Peter Clough
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Clough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Clough |
| SIGNATURE | CLOUGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1863-2095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resisting Uniformity
Transgender and gender-diverse teachers occupy a precarious position within educational spaces, often facing increased scrutiny and regulation aimed at disciplining their gender expression. This article brings to light original and significant insights by exploring how transgender and gender-diverse teachers resist and subvert cisnormative dress codes, as acts of self-affirmation and resistance within their professional educational contexts. Thro…
Covid-19
Pandemic-focused projects in Early Childhood have amplified concerns such as child poverty, separation/attachment, maternal anxiety, and other health issues. However, significant attention in actual reports in published literature to the affective experiences of young children was almost entirely lacking. This study created child-focused narratives which qualitatively characterise the salient issues of rejection, heartbreak, and sadness as six fa…
The Relationship Between Mental Toughness, Job Loss, and Mental Health Issues During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Concerns toward public well-being and mental health are increasing considering the COVID-19 pandemic's global societal and individual impact. The present study builds on the current body of COVID-19 literature by examining the role of mental toughness (MT) in predicting negative affective states (depression, anxiety and stress) during the pandemic. The study also examined the effects of changes in employment on mental health and MT. Participants …
Bridging the gap
OBJECTIVE: We employed the network methodology to explore the connections between the Dark Triad (DT) traits with Mental Toughness (MT) and the degree to which they account for perceived stress beyond the Big Five (B5). METHOD: Network analyses were undertaken to explore connections between the DT, MT, and perceived stress, independently in two samples, and in the combined dataset; and whether B5 factors are responsible for the connections that e…
Mental toughness development through adolescence
Scholars have reported that mental toughness (MT) moderates stress, helps with regaining balance after failure, and promotes mobilizing action. Accordingly, we used the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 to explore stage-related MT differences in a sample of 342 teenagers representing 3 stages of adolescence: 11-year-olds (early adolescence; n = 104), 14-year-olds (middle adolescence; n = 125), and 17-year-olds (late adolescence; n = 113), who cam…
Exploring the place of arts-based approaches in early childhood education research
Defined broadly as the use of art forms – music, drama, music, painting, storying and so on – to create privileged insight into educational policies and practices, Arts-Based Educational Research [ABER] techniques have started to have some, albeit limited, purchase on the mainstream of educational enquiry; there is less evidence, however, of their use in early childhood research. This article critically outlines some chief characteristics of an A…
Family literacy in prisons
This paper reports an original approach to family literacy in two UK men’s prisons. Brief consideration of family literacy research precedes consideration of specific issues of imprisonment and literacy, and recent initiatives for incarcerated fathers. The significance of the study lies in the demonstration that theories of early literacy development can successfully be shared with imprisoned fathers, and related practices incorporated into the l…
Predictors and Associates of Problem–Reaction–Solution
Major conspiracy theorists propose that problem–reaction–solution (PRS) functions as a mechanism for constructing and exaggerating social problems to garner populist support for the implementation (imposition) of laws that society would normally deem unacceptable. To evaluate this supposition, 248 participants recruited through convenience sampling, completed measures assessing PRS, statistical bias, emotion-based reasoning (EBR), and belief in t…
The Relationship between the Physical Activity Environment, Nature Relatedness, Anxiety, and the Psychological Well-being Benefits of Regular Exercisers
Research from a variety of scientific fields suggests that physical activity in nature and feelings of connection to nature enhance psychological health and wellbeing. This study investigated the psychological health and wellbeing impact of the physical activity environment for those already undertaking the recommended weekly amount of physical activity. This topic is important for the design of health and wellbeing environments and interventions…
Mental Toughness in South African Youth
Young people are particularly vulnerable to health risk behaviors and interpersonal violence, stimulating scholars' attention towards identifying factors that may reduce the likelihood that these actions will occur. Associated with positive outcomes in a variety of domains, mental toughness in young people might protect them from engaging in potentially deleterious interpersonal or health-risk behaviors, while potentially promoting positive psych…
During early and mid-adolescence, greater mental toughness is related to increased sleep quality and quality of life
