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Professor Rosalind Edwards PhD

Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Director of Research and Enterprise, Co-director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

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Professor Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology within Social Sciences: Sociology, Social Policy & 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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Research interests

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:

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
Mixed race families:
https://www.routledge.com/International-Perspectives-on-Racial-and-Ethnic-Mixedness-and-Mixing/Edwards-Ali-Caballero-Song/p/book/9780415598040 and http://www.jrf.org.uk/system/files/2231-parenting-children-difference.pdf

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

Working across qualitative longitudinal studies: a feasibility study looking at care and intimacy:
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/WP2/wp2.php
Paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes:
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/working-with-paradata-marginalia-and-fieldnotes
Qualitative interviewing:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-is-qualitative-interviewing-9781780938523/
Indigenous research methodologies

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

Research project(s)

Your Space! Siblings and Friends project

Social Sciences Director of Research and Enterprise

Articles

Edwards, R., Davidson, E., Jamieson, L., & Weller, S. (2018). Big data, qualitative style: a breadth-and-depth method for working with large amounts of secondary qualitative data. Quality and Quantity.
Edwards, R., Phoenix, A., Gordon, D., Bell, K., Elliott, H., & Fahmy, E. (2017). How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/68) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys. Quality & Quantity, 51(6), 2457-2473. DOI: 10.1007/s11135-016-0403-5
Edwards, R. (2017). Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi- race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 24(2), 177-197. DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1091320
Gillies, V., Edwards, R., & Horsley, N. (2016). Brave new brains: sociology, family and the politics of knowledge. The Sociological Review, 64(2), 219-237. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12374
Horsley, N., Gillies, V., & Edwards, R. (2016). Researchers’ reflections on interviewing policy makers and practitioners: feeling conflicted in critical research. Women's Studies International Forum, 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2016.07.001
Edwards, R., & Caballero, C. (2015). An exploration of racial considerations in partnered fathers’ involvement in bringing up their mixed/multi-race children in Britain and New Zealand. Fathering, 1-26.
Edwards, R., Gillies, V., & Horsley, N. (2015). Brain science and early years policy: hopeful ethos or ‘cruel optimism’? Critical Social Policy, 35(2), 167-187. DOI: 10.1177/0261018315574020
Edwards, R., Gillies, V., & Horsley, N. (2015). Early intervention and evidence-based policy and practice: framing and taming. Social Policy and Society, 15, 1-14. DOI: 10.1017/S1474746415000081
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2014). Sibling relationships and the construction of young people's gendered identities over time and in different spaces. Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(2), 185-199. DOI: 10.1332/204674314X13951457865780
Edwards, R. (2014). Why it is important to retain 'family' as a sociological concept. The Sociology Teacher, 3(3), 18-21.
Edwards, R. (2013). Power and trust: an academic researcher's perspective on working with interpreters as gatekeepers. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16(6).
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2012). Farewell to family? A reply. Families, Relationships and Societies, 1(3), 431-434. DOI: 10.1332/204674312X656338
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2012). Farewell to family? Notes on an argument for retaining the concept. Families, Relationships and Societies, 1(1), 63-69. DOI: 10.1332/204674312X633162
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2012). Shifting analytic ontology: using I-poems in qualitative longitudinal research. Qualitative Research, 12(2), 202-217. DOI: 10.1177/1468794111422040
Caballero, C., Edwards, R., Goodyer, A., & Okitikpi, T. (2012). The diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of mixed racial and ethnic families: implications for adoption and fostering practice and policy. Adoption and Fostering, 36, 9-24. DOI: 10.1177/030857591203600303
