Nigel King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evaluation of a Maternal Behavior Change Communication (MBCC) dental public health intervention on pregnant women to prevent early childhood caries in their infants
Clinical Trial Registry India CTRI/2022/07/044124 [Registered on: 19/07/2022]
A thematic analysis investigating the impact of Covid-19 on the way people think and talk about death and dying
This study explored how people thought and talked about death/dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings presented here are based on data collected for a larger study exploring the processes undertaken that allow individuals to actively think and openly talk about death and dying. Ten of the eleven interviews conducted during the pandemic mentioned COVID-19. These were subjected to thematic analysis, which identified two m…
Contrasts and synergies
In response to Jones’s (2022) article, we argue that if we understand personal construct psychology as being less rationalistic and more holistic than is often assumed, important synergies between it and Jungian analytical psychology can be observed. We argue that the two theories can be considered to align with each other on a number of points. These include taking a similar epistemological position, a recognition of psychological processes oper…
Expectations and experiences of psychological therapy from the client perspective
This article examines how client expectations about psychological therapy compare with subjective experiences of undertaking therapy. We interviewed 10 clients who had recently completed therapy about their expectations and experiences, and thematically analysed data in the template style. Three themes are presented ([1]”I didn't know what I was capable of”; [2] “It's 50% me, 50% her”; [3] “You take your stabilisers off and off you go”) which des…
Embodying empathy
Understanding Experiences in Hospice
Temporality, occupation, and relationships are identified as discrete factors that impact quality of life for individuals at the end of life and those around them. However, scholars, practitioners, and educators require insights regarding whether and how interactions between these factors shape this quality of life. This study is framed by an understanding that meaning is negotiated between people through social interaction and occupational engag…
Interviews in Qualitative Research
Putting graphic elicitation into practice
The use of diagrams to stimulate dialogue in research interviews, a technique known as graphic elicitation, has burgeoned since the year 2000. Reviews of the graphic elicitation literature have relied on the inconsistent terminology currently used to index visual methods, and have so far drawn only a partial picture of their use. Individual diagrams are seen as stand-alone tools, often linked to particular disciplines, rather than as images creat…
Surviving and thriving REF2021 for qualitative psychologists
In a 2016 issue of QMiP Bulletin (Issue 21), our current Chair, Sarah Riley, highlighted some of the particular issues faced by qualitative psychologists in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Memorably describing REF as: ‘The Voice and the Spanish Inquisition rolled into one, with a lot more meetings’, the article concludes with a promise that REF issues would be addressed at QMiP’s 2017 conference – where a REF discussion panel…
You want to be swept up in it all’
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
Experience of Touch in Health Care
Touch mediates health professionals' interactions with patients. Different professionals have reported their practices but what is currently lacking is a well-theorized, interprofessional synthesis. We systematically searched eight databases, identified 41 studies in seven professions-nursing (27), medicine (4), physiotherapy (5), osteopathy (1), counseling (2), psychotherapy (1), dentistry (1)-and completed a meta-ethnographic line-of-argument s…
Template Analysis for Business and Management Students
This book explains what Template Analysis is, its place in qualitative research, and the main strengths and limitations of this method. Practical case studies and examples from published research guide you through how to use it in your own research project.
Adventures of pleasure
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
Encouraging Self-Reflection in Social Work Students
We report on a research study in which we introduced undergraduate social work students in England to two methods originating in Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a way of encouraging in-depth self-reflection. The methods were first piloted with four students and subsequently used with two large classes of second-year students. The students often found the methods challenging, but many felt that these enabled them to reflect upon social work pra…
Marco Gemignani (President of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology in the US) talks to QMiP
In September 2014, QMiP, with support from the British Psychological Society’s Section Initiative Fund, were delighted to host a programme of seminars and workshops delivered by Dr Marco Gemignani. Marco, who is the President of SQIP (the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology – a recently-formed section of the American Psychological Association [APA]), gave a variety of very well-received presentations at academic institutions across the …
Doing Template Analysis
In this article, we introduce the reader to Template Analysis, a method of thematically organising and analysing qualitative data in social science research. We outline the basic principles of the method and describe the main procedural steps involved in undertaking Template Analysis. We then use an example from our own research (the qualitative evaluation of an end of life care service in the United Kingdom) to demonstrate how Template Analysis …
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Secular trends in the maturation of permanent teeth in 5 to 6 years old children
OBJECTIVES: This investigation aimed to evaluate the secular trend exhibited by developing permanent teeth in 5 to 6 years old southern Chinese children. METHODS: Four hundred radiographs of children born in the years 1981 (n=200) and 2001 (n=200) were randomly selected, and then age and gender matched. Maxillary and mandibular teeth on the left side were scored. The number of tooth developmental stages (n-tds) for each stage of development and t…