The aim of this study was to explore the association between mental toughness, subjective sleep, physical activity, and quality of life during early and mid-adolescence. A total of 1475 participants (mean age = 13.4 years; range: 11-16 years) took part in the study. They completed questionnaires related to mental toughness, physical activity, subjective sleep, and quality of life. Greater mental toughness was related to more favorable quality of …
Assessing Model Fit
Despite the limitations of overgeneralizing cutoff values for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; e.g., Marsh, Hau, & Wen, 2004), they are still often employed as golden rules for assessing factorial validity in sport and exercise psychology. The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of using the CFA approach with these cutoff values for typical multidimensional measures. Furthermore, we ought to examine how a model could be…
Finding God in Wellworth high school
A curious piece of ironic, partially-dramatised auto/ethnography, this paper reflects an ongoing attempt to explore the vapid certainties of my own faith, some of the brittle discomforts of contemporary schooling, and the possibilities of a social science research methodology which can artfully assemble on the same stage belief, empirics and critique. Though actually too didactic to be art – and at the same time too casual to be social science – …
Inclusion in the Early Years
This book provides an overview of inclusive education theory & practice within early years education. Written for students on early years courses as well as for practitioners in the early years sector, it provides an overview of theory in inclusive education in the early years, together with a summary of practical implications
Talking Early Childhood Education
The use of fictional writing, and in particular fictional dialogue, has gained increasing credibility and popularity within the field of qualitative social science research (Clough, 2002; Denzin, 1997; Tierney, 1998) but research in early childhood education has yet to exploit such methodologies. This article asks: what is meant by the term ‘narrative inquiry’ and how do researchers justify its use in research design and report? The article first…
Researching Life Stories
Teaching trivial pursuits
Special Educational Needs and Inclusion
This article first offers an overview of policy contexts in the four countries of the UK. Second, it reviews recent research into perspectives on special educational needs and inclusion in the preschool years. Third, the rationale and research design of a study to investigate preschool educators’ perspectives on these issues are outlined. Five key themes are discussed: their personal experiences; their professional development; their views of chi…
Community projects and excluded young people
Much has been written about the epistemological, theoretical and methodological bases of inclusive research, but how does it look in practice? This paper critically documents a participatory narrative approach to research with young people that, it is argued and demonstrated, foregrounds their agendas as critical researchers. The paper draws upon a research project that explored the meaning of community projects to young people excluded from scho…
Theft and ethics in life portrayal
‘One goal [of educational research] must be to produce accounts which deny the reader [the] comfort of a shared ground with the author, foreground ambivalence and undermine the authority of their own assertions’ (Stronach & MacLure, , p. 57). In this paper the author seeks to do two things. First, he relates the meaning and value of stories in educational settings to some current disquiets about educational research generally. Second he articulat…
Exclusive tendencies
This paper explores a view that exclusive structures in institutions reflect exclusive structures in the development of consciousness. In the context of a current rhetoric of inclusion in the UK, the paper starts by examining some of the theoretical conditioners of policy and practice in Special Educational Needs, and hence their effects on teacher thinking. Drawing on a survey of teacher perspectives on SEN, the paper identifies their correlatio…
"Crises of Schooling and the "Crisis of Representation
This account exemplifies (rather than argues) the value of the "messy text"; its method/ology is embodied rather than explicit, and the story that it tells (read aloud) aims to be persuasive rather than demonstrative. A discussion then indicates the location of the story in its empirical and methodological contexts, some illustrative justification of "fictional" writing as legitimate inquiry in the social sciences, and some of the contiguity of t…
Again Fathers and Sons
This paper brings together a number of themes: the role of the researcher's own experience in reporting that of others; the capacity of narrative methods in the social sciences to report human experience; and the virtue of the self-consciously fictional story as a form which can bring and hold together the experiences of the researcher and of the 'subject': the centrepiece of the paper is a short story located in a Special Education setting
Motives for Participation in Recreational Running