Edwards, R., Ribbens McCarthy, J., & Gillies, V. (2012). The politics of concepts: family and its (putative) replacements. British Journal of Sociology, 63(4), 730-746. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01434.x
Phoenix, A., Boddy, J., Elliott, H., & Edwards, R. (2012). What can we do with marginalia, notes and letters? The possibilities of narrative analysis for paradata in historical surveys. ESRC NCRM MethodsNews Winter 2012.
Gillies, V., & Edwards, R. (2012). Working with archived classic family and community studies: illuminating past and present conventions around acceptable research practice. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 15(4), 321-330. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2012.688323
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2011). Clients or consumers, commonplace or pioneers? Navigating the contemporary class politics of family, parenting skills and education. Ethics and Education, 6(2), 141-154. DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2011.622982
Nind, M., & Edwards, R. (2011). Journal special issues and methodological debates. Methods News, p.6.
Edwards, R., & Caballero, C. (2011). Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children in Britain: comparing experiences of social attitudes and support in the 1960s and 2000s. Women's Studies International Forum, 34(6), 530-538. DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2011.06.007
Smith, D. P., Edwards, R., & Caballero, C. (2011). The geographies of mixed-ethnicity families. Environment and Planning A, 43(6), 1455-1476. DOI: 10.1068/a43334
Edwards, R. (2011). Working with archived qualitative data. Methods News, p.5.
Edwards, R. (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 1. BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 1.
Edwards, R. (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 2. BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 2.
Edwards, R. (2010). BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 3. BBC Radio Wales programme 'Sibling Rivalry', episode 3.
Mauthner, N., & Edwards, R. (2010). Feminist research management in higher education in Britain: possibilities and practices. Gender, Work & Organization, 17(5), 481-502.
Edwards, R., & Irwin, S. (2010). Lived experience through economic downturn in Britain - perspectives across time and across the life-course. Contemporary Social Science, 5(2), 119-124. DOI: 10.1080/17450141003783280
Edwards, R., & Cabellero, C. (2010). Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children: then and now. Runnymede Bulletin, 16-17.
Edwards, R., Caballero, C., & Puthussery, S. (2010). Parenting children from 'mixed' racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds: typifications of difference and belonging. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(6), 949-967. DOI: 10.1080/01419870903318185
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2010). Trajectories from youth to adulthood: choice and structure for young people before and during recession. Twenty-First Century Society, 5(2), 125-136. DOI: 10.1080/17450141003783298
Edwards, R. (2009). Book review: Salsa dancing into the social sciences: research in an age of info-glut, by Kirstin Luker, Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2008, 323 pp., £18.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-674-03157-9. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(5), 475-483. DOI: 10.1080/13645570903331953
Edwards, R., Doucet, A., & Furstenberg, F. F. (2009). Fathering across diversity and adversity: International perspectives and policy interventions. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 624(1), 6-11. DOI: 10.1177/0002716209334347
Edwards, R., & Liver, G. (2009). Interview about sibling relationships on Graham Liver’s morning programme, Leeds, 1st June. BBC Radio.
Caballero, C., Edwards, R., & Smith, D. (2008). Cultures of mixing: understanding partnerships across ethnicity. Contemporary Social Science, 3(1), 49-63. DOI: 10.1080/17450140701749171
Edwards, R. (2008). Interview about effects of credit crunch on family decision making. The Daily Mail.
Edwards, R., & Caballero, C. (2008). What's in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of 'mixed' children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith bckgrounds. The Sociological Review, 56(1), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x

Letter/Editorial

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

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.

