Christopher Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 82356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9313-6585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Doing Alcohol Research Differently
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities experience significant health inequalities, yet alcohol consumption within these communities remains under-researched. This paper offers a methodological and ethical contribution by reflecting on two qualitative studies of alcohol use in Romany Gypsy and Traveller communities in the United Kingdom: project 1 explores youth drinking, and project 2 examines intergenerational drinking narratives. Drawing on a c…
The ‘walking/wheeling with’ framework
Adopting a mobility justice lens, this review paper brings together the often-fragmented literature on walking and wheeling with children and develops a ‘Walking/Wheeling With’ framework to understand and address the infrastructural, social, and cultural barriers that constrain these mobilities, and celebrate the many benefits they bring at the individual, family, community and planetary levels. Rooted in the everyday realities of caregiving mobi…
Mothering Mobilities and Maternalised Landscapes
This paper argues for the importance of centring mothers in the design and conceptualisation of ‘care‐full’ and compassionate cities and communities. Focusing primarily on the experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood ‐ particularly in relation to babies and toddlers ‐ it reviews and unites literature on motherhood on the move and ‘caringscapes’, including caring and care‐full cities and compassionate communities. While existing literature on…
Unlocking voices? Child-centred creative research methods in a school ethnography
This paper explores methodological findings from a study on the development of ethnic identities of migrant children and perceptions of their school environment in Brexit England. A school ethnography was undertaken in a multi-ethnic institution in Southeast England, involving participant observation and creative methods with pupils from migrant backgrounds. The study employed child-centred methods, specifically drawing, photo voice, and Persona …
Pooh-poohing school toilet policies
Nappies, ‘poonamis1’, milestones associated with potty and toilet training, episodes of stool withholding, common childhood ailments or medication side effects which cause constipationand diarrhoea – poo is a dominant feature of babies and children’s lives. As infants grow, develop, and reach school age, bodily containment is expected and spillages and leaks are less tolerated. Considering this, more extensive research exploring how children navi…
Exploring Student Housing Demand, Supply Side and Planning Policy Responses in a Small University City
Growth in the number of university students has increased demand for accommodation beyond that which universities themselves can provide, provoking private investor supply-side responses such as houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). Such developments can lead to high concentrations of students in areas proximate to university colleges and campuses. The movement of large numbers of transitory students…
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’
In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field. These include: being fancied by a male participant; a…
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma
Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In th…
Using methods across generations
In more recent years in geographical research there has been a trend towards ‘child-friendly’ or ‘young people-friendly’ research methods, often involving creativity and participation. Meanwhile, traditional methods such as interviews and focus groups continue to dominate research with adult participants. This paper draws and reflects on fieldnotes documented during a study which used participatory design workshops with activity-based methods to …
The Male Gaze or Male Gays? From Romance to Bromance through Performances of Gender and Sexuality by two of Love Island’s Favourite Characters
This paper draws on two favourite characters from British reality television show, Love Island 2018: Jack Fincham, a former stationery sales manager, and Alex George, an Accident & Emergency [A&E] doctor, to explore how heterosexual norms are constructed and challenged. We study the romantic on-screen relationships these characters have with the female contestants, and between the two male characters themselves through the notion of ‘bromance’. T…
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic
Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate studen…
Further uses for grounded theory
Grounded theory remains a popular qualitative methodology even after haf-a-century of existence. Recent years have seen a renaissance in the use of the methodology and it is increasingly being utilised in innovative ways. These have included the application of ‘grounded theory to ‘nontraditional’ data such as those derived from the performing arts, literature and visual media. Most published grounded theory analyses using these data appear experi…
Young men's alcohol consumption experiences and performances of masculinity
This paper shows a much more complex image of young men's drinking practices than has hitherto been conceptualised in the existing literature, and brings to the fore doings of alternative masculinities. This has important implications for alcohol policy interventions targeting men, in that the complexities and contradictions of masculinity in relation to drinking must be taken seriously
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
Not a nurse but more than a mother
