K Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 28488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9812-3732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Individual Illness: Using Illness Narratives to Explore the Navigation of Care and Work When a Relative Is Dying
Sociologists have frequently written about family involvement in end‐of‐life care, highlighting the emotional and physical labour involved. Research has also examined how individuals juggle paid work commitments with informal long‐term care. Less is known about the impact of illness trajectory on care and work in the temporarily ambiguous context of terminal illness. Drawing on qualitative data collected using in‐depth interviews and analysed the…
International organizations as places of remembrance: Norm legitimization through memory discourses
The UN has been traditionally a prime component of small states’ foreign policy, but also a conspicuous space where norms are interpreted, bargained, and contested. Gauging the dynamics of remembrance and norms at international organizations, this article explores the purchase of norm legitimization through memory discourses. We argue that the transposition of memory at international level claims a new subjective order of legitimization, which ac…
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usually a family member) must complete when someone dies-such as probate, asset management and funeral planning. It is a hidden form of administration which is complex, contradictory and often challenging to complete. Drawing on data from qualitative rese…
Matter of Fact: Using Creative Film to Disseminate Sensitive Research in Medical Sociology
Matter of Fact is a talking heads film based on extracts from qualitative interviews with a range of different health professionals. The film sought to co-productively and sensitively tell the story of baby loss and post-mortem from different healthcare perspectives. In the film, interview extracts are read by four actors from the applied theatre specialists Dead Earnest , who are each playing the roles of mortuary technician, pathologist, obstet…
I was just left to get on with the job: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens
Although grief can have a profound effect on the workplace, the long-term lived experience of working after bereavement remains under researched. But how is grief experienced at work? And to what extent does this experience vary according to type of loss and form of work? Drawing on data collected through a qualitative online survey (n = 220), this article provides a sociological exploration of experiences of work after bereavement. The article w…
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart
Social scientists have increasingly shown how qualitative research can be an emotional experience for researchers. Literature on this subject has tended to focus on the emotionally upsetting impact of data collection, often framing this as a form of emotional labour which can be managed by researchers adopting confessional style narratives throughout the research process. But what about the potentially life-affirming impacts of emotions in resear…
"Why didn't we do it"? Reproductive loss and the problem of post-mortem consent
Uncovering Hidden Emotional Work: Professional Practice in Paediatric Post-Mortem
The concepts of emotional labour and emotion management have been extensively explored across a range of health and social care occupations. Less is known about emotionality in ‘hidden’ and ‘taboo’ realms of health work. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study on fetal and neonatal post-mortem, we explore the ways in which professionals across occupation and status positions both articulate and manage their emotions. Post-mortem involves a ran…
Movement, Materiality, and the Mortuary: Adopting Go-Along Ethnography in Research on Fetal and Neonatal Postmortem
This article explores the use of the go-along method in research that takes place "behind closed doors" drawing on qualitative research on postmortem imaging. Often favored in community and urban studies, go-along consists of mobile interviews and observations with respondents in their own environments. We conducted go-alongs with various professionals-from pathologists to hospital chaplains-in a range of settings. We also tracked different forms…
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had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
Movement, Materiality, and the Mortuary: Adopting Go-Along Ethnography in Research on Fetal and Neonatal Postmortem
This article explores the use of the go-along method in research that takes place "behind closed doors" drawing on qualitative research on postmortem imaging. Often favored in community and urban studies, go-along consists of mobile interviews and observations with respondents in their own environments. We conducted go-alongs with various professionals-from pathologists to hospital chaplains-in a range of settings. We also tracked different forms…
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart
Social scientists have increasingly shown how qualitative research can be an emotional experience for researchers. Literature on this subject has tended to focus on the emotionally upsetting impact of data collection, often framing this as a form of emotional labour which can be managed by researchers adopting confessional style narratives throughout the research process. But what about the potentially life-affirming impacts of emotions in resear…
