Liz Mcdonnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 244331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Mcdonnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONNELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
They Should have been Looking after People for a Long Time
The COVID-19 pandemic mobilised a multitude of acts of giving and generosity. This article provides a snapshot of giving and generosity among a small sample of individuals in the UK, in a context following years of ungenerous austerity politics. Giving and generous actions played a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of COVID and we report on data collected using in-depth interviews to understand experiences of giving and generosity. …
Presence as Politics in Qualitative Research Ethics
Qualitative researchers have critiqued Anglophone institutional ethics procedures as individualistic, rigid, and inattentive to complex power dynamics. From our positions as researchers, educators, and ethics reviewers in a U.K. institution, we argue that engaging with a "politics of presence" in situational and procedural ethics produces more ethically engaged qualitative research. By this we mean researchers and ethics committees opening themse…
Mobilising (and immobilising) giving in pandemic and austerity Britain
Set in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK austerity, this paper explores maps of giving and mobilised resources alongside interview narratives to examine the various energies that support and/or hinder giving. Conceptualising giving as a form of mobility, we find that individual acts of giving have the potential to generate momentum and positive feedback loops – given the right circumstances – to create highly energised mobilities of giv…
On (not) being the master’s tools
This paper reflects on the first five years of the Changing University Cultures (CHUCL) collective, which conducted equality and diversity projects in four English universities between 2015 and 2020. We explore how CHUCL has been used in the service of institutional polishing (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 143) and airbrushing (Phipps, A. 2020b. “Reckoning Up: Sexual Harassme…
Group identity, empathy and shared suffering
This article examines the indirect impacts of hate crimes on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. Based on 34 qualitative interviews, we explore both the perceived meaning of ‘community’ in the context of targeted victimization and the emotional and behavioural effects that anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Islamophobic hate crimes have on other members of the victim’s group. Building …
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
Freedom and foreclosure
This article considers the intersections between identity and intimate practices for asexual people. Drawing on findings from a project exploring asexual lives, we argue that asexual identification produced consequences for intimate lives in the form of either freedom or foreclosure. Eight perceptions of increased freedom or foreclosure in personal life are discussed. Using Symbolic Interactionist theory, we suggest that these attitudes reflected…
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not eq…
A multidimensional view? Evaluating the different and combined contributions of diaries and interviews in an exploration of asexual identities and intimacies
This article evaluates the relative contributions of diaries and interviews in multiple methods qualitative research exploring asexual identities and intimacies. Differentiated by three core differences: reflective time-frame (the day just had/lifetime), context (alone/with researcher) and mode (written/verbal), these methods had the potential to generate a multidimensional view of our topics. Using five cases in which data from both interviews a…
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
Stories of Non-Becoming
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
Couple and Family Therapy Outcome Research in the Previous Decade
Balancing powers
The Talking Dads Project brought together young fathers, an NGO and university researchers to explore the experiences of young fathers in a UK seaside city. Young fathers took a lead role in developing the content of, and conducting, interviews with peer participants. Drawing on an analytical framework derived from participatory research literature, this article provides an analysis of five critical processes that created intense debate and becam…
Me, you and us
This article draws on data from a study conducted between 2001 and 2005 that investigated university employees' desires to have children. Forty-seven participants reflected upon key elements of their personal histories, experiences of intimate relationships and what they thought it was possible to achieve in their life worlds. Theories of de-traditionalization and connectedness were considered in the research. Although participants' intimate rela…
Multiple Economies and Youth Livelihood
In this paper we present a model of multiple economic spheres in order to understand and explain the income‐generating activities of young people. These spheres include the formal sector, the informal waged sector, the informal non‐waged sector, the welfare sector and the criminal sector. We conclude that, due to changes in the labour market that affect them in particular ways, young people are engaged in a diverse range of activities within and …
You Are Too Sentimental
Journal Article "You Are Too Sentimental": Problems and Suggestions For A New Labor History Get access Lawrence T. McDonnell Lawrence T. McDonnell Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, Baltimore, MD 21218 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 4, Summer 1984, Pages 629–654, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.4.629 Published: 01 July 1984
Stories of Non-Becoming
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