Book Chapters

Phoenix, A., Boddy, J., Edwards, R., & Elliott, H. (2017). “Another long and involved story”: narrative themes in the marginalia of the Poverty in the UK survey. In R. Edwards, J. Goodwin, H. O'Connor, & A. Phoenix (Eds.), Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research (pp. 1-14). Cheltenham, GB: Edward Elgar.
Edwards, R., Phoenix, A., O'Connor, H., & Goodwin, J. (2017). Afterword: The craft of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes. In R. Edwards, J. Goodwin, H. O’Connor, & A. Phoenix (Eds.), Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research (pp. 1-7). Cheltenham, GB: Edward Elgar.
Goodwin, J., O'Connor, H., Phoenix, A., & Edwards, R. (2017). Introduction: Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes. In R. Edwards, J. Goodwin, H. O’Connor, & H. Phoenix (Eds.), Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research (pp. 1-116). Cheltenham, GB: Edward Elgar.
Edwards, R. (2017). I-poems. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, M. Hardy, & M. Williams (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Methods SAGE Publications.
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2016). Family policy: the Mods and Rockers. In H. Bochel, & M. Powell (Eds.), The Coalition Government and Social Policy (pp. 243-264). London, GB: Policy Press.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2015). Ethical dilemmas around anonymity and confidentiality in longitudinal research data sharing: the case of Dan. In M. Tolich (Ed.), Qualitative Ethics in Practice (Developing Qualitative Inquiry). Walnut Creek, US: Left Coast Press.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2015). I-Poems as a method of qualitative interview data analysis: young people’s sense of self: Dataset. In Sage Research Methods SAGE. DOI: 10.4135/9781473944510
Lindsey, R., Metcalfe, L., & Edwards, R. (2015). Time in Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research: working across written narratives and large scale panel survey data to investigate attitudesto volunteering. In Researching the Lifecourse: Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences Bristol, GB: Policy Press.
Edwards, R., Weller, S., & Baker, S. (2014). Generations and aspirations: young people thinking about relationships with siblings and hopes for their parents. In J. Holland, & R. Edwards (Eds.), Understanding Families Over Time: Research and Policy Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2013). The death of a participant: moral obligation, consent and care in qualitative longitudinal research. In K. te Riele, & R. Brooks (Eds.), Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research (pp. 125-136). (Critical Youth Studies). London, GB: Routledge.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2013). Trajectories from youth to adulthood: choice and structure for young people before and during recession. In H. Helve, & K. Evans (Eds.), Youth and Work Transitions in Changing Social Landscapes (pp. 82-94). London, GB: Tufnell Press.
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2013). 'Where are the parents?': changing parenting responsibilities between the 1960s and 2010s. In C. Faircloth, D. M. Hoffman, & L. L. Laynes (Eds.), Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics (pp. 21-35). (Relationships and Resources). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Edwards, R., & Mauthner, M. (2012). Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice. In T. Miller, M. Birch, M. Mauthner, & J. Jessop (Eds.), Ethics in Qualitative Research. Second edition (pp. 14-28). London, United Kingdom: SAGE.
