Samantha Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1564-5472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intergenerational sport mobilities: The materialities and experiences of doing junior parkrun together
This paper aims to explores affective, sensory and material-mobility relations (Cook Citation2023) in the under-researched context of intergenerational participation in junior parkrun, in the UK. Junior parkrun is an international free, weekly 2 km event for children aged 4-14 and accompanying adults. Despite junior parkrun’s widespread growth since 2010, and parkrun’s current strategic focus on expanding participation, no published research has …
Doing Alcohol Research Differently: Considerations During Research With Romany Gypsy and Traveller Communities – A Narrative Review With Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities experience significant health inequalities, yet alcohol consumption within these communities remains under-researched. This paper offers a methodological and ethical contribution by reflecting on two qualitative studies of alcohol use in Romany Gypsy and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom: project 1 explores youth drinking, and project 2 examines intergenerational drinking narratives. Drawing on a c…
An Autoethnography of My Experiences of Undergoing Fertility Treatment While Working as an Academic
In this paper, I provide an autoethnographic account of my experiences of undergoing fertility treatment while working in a higher education institution in the United Kingdom. My autoethnographic reflections are situated in the context of neoliberal academia, characterized by high pressures to perform. Despite the prevalence of infertility and the significant impact that undergoing fertility treatment can have on an individual while trying to ful…
The ‘walking/wheeling with’ framework: Establishing walking/wheeling with children as a mobility justice issue
Adopting a mobility justice lens, this review paper brings together the often-fragmented literature on walking and wheeling with children and develops a ‘Walking/Wheeling With’ framework to understand and address the infrastructural, social, and cultural barriers that constrain these mobilities, and celebrate the many benefits they bring at the individual, family, community and planetary levels. Rooted in the everyday realities of caregiving mobi…
Workplace misconceptions: The stigma of infertility led me to hide my treatment from colleagues
Mother’s ruin? The relational alcohol consumption practices and experiences of mothers and their teenage and young adult children
Relational drinking geographies: Towards vital flows and ‘open’ methods
Jayne and Valentine offer opportunities to engage with alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness in ways that do not unreflexively reproduce ‘alcohol studies’ ontologies and epistemologies, which are infused with moralising, disciplining, and normalising discourses. I expand their contribution by proposing two ways to account for the complexities of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness. First, I argue that the concept of ‘vital flows’, drawing on the work…
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: Critical reflections on research involving young people
In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field. These include: being fancied by a male participant; a…
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
The purpose of this book is to situate the place beyond the city as an epistemological vantage point for researching youth. Existing frameworks about young people privilege large urban centres or ‘global cities’ and create forms of marginality that are at once spatial and epistemological. This book interrogates and moves beyond these boundaries, turning the margins into a unique position for understanding youth and examining forms of difference w…
Generative processing and emotional false memories: A generation “cost” for negative false memory formation but only after delay
Previous research shows that manipulations (e.g. levels-of-processing) that facilitate true memory often increase susceptibility to false memory. An exception is the generation effect. Using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, Soraci et al. found that generating rather than reading list items led to an increase in true but not false memories. They argued that generation led to enhanced item-distinctiveness that drove down false memory pr…
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma
Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In th…
The Male Gaze or Male Gays? From Romance to Bromance through Performances of Gender and Sexuality by two of Love Island’s Favourite Characters
This paper draws on two favourite characters from British reality television show, Love Island 2018: Jack Fincham, a former stationery sales manager, and Alex George, an Accident & Emergency [A&E] doctor, to explore how heterosexual norms are constructed and challenged. We study the romantic on-screen relationships these characters have with the female contestants, and between the two male characters themselves through the notion of ‘bromance’. T…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
Walk this way: The rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK
Mobility in the context of higher education is often privileged to large(r)- scale international movements, neglecting the everyday mobilities practiced by students. This is important, as banal mobilities constitute important affective experiences for students. In responding to calls for a micro-bodily mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, we draw on semi-structured interviews conducted with university students aged 18–25 studying…
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV Drama Cheat
Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate studen…
Further uses for grounded theory: A methodology for psychological studies of the performing arts, literature and visual media
Grounded theory remains a popular qualitative methodology even after haf-a-century of existence. Recent years have seen a renaissance in the use of the methodology and it is increasingly being utilised in innovative ways. These have included the application of ‘grounded theory to ‘nontraditional’ data such as those derived from the performing arts, literature and visual media. Most published grounded theory analyses using these data appear experi…
Young men's alcohol consumption experiences and performances of masculinity
This paper shows a much more complex image of young men's drinking practices than has hitherto been conceptualised in the existing literature, and brings to the fore doings of alternative masculinities. This has important implications for alcohol policy interventions targeting men, in that the complexities and contradictions of masculinity in relation to drinking must be taken seriously
Performingcare: Emotion Work and 'Dignity Work' - A Joint Autoethnography of Caring for Our Mum at the End of Life
In this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as 'dignity work'. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this …
The only way is ethics? Applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children
