All Outputs (8)

‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation (2025)
Thesis
Joseph, M. (2025). ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5126363

'Bowling Alone or Blogging Together' is an empirical account of community, based in geographic reality but played out in the social media realm of neighbourhood Facebook groups. It is an account of how, in the face of decline of traditional forms of... Read More about ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation.

Loneliness and Social Capital among older women: An ethnographic exploration in a Northern UK City (2024)
Thesis
Matassini, S. Loneliness and Social Capital among older women: An ethnographic exploration in a Northern UK City. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866265

This ethnographic study explores the experiences of loneliness in older women in a Northern UK City, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of capital. Loneliness is a complex emotional state characterised by sadness, emptiness, and a lack of companio... Read More about Loneliness and Social Capital among older women: An ethnographic exploration in a Northern UK City.

Understanding Development in Thailand: An Ethnographic Study of Local Perspectives and Experiences (2024)
Thesis
Buamai, . S. Understanding Development in Thailand: An Ethnographic Study of Local Perspectives and Experiences. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706356

This thesis establishes a contextual understanding of development in Thailand through the lens of local perspectives and experiences. The study approach involves using a post development critique and critical ethnography to identify local ideas for s... Read More about Understanding Development in Thailand: An Ethnographic Study of Local Perspectives and Experiences.

The social impact of closed circuit television (CCTV) inside mental health wards (2019)
Thesis
Desai, S. The social impact of closed circuit television (CCTV) inside mental health wards. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222179

CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) camera use has been a feature of the mental health ward since the 1990s. However, how CCTV surveillance is simultaneously controlling and caring inside the mental health ward has been missing in sociological research.... Read More about The social impact of closed circuit television (CCTV) inside mental health wards.

What Choice Risk And Responsibilisation In Cvd Policy (2019)
Journal Article
Hutchison, J., & Holdsworth, J. (in press). What Choice Risk And Responsibilisation In Cvd Policy. Health,

Employing a policy-as-discourse approach, we explore how the language of choice, risk and responsibilisation influences cardiovascular disease policy. We analyse four key pieces of public health literature produced in the UK between 1999 and 2013 tha... Read More about What Choice Risk And Responsibilisation In Cvd Policy.

From pioneers to new millennials : a dynamics of identity among British Bangladeshi women in London (2017)
Thesis
Ferdowsi, L. From pioneers to new millennials : a dynamics of identity among British Bangladeshi women in London. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220761

This dissertation is an ethnography about British Bangladeshi women of different age groups who live in London. In this study I explore the identity dynamics of these women. I do this through an intersectional approach, focussing on age, generation,... Read More about From pioneers to new millennials : a dynamics of identity among British Bangladeshi women in London.

The role of information and communication technologies in sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts in Nigeria 2006-2014 (2016)
Thesis
Olabode, S. A. The role of information and communication technologies in sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts in Nigeria 2006-2014. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223720

Conflict has been an integral part of Nigerian political life and has served as a catalyst for a progressive Nigerian society. From the precolonial era to the current period of democratization, conflict has also been a means through which dissident m... Read More about The role of information and communication technologies in sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts in Nigeria 2006-2014.

Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse (2014)
Book
Clisby, S., & Holdsworth, J. (2014). Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse. Policy Press

© Policy Press 2014. Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women’s mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older... Read More about Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse.