K Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 58420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1481-9642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Razors in the Sand’: Witnessing, Engaging, and Protecting One Another in Threatening Times
How might we sustain engagement in critical qualitative research in times of heightened risk and uncertainty? How do we remain connected to the communities we serve? What processes sustain ourselves and each other as we work? This collaborative autoethnography explores three ways we respond to these questions: First, through sustaining caring dialogue that invites us to feel part of – and invested in – each other’s everyday entanglements in ways …
Presence: Flints, Fragments, and Transatlantic Foraging
This performance was written in 2024 for the Special Interest Group in Autoethnography, in honour of Norman Denzin and his work and presence to the SIG and autoethnography, and for our community at this time
Standing Firm: Autoethnography and Speculative Futures
This collaborative autoethnography reflects on 2020, the year of lockdown. During this year, we did a lot of walking. Markers within our physical environment provoked and inspired us to consider anew the paths that lie ahead for autoethnography and for us, in our collective work as autoethnographers
“You Think You’re Going to Get Better”: A Creative-Relational Inquiry Into Long Covid and Physical Activity
This creative-relational inquiry explores the lived experience of people suffering from Long Covid. Responding to calls for a publicly oriented qualitative inquiry, we collaborate across an extended project team to develop and share an accessible and engaging performance text which advocates for and supports those who live precariously as a result of contracting Long Covid. We offer our performance text as a resource to inform and guide personal,…
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth
Using youth-specific approaches to illuminate character-well-being relations
To date, most studies linking youth well-being to character attributes focus on average effects based on between-person differences. In this study, we examined the within- and between-person relations among character attributes and well-being using an intensive longitudinal data set from the Compassion International (CI) Study of Positive Youth Development in Uganda. Participants (200 CI-enrolled youth, 49.5% female, Mage = 12.13, SDage = 2.19) c…
A Journey through Reproductive Loss and Autoethnography
Over the many years I (Caroline) have taught reproductive health and conducted research in the area of perinatal loss, I have written and spoken about the strength, courage, and spirit many women/couples display when facing such experiences. But I have also become increasingly aware that I would have to, at some point, revisit my own experience of perinatal loss and understand how it fits within the research I have conducted, the individuals I ha…
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health
Through this creative-relational inquiry, we pursue a radically new way of conceptualizing, researching, communicating, and practicing health and health care in contemporary times. We write to reimagine what an alternative paradigm that is at once humane, democratic, accessible, inclusive, generative, and resolutely open to diversity in its many forms might look and feel like. We begin by presenting the script of an autoethnographic film that exp…
A Song for Norman
In this short essay I offer a few reflections on how Norman Denzin has influenced my life, friendships, and scholarship. I feel there is little I can say or do that would match the gratitude I feel, so I offer a song
Black is the Night: Masking and Unmasking, Social Science Research, and What a Song Might Bring
An important aspect of commissioned research is how we negotiate the distance that remains unbridged between a researcher and her participants. Arthur Frank, referencing Emmanuel Levinas asks, “Do I recognise what the other is having to hold together, to carry on at all, and his or her fear of life coming apart.” He then asks us to consider what role, or what part “the other” casts us in, in the unfolding drama of their life. I like the language …
C1.3 - Integrated Nanophotonics for One One-Step Traceability for Temperature Measurements
There Was An Old Lady, She's Dead: Reflections on Britishness, Englishness, and What We Do Well
Disturbed and distanced by the media's entrenched narrative that a funeral and pageantry is what we do well (in the United Kingdom), this performance uses the framing of the children's rhyme, I know an old lady who swallowed a fly to interrogate social identities through aspects of culture that cements a vision of Britain that is archaic, hegemonic, elitist, and upholds a class system alongside lesser well-known values that tell a different story
Walking Into the Unknown: A Research Journey Through Abuse, Trauma, Motherhood, Poverty, and the Covid Pandemic
Researching the lives of mothers with children under five from the most deprived areas of a major city in the United Kingdom during a pandemic was never going to be easy. In this performative reflection, I explore how walking and the side-be-sidedness of our interaction facilitated conversation and understanding, between one young mother and myself. I also consider in this performative text, the way a researcher's thoughts whirl around and respon…
You’ll Never Walk Alone: Snapshots of British Football, Love, Loss, Pride, Shame, Hope, Inclusion and A Song