Duncan, S., Edwards, R., Reynolds, T., & Alldred, P. (2011). Motherhood, paid work and partnering: values and theories. In M. Baird, R. Cooper, B. Ellem, & R. D. Lansbury (Eds.), Industrial Relations [Four Volume Set] New Delhi, IN: SAGE.
Edwards, R., & Alexander, C. (2011). Researching with peer/community researchers - ambivalences and tensions. In M. Williams, & W. P. Vogt (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods (pp. 269-292). London, GB: SAGE.
Edwards, R. (2011). Social capital. In G. Ritzer, & J. M. Ryan (Eds.), Concise Blackwell Encylopedia of Sociology Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2010). A sideways look at gender and sibling relationships. In Sibling Development: Implications for Mental Health Practitioners (pp. 147-166). New York, US: Springer.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2010). A sideways look at gender and sibling relationships. In E. Caspi (Ed.), Sibling Development: Implications for Mental Health Practitioners (pp. 147-166). New York City, US: Springer.
Edwards, R. (2010). Conclusion: hazard warning. In S. Duncan, R. Edwards, & C. Alexander (Eds.), Teenage Parenting – What’s the Problem? London, GB: Tufnell Press.
Duncan, S., Edwards, R., & Alexander, C. (2010). Conclusion: Hazard warning. In S. Duncan, R. Edwards, & C. Alexander (Eds.), Teenage Parenthood: What’s the Problem? London, GB: Tufnell.
Duncan, S., Edwards, R., & Alexander, C. (2010). Just a mum or dad: experiencing teenage parenting and work-life balance. In S. Duncan, R. Edwards, & C. Alexander (Eds.), Teenage Parenthood: What’s the Problem? London, GB: Tufnell.
Edwards, R. (2010). Parenting practice and class: change and continuity. In M. Klett-Davies (Ed.), Is Parenting a Class Issue? (pp. 62-76). London, GB: Family and Parenting Institute.
Edwards, R. (2010). Parenting practices and class: change and continuity. In M. Klett-Davies (Ed.), Is Parenting A Class Issue? London, GB: Family and Parenting Institute.
Duncan, S., Edwards, R., & Alexander, C. (2010). What’s the problem with teenage parents? In S. Duncan, R. Edwards, & C. Alexander (Eds.), Teenage Parenthood: What’s the Problem London, GB: Tufnell.
Edwards, R. (2009). Chapter 15. The dynamics of families, social capital and social change: a critical case study. In J. A. Mancini, & K. A. Roberto (Eds.), Pathways of Human Development: Explorations of Change (pp. 267-290). Maryland, US: Lexington.
Temple, B., & Edwards, R. (2009). Interpreters/translators and cross-language research: reflexivity and border c rossings, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2002, 1, 2. In M. Baker (Ed.), Translation Studies London, GB: Routledge.
Edwards, R. (2009). The dynamics of families, social capital and social change: a critical case study. In J. A. Mancini, & K. A. Roberto (Eds.), Pathways of Human Development: Explorations of Change (pp. 267-290). Lanham, US: Lexington Books.
Edwards, R. (2008). Introduction. In R. Edwards (Ed.), Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change (pp. 1-11). (Relationships and Resources). Abingdon, GB: Routledge.
Edwards, R. (2008). Sibling identity and relationship in local communities. In M. Klett-Davies (Ed.), Putting Sibling Relationships on the Map: A multi-disciplinary perspective London, GB: Family and Parenting Institute.
Edwards, R. (2008). Sibling identity and relationships in local communities. In M. Klett-Davies (Ed.), Putting Sibling Relationships on the Map: a Multi-disciplinary Perspective London, GB: Family and Parenting Institute.

