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Helen Sampson

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ID78626
NOMEHelen Sampson
PRENOMESHelen
SOBRENOMESampson
ASSINATURASAMPSON H
AFILIAÇÕESCardiff University
ORCID0000-0002-5857-9452
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES228
TOTAL COMO AUTOR30
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2003
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H9
  • Modernity and Tradition at Sea

    Open Access•N Turgo, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2025

    The architectural and technological modernity of contemporary ships belies the prevalence of the multitude of superstitious beliefs which are held and honored by crew members in their daily lives. This article focuses on the superstitious beliefs of Filipino seafarers, in particular, and how these beliefs connect them to their more localized homeland communities, while serving at sea, thereby bridging the divide between workplace modernity and co…

  • The changing shape of support in the work of port chaplains

    Open Access•W Cadge, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Maritime…•2025

    This article draws on historical and ethnographic data from port chaplains working with the Mission to Seamen/Seafarers in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 2010s to chart a shift in the shape of that work. Relationships with seafarers are at the core of the work in both decades. This work is described through individual support for seafarers, work around death, support for community-building, and religious gatherings and events. While there is…

  • ‘Here today, gone tomorrow’

    Open Access•Sophie Gilliat-Ray, Graeme Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Beliefs and Values•2023

    This paper documents the findings of an ESRC-funded project about religion in the context of the international global shipping industry, with particular focus on the work of port chaplains. We describe the physical, emotional, spiritual and financial risks involved in port chaplaincy work, and the way this form of religious employment is distinctly gendered. But the risks and challenges of port chaplaincy are considered alongside its intrinsic re…

  • Relying on the Kindness of Strangers

    Open Access•N Turgo, W Cadge et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2023

    Seafarers who call into ports usually hope for, or anticipate, a visit from people who provide them with welfare services—from SIM cards and mobile top-up vouchers to religious or nonreligious reading materials, and free transport to the nearest seafarers’ center or shopping mall. In seafarers’ centers, seafarers can normally use free internet facilities, enjoy drinks from the bar, avail themselves of remittance services, and if they wish, practi…

  • The work of port chaplains

    Open Access•W Cadge, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•2023•Referências: 5

    Seafarers have long interacted with religious figures in addition to the merchants, government officials, and members of the public they meet when ships come into port. Today these religious figures are primarily Christian chaplains who provide material and spiritual assistance in ports around the globe. This article extends research about the interactions between port chaplains and seafarers by asking—for the first time—how seafarers experience …

  • ‘Beyond the State’

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Marine Policy•2022

    This paper contributes to debates about the effectiveness of international regulation and the place of ‘the state’ in developing and enforcing effective international shipping regulation. It focuses on the example of the Maritime Labour Convention (2006) to highlight some of the challenges and successes of international regulation in defending the rights of workers to ‘decent work’. The empirical basis of the paper is a novel analysis of abandonm…

  • A working theology

    Open Access•Graeme Smith, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Practical Theology•2021

    The article explores in detail the popular theological beliefs of Roman Catholic Filipino seafarers. It argues that they organise their beliefs and practices to ensure they enjoy God‘s protection in their dangerous work place. The keeping of religious artefacts, the practice of rituals such as signing the sign of the cross before work shifts, visiting important churches before voyages and asking priests to say mass after accidents or tragic event…

  • What is immediate and obvious feels real

    Open Access•N Turgo, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2021•Citada por: 3•Referências: 45

    This article provides a critical reflection on methodological issues at the interface of researcher national identity and emotional vulnerability. This aspect of social research is often neglected in discussions of positionality, primarily in relation to emotional risk in the field, and here we address this gap in the literature. Rather than reflecting on access and rapport, or issues related to the complexities of insider or outsider research, t…

  • Turning on the tap

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Idar Alfred Johannessen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2020•Citada por: 12•Referências: 14

    The use of vignettes that are based upon fictionalised accounts is well-established in contemporary social science. Vignettes have been used in a variety of ways to contribute to studies with both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation. This paper reflects on two recent qualitative studies which have made innovative use of 'real-life' vignettes. In each case, the paper describes some of the unanticipated and overlapping benefits that accrue…

  • Harmony of the Seas

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2020•Citada por: 1•Referências: 12

    This paper advances a long-standing sociological interest in the relationship between religion and work. As protections for freedom of religious expression have played a more central role in the US and Europe, questions have been raised about the implications for people who are associated with heterogeneous workplaces. In this context, we consider the work-based practices of multinational groups of migrant workers who self-affiliate to a variety …