The motives for taking part in recreational running were investigated. Factor analytic techniques showed there to be six motivational categories underlying a runners' involvement in his or her sport: (a) Well Being (b) Social (c) Challenge (d) Status (e) Fitness/Health and (f) Addiction. The first four of these motives are similar in content to those previously identified as being central to a wide range of leisure activities. The importance of t…
Community projects and excluded young people
Much has been written about the epistemological, theoretical and methodological bases of inclusive research, but how does it look in practice? This paper critically documents a participatory narrative approach to research with young people that, it is argued and demonstrated, foregrounds their agendas as critical researchers. The paper draws upon a research project that explored the meaning of community projects to young people excluded from scho…
"Crises of Schooling and the "Crisis of Representation
This account exemplifies (rather than argues) the value of the "messy text"; its method/ology is embodied rather than explicit, and the story that it tells (read aloud) aims to be persuasive rather than demonstrative. A discussion then indicates the location of the story in its empirical and methodological contexts, some illustrative justification of "fictional" writing as legitimate inquiry in the social sciences, and some of the contiguity of t…
Motives for Participation in Recreational Running
The motives for taking part in recreational running were investigated. Factor analytic techniques showed there to be six motivational categories underlying a runners' involvement in his or her sport: (a) Well Being (b) Social (c) Challenge (d) Status (e) Fitness/Health and (f) Addiction. The first four of these motives are similar in content to those previously identified as being central to a wide range of leisure activities. The importance of t…
Again Fathers and Sons
This paper brings together a number of themes: the role of the researcher's own experience in reporting that of others; the capacity of narrative methods in the social sciences to report human experience; and the virtue of the self-consciously fictional story as a form which can bring and hold together the experiences of the researcher and of the 'subject': the centrepiece of the paper is a short story located in a Special Education setting
Theft and ethics in life portrayal
‘One goal [of educational research] must be to produce accounts which deny the reader [the] comfort of a shared ground with the author, foreground ambivalence and undermine the authority of their own assertions’ (Stronach & MacLure, , p. 57). In this paper the author seeks to do two things. First, he relates the meaning and value of stories in educational settings to some current disquiets about educational research generally. Second he articulat…
Exploring the place of arts-based approaches in early childhood education research
Defined broadly as the use of art forms – music, drama, music, painting, storying and so on – to create privileged insight into educational policies and practices, Arts-Based Educational Research [ABER] techniques have started to have some, albeit limited, purchase on the mainstream of educational enquiry; there is less evidence, however, of their use in early childhood research. This article critically outlines some chief characteristics of an A…
During early and mid-adolescence, greater mental toughness is related to increased sleep quality and quality of life
The aim of this study was to explore the association between mental toughness, subjective sleep, physical activity, and quality of life during early and mid-adolescence. A total of 1475 participants (mean age = 13.4 years; range: 11-16 years) took part in the study. They completed questionnaires related to mental toughness, physical activity, subjective sleep, and quality of life. Greater mental toughness was related to more favorable quality of …
Talking Early Childhood Education
The use of fictional writing, and in particular fictional dialogue, has gained increasing credibility and popularity within the field of qualitative social science research (Clough, 2002; Denzin, 1997; Tierney, 1998) but research in early childhood education has yet to exploit such methodologies. This article asks: what is meant by the term ‘narrative inquiry’ and how do researchers justify its use in research design and report? The article first…
Special Educational Needs and Inclusion
This article first offers an overview of policy contexts in the four countries of the UK. Second, it reviews recent research into perspectives on special educational needs and inclusion in the preschool years. Third, the rationale and research design of a study to investigate preschool educators’ perspectives on these issues are outlined. Five key themes are discussed: their personal experiences; their professional development; their views of chi…
Exclusive tendencies
This paper explores a view that exclusive structures in institutions reflect exclusive structures in the development of consciousness. In the context of a current rhetoric of inclusion in the UK, the paper starts by examining some of the theoretical conditioners of policy and practice in Special Educational Needs, and hence their effects on teacher thinking. Drawing on a survey of teacher perspectives on SEN, the paper identifies their correlatio…
Motives for Participation in Recreational Running
