such identities are embodied or disembodied. Supported by interview data among lesbian and gay employees in six British workplaces, this article explores how non-heterosexual identities b…
It's Nothing Personal: Anti-Homosexuality in the British Workplace
Scholarship on homophobia has been critiqued for being individualistic and psychological, failing to account for structural inequalities, experiences of homophobia and discursive manifestations of homophobia. This Economic and Social Research Council funded study attempts to address some of these concerns by focusing on the experiences of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) in relation to bullying, harassment and discrimination in the British …
They married for love but keep it quiet: Same sex partners in Iceland
Iceland is one of a few countries where the recognition of same sex relationships has been practised since the 1990s. This article is based on a mixed method study among civil partners in Iceland and explains why people choose to marry. Whilst the questionnaire data signalled that most people marry for love, love marriages were difficult to explore in the face-to-face interaction, as was the multiple understandings of security. Claiming citizensh…
Scripting Civil Partnerships: Interviewing Couples Together and Apart
Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…
Sociology of Personal Life
Scripting Civil Partnerships: Interviewing Couples Together and Apart
Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…
Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace
The disclosure of lesbian, gay or bisexual identity is generally presented as a conscious act of leaving heterosexuality. Such interpretation fails to take into account the dynamic processes involved in constructing non-heterosexual identities and to what degree such identities are embodied or disembodied. Supported by interview data among lesbian and gay employees in six British workplaces, this article explores how non-heterosexual identities b…
It's Nothing Personal: Anti-Homosexuality in the British Workplace
Scholarship on homophobia has been critiqued for being individualistic and psychological, failing to account for structural inequalities, experiences of homophobia and discursive manifestations of homophobia. This Economic and Social Research Council funded study attempts to address some of these concerns by focusing on the experiences of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) in relation to bullying, harassment and discrimination in the British …
Trapped in the abject: Prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
Family matters: Women who 'marry' women in Iceland
This article is based on study among women who 'married' other women in Iceland. It reveals complexity and controversial issues of visibility and acceptance, and illustrates the differing reception that same-sex partnership recognition receives in public, within families and within the non-heterosexual community in general. While same-sex partnership recognition has the potential to shape public opinion in positive ways, marriage neither guarante…
Sociology of Personal Life
They married for love but keep it quiet: Same sex partners in Iceland
Iceland is one of a few countries where the recognition of same sex relationships has been practised since the 1990s. This article is based on a mixed method study among civil partners in Iceland and explains why people choose to marry. Whilst the questionnaire data signalled that most people marry for love, love marriages were difficult to explore in the face-to-face interaction, as was the multiple understandings of security. Claiming citizensh…
Scripting Civil Partnerships: Interviewing Couples Together and Apart
Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…
It's Nothing Personal: Anti-Homosexuality in the British Workplace
Scholarship on homophobia has been critiqued for being individualistic and psychological, failing to account for structural inequalities, experiences of homophobia and discursive manifestations of homophobia. This Economic and Social Research Council funded study attempts to address some of these concerns by focusing on the experiences of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) in relation to bullying, harassment and discrimination in the British …
Family matters: Women who 'marry' women in Iceland
This article is based on study among women who 'married' other women in Iceland. It reveals complexity and controversial issues of visibility and acceptance, and illustrates the differing reception that same-sex partnership recognition receives in public, within families and within the non-heterosexual community in general. While same-sex partnership recognition has the potential to shape public opinion in positive ways, marriage neither guarante…
Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace
The disclosure of lesbian, gay or bisexual identity is generally presented as a conscious act of leaving heterosexuality. Such interpretation fails to take into account the dynamic processes involved in constructing non-heterosexual identities and to what degree such identities are embodied or disembodied. Supported by interview data among lesbian and gay employees in six British workplaces, this article explores how non-heterosexual identities b…
Trapped in the abject: Prison officers’ use of avoidance, compliance and retaliation in response to ambiguous humour
The place of humour in organisational interactions has been the subject of long-standing interest. Studies have considered the positive role of humour in increasing social contact and promoting group cohesion, while warning it can be a means for expressing hostility and excluding group members. However, more ambiguous uses of humour remain underexplored and under-theorised. Using a single case study of employee experiences at 'Hillside', a high-s…
Do I have to say I'm gay: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact
Using data generated from a 'video booth', this paper explores how LGBT+ identifying individuals and allies navigate public visibility in front of a video camera. The video booth was set up in eight different NHS organisations in the UK to enable users to record short messages (30 s maximum) about their working life and/or experiences of LGBT+ employee networks, using a self-operated tablet system. The workplace context had an impact on how peopl…
Broadcasting LGBT+ support: The scope and limitations of presenting allyship
Purpose Advance knowledge about LGBT+ allies, their role and contribution, and how they voice support. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on an innovative video booth methodology capturing short video messages recorded by LGBT+ allies. A video booth is like a passport photo booth with an affixed tablet for video recording. The booth was placed in eight organisations during LGBT+ history month, inviting people to talk about their wo…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)