Christopher Pole
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Pole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Pole |
| SIGNATURE | POLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Doing Fieldwork
Fieldwork is central to Sociology, but guides to it often treat the real questions invisibly or over-load the reader with micro-details. This refreshing, authoritative volume, written by two experienced, highly respected fieldworkers, provides a one-stop, engaging guide. The book: \n•Clearly explains fieldwork methods \n•Shows how to locate a field and map it \n•Covers common problem areas and ethical considerations \n•Provides a ready reckoner o…
Doing Fieldwork
Ethics in Social Research
Recent shifts in the economic, cultural and theoretical context within which Higher Education institutions organise and pursue research activities, alongside other factors has prompted a reconsideration of the role of social research - its purpose, its practice and its ethical alignments. Blending practice-based reflection with philosophically informed theoretical work, this volume brings together a field of leading and rising academics from soci…
New Frontiers in Ethnography
Introduction / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 1. What's (still) wrong with ethnography? / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 2. The vitality of ethnographic research on race / Gregory Jeffers, Rashawn Ray, Tim Hallett -- ch. 3. On the value of Marxism in the understanding and analysis of social class in educational ethnography and the misunderstanding of class as an epistemological category by critics of Marxist and other critical traditions / Dennis Beach -- ch. 4. Ethno…
Researching Children and Fashion: An embodied ethnography
Child-centred research methods present a range of opportunities for the researcher to gather rich and detailed data on many aspects of the lives of children. This article examines the experience of using such methods in the context of a study of children as consumers of clothing and fashion. Its principal concern is with the application of an embodied reflexivity to the experience of fieldwork with an 8-year-old girl in intimate settings. The art…
Fieldwork
Case, culture, curriculum and educational change: Reflections on cross-cultural case study in England and Japan
Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens?
The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to our understanding of youth and transitions to key areas of adult citizenship, including employment, independent living arrangements and
Seeing is Believing? Approaches to Visual Research: Approaches to Visual Research
Recent years have seen an increase in the use of visual methods of research across the social sciences. As researchers realize the potential of the visual, not only as a source but also as a means of generating data, a range of techniques has been developed which seek data that are different from those offered by more conventional qualitative research methods. The contributions to this collection start from the premise either that visual research…
Ethnography for education
Defining ethnography doing ethnography - primary sources doing ethnography - secondary sources analysing ethnographic data using ethnography representing ethnography conclusions and challenges
Rethinking Adulthood: Families, Transitions, and Social Change
Hidden Hands: International Perspectives on Children's Work and Labour
Hidden Hands: International Perspectives on Children's Work and Labour
Picture This: Researching Child Workers
Visual methods such as photography are under-used in the active process of sociological research. As rare as visual methods are, it is even rarer for the resultant images to be made by rather than of research participants. Primarily, the paper explores the challenges and contradictions of using photography within a multi-method approach. We consider processes for analysing visual data, different ways of utilising visual methods in sociological re…
Cross-cultural case study
Technicians and scholars in pursuit of the PhD: Some reflections on doctoral study
Doctoral education has undergone wide-scale change during the past decade. Concerns about submission rates, debates about the role and amount of formal research training which should contribute to the doctoral process, together with the development of taught doctorates, have combined to challenge traditional notions of the doctorate as a scholarly knowledge based endeavour. This paper draws on ESRC funded research with PhD graduates who experienc…
Realising children's agency in research: Partners and participants
This paper seeks to contribute to debates within the 'new' sociology of childhood by focusing on issues of structure and agency in the research process. Drawing on a detailed qualitative study of children's paid work and employment, funded as part of the ESRC 'Children 5-16: growing into the 21st Century' initiative, the discussion examines the extent to which it is possible to design and conduct research on and for children, where children are p…
School Age Workers: The Paid Employment of Children in Britain
The recognition that the majority of British children are involved in paid employment at some time before the minimum school leaving age has not been accompanied by comparable analytical advances. Large numbers work in areas beyond those traditionally identified with 'children's work' and are to be found in marginal, flexible, service sector jobs, defined by unskilled and low paid manual labour. The efforts of US researchers to link 'adolescent w…
