Rosalind Edwards

NCRM Fellow

Email: r.s.edwards@soton.ac.uk

Centre Activities

• Co-I on the YouthLife EU Horizon 2020 project, building capacity in life course research at Tallin University,
  in partnership with the University of Bamberg and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute.

 

Research Interests

• Qualitative and mixed methods, especially qualitative longitudinal research
• ‘Big qual’ analysis, especially the ‘breadth-and-depth’ method
• Family lives, family services and family policies

 

Recent publications

• Edwards, R., Davidson, E., Jamieson, L. and Weller, S. (2020) Theory and the breadth-and-depth method of analysing large amounts of qualitative data: a research note, Quality & Quantity: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-01054-x
  
  

• Edwards, R. and Holland, J. (2020) Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(5): 581-592: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1766767
  
  

• Edwards, R. (with Moewaka Barnes, H., McGregor, D., & Brannelly, T.). (2020). Supporting Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnerships. The Qualitative Report, 25(13), Article 2: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4754&context=tqr
  
  

• Edwards, R. (2020) Why do academics do unfunded research? Resistance, compliance and identity in the UK neo-liberal university, Studies in Higher Education 28(2): 227-244: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1817891
  
  

• Edwards, R. and Gillies, V. (2020) Maternage et politiques d’intervention précoce au Royaume-Uni: Biologisation et reproduction des inégalités de genre, de classe et de race, Revue de politiques sociales et familiales, 135(2): 6-19.
  
  

• Horsley, N., Gillies, V. and Edwards, R. (2020) ‘We’ve got a file on you’: problematising families in poverty in four periods of austerity, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice: https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15791324075050
  
  

• Edwards, R. and Gillies, V. Insights from the historical lived experience of a fragmented economy of welfare in Britain: poverty, precarity and the Peck family 1928-1950, Genealogy 4(1), 20: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/1/20/htm
  
  

• Edwards, R. (2020) Challenging landscapes of sociological thinking on everyday family lives in the UK: taking the yellow brick road, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 27(5): 704-716: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1553857
  
  

• Edwards, R. (2019) Participant pseudonyms in qualitative family research: a sociological and temporal note, Families, Relationships and Societies https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/frs/pre-prints/content-frsd1800079r21
  
  

• White, S., Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Wastell, D. (2019) All the ACEs: a chaotic concept for family policy and decision-making?, Social Policy & Society, 18(3): 457-466 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-policy-and-society/article/all-the-aces-a-chaotic-concept-for-family-policy-and-decisionmaking/929FFDBDAD42278F783A7EC60E7E783A
  
  

• Edwards, R. (2019) Research note: towards an understanding of fathers’ involvement in children’s sporting activities as racial fathering practices, Leisure Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/xYb3WhRTpJXuuNFeKbz5/full?target=10.1080/02614367.2019.1636848