All Outputs (3)

‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work (2019)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E. (2019). ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(3), 325-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-06-2018-0030

Purpose: This paper explores how feeling rules are constructed, experienced and contested within personalised social work practice. It considers how organisations seek to shape practitioners towards certain forms of emotional display in increasingly... Read More about ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work.

Reflexivity (2019)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2019). Reflexivity. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. Sakshaug, & R. Williams (Eds.), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036819785

Central to reflexivity is an awareness that the researcher and the object of study exist in a mutual relationship with one another. Thus, reflexivity calls for attention to how thinking comes to be, how it is shaped by preexisting knowledge, and how... Read More about Reflexivity.

Authenticity and the interview : a positive response to a radical critique (2019)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2019). Authenticity and the interview : a positive response to a radical critique. Qualitative Research, 19(6), 619-634. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118816885

We respond to recent discussions of the interview, and the ‘radical critique’ of interviewing, as reiterated in publications by Silverman and Hammersley. Reviewing and extending the critical commentary on the social life of the interview and its impl... Read More about Authenticity and the interview : a positive response to a radical critique.