  • Fluid fields' and the dynamics of risk in social research

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2019•Citada por: 4•Referências: 27

    In recent decades social scientists have expanded their understanding of risk in the field to extend from concern with participants to awareness of how researchers themselves may be exposed to a variety of physical, emotional, ethical and professional 'dangers'. A variety of accounts have exposed the kinds of risks concerned with fieldwork, many of which are difficult to anticipate. However, this article takes a further step forward in considerin…

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2019•Citada por: 5•Referências: 26

    This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 'real-life' vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations,…

  • Patterns in Horse–Human Relationships

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2018•Referências: 11

    This paper explores some of the different relationships that horses and humans experience in the case study country of Wales. In doing so, it pays attention to differential patterns of equine care/lack of care and explores these from a sociological perspective considering evidence of the potential impact of cultural practices and socio-economic status in particular. The paper concludes that access to common lands and “fly grazing” may be associat…

  • Finding the way into a global industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 39

    PurposeGatekeepers in social research are regularly taken for granted in the associated methods literature, yet they constitute an interesting social phenomenon in themselves as powerful and normally unpaid agents of research access. Questions relating to the recruitment of potential gatekeepers and to the nature of the rewards that they might seek are under-considered and locating key gatekeepers is often characterised (perhaps inadvertently) as…

  • Useful but no Oracle

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 21

    Delphi Groups are an increasingly popular method, not least because electronic communications have made it easier to assemble a 'virtual' expert panel, but there have been a number of review articles which have pointed to a lack of rigour. Using an extended case study of a Delphi Group designed to establish agreed policy recommendations and deriving from a project using observational and semi-structured interview methods, this article examines th…

  • Making Headway? Regulatory Compliance in the Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, David Walters et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2014•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

    Globalisation has significantly changed the context of governance and regulation at both a national and international level. Such change has driven extensive debate on how to achieve more efficient regulation and better governance within new circumstances. A key concern at the level of the workplace, however, is how compliance with the standards required by regulations – whatever their form – is achieved in practice, and it is this that we are ma…

  • Global governance of training standards in an outsourced labor force

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 39

    The shipping industry is among the most globalized of all industries and is characterized by complex modular supply chains, including a largely outsourced labor force of “just‐in‐time” casualized workers from developing countries and the transitionalEastEuropean states. Despite long‐standing efforts by international bodies to standardize and regulate the education and training of seafarers, variations in practices and standards persist. Employers…

  • Room for Manoeuvre? Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 4

    This article combines data from two separate studies of the shipping industry, one on enforcement of new regulations on the use of low-sulphur fuel and one on supply chain influences on ship operators’ health and safety policies and practices. The shipping industry is a valuable natural laboratory for the study of patterns of compliance and governance in late modernity because it is characterised both by highly developed polycentric governance st…

  • Globalisation, Labour Market Transformation and Migrant Marginalisation

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2013•Referências: 19

  • The interaction between mass media and the internet in non-democratic states

    Open Access•Lijun Tang, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2012•Citada por: 9•Referências: 30

    The internet is widely seen to have facilitated social movement organizations (SMOs) by providing them with alternative media. In the western context, some authors suggest that additionally SMOs use the internet tactically as a tool to gain access to traditional news media. This usage is seen to reaffirm and reinforce the centrality of print and electronic news media. This article shifts the focus to China and examines the interaction between the…

  • Unprepared for the Worst

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Ben Fincham et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2010•Citada por: 16•Referências: 18

    This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…

  • A Price Worth Paying

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2008•Citada por: 37•Referências: 16

    Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…

  • When Jack Gets out of the Box

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor•ARTICLE•Sociology•2007•Citada por: 10•Referências: 20

    This ar ticle considers the challenge of regulation across national borders using the example of the shipping industry. It examines the success of different global regulator y strategies in the sector, specifically the implementation of smar t regulation and enforced self-regulation. In doing so it draws upon empirical research into the enforcement of labour standards via por t-State control in India, Russia and the UK, and the regulation of trai…

  • In the wake of the wave

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Torsten Schroeder•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2006•Citada por: 10•Referências: 18

    In this article we highlight the plight of workers trapped at the interface between the national and the global: able to participate in global labour markets but marginalized within nation-states and excluded from local communities. We employ ethnographic field work to explore the experiences of transmigrant seafarers who travelled to northern Germany between the 1960s and 1980s in search of work aboard German flagged vessels. We describe how the…