This paper reports on the analysis of parent-recorded video diaries from a parent-driven campaign, #notanurse_but, supported by the charity WellChild. The campaign reveals the challenges that parents (predominantly mothers) face providing high level, ongoing clinical care for a son or daughter who has complex health care needs. A team of four researchers analysed 30 videos from the WellChild website, WellChild Facebook page, a dedicated #notanurs…
Performingcare
In this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as 'dignity work'. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this …
The only way is ethics? Applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children
In this Viewpoints piece, we reflect on the process of applying for National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval and governance for research with children in England. We present a case study of our experiences of navigating the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) for one study, The Hair Study. We argue that, for children’s geographers, getting to grips with the complex processes of applying for NHS ethical approval and governance is i…
The absent-present researcher
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of sophisticated, user-friendly and accessible instruments of video data collection (e.g. mobile/cell phones and tablets) which facilitate video-based research and analysis. This paper reports on the opportunities and challenges of undertaking video analysis by reporting on the qualitative video analysis of a subset of 30 purposively selected videos from #notanurse_but, a parent-driven video campaig…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a significant innovation in democracy and local development. PB provides the opportunity for citizens to engage in processes of deliberation and decision-making upon the allocation of public funds. As new critical discourse emerges surrounding this model of local government spending, a significant area warranting investigation concerns how trust, and indeed mistrust, factor into PB. Through an analysis of interview…
On the same wavelength? Hyperdiverse young people at a community radio station
This paper uses a case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, based in Knowsley, neighbouring Liverpool, UK, to explore which styles of voice belong in the soundscape of KCC Live, and how young people in this ‘ordinary’ social space view the ‘other’. I extend the term hyperdiversity to a discussion of how youth voice on the airwaves can involve the prioritisation of certain local cultural representations, and the silencing of oth…
Disfigurement, the body and dress
This article reviews literature on disfigurement, the body and dress in order to better understand the relationship between dress—including mainstream clothing (“fashion”), clinical clothing (such as pressure garments, prescribed glasses, and prescribed footwear), and accessories—and its social and symbolic status for individuals living with a visible difference. We assess the state of the field through an interdisciplinary lens, collating litera…
Diy Detroit
The performance of youth voice on the airwaves
This paper uses the case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, to argue that community radio is not a cure-all solution for disenfranchised and silenced young people. Drawing on 18 months of participant observation at KCC Live and data from in-depth interviews with volunteers, I argue that, owing to institutional constraints by station management; college management; and the regulatory body Ofcom, young people consider the airwa…
Doing It Write
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
Going 'backstage
This paper reflects on fieldwork undertaken at youth-led community radio station, KCC Live. It draws on Goffman to elucidate the differences between front and backstage spaces at KCC Live, and provides snapshots from research encounters to illustrate the importance of observant participation (over participant observation) in permitting access to these spaces. This paper celebrates the embeddedness of the researcher as a member of the community un…
Performingcare
In this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as 'dignity work'. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this …
In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a significant innovation in democracy and local development. PB provides the opportunity for citizens to engage in processes of deliberation and decision-making upon the allocation of public funds. As new critical discourse emerges surrounding this model of local government spending, a significant area warranting investigation concerns how trust, and indeed mistrust, factor into PB. Through an analysis of interview…
Using methods across generations
In more recent years in geographical research there has been a trend towards ‘child-friendly’ or ‘young people-friendly’ research methods, often involving creativity and participation. Meanwhile, traditional methods such as interviews and focus groups continue to dominate research with adult participants. This paper draws and reflects on fieldnotes documented during a study which used participatory design workshops with activity-based methods to …
Doing It Write
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
The role of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’
In this Viewpoint, we consider the importance of positionality in research ‘gone wrong’. We focus on the intersections of age, gender and appearance. Reflecting on two doctoral research projects involving young people (one about alcohol consumption practices and another about community radio), researched by us – young female researchers, we reveal unanticipated ethical dilemmas from the field. These include: being fancied by a male participant; a…
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
On the same wavelength? Hyperdiverse young people at a community radio station