This reflections explores some of the highs and lows of songs sung on the terraces at British football clubs. In particular I draw on some of my childhood experience to explore how songs can breathe hope and inclusion
Qualitative Responses/Recovery in Repressive Times
The Special Section documents the resonance of the cancelation of ICQI 2020 in three movements. First, the coming together of long-time participants through electronic means for a short performative video that featured collaborative voices speaking to the power and importance of critical qualitative research in repressive times. Second, documenting on May 21, 2020, on what would have been the first day of the conference, a Zoom gathering was held…
Evoking Embodied Presence: These Things , Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Borrowing a Performative Trick From Bob Dylan
Our performative contribution to the 2019 Special Interest Group in autoethnography provided an opportunity to consider the materiality of absence and presence. Using the film These Things and the research-inspired song that underpins the film, we explore how a 5-min multimedia performative act opened possibilities for solidarity and resistance, offering ways to include the absent other
Much Louder Than I Am: A Musical Collaborative Autoethnography
One challenge of performative research is that a performance is a one-time unique event. It cannot be preserved or returned to in its own form. Here, we offer a more durable artifact to preserve some aspects of the collaborative performance autoethnography we performed at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in 2018. We write to communicate not only what we performed during the session but also our sentiments concerning singin…
“And I dedicate this win to…”
Arthur Bochner 1 wrote that even though he’d written about grief, he never really understood it until the death of his father. I suspect many of us recognize a truth in what he said. Often unannounced, death creeps like an unwelcome stain into our lives. I wonder how many of us are ready for it, and what narrative scripts are available to us at these times as we try to make sense and bring meaning to our loss. In sport, the path that I trod for m…
There Aint No Cowboys in Portishead (or Are There): Story Fragments, Identity, and Singing the American Dream With an English Accent
In this performance autoethnography I explore how songs and cowboy images, typically American phenomena, have imprinted my life and have helped provide narrative resources for challenging available stereotypical gender scripts
From the Back of the Car to the Kitchen Table: Shifting Identities, Pirates, and Tales That Provoke Transition
In this second installment of Cowboys & Pirates, my performance continues to explore how identities are shaped, constrained, or expanded. My staring place is a song called 'Stories from the kitchen table'; where and what, I wonder, has shaped the narrative arc of this song? Where are my narrative moorings? Through other stories I have learned about, been told or have created, I revisit the way counter-narratives emerge such that they provide a me…
Under One Roof
In this essay we share a musical performance ethnography, titled Under One Roof, as an example of one approach to critical arts-based research. The piece stems from commissioned research that took the form of an ethnography of an urban-supported housing scheme for people over 50 years of age. We discuss some tensions of conducting radical democratic performative work within a political climate characterized by the commodification of knowledge and…
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid: Being Bisexual, Genderfluid, and Fifteen
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
The Long Run: A Story About Filmmaking as Qualitative Research
Against the logic that if you aren't a film maker, you shouldn't make films, we hope to shed light on why qualitative researchers might consider a filmmaking journey. Research-based films are an accessible genre through which to raise issues in an empowering way, about the lives of stigmatized and marginalized people. For us, a vital step in the production of films has been through writing stories and songs. As a reflexive resource, a song anchor…
Responding to Brexit through a Song: ‘This Country’, Professional Sport, Seamless Boarders, and Working in Europe
As a European citizen I have enjoyed great freedom working and travelling across the European Union since I was in my early 20s. During this time I have made strong, lasting friendships with many people but not least in France, Sweden, and Portugal. Following the ‘Brexit’ referendum, many of these friends asked, ‘Why leave?’ ‘What is happening to the UK?’ I had no answers and also found it difficult to convey in words the mixture of sadness, disa…
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public: "An Example From "Facilitating Communication on Sexual Topics in Education
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Signals and Signs
My PhD explored the lives of seven women in professional golf and prior to this, like the women in my research, I had earned my living in the supposedly cutthroat world of professional sport. During my viva, I was asked why I thought I was competent to use poetry to present one participant's story, given that I was a "golfer/academic," not "a poet." It is a question I continue to ponder given that I utilize a variety of arts-informed practices to…
Engaging with arts-based research: A story in three parts
Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short sto…
An Invitation to Performative Research