The motives for taking part in recreational running were investigated. Factor analytic techniques showed there to be six motivational categories underlying a runners' involvement in his or her sport: (a) Well Being (b) Social (c) Challenge (d) Status (e) Fitness/Health and (f) Addiction. The first four of these motives are similar in content to those previously identified as being central to a wide range of leisure activities. The importance of t…
Again Fathers and Sons
This paper brings together a number of themes: the role of the researcher's own experience in reporting that of others; the capacity of narrative methods in the social sciences to report human experience; and the virtue of the self-consciously fictional story as a form which can bring and hold together the experiences of the researcher and of the 'subject': the centrepiece of the paper is a short story located in a Special Education setting
Exclusive tendencies
This paper explores a view that exclusive structures in institutions reflect exclusive structures in the development of consciousness. In the context of a current rhetoric of inclusion in the UK, the paper starts by examining some of the theoretical conditioners of policy and practice in Special Educational Needs, and hence their effects on teacher thinking. Drawing on a survey of teacher perspectives on SEN, the paper identifies their correlatio…
"Crises of Schooling and the "Crisis of Representation
This account exemplifies (rather than argues) the value of the "messy text"; its method/ology is embodied rather than explicit, and the story that it tells (read aloud) aims to be persuasive rather than demonstrative. A discussion then indicates the location of the story in its empirical and methodological contexts, some illustrative justification of "fictional" writing as legitimate inquiry in the social sciences, and some of the contiguity of t…
Researching Life Stories
Teaching trivial pursuits
Special Educational Needs and Inclusion
This article first offers an overview of policy contexts in the four countries of the UK. Second, it reviews recent research into perspectives on special educational needs and inclusion in the preschool years. Third, the rationale and research design of a study to investigate preschool educators’ perspectives on these issues are outlined. Five key themes are discussed: their personal experiences; their professional development; their views of chi…
Community projects and excluded young people
Much has been written about the epistemological, theoretical and methodological bases of inclusive research, but how does it look in practice? This paper critically documents a participatory narrative approach to research with young people that, it is argued and demonstrated, foregrounds their agendas as critical researchers. The paper draws upon a research project that explored the meaning of community projects to young people excluded from scho…
Theft and ethics in life portrayal
‘One goal [of educational research] must be to produce accounts which deny the reader [the] comfort of a shared ground with the author, foreground ambivalence and undermine the authority of their own assertions’ (Stronach & MacLure, , p. 57). In this paper the author seeks to do two things. First, he relates the meaning and value of stories in educational settings to some current disquiets about educational research generally. Second he articulat…
Talking Early Childhood Education
The use of fictional writing, and in particular fictional dialogue, has gained increasing credibility and popularity within the field of qualitative social science research (Clough, 2002; Denzin, 1997; Tierney, 1998) but research in early childhood education has yet to exploit such methodologies. This article asks: what is meant by the term ‘narrative inquiry’ and how do researchers justify its use in research design and report? The article first…
Inclusion in the Early Years
This book provides an overview of inclusive education theory & practice within early years education. Written for students on early years courses as well as for practitioners in the early years sector, it provides an overview of theory in inclusive education in the early years, together with a summary of practical implications
Finding God in Wellworth high school
A curious piece of ironic, partially-dramatised auto/ethnography, this paper reflects an ongoing attempt to explore the vapid certainties of my own faith, some of the brittle discomforts of contemporary schooling, and the possibilities of a social science research methodology which can artfully assemble on the same stage belief, empirics and critique. Though actually too didactic to be art – and at the same time too casual to be social science – …
Assessing Model Fit
Despite the limitations of overgeneralizing cutoff values for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; e.g., Marsh, Hau, & Wen, 2004), they are still often employed as golden rules for assessing factorial validity in sport and exercise psychology. The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of using the CFA approach with these cutoff values for typical multidimensional measures. Furthermore, we ought to examine how a model could be…
During early and mid-adolescence, greater mental toughness is related to increased sleep quality and quality of life
