Book review published

See the latest issue of Qualitative Health Research for my review of Cameron and McDermott’s Social Work and the Body.

Forthcoming paper in Japan

Hopwood N, Fowler C, Rossiter C, Dunston R & Lee A (2011) Sustaining family partnership in organizations: lessons from practice. Paper presented at the 10th International Family Nursing Conference. Kyoto, 25-27 June.

This paper will report findings from a study of how nurses and other health practitioners experience working in partnership with service users. It identifies supportive and constraining factors at individual, group, organisational and extra-organisational levels, theorising these as ‘practice architectures’ (Kemmis 2009). Email me for a full copy of the paper.

Papers for AERA conference now available

I’ve just uploaded the two papers I will be presenting at AERA onto my academia.edu website.

I’ll be in New Orleans for the conference from 7-11 April – get in touch if you fancy meeting up!

Chapter published in GEReCo collection

‘Geography, Education and the Future’ is edited by Graham Butt, and contains contributions from members of the Geography Education Research Collective (GEReCo). Details of my chapter are as follows:

Hopwood N (2011) Young people’s conceptions of geography. In G Butt (Ed) Geography, education and the future. London: Continuum, 30-43.

Situated in a section on Children, Young People and Geography, this chapter draws on the New Social Studies of Childhood, arguing the need to take young people and their views seriously. It reviews what is known about young people’s conceptions and experiences of (learning) school geography, and explores how issues of the future, young people and geography relate to one another.

The book is available in shops and online, including on amazon.

Papers in print and forthcoming

Some updates on recent publications…

My paper taking a sociocultural look at doctoral students’ learning is now out in Studies in Higher Education, and an article reporting my collaboration with the Association of American Geographers is in press in The Professional Geographer. Looking further ahead, I’ve had another paper accepted in Studies, due for publication in 2012, co-authored with Julia Paulson. This explores embodied aspects of doctoral students. I have also reviewed Social work and the body for Qualitative Health Research – due out soon.

Hopwood N & Paulson J (forthcoming 2012) Bodies in narratives of doctoral students’ learning and experience. Studies in Higher Education 37(7).

Solem M, Hopwood N & Schlemper B (2011) Experiencing graduate school: a comparative analysis of students in geography programs. The Professional Geographer 63(1), 1-16.

Hopwood N (2010) Doctoral experience and learning from a sociocultural perspective. Studies in Higher Education, 35(7), 829-843.

 

Quote for the week, 23rd August 2010

Whether the ethnographer is doing a form of participant observation or interviewing, she or he is still participating in a material, sensorial and social environment. (Pink 2009)

Quote for the week, 16 August 2010

Affects are emergent orederings of the relational field made up in the encounter between manifold finite beings… what matters is how bodies (as manifolds) come together… to anticipate an encounter that will affect us in some way is to be already affected by the image of a thing that is not yet present. (Brown and Stenner 2001; drawing on Spinoza)

Quote for the week, 6 August 2010

As Leder (1992) puts it “we cannot understand those things external and separate to us ‘without reference to bodily powers through which we engage them – our senses, motility, language, desires. The lived body is not just one thing in the world, but a way in which the world comes to be’ (p. 25)” (Savage 2000)

Quote for the week, 2 August 2010

Humans need new techniques of the body and self in order to break the old, ossified habits of action, thought and emotional dispositions that are hindering our development of our relations with others. (Burkitt 2002, p 236)

Paper published in Studies in Continuing Education

Hopwood N (2010) A sociocultural view of doctoral students’ relationships and agency

Is now in print and available online from

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a924694381~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email

Alternatively email me if you would like a copy! The abstract is below:

Existing literature suggests that doctoral students’ learning and experience are significantly influenced by their relationships with a wide range of people within and beyond academic settings. However, there has been little theoretical work focused on these issues, and questions of agency in doctoral study are in need of further attention. This paper draws on sociocultural theory in the analysis of interviews conducted with 33 doctoral students across four UK research-intensive universities. It focuses on agency and frames others as mediating students’ experiences whether as embodied or represented in material, or imaginary form.