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Who’s zooming (out on) who?: Reconceptualising family and domestic spaces in childhood studies (2020)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2020). Who’s zooming (out on) who?: Reconceptualising family and domestic spaces in childhood studies. In S. Frankel, & S. McNamee (Eds.), Bringing children back into the family: relationality and connectedness (11-22). Emerald

It could be argued that the sign of ‘maturity’ of an academic paradigm is when it moves to some kind of integration with existing theories or re-engages with elements which may initially have been perceived as ‘dangerous’ or antithetical to the origi... Read More about Who’s zooming (out on) who?: Reconceptualising family and domestic spaces in childhood studies.

What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. (2019)
Journal Article
Dell Olio, M., Pask, S., Seymour, J., & Reeve, J. (2019). What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review. European journal for person centered healthcare, 7(4),

Introduction Growing numbers of people now live with long term conditions. For each person, the challenges are multiple and unique to that individual. In recognition of this, health policy places greater emphasis on the delivery of person-centred ca... Read More about What do the healthcare experiences of people with long-term conditions tell us about person-centred care? A systematic review..

Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept (2019)
Journal Article
Walsh, J., McNamee, S., & Seymour, J. (2019). Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept. Families, Relationships and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1332/204674319x15647592551202

In this paper we develop the concept of family display by responding to David Morgan’s suggestion that researchers should consider whether ‘family displays’ are used to convey a ‘type’ of Family. We do so by applying the concept to the accounts of mi... Read More about Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept.

An integrated understanding of the complex drivers of emergency presentations and admissions in cancer patients: qualitative modelling of secondary-care health professionals’ experiences and views (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Walabyeki, J., Johnson, M., Boland, E., Seymour, J., & Macleod, U. (2019). An integrated understanding of the complex drivers of emergency presentations and admissions in cancer patients: qualitative modelling of secondary-care health professionals’ experiences and views. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0216430. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216430

The number of cancer-related emergency presentations and admissions has been steadily increasing in the UK. Drivers of this phenomenon are complex, multifactorial and interlinked. The main objective of this study was to understand the complexity of e... Read More about An integrated understanding of the complex drivers of emergency presentations and admissions in cancer patients: qualitative modelling of secondary-care health professionals’ experiences and views.

Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, C., Whitfield, C., Seymour, J., & Hayter, M. (2019). Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries. Sexuality and Culture, 23(3), 760–773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09589-4

Perspectives that consider teenage mothers as a ‘social problem’ are well described in the literature. However, the attitudes towards teenage mothers held by other teenage mothers are not well understood. Given the growing use of peer support in the... Read More about Other Girls: a qualitative exploration of teenage mothers views on teen pregnancy in contemporaries.

Emergency admissions and subsequent inpatient care through an emergency oncology service at a tertiary cancer centre: service users’ experiences and views (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Johnson, M., Boland, E., Seymour, J., & Macleod, U. (2019). Emergency admissions and subsequent inpatient care through an emergency oncology service at a tertiary cancer centre: service users’ experiences and views. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 27(2), 451–460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4328-5

Purpose Avoiding unnecessary emergency admissions and managing those that are admitted more effectively is a major concern for both patients and health services. To generate evidence useful for improving services for direct patient benefit, this stu... Read More about Emergency admissions and subsequent inpatient care through an emergency oncology service at a tertiary cancer centre: service users’ experiences and views.

Cancer patients’ experiences of living with venous thromboembolism: A systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis (2018)
Journal Article
Benelhaj, N. B., Hutchinson, A., Maraveyas, A. M., Seymour, J. D., Ilyas, M. W., & Johnson, M. J. (2018). Cancer patients’ experiences of living with venous thromboembolism: A systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis. Palliative medicine, 32(5), 1010-1020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216318757133

Background: Cancer-Associated thrombosis is common. Recommended treatment is daily injected low-molecular-weight heparin for 6months. Most studies focus on prophylaxis and treatment; few have explored patients’ experience. Aims To identify and sy... Read More about Cancer patients’ experiences of living with venous thromboembolism: A systematic review and qualitative thematic synthesis.