This paper uses a case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, based in Knowsley, neighbouring Liverpool, UK, to explore which styles of voice belong in the soundscape of KCC Live, and how young people in this ‘ordinary’ social space view the ‘other’. I extend the term hyperdiversity to a discussion of how youth voice on the airwaves can involve the prioritisation of certain local cultural representations, and the silencing of oth…
Babe, I like your lipstick’
There remains a deficit of research which discusses how personality affects the fieldwork process and the resultant production of knowledge. In taking a step towards \nremedying this, this Viewpoint forms a discussion of my positionality beyond the key categorical \nframes of reference including class, gender, sexuality, race and age, to also include personality \nand appearance. It is something of a ‘hidden ethnography’ (Blackman 2007, 707), in …
The Powerful Student Consumer and the Commodified Academic
Through a textual analysis of four episodes comprising the 2019 ITV 1 psychological thriller Cheat, this article explores a fictional representation of the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education (HE) setting in a television drama. We discuss our analysis in the context of growing marketisation of UK HE, where academics are increasingly viewing students as powerful consumers. We focus on one of the central characters, final-year undergraduate studen…
The absent-present researcher
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of sophisticated, user-friendly and accessible instruments of video data collection (e.g. mobile/cell phones and tablets) which facilitate video-based research and analysis. This paper reports on the opportunities and challenges of undertaking video analysis by reporting on the qualitative video analysis of a subset of 30 purposively selected videos from #notanurse_but, a parent-driven video campaig…
Childhood, mobile technologies and everyday experiences
Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences is a welcome and certainly timely contribution to the publisher's Childhood and Youth series. Focusing predominantly on contemporary childhoo
Young People, Community Radio and Urban Life
Young people are living in an era where their daily routines are saturated with different media platforms, competing for their attention. One such platform is community radio. However, community radio has not gained as significant scholarly attention as other media outputs. Although there is not a wealth of extant literature on the topic of young people and community radio, much of the available literature provides colourful accounts of young peo…
The Influence of West African Pedagogy upon the Education of New Orleans Jazz Musicians
Pooh-poohing school toilet policies
Nappies, ‘poonamis1’, milestones associated with potty and toilet training, episodes of stool withholding, common childhood ailments or medication side effects which cause constipationand diarrhoea – poo is a dominant feature of babies and children’s lives. As infants grow, develop, and reach school age, bodily containment is expected and spillages and leaks are less tolerated. Considering this, more extensive research exploring how children navi…
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma
Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In th…
Not a nurse but more than a mother
This paper reports on the analysis of parent-recorded video diaries from a parent-driven campaign, #notanurse_but, supported by the charity WellChild. The campaign reveals the challenges that parents (predominantly mothers) face providing high level, ongoing clinical care for a son or daughter who has complex health care needs. A team of four researchers analysed 30 videos from the WellChild website, WellChild Facebook page, a dedicated #notanurs…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
Deforming/Reforming the Canon
Christopher Wilkinson, Deforming/Reforming the Canon: Challenges of a Multicultural Music History Course, Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy (Autumn, 1996), pp. 259-277
Gabriele Fattorini
Journal Article GABRIELE FATTORINI: RIVAL OF VIADANA Get access CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 65, Issue 4, October 1984, Pages 329–336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/65.4.329 Published: 01 October 1984
The Influence of West African Pedagogy upon the Education of New Orleans Jazz Musicians
A National Band from the Southwest
Deforming/Reforming the Canon
Christopher Wilkinson, Deforming/Reforming the Canon: Challenges of a Multicultural Music History Course, Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Educational Philosophy and Pedagogy (Autumn, 1996), pp. 259-277
Grimm, Heinrich
Hot and Sweet
For many people, West Virginia's musical culture appears well defined. Its country roads take one home to old-timey and bluegrass music, to repertories played by string bands and their electronically amplified descendants, to lovingly maintained folk traditions that some local practitioners still argue evolved primarily from those of the British Isles.1 Such a perspective ignores the fact that for more than a century the Mountain State has been h…
Jazz on the Road
Banet-Weiser, S. (2012). Authentic TM the Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture
Sweet dance music
Childhood, mobile technologies and everyday experiences
Childhood, Mobile Technologies and Everyday Experiences is a welcome and certainly timely contribution to the publisher's Childhood and Youth series. Focusing predominantly on contemporary childhoo
Babe, I like your lipstick’
There remains a deficit of research which discusses how personality affects the fieldwork process and the resultant production of knowledge. In taking a step towards \nremedying this, this Viewpoint forms a discussion of my positionality beyond the key categorical \nframes of reference including class, gender, sexuality, race and age, to also include personality \nand appearance. It is something of a ‘hidden ethnography’ (Blackman 2007, 707), in …
Young People, Community Radio and Urban Life
