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Hope : the dream we carry (2021) (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, K., & Whitaker, E. (2021). Hope : the dream we carry (2021). Sociology of Health and Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13416

Book review of De Nora, Tia, 'Hope : the dream we carry', Palgrave Macmillan. 1st ed. 2021 edition (22 April 2021); ISBN-10: 3030698696; ISBN-13: 978–3030698690

Reflexivity in social research (2021)
Book
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Reflexivity in social research. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84095-2

This book provides students and researchers with clear guidance through this tricky, but fundamental, aspect of ethnographic and other qualitative research methods. This concise overview clarifies, illustrates and develops a highly popular methodolog... Read More about Reflexivity in social research.

Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E. (2021). Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice. In K. Jacobsson, & J. Gubrium (Eds.), Doing Human Service Ethnography (83-99). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.47674/9781447355809

Human service work of all kinds is full of documentation; it is central to the creation and maintenance of the work itself and to stabilising local professional cultures and identities. Yet, all too often, practices of authorship and readership are o... Read More about Grasping the social life of documents in human service practice.

Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields. In D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco, & W. Gibson (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (425-434). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276767-43

Symbolic interactionist research has long been associated with qualitative methods, and with ethnographic fieldwork in particular. This chapter outlines the basic principles that underpin such affinity, while acknowledging that there is no one-to-on... Read More about Interactionist research : extending methods, extending fields.

Interviewing – a final contribution (2021)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2021). Interviewing – a final contribution. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(3), 397-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1847997

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