Bren Neale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bren Neale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bren |
| FAMILY NAME | Neale |
| SIGNATURE | NEALE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Vignette Research
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
The Craft of Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes
In this article, qualitative longitudinal (QL) research is presented as a powerful form of fluid enquiry. The combination of its real-world and real-time features enables this methodology to ‘follow reality in all its windings’, and, thereby, to produce useful knowledge for policy and professional practice. The main focus is on the power of QL methodology to illuminate complex causal processes by teasing out their multiple, fluid and relational e…
Collegial lives and everyday practices
Time and the lifecourse
Time and the lifecourse
Introduction For groups, as well as for individuals, life itself means to separate and to be re-united, to change form and condition, to die and to be reborn. It is to act and to cease, to wait and rest, and then to begin acting again but in a different way. And there are always new thresholds to cross... (van Gennep, 1960 [1909], p 189) This quotation from an early ‘armchair’ anthropologist reflects much of what is compelling about the study of …
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Introduction
The entry of young people into early parenthood has long been regarded as an issue for social policy and for professional practice in the UK and internationally. Despite a steadily falling trend, most notably since 1998, the UK still has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe, concentrated in the most socially disadvantaged areas of the country (Office for National Statistics, 2015). The majority of these pregnancies are unplanne…
Risk, Resource, Redemption? The Parenting and Custodial Experiences of Young Offender Fathers
Drawing on an ESRC funded qualitative longitudinal study of young fatherhood, this article explores the experiences of young offender fathers, the complex intersection of offender and fatherhood pathways for young men and the impact of professional support and tailored intervention programmes on these processes. The article challenges the axiom of young offender fathers as inherently 'risky', and suggests the utility of a dynamic, life course app…
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Adding Time into the Mix
This paper explores the ethical considerations that arise in the conduct of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) research, drawing on work undertaken as part of the ESRC Timescapes initiative. Adding time into the mix of a qualitative study heightens the need for ethical literacy. Well established ethical principles take on new meaning and need reworking when seen with a temporal gaze – for example, those relating to consent as an ongoing process; susta…
The Timescapes Archive
ESRC funding for the Timescapes initiative included provision for the creation of a specialist resource of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) data for sharing and re-use. In this article we document the development of this resource, focusing on the strategic and practical dimensions of its growth. In the process we explore the importance of effective communication and negotiation in the development of stakeholder collaborations between researchers and…
Researching lives through time
New Structures, New Agency
Time, texture and childhood
This paper explores the notions of time and texture --or the interplay of the temporal and cultural dimensions of social life--as the conceptual foundation for the development of longitudinal qualitative (LQ) methodologies. It illustrates the different ways in which time is theorized among both qualitative and quantitative researchers in order to draw out the creative potential offered by LQ methodologies for understanding the dynamics of everyda…
The Changing Experience of Childhood
Trying to Stay Apace
It is widely held that `multiple transitions' following divorce adversely affect children. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of young people from the north of England whose parents have separated or divorced, this article re-examines and refines the notion of `multiple transitions'. New insights are provided into the way that young people manage change, focusing in particular on the pace and nature of change and extent to which young peop…
Dialogues with Children
The notion of listening to children so that they can participate in decision-making about their everyday lives has become an established principle of child law and policy in England and Wales. That there are fundamental constraints to putting this principle into practice, however, is widely acknowledged, particularly in the context of divorce and parental conflict. This article shows how the operation of the welfare principle in an English contex…
Family Fragments
Good' and 'bad’ lawyers? Struggling in the shadow of the new law
In this paper we examine the work of family lawyers in helping parents to negotiate arrangements for their children at the point of separation or divorce. Our focus is twofold. First, to examine the impact of legislative and procedural changes in family law upon this process and, secondly, to explore the popular perception that lawyers fall into two groups, namely the ‘good' and the 'bad'. Drawing upon empirical evidence we explore how lawyers ar…
Good enough morality? Divorce and postmodernity
In this article we take issue with the way in which pro-family right thinking has managed to discursively construct divorce as an instance of immorality/amorality and to depict those who divorce as merely self- interested. We challenge this thinking by working with some of Bauman's ideas on moral competency and postmodernity and by draw ing on the work of Finch on 'doing the right thing' in families. To this conceptual discussion we add findings …
Experiments with Parenthood
Recent policy changes in the area of family law have promoted changes in the organisation of the post-divorce family. These shifts place emphasis on consensual joint parenting after divorce and emphasise agreement rather than conflict between parents. In addition, these policy changes have given a new status to fatherhood and seek to maintain relationships between men and children. These policy shifts, as well as the social changes that underlie …