Young people are living in an era where their daily routines are saturated with different media platforms, competing for their attention. One such platform is community radio. However, community radio has not gained as significant scholarly attention as other media outputs. Although there is not a wealth of extant literature on the topic of young people and community radio, much of the available literature provides colourful accounts of young peo…
Doing It Write
This article adopts a reflexive stance as the authors look back on their doctoral research projects; the first author exploring young people’s relationships with community radio, and the second author studying young people’s alcohol consumption practices and experiences, both in the North West of England, UK. The authors discuss the methods of data collection they employed, which enabled young people the opportunity to participate in meaningful w…
Going 'backstage
This paper reflects on fieldwork undertaken at youth-led community radio station, KCC Live. It draws on Goffman to elucidate the differences between front and backstage spaces at KCC Live, and provides snapshots from research encounters to illustrate the importance of observant participation (over participant observation) in permitting access to these spaces. This paper celebrates the embeddedness of the researcher as a member of the community un…
Disfigurement, the body and dress
This article reviews literature on disfigurement, the body and dress in order to better understand the relationship between dress—including mainstream clothing (“fashion”), clinical clothing (such as pressure garments, prescribed glasses, and prescribed footwear), and accessories—and its social and symbolic status for individuals living with a visible difference. We assess the state of the field through an interdisciplinary lens, collating litera…
Diy Detroit
The performance of youth voice on the airwaves
This paper uses the case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, to argue that community radio is not a cure-all solution for disenfranchised and silenced young people. Drawing on 18 months of participant observation at KCC Live and data from in-depth interviews with volunteers, I argue that, owing to institutional constraints by station management; college management; and the regulatory body Ofcom, young people consider the airwa…
The only way is ethics? Applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children
In this Viewpoints piece, we reflect on the process of applying for National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval and governance for research with children in England. We present a case study of our experiences of navigating the Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) for one study, The Hair Study. We argue that, for children’s geographers, getting to grips with the complex processes of applying for NHS ethical approval and governance is i…
The absent-present researcher
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of sophisticated, user-friendly and accessible instruments of video data collection (e.g. mobile/cell phones and tablets) which facilitate video-based research and analysis. This paper reports on the opportunities and challenges of undertaking video analysis by reporting on the qualitative video analysis of a subset of 30 purposively selected videos from #notanurse_but, a parent-driven video campaig…
Wearing Me Place on Me Face”
This paper emerges from a multidisciplinary research project called “Brews and Brows: Shaping Stories from Eyebrows to Scousebrows” that entailed gathering stories about eyebrow grooming from women and men from the city of Liverpool, UK, and creating a new taxonomy of the eyebrow where none currently exists. The point of departure for this paper is to challenge the negative commentary on the Scousebrow in the press and social media by engaging pe…
In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a significant innovation in democracy and local development. PB provides the opportunity for citizens to engage in processes of deliberation and decision-making upon the allocation of public funds. As new critical discourse emerges surrounding this model of local government spending, a significant area warranting investigation concerns how trust, and indeed mistrust, factor into PB. Through an analysis of interview…
On the same wavelength? Hyperdiverse young people at a community radio station
This paper uses a case study of a youth-led community radio station, KCC Live, based in Knowsley, neighbouring Liverpool, UK, to explore which styles of voice belong in the soundscape of KCC Live, and how young people in this ‘ordinary’ social space view the ‘other’. I extend the term hyperdiversity to a discussion of how youth voice on the airwaves can involve the prioritisation of certain local cultural representations, and the silencing of oth…
Further uses for grounded theory
Grounded theory remains a popular qualitative methodology even after haf-a-century of existence. Recent years have seen a renaissance in the use of the methodology and it is increasingly being utilised in innovative ways. These have included the application of ‘grounded theory to ‘nontraditional’ data such as those derived from the performing arts, literature and visual media. Most published grounded theory analyses using these data appear experi…
Young men's alcohol consumption experiences and performances of masculinity
This paper shows a much more complex image of young men's drinking practices than has hitherto been conceptualised in the existing literature, and brings to the fore doings of alternative masculinities. This has important implications for alcohol policy interventions targeting men, in that the complexities and contradictions of masculinity in relation to drinking must be taken seriously
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
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