Joint Supervision and the PhD: Safety net or panacea
This paper provides an analysis of the 1996 Harris report of postgraduate education. Arguably the most comprehensive report on postgraduate education in recent years, the Harris report is an important statement concerning present and future funding and organisation of postgraduate education in the UK. This paper focuses on issues of postgraduate supervision raised in the review and links them to some of the findings of a five‐year research progra…
Supervision of Doctoral Students in the Natural Sciences: Expectations and experiences
Within the natural sciences and engineering, literature relating to postgraduate education, in particular the process of completing a doctorate, remains generally scarce. That which does exist emphasises the role of the supervisor in effecting successful completion and points to a wide range of activities performed by supervisors. There remains, however, little by way of accounts of the actual experiences of supervisors or students when engaged i…
Picture This: Researching Child Workers
Visual methods such as photography are under-used in the active process of sociological research. As rare as visual methods are, it is even rarer for the resultant images to be made by rather than of research participants. Primarily, the paper explores the challenges and contradictions of using photography within a multi-method approach. We consider processes for analysing visual data, different ways of utilising visual methods in sociological re…
School Age Workers: The Paid Employment of Children in Britain
The recognition that the majority of British children are involved in paid employment at some time before the minimum school leaving age has not been accompanied by comparable analytical advances. Large numbers work in areas beyond those traditionally identified with 'children's work' and are to be found in marginal, flexible, service sector jobs, defined by unskilled and low paid manual labour. The efforts of US researchers to link 'adolescent w…
Realising children's agency in research: Partners and participants
This paper seeks to contribute to debates within the 'new' sociology of childhood by focusing on issues of structure and agency in the research process. Drawing on a detailed qualitative study of children's paid work and employment, funded as part of the ESRC 'Children 5-16: growing into the 21st Century' initiative, the discussion examines the extent to which it is possible to design and conduct research on and for children, where children are p…
Researching Children and Fashion: An embodied ethnography
Child-centred research methods present a range of opportunities for the researcher to gather rich and detailed data on many aspects of the lives of children. This article examines the experience of using such methods in the context of a study of children as consumers of clothing and fashion. Its principal concern is with the application of an embodied reflexivity to the experience of fieldwork with an 8-year-old girl in intimate settings. The art…
Rethinking Adulthood: Families, Transitions, and Social Change
Technicians and scholars in pursuit of the PhD: Some reflections on doctoral study
Doctoral education has undergone wide-scale change during the past decade. Concerns about submission rates, debates about the role and amount of formal research training which should contribute to the doctoral process, together with the development of taught doctorates, have combined to challenge traditional notions of the doctorate as a scholarly knowledge based endeavour. This paper draws on ESRC funded research with PhD graduates who experienc…
New Frontiers in Ethnography
Introduction / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 1. What's (still) wrong with ethnography? / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 2. The vitality of ethnographic research on race / Gregory Jeffers, Rashawn Ray, Tim Hallett -- ch. 3. On the value of Marxism in the understanding and analysis of social class in educational ethnography and the misunderstanding of class as an epistemological category by critics of Marxist and other critical traditions / Dennis Beach -- ch. 4. Ethno…
Supervision of Doctoral Students in the Natural Sciences: Expectations and experiences
Within the natural sciences and engineering, literature relating to postgraduate education, in particular the process of completing a doctorate, remains generally scarce. That which does exist emphasises the role of the supervisor in effecting successful completion and points to a wide range of activities performed by supervisors. There remains, however, little by way of accounts of the actual experiences of supervisors or students when engaged i…
Joint Supervision and the PhD: Safety net or panacea
This paper provides an analysis of the 1996 Harris report of postgraduate education. Arguably the most comprehensive report on postgraduate education in recent years, the Harris report is an important statement concerning present and future funding and organisation of postgraduate education in the UK. This paper focuses on issues of postgraduate supervision raised in the review and links them to some of the findings of a five‐year research progra…