  • Left high and dry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Ethnography•2005•Citada por: 6•Referências: 26

    Drawing on fieldwork conducted in India, this article explores the lives of women married to seafarers from Mumbai and Goa, charting the changes in attitudes, values and daily life that can be seen as resulting from their husbands' occupations. Using their own words and accounts and working through their own grounded experiences and changed circumstances, the article describes how despite, and sometimes because of, the isolation imposed upon seaf…

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  • Transnational drifters or hyperspace dwellers

    Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2003•Citada por: 39

    This article considers seafarers as transnational actors in the global economy. It is based on research undertaken as part of an ESRC/Seafarers International Research Centre [SIRC] funded project. The study utilized on-board participant observation and depth interviews to explore the lives of seafarers sailing on ships with multinational crews. In addition depth interviews were conducted with seafarers who have settled in port cities such as Rott…

  • A Price Worth Paying

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2008•Citada por: 37•Referências: 16

    Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…

  • Risk and Responsibility

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michelle Thomas•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2003•Citada por: 31•Referências: 27

    This article draws on the authors' experiences conducting research on-board cargo vessels as part of a project on Transnational Seafarer Communities. It considers dangerous fieldwork in a hazardous occupational setting. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the ambient risks of particular research sites combine with the situational risks associated with being a female researcher in a male-dominated, rigidly hierarchical setting with a …

  • Unprepared for the Worst

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Ben Fincham et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2010•Citada por: 16•Referências: 18

    This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…

  • Turning on the tap

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Idar Alfred Johannessen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2020•Citada por: 12•Referências: 14

    The use of vignettes that are based upon fictionalised accounts is well-established in contemporary social science. Vignettes have been used in a variety of ways to contribute to studies with both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation. This paper reflects on two recent qualitative studies which have made innovative use of 'real-life' vignettes. In each case, the paper describes some of the unanticipated and overlapping benefits that accrue…

  • Compressing Time and Constraining Space

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Bin Wu et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Social…•2003•Citada por: 11

    The twentieth century has been a period of rapid change in terms of production and consumption, work, and employment. Much of this change has been driven by developments in technology or the application of new technologies to existing production systems and ways of ordering and organizing work. In characterizing such change, Schumpeter popularized the term innovation . In viewing innovation as the main engine of economic growth, Schumpeter was in…

  • When Jack Gets out of the Box

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor•ARTICLE•Sociology•2007•Citada por: 10•Referências: 20

    This ar ticle considers the challenge of regulation across national borders using the example of the shipping industry. It examines the success of different global regulator y strategies in the sector, specifically the implementation of smar t regulation and enforced self-regulation. In doing so it draws upon empirical research into the enforcement of labour standards via por t-State control in India, Russia and the UK, and the regulation of trai…

  • In the wake of the wave

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Torsten Schroeder•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2006•Citada por: 10•Referências: 18

    In this article we highlight the plight of workers trapped at the interface between the national and the global: able to participate in global labour markets but marginalized within nation-states and excluded from local communities. We employ ethnographic field work to explore the experiences of transmigrant seafarers who travelled to northern Germany between the 1960s and 1980s in search of work aboard German flagged vessels. We describe how the…

  • The interaction between mass media and the internet in non-democratic states

    Open Access•Lijun Tang, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2012•Citada por: 9•Referências: 30

    The internet is widely seen to have facilitated social movement organizations (SMOs) by providing them with alternative media. In the western context, some authors suggest that additionally SMOs use the internet tactically as a tool to gain access to traditional news media. This usage is seen to reaffirm and reinforce the centrality of print and electronic news media. This article shifts the focus to China and examines the interaction between the…

  • Navigating the waves

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2004•Citada por: 9•Referências: 7

    In line with a more reflexive approach in social science, particularly amongst ethnographers, authors increasingly report not just what they have found from a piece of research but how they have gone about doing it. Using a similar style this article considers the importance of pilot work in undertaking qualitative and ethnographic studies, prior to researcher immersion in the ‘field’. It offers an account of the author’s experiences of ‘cold’and…

  • Global governance of training standards in an outsourced labor force

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 39

    The shipping industry is among the most globalized of all industries and is characterized by complex modular supply chains, including a largely outsourced labor force of “just‐in‐time” casualized workers from developing countries and the transitionalEastEuropean states. Despite long‐standing efforts by international bodies to standardize and regulate the education and training of seafarers, variations in practices and standards persist. Employers…