The aim of this study was to explore the association between mental toughness, subjective sleep, physical activity, and quality of life during early and mid-adolescence. A total of 1475 participants (mean age = 13.4 years; range: 11-16 years) took part in the study. They completed questionnaires related to mental toughness, physical activity, subjective sleep, and quality of life. Greater mental toughness was related to more favorable quality of …
The Relationship between the Physical Activity Environment, Nature Relatedness, Anxiety, and the Psychological Well-being Benefits of Regular Exercisers
Research from a variety of scientific fields suggests that physical activity in nature and feelings of connection to nature enhance psychological health and wellbeing. This study investigated the psychological health and wellbeing impact of the physical activity environment for those already undertaking the recommended weekly amount of physical activity. This topic is important for the design of health and wellbeing environments and interventions…
Mental Toughness in South African Youth
Young people are particularly vulnerable to health risk behaviors and interpersonal violence, stimulating scholars' attention towards identifying factors that may reduce the likelihood that these actions will occur. Associated with positive outcomes in a variety of domains, mental toughness in young people might protect them from engaging in potentially deleterious interpersonal or health-risk behaviors, while potentially promoting positive psych…
Predictors and Associates of Problem–Reaction–Solution
Major conspiracy theorists propose that problem–reaction–solution (PRS) functions as a mechanism for constructing and exaggerating social problems to garner populist support for the implementation (imposition) of laws that society would normally deem unacceptable. To evaluate this supposition, 248 participants recruited through convenience sampling, completed measures assessing PRS, statistical bias, emotion-based reasoning (EBR), and belief in t…
Bridging the gap
OBJECTIVE: We employed the network methodology to explore the connections between the Dark Triad (DT) traits with Mental Toughness (MT) and the degree to which they account for perceived stress beyond the Big Five (B5). METHOD: Network analyses were undertaken to explore connections between the DT, MT, and perceived stress, independently in two samples, and in the combined dataset; and whether B5 factors are responsible for the connections that e…
Mental toughness development through adolescence
Scholars have reported that mental toughness (MT) moderates stress, helps with regaining balance after failure, and promotes mobilizing action. Accordingly, we used the Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 to explore stage-related MT differences in a sample of 342 teenagers representing 3 stages of adolescence: 11-year-olds (early adolescence; n = 104), 14-year-olds (middle adolescence; n = 125), and 17-year-olds (late adolescence; n = 113), who cam…
Exploring the place of arts-based approaches in early childhood education research
Defined broadly as the use of art forms – music, drama, music, painting, storying and so on – to create privileged insight into educational policies and practices, Arts-Based Educational Research [ABER] techniques have started to have some, albeit limited, purchase on the mainstream of educational enquiry; there is less evidence, however, of their use in early childhood research. This article critically outlines some chief characteristics of an A…
Family literacy in prisons
This paper reports an original approach to family literacy in two UK men’s prisons. Brief consideration of family literacy research precedes consideration of specific issues of imprisonment and literacy, and recent initiatives for incarcerated fathers. The significance of the study lies in the demonstration that theories of early literacy development can successfully be shared with imprisoned fathers, and related practices incorporated into the l…
The Relationship Between Mental Toughness, Job Loss, and Mental Health Issues During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Concerns toward public well-being and mental health are increasing considering the COVID-19 pandemic's global societal and individual impact. The present study builds on the current body of COVID-19 literature by examining the role of mental toughness (MT) in predicting negative affective states (depression, anxiety and stress) during the pandemic. The study also examined the effects of changes in employment on mental health and MT. Participants …
Resisting Uniformity
Transgender and gender-diverse teachers occupy a precarious position within educational spaces, often facing increased scrutiny and regulation aimed at disciplining their gender expression. This article brings to light original and significant insights by exploring how transgender and gender-diverse teachers resist and subvert cisnormative dress codes, as acts of self-affirmation and resistance within their professional educational contexts. Thro…
Covid-19
Pandemic-focused projects in Early Childhood have amplified concerns such as child poverty, separation/attachment, maternal anxiety, and other health issues. However, significant attention in actual reports in published literature to the affective experiences of young children was almost entirely lacking. This study created child-focused narratives which qualitatively characterise the salient issues of rejection, heartbreak, and sadness as six fa…
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