Professor Rosalind Edwards PhD

Professor of Sociology, Co-director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Professor Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology within Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton.

Rosalind is a co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a founding and co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. She has researched and published widely in the areas of family life and policies, as well as studying and writing about research methods.

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Rosalind’s work takes a critical sociological approach coupled with feminist relational perspectives to understand family life, address family policies and engage with major ideas and assumptions shaping these. She is especially interested in family members’ own understandings: how these are shaped by gender, social class, race/ethnicity and generation, within geographical, political and historical contexts. Current and recent research projects include:

A UKRI-ESRC International Networking Grant, working with indigenous and non-indigenous research colleagues in New Zealand, Canada and the UK to develop knowledge about partnership research practice, produce methodological resources, and plan for extended international networks.
Troubled families and inter-agency collaboration, conducted in partnership with Family Action:
https://www.family-action.org.uk/who-we-are/history/
Brain science and early intervention:
https://policypress.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/challenging-the-politics-of-early-intervention

Research methods are also one of Rosalind’s interests, where she focuses on a reflective approach concerned with context and social relations. Current and recent research projects have addressed:

Working across qualitative longitudinal studies: a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy, and linking innovation in method and pedagogy:
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/WP2/wp2.php
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/collaborative/BigQual.php
Paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes:
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/working-with-paradata-marginalia-and-fieldnotes

Rosalind welcomes applications for PhD study in families, research methods and related areas.

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Articles

Books

Gillies, V., Edwards, R., & Horsley, N. (2017). Challenging the politics of early intervention:: who's 'saving' children and why? Bristol: Policy Press.
Holland, J., & Edwards, R. (Eds.) (2014). Understanding families over time: research and policy. Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Edwards, R., & Holland, J. (2013). What is qualitative interviewing? London, GB: Bloomsbury Academic.
Edwards, R., Ali, S., Caballero, C., & Song, M. (Eds.) (2012). International perspectives on racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing. (Relationships and Resources). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
McCarthy, J. R., & Edwards, R. (2011). Key concepts in family studies. London, GB: SAGE.
Duncan, S., Edwards, R., & Alexander, C. (Eds.) (2010). Teenage parenthood: what’s the problem? London, GB: Tufnell.
Edwards, R. (Ed.) (2008). Researching families and communities: social and generational change. (Relationships and Resources). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Edwards, R. (Ed.) (2008). Researching Familities and Communities: Social and Generational Change. (Relationships and Resources). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.

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Conferences

Creative Media and Artefacts

Edwards, R. (Author). (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 1. BBC Radio Wales.
Edwards, R. (Author). (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 2. BBC Radio Wales.
Edwards, R. (Author). (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 3. BBC Radio Wales.
Edwards, R. (Other), & Liver, G. (Other). (2009). Interview about sibling relationships on Graham Liver’s morning programme, Leeds, 1st June. BBC Radio Lancashire.

Letter/Editorial

Edwards, R., & Brannelly, T. (2017). Approaches to democratising qualitative research methods. Qualitative Research, 17(3), 271-277. DOI: 10.1177/1468794117706869

Reports

Bauer, E., Houlston, C., Coleman, L., & Edwards, R. (2012). An academic and voluntary sector collaboration to facilitate relationship support for ‘mixed’ couples and families. London South Bank University.
Giillies, V., & Edwards, R. (2011). An historical comparative analysis of family and parenting: a feasibility study across sources and timeframes. (Families & Social Capital Research Group Working Paper; No. Working Paper 29). London, GB: London South Bank University.

Working Papers

SOCI 3079 Focusing on Families, convenor and lecturer
SOCI 6043 Understanding Social Change, convenor and lecturer
RESM 6003 Qualitative Methods I, co-convenor and lecturer
RESM 6006 Qualitative Methods II, co-convenor and lecturer

Talking head contribution to ESRC NCRM NOVELLA Node film: ‘Possibilities of Paradata section (19.00—23.35 mins), recorded 5 June/released-posted 30 June 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ezMGvpm0A&feature=youtu.be
Panellist in the Faculti Live debate: Should we teach parenting?, House of Commons Committee Room 9, 14 May 2014: http://facultimedia.com/downloads/should-we-be-concerned-or-pleased-about-this-interest-in-parenting-and-in-particular-early-intervention/ + http://facultimedia.com/downloads/if-parenting-can-be-taught-what-should-happen-to-parents-who-fail-to-learn-it/ + http://facultimedia.com/downloads/are-we-really-talking-about-poverty-when-we-talk-about-poor-parenting/ posted July 2014.
Paradata in qualitative research, podcast for National Centre for Research Methods, recorded 9 June/posted 14 July 2014: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/podcasts/view.php/paradata-in-qualitative-research
Email interview with freelance journalist researching feature on mixed race relationships in Britain, 4 November 2014.
Expert background knowledge provided to Sharmini Selvarajah, freelance presenter working with Loftus Productions for BBC Radio 4 programme on couples from different religious backgrounds creating new traditions, 21 January 2015.

Professor Rosalind Edwards
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number: 58/4069

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