Secular Trends in the Maturation of Permanent Teeth in 5 to 6 Years Old Children
The Pictor Technique
Collaborative working is a crucial part of contemporary health and social care. Researching the experiences of those involved-as professionals, patients, or carers-is challenging, given the complexity of many cases and the taken-for-granted nature of roles and identities in relation to it. In this article we introduce the Pictor technique for exploring experiences of collaborative working. This is a visual technique in which participants construc…
Doing Template Analysis
Sudden Impact
Social Capital and Community Group Participation
Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised account of complex community relations. This paper presents analysis from a qualitative evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre (HLC) in the North of England, to examine the utility of the concept of social …
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
Using Templates in the Thematic Analysis of Text
Putting graphic elicitation into practice
The use of diagrams to stimulate dialogue in research interviews, a technique known as graphic elicitation, has burgeoned since the year 2000. Reviews of the graphic elicitation literature have relied on the inconsistent terminology currently used to index visual methods, and have so far drawn only a partial picture of their use. Individual diagrams are seen as stand-alone tools, often linked to particular disciplines, rather than as images creat…
Experience of Touch in Health Care
Touch mediates health professionals' interactions with patients. Different professionals have reported their practices but what is currently lacking is a well-theorized, interprofessional synthesis. We systematically searched eight databases, identified 41 studies in seven professions-nursing (27), medicine (4), physiotherapy (5), osteopathy (1), counseling (2), psychotherapy (1), dentistry (1)-and completed a meta-ethnographic line-of-argument s…
Social Capital and Community Group Participation
Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised account of complex community relations. This paper presents analysis from a qualitative evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre (HLC) in the North of England, to examine the utility of the concept of social …
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
You want to be swept up in it all’
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
The Pictor Technique
Collaborative working is a crucial part of contemporary health and social care. Researching the experiences of those involved-as professionals, patients, or carers-is challenging, given the complexity of many cases and the taken-for-granted nature of roles and identities in relation to it. In this article we introduce the Pictor technique for exploring experiences of collaborative working. This is a visual technique in which participants construc…
Adventures of pleasure
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
Taking the Chaste Out of Chastisement
This article analyses research and theoretical material from sociological and psychological sources to explore the sexual implications of the corporal punishment of children. Through explicating and utilizing a social constructionist perspective, not only are the shortcomings of some of the current arguments against corporal punishment exposed, but such a perspective enables us to additionally understand how such practices can be construed in a s…
Encouraging Self-Reflection in Social Work Students
We report on a research study in which we introduced undergraduate social work students in England to two methods originating in Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a way of encouraging in-depth self-reflection. The methods were first piloted with four students and subsequently used with two large classes of second-year students. The students often found the methods challenging, but many felt that these enabled them to reflect upon social work pra…
Understanding Experiences in Hospice
Temporality, occupation, and relationships are identified as discrete factors that impact quality of life for individuals at the end of life and those around them. However, scholars, practitioners, and educators require insights regarding whether and how interactions between these factors shape this quality of life. This study is framed by an understanding that meaning is negotiated between people through social interaction and occupational engag…
“You can’t Cure it so you have to Endure it”
In this study, the experience of adaptation to diabetic renal disease was examined from a phenomenological perspective. Twenty patients attending a diabetic renal clinic were interviewed in depth. Through the use of a template analysis approach, a set of strong themes relating to changes in lifestyle was identified: changes in the nature of involvement with the medical system, coping strategies, and hopes, fears, and expectations. Almost all part…
Taking the Chaste Out of Chastisement
This article analyses research and theoretical material from sociological and psychological sources to explore the sexual implications of the corporal punishment of children. Through explicating and utilizing a social constructionist perspective, not only are the shortcomings of some of the current arguments against corporal punishment exposed, but such a perspective enables us to additionally understand how such practices can be construed in a s…
Spanking and the corporal punishment of children
In the late 1970s there was a report in the British tabloid press that a manufacturer \nof school canes or straps (memory is uncertain after 25 years) was \napparently indignant that his products were being sold in London sex shops, \nwhere they were favoured by “perverts”. The tone of the article comprised \nthat mixture of moral outrage and titillation with which those familiar with \nthe media will be well acquainted. With the cover of indigna…
Using Templates in the Thematic Analysis of Text
Using Interviews in Qualitative Research
It started when I barked once when I was licking his boots!’