The care priorities of haemodialysis patients (2017)
Thesis
Reid, C. (2017). The care priorities of haemodialysis patients. (Thesis). Hull York Medical School, the University of Hull and the University of York. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220291

Background: Patients receiving haemodialysis have a reduced quality of life when compared to the general population and report deficiencies in satisfaction with care. As such it is important that we are able to evaluate dialysis care from the patient... Read More about The care priorities of haemodialysis patients.

The opportunities and challenges for cooperation between contemporary and traditional health practices under the National Health System in Tanzania (2016)
Thesis
Gellejah, R. S. (2016). The opportunities and challenges for cooperation between contemporary and traditional health practices under the National Health System in Tanzania. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220548

In response to the increased popularity and use of Traditional/Complementary Alternative Medicine, not only in less-developed countries where it is a first line of contact for the majority of people but also in developed countries, initiation of Inte... Read More about The opportunities and challenges for cooperation between contemporary and traditional health practices under the National Health System in Tanzania.

A thematic synthesis of the experiences of adults living with hemodialysis (2016)
Journal Article
Reid, C., Seymour, J., & Jones, C. (2016). A thematic synthesis of the experiences of adults living with hemodialysis. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 11(7), 1206-1218. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.10561015

Background and objectives In-center dialysis patients spend significant amounts of time on the dialysis unit; additionally managing ESKD affects many aspects of life outside the dialysis unit. To improve the care provided to patients requiring hemodi... Read More about A thematic synthesis of the experiences of adults living with hemodialysis.

Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency (2015)
Book
Seymour, J. (2015). A. Hackett, L. Procter, & J. Seymour (Eds.). Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464989

Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, architecture and geography, and international contributors, this volume offers both students and scholars with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of childhood a rang... Read More about Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency.

Displaying families : exploring the significance of ‘display’ in a city that is increasingly culturally diverse (2015)
Thesis
Walsh, J. C. (2015). Displaying families : exploring the significance of ‘display’ in a city that is increasingly culturally diverse. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218189

The Overarching Question How, when and why do migrant people in Hull “display family”, both locally and transnationally? How is display interpreted by the local community and does this have implications for community cohesion? Aims and Objectives... Read More about Displaying families : exploring the significance of ‘display’ in a city that is increasingly culturally diverse.

More than putting on a performance in commercial homes: merging family practices and critical hospitality studies (2015)
Journal Article
Seymour, J. (2015). More than putting on a performance in commercial homes: merging family practices and critical hospitality studies. Annals of leisure research, 18(3), 414-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2015.1078247

Critical hospitality studies and family studies have shown a developing theoretical convergence predicated by the ‘social turn’ in the study of hospitality. Recent hospitality research on ‘Commercial Homes’ has drawn strongly on Goffman's concept of... Read More about More than putting on a performance in commercial homes: merging family practices and critical hospitality studies.

Inspiring 'The Methodological Imagination': Using art and literature in social science methods teaching (2013)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2013). Inspiring 'The Methodological Imagination': Using art and literature in social science methods teaching. In M. H. Jacobsen, M. S. Drake, & A. Petersen (Eds.), Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315587882

This chapter shows that how the use of art and literature in undergraduate research method modules can stimulate student involvement but perhaps more importantly lead to their greater intellectual understanding of the core principles of critically re... Read More about Inspiring 'The Methodological Imagination': Using art and literature in social science methods teaching.

Towards a sociology of 10–12 year olds? Emerging methodological issues in the ‘new’ social studies of childhood (2012)
Journal Article
McNamee, S., & Seymour, J. (2013). Towards a sociology of 10–12 year olds? Emerging methodological issues in the ‘new’ social studies of childhood. Childhood, 20(2), 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568212461037

This article reports on an analysis of 320 empirical research articles published between 1993 and 2010 in three of the leading ‘childhood’ journals. The study looked to establish the potential samples used in accounts of empirical research studies wi... Read More about Towards a sociology of 10–12 year olds? Emerging methodological issues in the ‘new’ social studies of childhood.

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. 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.