  • Left high and dry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Ethnography•2005•Citada por: 6•Referências: 26

    Drawing on fieldwork conducted in India, this article explores the lives of women married to seafarers from Mumbai and Goa, charting the changes in attitudes, values and daily life that can be seen as resulting from their husbands' occupations. Using their own words and accounts and working through their own grounded experiences and changed circumstances, the article describes how despite, and sometimes because of, the isolation imposed upon seaf…

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2019•Citada por: 5•Referências: 26

    This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 'real-life' vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations,…

  • Multilingual crews

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Minghua Zhao•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2003•Citada por: 5•Referências: 3

    Modern merchant shipping increasingly utilises a global labour market for seafarers. In recent years this trend has been accompanied by increasing technological innovation at sea including the introduction of direct voice-based communication technologies which have made traditional and universal forms of communication at sea, such as Morse lamps, wholly redundant. Thus with the introduction of multilingual crews and the loss of universal forms of…

  • Fluid fields' and the dynamics of risk in social research

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2019•Citada por: 4•Referências: 27

    In recent decades social scientists have expanded their understanding of risk in the field to extend from concern with participants to awareness of how researchers themselves may be exposed to a variety of physical, emotional, ethical and professional 'dangers'. A variety of accounts have exposed the kinds of risks concerned with fieldwork, many of which are difficult to anticipate. However, this article takes a further step forward in considerin…

  • Room for Manoeuvre? Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 4

    This article combines data from two separate studies of the shipping industry, one on enforcement of new regulations on the use of low-sulphur fuel and one on supply chain influences on ship operators’ health and safety policies and practices. The shipping industry is a valuable natural laboratory for the study of patterns of compliance and governance in late modernity because it is characterised both by highly developed polycentric governance st…

  • What is immediate and obvious feels real

    Open Access•N Turgo, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2021•Citada por: 3•Referências: 45

    This article provides a critical reflection on methodological issues at the interface of researcher national identity and emotional vulnerability. This aspect of social research is often neglected in discussions of positionality, primarily in relation to emotional risk in the field, and here we address this gap in the literature. Rather than reflecting on access and rapport, or issues related to the complexities of insider or outsider research, t…

  • Finding the way into a global industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 39

    PurposeGatekeepers in social research are regularly taken for granted in the associated methods literature, yet they constitute an interesting social phenomenon in themselves as powerful and normally unpaid agents of research access. Questions relating to the recruitment of potential gatekeepers and to the nature of the rewards that they might seek are under-considered and locating key gatekeepers is often characterised (perhaps inadvertently) as…

  • Useful but no Oracle

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 21

    Delphi Groups are an increasingly popular method, not least because electronic communications have made it easier to assemble a 'virtual' expert panel, but there have been a number of review articles which have pointed to a lack of rigour. Using an extended case study of a Delphi Group designed to establish agreed policy recommendations and deriving from a project using observational and semi-structured interview methods, this article examines th…

  • Making Headway? Regulatory Compliance in the Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, David Walters et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2014•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

    Globalisation has significantly changed the context of governance and regulation at both a national and international level. Such change has driven extensive debate on how to achieve more efficient regulation and better governance within new circumstances. A key concern at the level of the workplace, however, is how compliance with the standards required by regulations – whatever their form – is achieved in practice, and it is this that we are ma…

  • Harmony of the Seas

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2020•Citada por: 1•Referências: 12

    This paper advances a long-standing sociological interest in the relationship between religion and work. As protections for freedom of religious expression have played a more central role in the US and Europe, questions have been raised about the implications for people who are associated with heterogeneous workplaces. In this context, we consider the work-based practices of multinational groups of migrant workers who self-affiliate to a variety …

  • Compressing Time and Constraining Space

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Bin Wu et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Social…•2003•Citada por: 11

    The twentieth century has been a period of rapid change in terms of production and consumption, work, and employment. Much of this change has been driven by developments in technology or the application of new technologies to existing production systems and ways of ordering and organizing work. In characterizing such change, Schumpeter popularized the term innovation . In viewing innovation as the main engine of economic growth, Schumpeter was in…

  • Risk and Responsibility

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michelle Thomas•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2003•Citada por: 31•Referências: 27

