All Outputs (7)

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

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

Article commentary

Response to Hughes, Hughes, Sykes and Wright (2020)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2020). Response to Hughes, Hughes, Sykes and Wright. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(6), 757-758. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1806591

‘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.

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.

Surrender, catch and the imp of fieldwork (2017)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E., & Atkinson, P. (2019). Surrender, catch and the imp of fieldwork. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(9-10), 936-944. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417735137

We build on the work of Kurt Wolff to capture some distinctive aspects of ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on the sociology of knowledge and phenomenology, Wolff introduced and developed the idea of surrender-and- catch in order to encapsulate the tw... Read More about Surrender, catch and the imp of fieldwork.

Personalisation in children’s social work : from family support to “the child’s budget” (2015)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E. (2015). Personalisation in children’s social work : from family support to “the child’s budget”. Journal of Integrated Care, 23(5), 277-286. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-07-2015-0031

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the changing meaning of personalisation from the New Labour era of bespoke, integrated family support to the more recent implementation of personal budgets for disabled children to deliver “choice and... Read More about Personalisation in children’s social work : from family support to “the child’s budget”.