Group identity, empathy and shared suffering
This article examines the indirect impacts of hate crimes on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. Based on 34 qualitative interviews, we explore both the perceived meaning of ‘community’ in the context of targeted victimization and the emotional and behavioural effects that anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Islamophobic hate crimes have on other members of the victim’s group. Building …
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
Balancing powers
The Talking Dads Project brought together young fathers, an NGO and university researchers to explore the experiences of young fathers in a UK seaside city. Young fathers took a lead role in developing the content of, and conducting, interviews with peer participants. Drawing on an analytical framework derived from participatory research literature, this article provides an analysis of five critical processes that created intense debate and becam…
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
On (not) being the master’s tools
This paper reflects on the first five years of the Changing University Cultures (CHUCL) collective, which conducted equality and diversity projects in four English universities between 2015 and 2020. We explore how CHUCL has been used in the service of institutional polishing (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 143) and airbrushing (Phipps, A. 2020b. “Reckoning Up: Sexual Harassme…
Presence as Politics in Qualitative Research Ethics
Qualitative researchers have critiqued Anglophone institutional ethics procedures as individualistic, rigid, and inattentive to complex power dynamics. From our positions as researchers, educators, and ethics reviewers in a U.K. institution, we argue that engaging with a "politics of presence" in situational and procedural ethics produces more ethically engaged qualitative research. By this we mean researchers and ethics committees opening themse…
Couple and Family Therapy Outcome Research in the Previous Decade
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not eq…
Multiple Economies and Youth Livelihood
In this paper we present a model of multiple economic spheres in order to understand and explain the income‐generating activities of young people. These spheres include the formal sector, the informal waged sector, the informal non‐waged sector, the welfare sector and the criminal sector. We conclude that, due to changes in the labour market that affect them in particular ways, young people are engaged in a diverse range of activities within and …
You Are Too Sentimental
Journal Article "You Are Too Sentimental": Problems and Suggestions For A New Labor History Get access Lawrence T. McDonnell Lawrence T. McDonnell Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, Baltimore, MD 21218 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 4, Summer 1984, Pages 629–654, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.4.629 Published: 01 July 1984
Freedom and foreclosure
This article considers the intersections between identity and intimate practices for asexual people. Drawing on findings from a project exploring asexual lives, we argue that asexual identification produced consequences for intimate lives in the form of either freedom or foreclosure. Eight perceptions of increased freedom or foreclosure in personal life are discussed. Using Symbolic Interactionist theory, we suggest that these attitudes reflected…
A multidimensional view? Evaluating the different and combined contributions of diaries and interviews in an exploration of asexual identities and intimacies
This article evaluates the relative contributions of diaries and interviews in multiple methods qualitative research exploring asexual identities and intimacies. Differentiated by three core differences: reflective time-frame (the day just had/lifetime), context (alone/with researcher) and mode (written/verbal), these methods had the potential to generate a multidimensional view of our topics. Using five cases in which data from both interviews a…
Me, you and us
This article draws on data from a study conducted between 2001 and 2005 that investigated university employees' desires to have children. Forty-seven participants reflected upon key elements of their personal histories, experiences of intimate relationships and what they thought it was possible to achieve in their life worlds. Theories of de-traditionalization and connectedness were considered in the research. Although participants' intimate rela…
You Are Too Sentimental
Journal Article "You Are Too Sentimental": Problems and Suggestions For A New Labor History Get access Lawrence T. McDonnell Lawrence T. McDonnell Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, Baltimore, MD 21218 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 4, Summer 1984, Pages 629–654, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.4.629 Published: 01 July 1984
Multiple Economies and Youth Livelihood
In this paper we present a model of multiple economic spheres in order to understand and explain the income‐generating activities of young people. These spheres include the formal sector, the informal waged sector, the informal non‐waged sector, the welfare sector and the criminal sector. We conclude that, due to changes in the labour market that affect them in particular ways, young people are engaged in a diverse range of activities within and …
Me, you and us
This article draws on data from a study conducted between 2001 and 2005 that investigated university employees' desires to have children. Forty-seven participants reflected upon key elements of their personal histories, experiences of intimate relationships and what they thought it was possible to achieve in their life worlds. Theories of de-traditionalization and connectedness were considered in the research. Although participants' intimate rela…
Balancing powers
