Simon Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3995928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7420-4730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
User Skills for Qualitative Analysis
This article argues that qualitative research in psychology has tended to reify methods and police their application. Such reification is problematic in the sense that it promotes the idea that “proper” application of a method might, in and of itself, deliver the most interesting and/or reliable research findings. It may also lead new and developing qualitative researchers to become unnecessarily inhibited and falsely reliant on method-driven pre…
Doing Q Methodological Research
This book introduces the theory and practice of Q methodology, and takes the reader on a journey from understanding the early history of the method to being in a position where the reader will be able to do Q methodology for themselves. Watts and Stenner cogently and clearly set out the origins of Q methodology in factor analysis and the R methodological procedures, and go on to explain the theory behind Q as set out by the method's early pioneer…
Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis
In this paper, we discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and 'give voice' to the concerns of participants; and the interpretative requirement to contextualize and 'make sense' of these claims and concerns from a psychological perspective. The methodological and conceptual bases for the relationship between these phenomenological and interpretative asp…
Doing Q ethodology
This paper has a marked practical aspect. We wish to encourage and facilitate the use of Q methodology amongst psychologists interested in qualitative research. The paper duly answers a number of pertinent ‘how to do Q’ questions. Yet our primary intention is not to produce an exhaustive ‘how to do Q’ guide. In discussing issues of theory, method and interpretation in Q methodology, the main aim of the paper is rather to address some of the more …
The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome
The Organic Geochemistry of Jet
Kimmeridge Jet—a Potential New Source for British Jet
Archaeological artefacts identified as jet are often assumed to have originated from the principal British source, which is at Whitby in Yorkshire. Geological samples of jet have also been found within the Kimmeridge Blackstone in Dorset—a seam of oil shale which has been worked since prehistoric times to produce artefacts similar to those made from jet. This paper discusses the geology and geochemistry of jet samples from both Whitby and Kimmeri…
Estimates of Air Pollution in York
Plume dispersion modelling has been used to estimate the smoke and sulphur dioxide concentrations for historic York in five individual years, 1381, 1672, 1841, 1851, and 1891. Historical data concerning population, housing, industrial distribution, fuel imports and exports have been used to generate a source matrix for sulphur dioxide and smoke for the model. The general levels of pollutants implied by the results seem to be consistent with chang…
The Environmental Impact of Industrialisation in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century
The development of industrial towns on the south-western side of the south Wales coalfield, such as Llanelli, Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot, was based to a large extent upon the growth of metal industries. This paper focuses on a major environmental problem associated with this development: that of 'copper smoke' produced by the region's important copper smelting industry. The first part of the paper discusses the social, economic and legal hist…
Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis
In this paper, we discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and 'give voice' to the concerns of participants; and the interpretative requirement to contextualize and 'make sense' of these claims and concerns from a psychological perspective. The methodological and conceptual bases for the relationship between these phenomenological and interpretative asp…
Doing Q ethodology
This paper has a marked practical aspect. We wish to encourage and facilitate the use of Q methodology amongst psychologists interested in qualitative research. The paper duly answers a number of pertinent ‘how to do Q’ questions. Yet our primary intention is not to produce an exhaustive ‘how to do Q’ guide. In discussing issues of theory, method and interpretation in Q methodology, the main aim of the paper is rather to address some of the more …
The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome
User Skills for Qualitative Analysis
This article argues that qualitative research in psychology has tended to reify methods and police their application. Such reification is problematic in the sense that it promotes the idea that “proper” application of a method might, in and of itself, deliver the most interesting and/or reliable research findings. It may also lead new and developing qualitative researchers to become unnecessarily inhibited and falsely reliant on method-driven pre…
The Environmental Impact of Industrialisation in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century
The development of industrial towns on the south-western side of the south Wales coalfield, such as Llanelli, Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot, was based to a large extent upon the growth of metal industries. This paper focuses on a major environmental problem associated with this development: that of 'copper smoke' produced by the region's important copper smelting industry. The first part of the paper discusses the social, economic and legal hist…
The Organic Geochemistry of Jet
Kimmeridge Jet—a Potential New Source for British Jet
Archaeological artefacts identified as jet are often assumed to have originated from the principal British source, which is at Whitby in Yorkshire. Geological samples of jet have also been found within the Kimmeridge Blackstone in Dorset—a seam of oil shale which has been worked since prehistoric times to produce artefacts similar to those made from jet. This paper discusses the geology and geochemistry of jet samples from both Whitby and Kimmeri…
Estimates of Air Pollution in York
Plume dispersion modelling has been used to estimate the smoke and sulphur dioxide concentrations for historic York in five individual years, 1381, 1672, 1841, 1851, and 1891. Historical data concerning population, housing, industrial distribution, fuel imports and exports have been used to generate a source matrix for sulphur dioxide and smoke for the model. The general levels of pollutants implied by the results seem to be consistent with chang…
Estimates of Air Pollution in York
Plume dispersion modelling has been used to estimate the smoke and sulphur dioxide concentrations for historic York in five individual years, 1381, 1672, 1841, 1851, and 1891. Historical data concerning population, housing, industrial distribution, fuel imports and exports have been used to generate a source matrix for sulphur dioxide and smoke for the model. The general levels of pollutants implied by the results seem to be consistent with chang…
The Environmental Impact of Industrialisation in South Wales in the Nineteenth Century
The development of industrial towns on the south-western side of the south Wales coalfield, such as Llanelli, Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot, was based to a large extent upon the growth of metal industries. This paper focuses on a major environmental problem associated with this development: that of 'copper smoke' produced by the region's important copper smelting industry. The first part of the paper discusses the social, economic and legal hist…
Kimmeridge Jet—a Potential New Source for British Jet
Archaeological artefacts identified as jet are often assumed to have originated from the principal British source, which is at Whitby in Yorkshire. Geological samples of jet have also been found within the Kimmeridge Blackstone in Dorset—a seam of oil shale which has been worked since prehistoric times to produce artefacts similar to those made from jet. This paper discusses the geology and geochemistry of jet samples from both Whitby and Kimmeri…
The Organic Geochemistry of Jet
The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome
Doing Q ethodology
This paper has a marked practical aspect. We wish to encourage and facilitate the use of Q methodology amongst psychologists interested in qualitative research. The paper duly answers a number of pertinent ‘how to do Q’ questions. Yet our primary intention is not to produce an exhaustive ‘how to do Q’ guide. In discussing issues of theory, method and interpretation in Q methodology, the main aim of the paper is rather to address some of the more …
Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis
In this paper, we discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and 'give voice' to the concerns of participants; and the interpretative requirement to contextualize and 'make sense' of these claims and concerns from a psychological perspective. The methodological and conceptual bases for the relationship between these phenomenological and interpretative asp…
Doing Q Methodological Research
This book introduces the theory and practice of Q methodology, and takes the reader on a journey from understanding the early history of the method to being in a position where the reader will be able to do Q methodology for themselves. Watts and Stenner cogently and clearly set out the origins of Q methodology in factor analysis and the R methodological procedures, and go on to explain the theory behind Q as set out by the method's early pioneer…
User Skills for Qualitative Analysis
This article argues that qualitative research in psychology has tended to reify methods and police their application. Such reification is problematic in the sense that it promotes the idea that “proper” application of a method might, in and of itself, deliver the most interesting and/or reliable research findings. It may also lead new and developing qualitative researchers to become unnecessarily inhibited and falsely reliant on method-driven pre…
Chemistry (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Q Methodology Applications (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Chromatography (2 works)