Realising children's agency in research: Partners and participants
This paper seeks to contribute to debates within the 'new' sociology of childhood by focusing on issues of structure and agency in the research process. Drawing on a detailed qualitative study of children's paid work and employment, funded as part of the ESRC 'Children 5-16: growing into the 21st Century' initiative, the discussion examines the extent to which it is possible to design and conduct research on and for children, where children are p…
School Age Workers: The Paid Employment of Children in Britain
The recognition that the majority of British children are involved in paid employment at some time before the minimum school leaving age has not been accompanied by comparable analytical advances. Large numbers work in areas beyond those traditionally identified with 'children's work' and are to be found in marginal, flexible, service sector jobs, defined by unskilled and low paid manual labour. The efforts of US researchers to link 'adolescent w…
Cross-cultural case study
Technicians and scholars in pursuit of the PhD: Some reflections on doctoral study
Doctoral education has undergone wide-scale change during the past decade. Concerns about submission rates, debates about the role and amount of formal research training which should contribute to the doctoral process, together with the development of taught doctorates, have combined to challenge traditional notions of the doctorate as a scholarly knowledge based endeavour. This paper draws on ESRC funded research with PhD graduates who experienc…
Picture This: Researching Child Workers
Visual methods such as photography are under-used in the active process of sociological research. As rare as visual methods are, it is even rarer for the resultant images to be made by rather than of research participants. Primarily, the paper explores the challenges and contradictions of using photography within a multi-method approach. We consider processes for analysing visual data, different ways of utilising visual methods in sociological re…
Hidden Hands: International Perspectives on Children's Work and Labour
Hidden Hands: International Perspectives on Children's Work and Labour
Ethnography for education
Defining ethnography doing ethnography - primary sources doing ethnography - secondary sources analysing ethnographic data using ethnography representing ethnography conclusions and challenges
Rethinking Adulthood: Families, Transitions, and Social Change
Seeing is Believing? Approaches to Visual Research: Approaches to Visual Research
Recent years have seen an increase in the use of visual methods of research across the social sciences. As researchers realize the potential of the visual, not only as a source but also as a means of generating data, a range of techniques has been developed which seek data that are different from those offered by more conventional qualitative research methods. The contributions to this collection start from the premise either that visual research…
Fieldwork
Case, culture, curriculum and educational change: Reflections on cross-cultural case study in England and Japan
Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens?
The essays in this collection represent a major contribution to our understanding of youth and transitions to key areas of adult citizenship, including employment, independent living arrangements and
Researching Children and Fashion: An embodied ethnography
Child-centred research methods present a range of opportunities for the researcher to gather rich and detailed data on many aspects of the lives of children. This article examines the experience of using such methods in the context of a study of children as consumers of clothing and fashion. Its principal concern is with the application of an embodied reflexivity to the experience of fieldwork with an 8-year-old girl in intimate settings. The art…
New Frontiers in Ethnography
Introduction / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 1. What's (still) wrong with ethnography? / Sam Hillyard -- ch. 2. The vitality of ethnographic research on race / Gregory Jeffers, Rashawn Ray, Tim Hallett -- ch. 3. On the value of Marxism in the understanding and analysis of social class in educational ethnography and the misunderstanding of class as an epistemological category by critics of Marxist and other critical traditions / Dennis Beach -- ch. 4. Ethno…
Ethics in Social Research
Recent shifts in the economic, cultural and theoretical context within which Higher Education institutions organise and pursue research activities, alongside other factors has prompted a reconsideration of the role of social research - its purpose, its practice and its ethical alignments. Blending practice-based reflection with philosophically informed theoretical work, this volume brings together a field of leading and rising academics from soci…
Doing Fieldwork
Doing Fieldwork
Fieldwork is central to Sociology, but guides to it often treat the real questions invisibly or over-load the reader with micro-details. This refreshing, authoritative volume, written by two experienced, highly respected fieldworkers, provides a one-stop, engaging guide. The book: \n•Clearly explains fieldwork methods \n•Shows how to locate a field and map it \n•Covers common problem areas and ethical considerations \n•Provides a ready reckoner o…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Methodology (4 works)