Alec Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alec Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alec |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8227-5184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Scot an’ a Sassenach scrieve aboot leid
This autoethnography is written in three parts and is influenced by layered account writing principles. In part one, the first author develops his “Scotoethnography.” In a poetic and prose mixture of Scots and Standard English, he critically explores his early socialization away from Scots toward Standard English. With examples from his lived experience, his published autoethnographic work, literary texts, and personal communication, he advocates…
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography
Troubling Tolichism in Several Voices
This article is dialogic. Several voices engage together from the loci of embodied, relational, and textual standpoints. Tacitly informed by the voices of friends, colleagues, and respected others, the first and second authors have a conversation with and between themselves, and with readers. This is conducted around the presence of a boxed-text voice, written more formally and rhetorically by the first author. The main story is the authors’ crit…
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher chronicles Trude Klevan's personal experiences of her doctoral journey, with Alec Grant as an external academic resource and friend, and her subsequent entry into the neoliberal higher education environment. It gives a personal and intimate view of what it's like to become an academic. This book is constructed as an extended dialogue which frequently utilizes email exchanges as data. Firmly …
Emotional Overload! A Dialogic Autoethnography of Scholar-Participant-Consumer Reactions to the Marketing of Thanatourism
The terms “thanatourism” and “dark tourism” relate to visiting places of human tragedy, which are increasingly developed as tourist destinations. There is a need to trouble thanatouristic assumptions through sharing and discussing lived experiences. These challenge the simplistic mechanistic marketing and conventional research practices of thanatourism. This dialogic autoethnographic study responds to this need, addressing thanatourism from the s…
Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy
The Color of Water
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
My Mother's Skull Is Burning
Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece-of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections-you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational,…
International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice
July 2004: I am outta here! Let’s do this thing! A new profession and a new organization await
Remedying Hermeneutic Injustice One Poem at a Time
This remarkable book tackles child sexual abuse and exploitation, arguing that blame and accountability belong to its perpetrators. It draws on thematic content analysis and autoethnographic principles and is methodologically novel in utilising the poetry of the first author, written in childhood, as primary data. An important international educational and practical resource, it should be on the shelves of university libraries, informing courses …
Aha! “take on Me’s”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from t…
Studying Medicine with Dyslexia
The topic of this article is the experience of the impact of dyslexia on medical studies, explored using a collaborative autoethnographic methodological approach. The study was prompted by an initial and ongoing full search of the literature, which revealed an absence of autoethnographic research into the experiences of medical students with dyslexia. It has four aims: to provide an in-depth, multi-layered account of the impact of dyslexia on a U…
Resisting Technical Rationality in Mental Health Nurse Higher Education
This duoethnographic study has three aims: the first is to coherently situate our emerging duoethnographic dialogue in relation to an overview of both its parent methodology and related approaches within the narrative inquiry paradigm. Our second aim is to then enable readers to make contextual sense of our dialogue. We do so by prefacing it with a brief, focused overview of our theoretical, empirical and fiction work, and related literature, sel…
Whose Story Is It? An Autoethnography Concerning Narrative Identity
This paper is divided into three parts, each separated by centrally spaced asterisks. The first part, co-written on the basis of the standpoint interests of both authors, outlines the historical, philosophical, theoretical and methodological contexts for the use of autoethnographic short stories in the social and human sciences. The functions and representational practices of this genre are reviewed and discussed, and the main criticisms leveled …
Contemporary British Autoethnography
This engaging, informative book makes an exciting contribution to current discussions about the challenges and uses of contemporary autoethnography. Authors from a range of disciplines â show and tellâ us how they have created autoethnographies, demonstrating a rich blend of theories, ethical research practices, and performances of identities and voice, linking all of those with the socio-cultural forces that impact and shape the person. The book…
The Politics of American Campaign Finance
Journal Article The Politics of American Campaign Finance Get access ALAN GRANT ALAN GRANT *Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 223–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028786 Published: 01 April 1998
Whose Story Is It? An Autoethnography Concerning Narrative Identity
This paper is divided into three parts, each separated by centrally spaced asterisks. The first part, co-written on the basis of the standpoint interests of both authors, outlines the historical, philosophical, theoretical and methodological contexts for the use of autoethnographic short stories in the social and human sciences. The functions and representational practices of this genre are reviewed and discussed, and the main criticisms leveled …
Emotional Overload! A Dialogic Autoethnography of Scholar-Participant-Consumer Reactions to the Marketing of Thanatourism
The terms “thanatourism” and “dark tourism” relate to visiting places of human tragedy, which are increasingly developed as tourist destinations. There is a need to trouble thanatouristic assumptions through sharing and discussing lived experiences. These challenge the simplistic mechanistic marketing and conventional research practices of thanatourism. This dialogic autoethnographic study responds to this need, addressing thanatourism from the s…
My Mother's Skull Is Burning
Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece-of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections-you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational,…
Aha! “take on Me’s”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from t…
Studying Medicine with Dyslexia