"Why didn't we do it"? Reproductive loss and the problem of post-mortem consent
I was just left to get on with the job: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens
Although grief can have a profound effect on the workplace, the long-term lived experience of working after bereavement remains under researched. But how is grief experienced at work? And to what extent does this experience vary according to type of loss and form of work? Drawing on data collected through a qualitative online survey (n = 220), this article provides a sociological exploration of experiences of work after bereavement. The article w…
Uncovering Hidden Emotional Work: Professional Practice in Paediatric Post-Mortem
The concepts of emotional labour and emotion management have been extensively explored across a range of health and social care occupations. Less is known about emotionality in ‘hidden’ and ‘taboo’ realms of health work. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study on fetal and neonatal post-mortem, we explore the ways in which professionals across occupation and status positions both articulate and manage their emotions. Post-mortem involves a ran…
Program schedule
had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
Movement, Materiality, and the Mortuary: Adopting Go-Along Ethnography in Research on Fetal and Neonatal Postmortem
This article explores the use of the go-along method in research that takes place "behind closed doors" drawing on qualitative research on postmortem imaging. Often favored in community and urban studies, go-along consists of mobile interviews and observations with respondents in their own environments. We conducted go-alongs with various professionals-from pathologists to hospital chaplains-in a range of settings. We also tracked different forms…
Uncovering Hidden Emotional Work: Professional Practice in Paediatric Post-Mortem
The concepts of emotional labour and emotion management have been extensively explored across a range of health and social care occupations. Less is known about emotionality in ‘hidden’ and ‘taboo’ realms of health work. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study on fetal and neonatal post-mortem, we explore the ways in which professionals across occupation and status positions both articulate and manage their emotions. Post-mortem involves a ran…
"Why didn't we do it"? Reproductive loss and the problem of post-mortem consent
Almost Confessional: Managing Emotions When Research Breaks Your Heart
Social scientists have increasingly shown how qualitative research can be an emotional experience for researchers. Literature on this subject has tended to focus on the emotionally upsetting impact of data collection, often framing this as a form of emotional labour which can be managed by researchers adopting confessional style narratives throughout the research process. But what about the potentially life-affirming impacts of emotions in resear…
I was just left to get on with the job: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens
Although grief can have a profound effect on the workplace, the long-term lived experience of working after bereavement remains under researched. But how is grief experienced at work? And to what extent does this experience vary according to type of loss and form of work? Drawing on data collected through a qualitative online survey (n = 220), this article provides a sociological exploration of experiences of work after bereavement. The article w…
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usually a family member) must complete when someone dies-such as probate, asset management and funeral planning. It is a hidden form of administration which is complex, contradictory and often challenging to complete. Drawing on data from qualitative rese…
Matter of Fact: Using Creative Film to Disseminate Sensitive Research in Medical Sociology
Matter of Fact is a talking heads film based on extracts from qualitative interviews with a range of different health professionals. The film sought to co-productively and sensitively tell the story of baby loss and post-mortem from different healthcare perspectives. In the film, interview extracts are read by four actors from the applied theatre specialists Dead Earnest , who are each playing the roles of mortuary technician, pathologist, obstet…
Beyond Individual Illness: Using Illness Narratives to Explore the Navigation of Care and Work When a Relative Is Dying
Sociologists have frequently written about family involvement in end‐of‐life care, highlighting the emotional and physical labour involved. Research has also examined how individuals juggle paid work commitments with informal long‐term care. Less is known about the impact of illness trajectory on care and work in the temporarily ambiguous context of terminal illness. Drawing on qualitative data collected using in‐depth interviews and analysed the…
International organizations as places of remembrance: Norm legitimization through memory discourses
The UN has been traditionally a prime component of small states’ foreign policy, but also a conspicuous space where norms are interpreted, bargained, and contested. Gauging the dynamics of remembrance and norms at international organizations, this article explores the purchase of norm legitimization through memory discourses. We argue that the transposition of memory at international level claims a new subjective order of legitimization, which ac…
Sociology (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)