The Talking Dads Project brought together young fathers, an NGO and university researchers to explore the experiences of young fathers in a UK seaside city. Young fathers took a lead role in developing the content of, and conducting, interviews with peer participants. Drawing on an analytical framework derived from participatory research literature, this article provides an analysis of five critical processes that created intense debate and becam…
Couple and Family Therapy Outcome Research in the Previous Decade
Negotiating the Boundaries of Intimacy
This paper uses findings from research diaries to explore the use of practices of intimacy among asexual people. While much of the literature to date has focused on the supposedly transformative and political nature of uniquely asexual practices of intimacy, our findings suggest something different. Rather than seeking to transform the nature of intimate relationships, asexual people make pragmatic adjustments and engage in negotiations to achiev…
Stories of Non-Becoming
In contrast to conventional models of positively 'becoming' an identity through social interaction, this article explores the inverse, negational process of 'non-becoming,' whereby actors start but do not continue along an identity career trajectory. Through cumulative attrition, interactions and encounters at key moments create an overall pattern of non-progression. Using asexuality as an example, we identify three main trajectory stages of non-…
Freedom and foreclosure
This article considers the intersections between identity and intimate practices for asexual people. Drawing on findings from a project exploring asexual lives, we argue that asexual identification produced consequences for intimate lives in the form of either freedom or foreclosure. Eight perceptions of increased freedom or foreclosure in personal life are discussed. Using Symbolic Interactionist theory, we suggest that these attitudes reflected…
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
This short piece considers how participant recruitment can have ethical elements. With reference to a qualitative research project on asexuality we explore the challenges associated with recruiting from an emerging, and politically charged, identity group. In our attempt to broaden the representation of asexual stories we sought to recruit people who may not fully identify with the emerging term ‘asexual’ as a sexual orientation while also not eq…
A multidimensional view? Evaluating the different and combined contributions of diaries and interviews in an exploration of asexual identities and intimacies
This article evaluates the relative contributions of diaries and interviews in multiple methods qualitative research exploring asexual identities and intimacies. Differentiated by three core differences: reflective time-frame (the day just had/lifetime), context (alone/with researcher) and mode (written/verbal), these methods had the potential to generate a multidimensional view of our topics. Using five cases in which data from both interviews a…
Asexual' Isn't Who I Am
Some literature on asexuality has claimed that it is inherently radical and contains the potential for resistance. Unfortunately, this literature has tended to be unempirical, has imagined asexuality as a disembodied entity, and has marginalised the multiple identities held by asexual people. This article, inspired by Plummer's critical humanist approach, seeks to explore how individuals understand their asexuality to encourage forms of political…
Group identity, empathy and shared suffering
This article examines the indirect impacts of hate crimes on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. Based on 34 qualitative interviews, we explore both the perceived meaning of ‘community’ in the context of targeted victimization and the emotional and behavioural effects that anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and Islamophobic hate crimes have on other members of the victim’s group. Building …
On (not) being the master’s tools
This paper reflects on the first five years of the Changing University Cultures (CHUCL) collective, which conducted equality and diversity projects in four English universities between 2015 and 2020. We explore how CHUCL has been used in the service of institutional polishing (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 143) and airbrushing (Phipps, A. 2020b. “Reckoning Up: Sexual Harassme…
Mobilising (and immobilising) giving in pandemic and austerity Britain
Set in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK austerity, this paper explores maps of giving and mobilised resources alongside interview narratives to examine the various energies that support and/or hinder giving. Conceptualising giving as a form of mobility, we find that individual acts of giving have the potential to generate momentum and positive feedback loops – given the right circumstances – to create highly energised mobilities of giv…
They Should have been Looking after People for a Long Time
The COVID-19 pandemic mobilised a multitude of acts of giving and generosity. This article provides a snapshot of giving and generosity among a small sample of individuals in the UK, in a context following years of ungenerous austerity politics. Giving and generous actions played a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of COVID and we report on data collected using in-depth interviews to understand experiences of giving and generosity. …
Presence as Politics in Qualitative Research Ethics
Qualitative researchers have critiqued Anglophone institutional ethics procedures as individualistic, rigid, and inattentive to complex power dynamics. From our positions as researchers, educators, and ethics reviewers in a U.K. institution, we argue that engaging with a "politics of presence" in situational and procedural ethics produces more ethically engaged qualitative research. By this we mean researchers and ethics committees opening themse…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works)