    This article draws on the authors' experiences conducting research on-board cargo vessels as part of a project on Transnational Seafarer Communities. It considers dangerous fieldwork in a hazardous occupational setting. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the ambient risks of particular research sites combine with the situational risks associated with being a female researcher in a male-dominated, rigidly hierarchical setting with a …

  • Multilingual crews

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Minghua Zhao•ARTICLE•World Englishes•2003•Citada por: 5•Referências: 3

    Modern merchant shipping increasingly utilises a global labour market for seafarers. In recent years this trend has been accompanied by increasing technological innovation at sea including the introduction of direct voice-based communication technologies which have made traditional and universal forms of communication at sea, such as Morse lamps, wholly redundant. Thus with the introduction of multilingual crews and the loss of universal forms of…

  • Transnational drifters or hyperspace dwellers

    Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2003•Citada por: 39

    This article considers seafarers as transnational actors in the global economy. It is based on research undertaken as part of an ESRC/Seafarers International Research Centre [SIRC] funded project. The study utilized on-board participant observation and depth interviews to explore the lives of seafarers sailing on ships with multinational crews. In addition depth interviews were conducted with seafarers who have settled in port cities such as Rott…

  • Navigating the waves

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2004•Citada por: 9•Referências: 7

    In line with a more reflexive approach in social science, particularly amongst ethnographers, authors increasingly report not just what they have found from a piece of research but how they have gone about doing it. Using a similar style this article considers the importance of pilot work in undertaking qualitative and ethnographic studies, prior to researcher immersion in the ‘field’. It offers an account of the author’s experiences of ‘cold’and…

  • Left high and dry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Ethnography•2005•Citada por: 6•Referências: 26

    Drawing on fieldwork conducted in India, this article explores the lives of women married to seafarers from Mumbai and Goa, charting the changes in attitudes, values and daily life that can be seen as resulting from their husbands' occupations. Using their own words and accounts and working through their own grounded experiences and changed circumstances, the article describes how despite, and sometimes because of, the isolation imposed upon seaf…

  • In the wake of the wave

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Torsten Schroeder•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2006•Citada por: 10•Referências: 18

    In this article we highlight the plight of workers trapped at the interface between the national and the global: able to participate in global labour markets but marginalized within nation-states and excluded from local communities. We employ ethnographic field work to explore the experiences of transmigrant seafarers who travelled to northern Germany between the 1960s and 1980s in search of work aboard German flagged vessels. We describe how the…

  • When Jack Gets out of the Box

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor•ARTICLE•Sociology•2007•Citada por: 10•Referências: 20

    This ar ticle considers the challenge of regulation across national borders using the example of the shipping industry. It examines the success of different global regulator y strategies in the sector, specifically the implementation of smar t regulation and enforced self-regulation. In doing so it draws upon empirical research into the enforcement of labour standards via por t-State control in India, Russia and the UK, and the regulation of trai…

  • A Price Worth Paying

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Michael Bloor et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2008•Citada por: 37•Referências: 16

    Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…

  • Unprepared for the Worst

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Ben Fincham et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2010•Citada por: 16•Referências: 18

    This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…

  • The interaction between mass media and the internet in non-democratic states

    Open Access•Lijun Tang, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2012•Citada por: 9•Referências: 30

    The internet is widely seen to have facilitated social movement organizations (SMOs) by providing them with alternative media. In the western context, some authors suggest that additionally SMOs use the internet tactically as a tool to gain access to traditional news media. This usage is seen to reaffirm and reinforce the centrality of print and electronic news media. This article shifts the focus to China and examines the interaction between the…

  • Room for Manoeuvre? Regulatory Compliance in the Global Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 4

    This article combines data from two separate studies of the shipping industry, one on enforcement of new regulations on the use of low-sulphur fuel and one on supply chain influences on ship operators’ health and safety policies and practices. The shipping industry is a valuable natural laboratory for the study of patterns of compliance and governance in late modernity because it is characterised both by highly developed polycentric governance st…

  • Globalisation, Labour Market Transformation and Migrant Marginalisation

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2013•Referências: 19

  • Making Headway? Regulatory Compliance in the Shipping Industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, David Walters et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Legal Studies•2014•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

    Globalisation has significantly changed the context of governance and regulation at both a national and international level. Such change has driven extensive debate on how to achieve more efficient regulation and better governance within new circumstances. A key concern at the level of the workplace, however, is how compliance with the standards required by regulations – whatever their form – is achieved in practice, and it is this that we are ma…