Across the social sciences there has been a growing interest in arts-based and performative methodologies. Over the past decade we have created a number of research based performances utilising songs, poems and stories. Alongside these, we have also begun to explore the potential of this work through conducting further research which analyses responses from different audiences (lay and academic) to each performance. In this article we reflect som…
Narrating embodied experience: Sharing stories of trauma and recovery
In this paper, we explore our use of a dialogical storytelling approach to alleviate some of the tensions involved in researching another person's embodied experience. These tensions concern the problems of (a) how to access another's embodied experience and (b) how to represent that experience. We consider these issues through sharing creative nonfiction stories, alongside theoretical reflections, drawn from our research into the meaning and val…
Opening Doors: Poetic Representation of the Sport Experiences of Men With Severe Mental Health Difficulties
We present here a series of poetic representations that stem from our research into the sport and exercise experiences of men with severe mental health difficulties. Relying exclusively on scientific or realist tales risks omitting or misrepresenting participants' sometimes "messy" stories. By allowing space for these stories, which may not be considered "good stories" in terms of traditional narrative criteria of content, form, coherence, or plo…
Song Writing as Reflexive Practice: Breathing Too Loud” to “Signals and Signs
I would like to contribute to the "songbook of our lives" inquiry through a performance which takes two perspectives on songs. The first of these is from the perspective of an individual who is moved by songs, the second, as a songwriter/researcher/autoethnographer moved to write songs from my research. In the former, I share story fragments that reveal how my life, body, and story has been touched, shaped, and moved by music and lyrics and throu…
Finding a Counter Story at an Inclusive, Adapted, Sport and Adventurous Training Course for Injured, Sick, and Wounded Soldiers: Drawn In-Drawn Out
Over the past 3 years, we have been members of a Leeds Beckett University research team evaluating an inclusive adapted multi-activity sport and adventurous training course for injured, sick, and wounded soldiers. For the most part, the course has been successful in its aims with many soldiers reporting profound changes to their mental health and well-being, future hopes, and motivation. Yet, there have been a small number of soldiers who do not …
Sharing a Different Voice: Attending to Stories in Collaborative Writing
Through three stories, we hope to reveal how sometimes contradictory or unrecognizable aspects of our lives, selves, and stories can create tensions in the collaborative writing endeavor. We begin with a story that illuminates some of the narrative tensions that surface during a decade of writing collaboratively. In an effort to navigate these tensions, we explore two further stories in dialogue as a way to reveal how dominant narratives shape ou…
When Two Worlds Collide: A Story About Collaboration, Witnessing, and Life Story Research With Soldiers Returning From War
The story we share here stems from our research with British military personnel who are adapting to life with a physical and/or psychological disability after serving in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Throughout our research, we have struggled to answer the kinds of questions that plague qualitative researchers: How might we gain insights into intense, traumatic, even life-changing experiences? Should we be inviting individuals to recount or revis…
The Long Run: A Story About Filmmaking as Qualitative Research
Against the logic that if you aren't a film maker, you shouldn't make films, we hope to shed light on why qualitative researchers might consider a filmmaking journey. Research-based films are an accessible genre through which to raise issues in an empowering way, about the lives of stigmatized and marginalized people. For us, a vital step in the production of films has been through writing stories and songs. As a reflexive resource, a song anchor…
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public: "An Example From "Facilitating Communication on Sexual Topics in Education
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health
Through this creative-relational inquiry, we pursue a radically new way of conceptualizing, researching, communicating, and practicing health and health care in contemporary times. We write to reimagine what an alternative paradigm that is at once humane, democratic, accessible, inclusive, generative, and resolutely open to diversity in its many forms might look and feel like. We begin by presenting the script of an autoethnographic film that exp…
Sexual risks and concerns about Aids among adolescents in Anguilla
Concerns regarding HIV/AIDS infection and the health risk behaviours among youth in the Caribbean are growing. Considering that approximately 30% of the Caribbean's population falls between the ages of 10 to 24, there is considerable need for research on youth in this region. This paper reports findings regarding the sexual risks and concerns about AIDS among 1,225 enrolled school students in Anguilla, drawn from self-administered health surveys …
Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport
Despite its potential to illuminate psychological processes within socio-cultural contexts, examples of narrative research are rare in sport psychology. In this study, we employed an analysis of narrative to explore two women's stories of living in, and withdrawing from, professional tournament golf gathered through life history interviews conducted over 6 years. Our findings suggest that immersion in elite sport culture shaped these women's iden…