The topic of this article is the experience of the impact of dyslexia on medical studies, explored using a collaborative autoethnographic methodological approach. The study was prompted by an initial and ongoing full search of the literature, which revealed an absence of autoethnographic research into the experiences of medical students with dyslexia. It has four aims: to provide an in-depth, multi-layered account of the impact of dyslexia on a U…
The Color of Water
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
Resisting Technical Rationality in Mental Health Nurse Higher Education
This duoethnographic study has three aims: the first is to coherently situate our emerging duoethnographic dialogue in relation to an overview of both its parent methodology and related approaches within the narrative inquiry paradigm. Our second aim is to then enable readers to make contextual sense of our dialogue. We do so by prefacing it with a brief, focused overview of our theoretical, empirical and fiction work, and related literature, sel…
The Politics of American Campaign Finance
Journal Article The Politics of American Campaign Finance Get access ALAN GRANT ALAN GRANT *Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 223–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028786 Published: 01 April 1998
The Politics of American Campaign Finance
Journal Article The Politics of American Campaign Finance Get access ALAN GRANT ALAN GRANT *Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 223–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028786 Published: 01 April 1998
Contemporary British Autoethnography
This engaging, informative book makes an exciting contribution to current discussions about the challenges and uses of contemporary autoethnography. Authors from a range of disciplines â show and tellâ us how they have created autoethnographies, demonstrating a rich blend of theories, ethical research practices, and performances of identities and voice, linking all of those with the socio-cultural forces that impact and shape the person. The book…
Resisting Technical Rationality in Mental Health Nurse Higher Education
This duoethnographic study has three aims: the first is to coherently situate our emerging duoethnographic dialogue in relation to an overview of both its parent methodology and related approaches within the narrative inquiry paradigm. Our second aim is to then enable readers to make contextual sense of our dialogue. We do so by prefacing it with a brief, focused overview of our theoretical, empirical and fiction work, and related literature, sel…
Whose Story Is It? An Autoethnography Concerning Narrative Identity
This paper is divided into three parts, each separated by centrally spaced asterisks. The first part, co-written on the basis of the standpoint interests of both authors, outlines the historical, philosophical, theoretical and methodological contexts for the use of autoethnographic short stories in the social and human sciences. The functions and representational practices of this genre are reviewed and discussed, and the main criticisms leveled …
Studying Medicine with Dyslexia
The topic of this article is the experience of the impact of dyslexia on medical studies, explored using a collaborative autoethnographic methodological approach. The study was prompted by an initial and ongoing full search of the literature, which revealed an absence of autoethnographic research into the experiences of medical students with dyslexia. It has four aims: to provide an in-depth, multi-layered account of the impact of dyslexia on a U…
International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice
July 2004: I am outta here! Let’s do this thing! A new profession and a new organization await
Remedying Hermeneutic Injustice One Poem at a Time
This remarkable book tackles child sexual abuse and exploitation, arguing that blame and accountability belong to its perpetrators. It draws on thematic content analysis and autoethnographic principles and is methodologically novel in utilising the poetry of the first author, written in childhood, as primary data. An important international educational and practical resource, it should be on the shelves of university libraries, informing courses …
Aha! “take on Me’s”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from t…
The Color of Water
In this paper, the first author autoethnographically describes, discusses and reflects on her process of becoming a researcher based on her PhD journey. She explores how the development of knowledge and her understandings of what counts as knowledge is entangled with her personal and professional development. The second and third authors join with her to explore and comment on the ways in which her doctoral topic knowledge and her process of beco…
My Mother's Skull Is Burning
Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece-of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections-you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational,…
Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher chronicles Trude Klevan's personal experiences of her doctoral journey, with Alec Grant as an external academic resource and friend, and her subsequent entry into the neoliberal higher education environment. It gives a personal and intimate view of what it's like to become an academic. This book is constructed as an extended dialogue which frequently utilizes email exchanges as data. Firmly …
Emotional Overload! A Dialogic Autoethnography of Scholar-Participant-Consumer Reactions to the Marketing of Thanatourism
The terms “thanatourism” and “dark tourism” relate to visiting places of human tragedy, which are increasingly developed as tourist destinations. There is a need to trouble thanatouristic assumptions through sharing and discussing lived experiences. These challenge the simplistic mechanistic marketing and conventional research practices of thanatourism. This dialogic autoethnographic study responds to this need, addressing thanatourism from the s…
Troubling Tolichism in Several Voices
This article is dialogic. Several voices engage together from the loci of embodied, relational, and textual standpoints. Tacitly informed by the voices of friends, colleagues, and respected others, the first and second authors have a conversation with and between themselves, and with readers. This is conducted around the presence of a boxed-text voice, written more formally and rhetorically by the first author. The main story is the authors’ crit…
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography
A Scot an’ a Sassenach scrieve aboot leid
This autoethnography is written in three parts and is influenced by layered account writing principles. In part one, the first author develops his “Scotoethnography.” In a poetic and prose mixture of Scots and Standard English, he critically explores his early socialization away from Scots toward Standard English. With examples from his lived experience, his published autoethnographic work, literary texts, and personal communication, he advocates…
Sociology (15 works) · Autoethnography (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (4 works)