In this Viewpoints piece, we reflect on the process of applying for National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval and governance for research with children in England. We present a case study of our experiences of navigating the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) for one study, The Hair Study. We argue that, for children’s geographers, getting to grips with the complex processes of applying for NHS ethical approval and governance is i…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”: Scousebrows, Placemaking and Everyday Creativity
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
She was Like “Don’t Try This” and “Don’t Drink This” and “Don’t Mix These”’: Older Siblings and the Transmission of Embodied Knowledge Surrounding Alcohol Consumption
This article draws on qualitative research conducted with 40 young people, aged 15–24, in the Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. With a focus on alcohol consumption, this article shows how older siblings transmit embodied knowledge to younger siblings. This article finds that older siblings are an important source of protection for younger siblings when starting their drinking careers. Moreover, they play a fundamental role in facilitating…
Doing It Write: Representation and Responsibility in Writing Up Participatory Research Involving Young People
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
Young people’s drinking spaces and Im/Mobilities: A case of ‘hyper-diversity’
This paper draws on a ‘palette’ of interdisciplinary methods to explore young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences in the hyper-diverse suburban locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper contributes to literature on the emerging theme of hyper-diversity by exposing the heterogeneity of young people’s drinking experiences, with a focus on bars, pubs, streets and parks. I demonstrate how young people’s incl…
Drinking in the dark: Shedding Light on Young People's Alcohol Consumption Experiences
This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a city-centre issue, to explore suburban indoor and outdoor drinking cultures. Through paying attention to atmospheres of darkness and lightness, I sho…
Drinking in the dark: Shedding Light on Young People's Alcohol Consumption Experiences
This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a city-centre issue, to explore suburban indoor and outdoor drinking cultures. Through paying attention to atmospheres of darkness and lightness, I sho…
Performingcare: Emotion Work and 'Dignity Work' - A Joint Autoethnography of Caring for Our Mum at the End of Life
In this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as 'dignity work'. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this …
Hold the phone! Culturally credible research ‘with’ young people
This paper reflects on my experiences of using ‘mobile phone methods’ when researching ‘with’ young people (Leyshon 2002, 189, emphasis in original), over the course of a year (October 2013–2014)
Walk this way: The rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK
Mobility in the context of higher education is often privileged to large(r)- scale international movements, neglecting the everyday mobilities practiced by students. This is important, as banal mobilities constitute important affective experiences for students. In responding to calls for a micro-bodily mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, we draw on semi-structured interviews conducted with university students aged 18–25 studying…
Doing It Write: Representation and Responsibility in Writing Up Participatory Research Involving Young People
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: Critical reflections on research involving young people
In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field. These include: being fancied by a male participant; a…
Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life
Moving beyond the current academic pre-occupation with the night-time economy and drinking venues, this paper highlights the specificities of outdoor drinking cultures in streets and parks. Instead of viewing outdoor drinking as morally transgressive - as promoted in the popular press - it is contended that outdoor drinkscapes are distinctly appealing over commercial premises for some young urbanites. Streets and parks enable young people to feel…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV Drama Cheat
Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate studen…
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma
Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In th…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”: Scousebrows, Placemaking and Everyday Creativity
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
Alcohol, Young People and Urban Life
Moving beyond the current academic pre-occupation with the night-time economy and drinking venues, this paper highlights the specificities of outdoor drinking cultures in streets and parks. Instead of viewing outdoor drinking as morally transgressive - as promoted in the popular press - it is contended that outdoor drinkscapes are distinctly appealing over commercial premises for some young urbanites. Streets and parks enable young people to feel…
Hold the phone! Culturally credible research ‘with’ young people
This paper reflects on my experiences of using ‘mobile phone methods’ when researching ‘with’ young people (Leyshon 2002, 189, emphasis in original), over the course of a year (October 2013–2014)
Doing It Write: Representation and Responsibility in Writing Up Participatory Research Involving Young People
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
Young people’s drinking spaces and Im/Mobilities: A case of ‘hyper-diversity’
This paper draws on a ‘palette’ of interdisciplinary methods to explore young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences in the hyper-diverse suburban locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper contributes to literature on the emerging theme of hyper-diversity by exposing the heterogeneity of young people’s drinking experiences, with a focus on bars, pubs, streets and parks. I demonstrate how young people’s incl…
Drinking in the dark: Shedding Light on Young People's Alcohol Consumption Experiences
This paper draws on 12 months of ethnographic research to explore the drinking experiences of young people, aged 15-24, living in the suburban case study locations of Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. This paper moves beyond the contemporary geographical imaginary of alcohol consumption as a city-centre issue, to explore suburban indoor and outdoor drinking cultures. Through paying attention to atmospheres of darkness and lightness, I sho…
The only way is ethics? Applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children
In this Viewpoints piece, we reflect on the process of applying for National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval and governance for research with children in England. We present a case study of our experiences of navigating the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) for one study, The Hair Study. We argue that, for children’s geographers, getting to grips with the complex processes of applying for NHS ethical approval and governance is i…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”: Scousebrows, Placemaking and Everyday Creativity
