All Outputs (31)

Being parented?: children and young people's engagement with parenting activities (2012)
Book Chapter
McNamee, S., & Seymour, J. (2012). Being parented?: children and young people's engagement with parenting activities. In Learning from the children: childhood, culture and identity in a changing world (92 - 107). Berghahn

Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members (2011)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2011). Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members. In Researching Families and Relationships: Reflections on Process (90 - 92). Palgrave Macmillan

As a family researcher I am writing about a project which came literally close to home; one that involved interviewing members of my own family.  I focus mostly on the process of interviewing them and the issues that emerged from this.  I also talk b... Read More about Keeping it in the Family: Conducting Research Interviews with your own Family Members.

Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life (2011)
Book
Dermott, E., & Seymour, J. (2011). Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life. Palgrave Macmillan

This volume assesses how the concept of 'displaying families' can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary family and personal life. Using this concept, contributors discuss how family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be... Read More about Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life.

Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace (2011)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2011). Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace. In Displaying families: a new concept for the sociology of family life (160 - 174). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter, in keeping with the overall aim of this volume, takes up Finch?s invitation to assess and develop the new concept of „Displaying Families? (Finch 2007). It aims particularly, as proposed in the original article, to use empirical data to... Read More about Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace.

Developing 'displaying families': a possibility for the future of the sociology of personal life (2011)
Book Chapter
Dermott, E., & Seymour, J. (2011). Developing 'displaying families': a possibility for the future of the sociology of personal life. In Displaying families: a new concept for the sociology of family life (43160). Palgrave Macmillan

On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces (2010)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2010). On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces. In Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: An International Perspective (108 - 120). Routledge

This chapter draws on a study of family practices in family-run hotels, pubs and discourse therefore „allows the researcher to map the doing of family life is revealed as a and boarding houses in the UK. One focus of the research is the spatiality of... Read More about On Not Going Home at the End of the Day: Spatialised Discourses of Family Life in Single Location Home/Workplaces.

Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge (2009)
Thesis
Whitfield, C. F. (2009). Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212821

The overall aim of this research project is to investigate the impact of government policy, professional practice and social attitudes on the experiences of the older person leaving acute hospital care and returning to their own home. The project aim... Read More about Moving home : exploring older peoples' experiences of hospital discharge.

Treating the hotel like a home: the contribution of studying the single location home/workplace (2007)
Journal Article
Seymour, J. (2007). Treating the hotel like a home: the contribution of studying the single location home/workplace. Sociology, 41(6), 1097-1114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038507082317

This article contributes to research on the dynamic of space and social life by examining a comparatively uncommon, configuration; that of the single location home/workplace, It draws on an empirical study of family-run hotels, pubs and boarding hous... Read More about Treating the hotel like a home: the contribution of studying the single location home/workplace.

Experiencing the meaning of depression : gender, 'self' and society (2007)
Thesis
Killingbeck, J. S. (2007). Experiencing the meaning of depression : gender, 'self' and society. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4213648

Entertaining guests or entertaining the guests: children's emotional labour in hotels, pubs and boarding houses (2005)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2005). Entertaining guests or entertaining the guests: children's emotional labour in hotels, pubs and boarding houses. In The politics of childhood: international perspectives, contemporary developments (90 - 106). Palgrave

Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people (2003)
Thesis
Garbutt, R. S. (2003). Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212430

The research described in this thesis had two main aims. First, to examine the concept of citizenship and to develop it in relation to the experiences of disabled people. Secondly, and of equal importance, to test an emancipatory methodology within a... Read More about Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people.