Traditionally, psychologists have researched bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) and its participants from an external perspective, seeing it as pathology. However, there is now a growing body of research aiming to challenge this perspective. This article examines some of the ways BDSM has been reconceptualised by researchers who reject the pathological focus, distinguishing between transgressive and …
Doing Template Analysis
Sudden Impact
Social Capital and Community Group Participation
Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised account of complex community relations. This paper presents analysis from a qualitative evaluation of a Healthy Living Centre (HLC) in the North of England, to examine the utility of the concept of social …
Secular trends in the maturation of permanent teeth in 5 to 6 years old children
OBJECTIVES: This investigation aimed to evaluate the secular trend exhibited by developing permanent teeth in 5 to 6 years old southern Chinese children. METHODS: Four hundred radiographs of children born in the years 1981 (n=200) and 2001 (n=200) were randomly selected, and then age and gender matched. Maxillary and mandibular teeth on the left side were scored. The number of tooth developmental stages (n-tds) for each stage of development and t…
Secular Trends in the Maturation of Permanent Teeth in 5 to 6 Years Old Children
The Pictor Technique
Collaborative working is a crucial part of contemporary health and social care. Researching the experiences of those involved-as professionals, patients, or carers-is challenging, given the complexity of many cases and the taken-for-granted nature of roles and identities in relation to it. In this article we introduce the Pictor technique for exploring experiences of collaborative working. This is a visual technique in which participants construc…
Doing Template Analysis
In this article, we introduce the reader to Template Analysis, a method of thematically organising and analysing qualitative data in social science research. We outline the basic principles of the method and describe the main procedural steps involved in undertaking Template Analysis. We then use an example from our own research (the qualitative evaluation of an end of life care service in the United Kingdom) to demonstrate how Template Analysis …
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Marco Gemignani (President of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology in the US) talks to QMiP
In September 2014, QMiP, with support from the British Psychological Society’s Section Initiative Fund, were delighted to host a programme of seminars and workshops delivered by Dr Marco Gemignani. Marco, who is the President of SQIP (the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology – a recently-formed section of the American Psychological Association [APA]), gave a variety of very well-received presentations at academic institutions across the …
Encouraging Self-Reflection in Social Work Students
We report on a research study in which we introduced undergraduate social work students in England to two methods originating in Personal Construct Theory (PCT) as a way of encouraging in-depth self-reflection. The methods were first piloted with four students and subsequently used with two large classes of second-year students. The students often found the methods challenging, but many felt that these enabled them to reflect upon social work pra…
Template Analysis for Business and Management Students
This book explains what Template Analysis is, its place in qualitative research, and the main strengths and limitations of this method. Practical case studies and examples from published research guide you through how to use it in your own research project.
Adventures of pleasure
This paper will illustrate how the consensual sexual practice of bondage, discipline, dominance & submission, and sadism & masochism (BDSM) can be interpreted as a form of adult play. Terminology and language used by BDSM practitioners frequently draws upon imagery of play, fun and games, and narratives around BDSM related activities are reflective of this. \n \n \nDrawing upon empirical data along with various psychological and sociological theo…
Surviving and thriving REF2021 for qualitative psychologists
In a 2016 issue of QMiP Bulletin (Issue 21), our current Chair, Sarah Riley, highlighted some of the particular issues faced by qualitative psychologists in relation to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Memorably describing REF as: ‘The Voice and the Spanish Inquisition rolled into one, with a lot more meetings’, the article concludes with a promise that REF issues would be addressed at QMiP’s 2017 conference – where a REF discussion panel…
You want to be swept up in it all’
This research aims to understand the eroticism of consensual bondage, discipline, dominance & submission and sadism & masochism (BDSM). Eroticism is considered a central feature of most sexual experiences, yet there is limited research that examines erotic components of BDSM as lived by practitioners themselves. By adopting an experiential approach to the study using phenomenological psychology, the lived experiences of BDSM practitioners were fo…
Experience of Touch in Health Care
Touch mediates health professionals' interactions with patients. Different professionals have reported their practices but what is currently lacking is a well-theorized, interprofessional synthesis. We systematically searched eight databases, identified 41 studies in seven professions-nursing (27), medicine (4), physiotherapy (5), osteopathy (1), counseling (2), psychotherapy (1), dentistry (1)-and completed a meta-ethnographic line-of-argument s…
Interviews in Qualitative Research
Putting graphic elicitation into practice
The use of diagrams to stimulate dialogue in research interviews, a technique known as graphic elicitation, has burgeoned since the year 2000. Reviews of the graphic elicitation literature have relied on the inconsistent terminology currently used to index visual methods, and have so far drawn only a partial picture of their use. Individual diagrams are seen as stand-alone tools, often linked to particular disciplines, rather than as images creat…
Embodying empathy
Understanding Experiences in Hospice
Temporality, occupation, and relationships are identified as discrete factors that impact quality of life for individuals at the end of life and those around them. However, scholars, practitioners, and educators require insights regarding whether and how interactions between these factors shape this quality of life. This study is framed by an understanding that meaning is negotiated between people through social interaction and occupational engag…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works)