Time, texture and childhood
This paper explores the notions of time and texture --or the interplay of the temporal and cultural dimensions of social life--as the conceptual foundation for the development of longitudinal qualitative (LQ) methodologies. It illustrates the different ways in which time is theorized among both qualitative and quantitative researchers in order to draw out the creative potential offered by LQ methodologies for understanding the dynamics of everyda…
Researching lives through time
Dialogues with Children
The notion of listening to children so that they can participate in decision-making about their everyday lives has become an established principle of child law and policy in England and Wales. That there are fundamental constraints to putting this principle into practice, however, is widely acknowledged, particularly in the context of divorce and parental conflict. This article shows how the operation of the welfare principle in an English contex…
New Structures, New Agency
Adding Time into the Mix
This paper explores the ethical considerations that arise in the conduct of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) research, drawing on work undertaken as part of the ESRC Timescapes initiative. Adding time into the mix of a qualitative study heightens the need for ethical literacy. Well established ethical principles take on new meaning and need reworking when seen with a temporal gaze – for example, those relating to consent as an ongoing process; susta…
Trying to Stay Apace
It is widely held that `multiple transitions' following divorce adversely affect children. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of young people from the north of England whose parents have separated or divorced, this article re-examines and refines the notion of `multiple transitions'. New insights are provided into the way that young people manage change, focusing in particular on the pace and nature of change and extent to which young peop…
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Experiments with Parenthood
Recent policy changes in the area of family law have promoted changes in the organisation of the post-divorce family. These shifts place emphasis on consensual joint parenting after divorce and emphasise agreement rather than conflict between parents. In addition, these policy changes have given a new status to fatherhood and seek to maintain relationships between men and children. These policy shifts, as well as the social changes that underlie …
The Timescapes Archive
ESRC funding for the Timescapes initiative included provision for the creation of a specialist resource of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) data for sharing and re-use. In this article we document the development of this resource, focusing on the strategic and practical dimensions of its growth. In the process we explore the importance of effective communication and negotiation in the development of stakeholder collaborations between researchers and…
Good' and 'bad’ lawyers? Struggling in the shadow of the new law
In this paper we examine the work of family lawyers in helping parents to negotiate arrangements for their children at the point of separation or divorce. Our focus is twofold. First, to examine the impact of legislative and procedural changes in family law upon this process and, secondly, to explore the popular perception that lawyers fall into two groups, namely the ‘good' and the 'bad'. Drawing upon empirical evidence we explore how lawyers ar…
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes
In this article, qualitative longitudinal (QL) research is presented as a powerful form of fluid enquiry. The combination of its real-world and real-time features enables this methodology to ‘follow reality in all its windings’, and, thereby, to produce useful knowledge for policy and professional practice. The main focus is on the power of QL methodology to illuminate complex causal processes by teasing out their multiple, fluid and relational e…
Introduction
The entry of young people into early parenthood has long been regarded as an issue for social policy and for professional practice in the UK and internationally. Despite a steadily falling trend, most notably since 1998, the UK still has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe, concentrated in the most socially disadvantaged areas of the country (Office for National Statistics, 2015). The majority of these pregnancies are unplanne…
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Risk, Resource, Redemption? The Parenting and Custodial Experiences of Young Offender Fathers
Drawing on an ESRC funded qualitative longitudinal study of young fatherhood, this article explores the experiences of young offender fathers, the complex intersection of offender and fatherhood pathways for young men and the impact of professional support and tailored intervention programmes on these processes. The article challenges the axiom of young offender fathers as inherently 'risky', and suggests the utility of a dynamic, life course app…
Good enough morality? Divorce and postmodernity
In this article we take issue with the way in which pro-family right thinking has managed to discursively construct divorce as an instance of immorality/amorality and to depict those who divorce as merely self- interested. We challenge this thinking by working with some of Bauman's ideas on moral competency and postmodernity and by draw ing on the work of Finch on 'doing the right thing' in families. To this conceptual discussion we add findings …
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
Good' and 'bad’ lawyers? Struggling in the shadow of the new law
In this paper we examine the work of family lawyers in helping parents to negotiate arrangements for their children at the point of separation or divorce. Our focus is twofold. First, to examine the impact of legislative and procedural changes in family law upon this process and, secondly, to explore the popular perception that lawyers fall into two groups, namely the ‘good' and the 'bad'. Drawing upon empirical evidence we explore how lawyers ar…
Good enough morality? Divorce and postmodernity