Opening Doors: Poetic Representation of the Sport Experiences of Men With Severe Mental Health Difficulties
We present here a series of poetic representations that stem from our research into the sport and exercise experiences of men with severe mental health difficulties. Relying exclusively on scientific or realist tales risks omitting or misrepresenting participants' sometimes "messy" stories. By allowing space for these stories, which may not be considered "good stories" in terms of traditional narrative criteria of content, form, coherence, or plo…
Membership, golf and a story about Anna and me: Reflections on research in elite sport
While insider research has provided valuable insights across numerous fields including health and medicine, trauma and abuse, injury and rehabilitation, mental health, and same-sex attraction, insider approaches are rare in high performance sport. In this paper we share and reflect on a case from our own insider research in elite sport with the intention of: (i) highlighting the importance of insider perspectives in psychological research in spor…
Signals and Signs
My PhD explored the lives of seven women in professional golf and prior to this, like the women in my research, I had earned my living in the supposedly cutthroat world of professional sport. During my viva, I was asked why I thought I was competent to use poetry to present one participant's story, given that I was a "golfer/academic," not "a poet." It is a question I continue to ponder given that I utilize a variety of arts-informed practices to…
An Invitation to Performative Research
Across the social sciences there has been a growing interest in arts-based and performative methodologies. Over the past decade we have created a number of research based performances utilising songs, poems and stories. Alongside these, we have also begun to explore the potential of this work through conducting further research which analyses responses from different audiences (lay and academic) to each performance. In this article we reflect som…
Challenging interpretive privilege in elite and professional sport: One [athlete’s] story, revised, reshaped and reclaimed
This performance autoethnography explores some of the tensions, contradictions and consequences of stories in elite sport. Using my embodied experience, the performance questions how the socially constructed physical ‘I’ is created by those with interpretive privilege. Sports news media, collected over a 14-year period – stories about me – provide one strand of a dialogical narrative in which the focus is sporting excellence. Contrasting these st…
Sharing a Different Voice: Attending to Stories in Collaborative Writing
Through three stories, we hope to reveal how sometimes contradictory or unrecognizable aspects of our lives, selves, and stories can create tensions in the collaborative writing endeavor. We begin with a story that illuminates some of the narrative tensions that surface during a decade of writing collaboratively. In an effort to navigate these tensions, we explore two further stories in dialogue as a way to reveal how dominant narratives shape ou…
Narrating embodied experience: Sharing stories of trauma and recovery
In this paper, we explore our use of a dialogical storytelling approach to alleviate some of the tensions involved in researching another person's embodied experience. These tensions concern the problems of (a) how to access another's embodied experience and (b) how to represent that experience. We consider these issues through sharing creative nonfiction stories, alongside theoretical reflections, drawn from our research into the meaning and val…
Finding a Counter Story at an Inclusive, Adapted, Sport and Adventurous Training Course for Injured, Sick, and Wounded Soldiers: Drawn In-Drawn Out
Over the past 3 years, we have been members of a Leeds Beckett University research team evaluating an inclusive adapted multi-activity sport and adventurous training course for injured, sick, and wounded soldiers. For the most part, the course has been successful in its aims with many soldiers reporting profound changes to their mental health and well-being, future hopes, and motivation. Yet, there have been a small number of soldiers who do not …
Bringing Art Back to Psychology
Song Writing as Reflexive Practice: Breathing Too Loud” to “Signals and Signs
I would like to contribute to the "songbook of our lives" inquiry through a performance which takes two perspectives on songs. The first of these is from the perspective of an individual who is moved by songs, the second, as a songwriter/researcher/autoethnographer moved to write songs from my research. In the former, I share story fragments that reveal how my life, body, and story has been touched, shaped, and moved by music and lyrics and throu…
Art-based research as waves of embodied engagement: Reflections on ‘Across the Tamar’
‘Across the Tamar’ began as a research project exploring the physical activity, health and lifestyle of women over 60 in Cornwall, UK. It evolved into a multidimensional, long-running art-based health research project incorporating songs, stories and poetry into live performances, an audio CD and series of YouTube films. In this article, we share some dialogical reflections on our journey through the project to suggest that an important contribut…
Where's the Beat: An Autoethnographic Manifesto in Search of Rhythm, Music, and Lyrical Understandings