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
She was Like “Don’t Try This” and “Don’t Drink This” and “Don’t Mix These”’: Older Siblings and the Transmission of Embodied Knowledge Surrounding Alcohol Consumption
This article draws on qualitative research conducted with 40 young people, aged 15–24, in the Chorlton and Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK. With a focus on alcohol consumption, this article shows how older siblings transmit embodied knowledge to younger siblings. This article finds that older siblings are an important source of protection for younger siblings when starting their drinking careers. Moreover, they play a fundamental role in facilitating…
Further uses for grounded theory: A methodology for psychological studies of the performing arts, literature and visual media
Grounded theory remains a popular qualitative methodology even after haf-a-century of existence. Recent years have seen a renaissance in the use of the methodology and it is increasingly being utilised in innovative ways. These have included the application of ‘grounded theory to ‘nontraditional’ data such as those derived from the performing arts, literature and visual media. Most published grounded theory analyses using these data appear experi…
Young men's alcohol consumption experiences and performances of masculinity
This paper shows a much more complex image of young men's drinking practices than has hitherto been conceptualised in the existing literature, and brings to the fore doings of alternative masculinities. This has important implications for alcohol policy interventions targeting men, in that the complexities and contradictions of masculinity in relation to drinking must be taken seriously
Performingcare: Emotion Work and 'Dignity Work' - A Joint Autoethnography of Caring for Our Mum at the End of Life
In this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as 'dignity work'. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this …
The Male Gaze or Male Gays? From Romance to Bromance through Performances of Gender and Sexuality by two of Love Island’s Favourite Characters
This paper draws on two favourite characters from British reality television show, Love Island 2018: Jack Fincham, a former stationery sales manager, and Alex George, an Accident & Emergency [A&E] doctor, to explore how heterosexual norms are constructed and challenged. We study the romantic on-screen relationships these characters have with the female contestants, and between the two male characters themselves through the notion of ‘bromance’. T…
What do family care-givers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? A qualitative study
In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia living in the community. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out in England with 14 family care-givers (FCGs) recruited from a single private home care provider. A thematic analysis of th…
Walk this way: The rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK
Mobility in the context of higher education is often privileged to large(r)- scale international movements, neglecting the everyday mobilities practiced by students. This is important, as banal mobilities constitute important affective experiences for students. In responding to calls for a micro-bodily mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, we draw on semi-structured interviews conducted with university students aged 18–25 studying…
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic: A Depiction of the Marketised UK Higher Education System through a Textual Analysis of the ITV Drama Cheat
Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate studen…
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins
The purpose of this book is to situate the place beyond the city as an epistemological vantage point for researching youth. Existing frameworks about young people privilege large urban centres or ‘global cities’ and create forms of marginality that are at once spatial and epistemological. This book interrogates and moves beyond these boundaries, turning the margins into a unique position for understanding youth and examining forms of difference w…
Generative processing and emotional false memories: A generation “cost” for negative false memory formation but only after delay
Previous research shows that manipulations (e.g. levels-of-processing) that facilitate true memory often increase susceptibility to false memory. An exception is the generation effect. Using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, Soraci et al. found that generating rather than reading list items led to an increase in true but not false memories. They argued that generation led to enhanced item-distinctiveness that drove down false memory pr…
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma
Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In th…
Relational drinking geographies: Towards vital flows and ‘open’ methods
Jayne and Valentine offer opportunities to engage with alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness in ways that do not unreflexively reproduce ‘alcohol studies’ ontologies and epistemologies, which are infused with moralising, disciplining, and normalising discourses. I expand their contribution by proposing two ways to account for the complexities of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness. First, I argue that the concept of ‘vital flows’, drawing on the work…
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’: Critical reflections on research involving young people
In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field. These include: being fancied by a male participant; a…
Workplace misconceptions: The stigma of infertility led me to hide my treatment from colleagues
Mother’s ruin? The relational alcohol consumption practices and experiences of mothers and their teenage and young adult children
Intergenerational sport mobilities: The materialities and experiences of doing junior parkrun together
This paper aims to explores affective, sensory and material-mobility relations (Cook Citation2023) in the under-researched context of intergenerational participation in junior parkrun, in the UK. Junior parkrun is an international free, weekly 2 km event for children aged 4-14 and accompanying adults. Despite junior parkrun’s widespread growth since 2010, and parkrun’s current strategic focus on expanding participation, no published research has …
Doing Alcohol Research Differently: Considerations During Research With Romany Gypsy and Traveller Communities – A Narrative Review With Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities experience significant health inequalities, yet alcohol consumption within these communities remains under-researched. This paper offers a methodological and ethical contribution by reflecting on two qualitative studies of alcohol use in Romany Gypsy and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom: project 1 explores youth drinking, and project 2 examines intergenerational drinking narratives. Drawing on a c…
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