In this article we take issue with the way in which pro-family right thinking has managed to discursively construct divorce as an instance of immorality/amorality and to depict those who divorce as merely self- interested. We challenge this thinking by working with some of Bauman's ideas on moral competency and postmodernity and by draw ing on the work of Finch on 'doing the right thing' in families. To this conceptual discussion we add findings …
Experiments with Parenthood
Recent policy changes in the area of family law have promoted changes in the organisation of the post-divorce family. These shifts place emphasis on consensual joint parenting after divorce and emphasise agreement rather than conflict between parents. In addition, these policy changes have given a new status to fatherhood and seek to maintain relationships between men and children. These policy shifts, as well as the social changes that underlie …
Family Fragments
Dialogues with Children
The notion of listening to children so that they can participate in decision-making about their everyday lives has become an established principle of child law and policy in England and Wales. That there are fundamental constraints to putting this principle into practice, however, is widely acknowledged, particularly in the context of divorce and parental conflict. This article shows how the operation of the welfare principle in an English contex…
Time, texture and childhood
This paper explores the notions of time and texture --or the interplay of the temporal and cultural dimensions of social life--as the conceptual foundation for the development of longitudinal qualitative (LQ) methodologies. It illustrates the different ways in which time is theorized among both qualitative and quantitative researchers in order to draw out the creative potential offered by LQ methodologies for understanding the dynamics of everyda…
The Changing Experience of Childhood
Trying to Stay Apace
It is widely held that `multiple transitions' following divorce adversely affect children. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of young people from the north of England whose parents have separated or divorced, this article re-examines and refines the notion of `multiple transitions'. New insights are provided into the way that young people manage change, focusing in particular on the pace and nature of change and extent to which young peop…
New Structures, New Agency
The Timescapes Archive
ESRC funding for the Timescapes initiative included provision for the creation of a specialist resource of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) data for sharing and re-use. In this article we document the development of this resource, focusing on the strategic and practical dimensions of its growth. In the process we explore the importance of effective communication and negotiation in the development of stakeholder collaborations between researchers and…
Researching lives through time
Adding Time into the Mix
This paper explores the ethical considerations that arise in the conduct of Qualitative Longitudinal (QL) research, drawing on work undertaken as part of the ESRC Timescapes initiative. Adding time into the mix of a qualitative study heightens the need for ethical literacy. Well established ethical principles take on new meaning and need reworking when seen with a temporal gaze – for example, those relating to consent as an ongoing process; susta…
Time and the lifecourse
Introduction For groups, as well as for individuals, life itself means to separate and to be re-united, to change form and condition, to die and to be reborn. It is to act and to cease, to wait and rest, and then to begin acting again but in a different way. And there are always new thresholds to cross... (van Gennep, 1960 [1909], p 189) This quotation from an early ‘armchair’ anthropologist reflects much of what is compelling about the study of …
Supporting young fathers
This article provides a case study of the challenges faced by one local authority in supporting young fathers, in a context of changing models of service provision, resource constraints and professional training needs. Developments in service provision are tracked over a decade, starting with a mentoring service set up under New Labour’s 10-year Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, and considering how this has been refashioned under new models of service …
Seeing young fathers in a different way
I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves, often on benefits, and then just disappear. It is utterly shocking and I hope the ministers will get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary
Introduction
The entry of young people into early parenthood has long been regarded as an issue for social policy and for professional practice in the UK and internationally. Despite a steadily falling trend, most notably since 1998, the UK still has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe, concentrated in the most socially disadvantaged areas of the country (Office for National Statistics, 2015). The majority of these pregnancies are unplanne…
Risk, Resource, Redemption? The Parenting and Custodial Experiences of Young Offender Fathers
Drawing on an ESRC funded qualitative longitudinal study of young fatherhood, this article explores the experiences of young offender fathers, the complex intersection of offender and fatherhood pathways for young men and the impact of professional support and tailored intervention programmes on these processes. The article challenges the axiom of young offender fathers as inherently 'risky', and suggests the utility of a dynamic, life course app…
Becoming a Young Breadwinner? The Education, Employment and Training Trajectories of Young Fathers
The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their very different pathways through education, training a…
Time and the lifecourse
Collegial lives and everyday practices
The Craft of Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes
In this article, qualitative longitudinal (QL) research is presented as a powerful form of fluid enquiry. The combination of its real-world and real-time features enables this methodology to ‘follow reality in all its windings’, and, thereby, to produce useful knowledge for policy and professional practice. The main focus is on the power of QL methodology to illuminate complex causal processes by teasing out their multiple, fluid and relational e…
Vignette Research
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Politics (5 works)