In this performative manifesto, I advocate for greater recognition to be given to the potential of music, songs, song writing, melody, and rhythms in our scholarship
When Two Worlds Collide: A Story About Collaboration, Witnessing, and Life Story Research With Soldiers Returning From War
The story we share here stems from our research with British military personnel who are adapting to life with a physical and/or psychological disability after serving in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Throughout our research, we have struggled to answer the kinds of questions that plague qualitative researchers: How might we gain insights into intense, traumatic, even life-changing experiences? Should we be inviting individuals to recount or revis…
Engaging with arts-based research: A story in three parts
Qualitative psychology researchers of today face numerous practical, ethical, political and theoretical challenges. We have often asked ourselves how we might respond to these multiple and complex challenges. On our evolving research journeys, we have found that arts-based methodologies offer one effective response. We explore here our experiences of doing arts-based research in psychological contexts, by sharing and reflecting on three short sto…
Responding to Brexit through a Song: ‘This Country’, Professional Sport, Seamless Boarders, and Working in Europe
As a European citizen I have enjoyed great freedom working and travelling across the European Union since I was in my early 20s. During this time I have made strong, lasting friendships with many people but not least in France, Sweden, and Portugal. Following the ‘Brexit’ referendum, many of these friends asked, ‘Why leave?’ ‘What is happening to the UK?’ I had no answers and also found it difficult to convey in words the mixture of sadness, disa…
"New Technologies of Representation, Collaborative Autoethnographies, and "Taking it Public: "An Example From "Facilitating Communication on Sexual Topics in Education
New technologies for representing and communicating autoethnographies make it possible to be publicly visible in new and interesting ways that weren't possible prior to the digital revolution. An important ingredient in this process is the Internet platforms that can make the digitization of performances accessible across the world, even for short, modest creations from less experienced digital storytellers and film makers. As an illustration of …
Under One Roof
In this essay we share a musical performance ethnography, titled Under One Roof, as an example of one approach to critical arts-based research. The piece stems from commissioned research that took the form of an ethnography of an urban-supported housing scheme for people over 50 years of age. We discuss some tensions of conducting radical democratic performative work within a political climate characterized by the commodification of knowledge and…
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid: Being Bisexual, Genderfluid, and Fifteen
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges-including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment-on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity …
The Long Run: A Story About Filmmaking as Qualitative Research
Against the logic that if you aren't a film maker, you shouldn't make films, we hope to shed light on why qualitative researchers might consider a filmmaking journey. Research-based films are an accessible genre through which to raise issues in an empowering way, about the lives of stigmatized and marginalized people. For us, a vital step in the production of films has been through writing stories and songs. As a reflexive resource, a song anchor…
You’ll Never Walk Alone: Snapshots of British Football, Love, Loss, Pride, Shame, Hope, Inclusion and A Song
This reflections explores some of the highs and lows of songs sung on the terraces at British football clubs. In particular I draw on some of my childhood experience to explore how songs can breathe hope and inclusion
Qualitative Responses/Recovery in Repressive Times
The Special Section documents the resonance of the cancelation of ICQI 2020 in three movements. First, the coming together of long-time participants through electronic means for a short performative video that featured collaborative voices speaking to the power and importance of critical qualitative research in repressive times. Second, documenting on May 21, 2020, on what would have been the first day of the conference, a Zoom gathering was held…
Evoking Embodied Presence: These Things , Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Borrowing a Performative Trick From Bob Dylan
Our performative contribution to the 2019 Special Interest Group in autoethnography provided an opportunity to consider the materiality of absence and presence. Using the film These Things and the research-inspired song that underpins the film, we explore how a 5-min multimedia performative act opened possibilities for solidarity and resistance, offering ways to include the absent other
Much Louder Than I Am: A Musical Collaborative Autoethnography
One challenge of performative research is that a performance is a one-time unique event. It cannot be preserved or returned to in its own form. Here, we offer a more durable artifact to preserve some aspects of the collaborative performance autoethnography we performed at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in 2018. We write to communicate not only what we performed during the session but also our sentiments concerning singin…
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