  • Global governance of training standards in an outsourced labor force

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 39

    The shipping industry is among the most globalized of all industries and is characterized by complex modular supply chains, including a largely outsourced labor force of “just‐in‐time” casualized workers from developing countries and the transitionalEastEuropean states. Despite long‐standing efforts by international bodies to standardize and regulate the education and training of seafarers, variations in practices and standards persist. Employers…

  • Useful but no Oracle

    Open Access•Michael Bloor, Helen Sampson et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2015•Citada por: 3•Referências: 21

    Delphi Groups are an increasingly popular method, not least because electronic communications have made it easier to assemble a 'virtual' expert panel, but there have been a number of review articles which have pointed to a lack of rigour. Using an extended case study of a Delphi Group designed to establish agreed policy recommendations and deriving from a project using observational and semi-structured interview methods, this article examines th…

  • Patterns in Horse–Human Relationships

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Society and Animals•2018•Referências: 11

    This paper explores some of the different relationships that horses and humans experience in the case study country of Wales. In doing so, it pays attention to differential patterns of equine care/lack of care and explores these from a sociological perspective considering evidence of the potential impact of cultural practices and socio-economic status in particular. The paper concludes that access to common lands and “fly grazing” may be associat…

  • Finding the way into a global industry

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Organizational…•2018•Citada por: 3•Referências: 39

    PurposeGatekeepers in social research are regularly taken for granted in the associated methods literature, yet they constitute an interesting social phenomenon in themselves as powerful and normally unpaid agents of research access. Questions relating to the recruitment of potential gatekeepers and to the nature of the rewards that they might seek are under-considered and locating key gatekeepers is often characterised (perhaps inadvertently) as…

  • Fluid fields' and the dynamics of risk in social research

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2019•Citada por: 4•Referências: 27

    In recent decades social scientists have expanded their understanding of risk in the field to extend from concern with participants to awareness of how researchers themselves may be exposed to a variety of physical, emotional, ethical and professional 'dangers'. A variety of accounts have exposed the kinds of risks concerned with fieldwork, many of which are difficult to anticipate. However, this article takes a further step forward in considerin…

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2019•Citada por: 5•Referências: 26

    This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 'real-life' vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations,…

  • Turning on the tap

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, Idar Alfred Johannessen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2020•Citada por: 12•Referências: 14

    The use of vignettes that are based upon fictionalised accounts is well-established in contemporary social science. Vignettes have been used in a variety of ways to contribute to studies with both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation. This paper reflects on two recent qualitative studies which have made innovative use of 'real-life' vignettes. In each case, the paper describes some of the unanticipated and overlapping benefits that accrue…

  • Harmony of the Seas

    Open Access•Helen Sampson, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2020•Citada por: 1•Referências: 12

    This paper advances a long-standing sociological interest in the relationship between religion and work. As protections for freedom of religious expression have played a more central role in the US and Europe, questions have been raised about the implications for people who are associated with heterogeneous workplaces. In this context, we consider the work-based practices of multinational groups of migrant workers who self-affiliate to a variety …

  • A working theology

    Open Access•Graeme Smith, N Turgo et al.•ARTICLE•Practical Theology•2021

    The article explores in detail the popular theological beliefs of Roman Catholic Filipino seafarers. It argues that they organise their beliefs and practices to ensure they enjoy God‘s protection in their dangerous work place. The keeping of religious artefacts, the practice of rituals such as signing the sign of the cross before work shifts, visiting important churches before voyages and asking priests to say mass after accidents or tragic event…

  • What is immediate and obvious feels real

    Open Access•N Turgo, Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2021•Citada por: 3•Referências: 45

    This article provides a critical reflection on methodological issues at the interface of researcher national identity and emotional vulnerability. This aspect of social research is often neglected in discussions of positionality, primarily in relation to emotional risk in the field, and here we address this gap in the literature. Rather than reflecting on access and rapport, or issues related to the complexities of insider or outsider research, t…

  • ‘Beyond the State’

    Open Access•Helen Sampson•ARTICLE•Marine Policy•2022

    This paper contributes to debates about the effectiveness of international regulation and the place of ‘the state’ in developing and enforcing effective international shipping regulation. It focuses on the example of the Maritime Labour Convention (2006) to highlight some of the challenges and successes of international regulation in defending the rights of workers to ‘decent work’. The empirical basis of the paper is a novel analysis of abandonm…

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