Conferences

Edwards, R., & Elliott, H. (2013). The possibilities of narrative analysis for paradata: an historically situated exploration. NCRM Annual Centre Meeting, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2012). Growing up girl and being boy: building and challenging gendered social realities over time through sibling relationships. Paper presented at Intersecting Family Lives, Locales and Labours, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2012). In-depth qualitative data analysis: tracing interviewees' sense of self through I-poems. Paper presented at 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival 2012, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2012). What is mixed methods research?. What is Qualitative Research? One-Day Event, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2012). 'Where are the parents?' Parental responsibility in the 1960s and 2010s. Centre for Criminology and Sociology Seminar, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2012). Working with archived classic family and community studies: illuminating past and presenting conventions around acceptable research practice. Longitudinal, Mixed Methods and Action Research Seminar, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2011). Historical comparative analysis of family and parenting: a feasibility study across sources and timeframes. Paper presented at 60 Years of Sociology: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2011). Mixing and mixedness. Realities Methods in Dialogue Workshop, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2011). Possible futures: trajectories from youth towards adulthood over time. Imagining a Future: Possible Selves and Student Success, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). A sideways look at gender and sibling relationships over time. Gender in Time: International Research Symposium, Norway.
Edwards, R. (2010). A sideways look at gender and sibling relationships over time. Timescapes Seminar Series, United Kingdom.
Gillies, V., & Edwards, R. (2010). Historical comparative analysis of family and parenting: a feasibility study across sources and timeframes. Paper presented at Centre for Research on Families and Relationships International Conference - Changing Families in a Changing World, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). Qualitative social policy research on lone mothers then and now. Paper presented at Researching Personal Lives: A Conference to Celebrate the Work of Dennis Marsden, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2010). Shifting standpoints over time – from interpretive research to participant voices through I-poems. Paper presented at Timescapes 2010 Conference - The Craft of Qualitative Longitudinal Research, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). Social capital and the labyrinth of poverty. Caritas Europa Thematic Seminar on Child and Family Poverty, Belgium.
Edwards, R. (2010). Teenage mothers and fathers: why the gulf between experience, evidence and policy?. Paper presented at One Plus One Seminar, United Kingdom.
Duncan, S., Alexander, C., & Edwards, R. (2010). Teenage parenting - What's the problem?. Changing Parenting Culture, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). The achievements and future contribution of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Paper presented at 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, United Kingdom.
Blake, S., Edwards, R., Hoggart, L., Macvarish, J., & Hehir, B. (2010). Too much, too young: why is policy obsessed with teenage mums?. Battle of Ideas, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Gillies, V. (2010). Towards a descriptive methodological framework for reanalysis of qualitative data from archived studies. Paper presented at International Perspectives on Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). Trajectories from youth to adulthood. Paper presented at Centre for Research on Families and Relationships International Conference - Changing Families in a Changing World, United Kingdom.
Ribbens McCarthy, J., & Edwards, R. (2010). Writing the field: a book on key concepts in family studies. Paper presented at Centre for Research on Families and Relationships International Conference - Changing Families in a Changing World, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2010). Young people imagining the future. Living and Working on Sheppey: Past, Present and Future, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2009). Constructions of children and childhood. Paper presented at Anglo-Israel Association Colloquium: In loco parentis: who should raise our children?, Israel.
Edwards, R. (2009). Different forms of social capital. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, .
Edwards, R. (2009). Families: What are they. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, Germany.
Edwards, R. (2009). Methodologies: Mapping social connections. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, Germany.
Edwards, R. (2009). Methodologies: Mixing methods. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, Germany.
Edwards, R. (2009). Parenting practices and class: Change and continuity. Paper presented at Family and Parenting Institute Research Seminar: Is Parenting a Class Issue?, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2009). Resources in parenting early 2000s and 1960s'. Paper presented at Families and Social Capital Research Group seminar series, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2009). Social capital - What is it and why are people interested in it?. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, Germany.
Edwards, R. (2009). Social divisions: Gender and generation. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, .
Edwards, R. (2009). Social divisions: Race and ethnicity. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, .
Edwards, R. (2009). Social policies and social capital. Lecture series. Critical perspectives on families and social capital, .
Edwards, R. (2009). Wider families and communities. Paper presented at Family parenting and change : is parenting becoming more difficult?, .
Edwards, R. (2008). Editors panel – getting published. Staff Development Fortnight, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Caballero, C. (2008). Everyday cultures of mixing: parents negotiating difference and belonging in ‘mixed’ race, ethnicity and faith families. Paper presented at Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2008). Families and social capital. NIACE Conference Building Family Capital: Opening up the Debate - Work with Parents, Carers and Families, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2008). Getting by and getting on: findings from the Families & Social Capital Research Group’s five-year ESRC programme. Celebrating Research at London South Bank University, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2008). Getting on and getting by: the dynamics of families, social capital and social. 2008 ISCE Summit: Societal and Individual Transformation: Building Cross-National Research Capacity in Human Development, Switzerland.
Edwards, R. (2008). Reflections on 10 years of editing the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Paper presented at The 3rd ESRC Research Methods Festival, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2008). Sibling identities and relationships in local communities. Putting Sibling Relationships on the Map: a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (2008). Siblings and friends project. Paper presented at ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008, United Kingdom.
Weller, S., & Edwards, R. (2008). Using I-poems to explore change and continuity in young people’s sense of self. Paper presented at CRFR National Conference 2008: Understanding Families and Relationships over Time, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R., & Weller, S. (2008). Using I-poems to explore change and continuity in young people’s sense of self. Research Workshop at London South Bank University, United Kingdom.
Edwards, R. (1970). A critical perspective on social capital and families. Paper presented at Uber Leben im Umbruch: Familienentwurfe, Alltagsstrategien und ambivalente Gemeinschaften (Life in a time of radical change: everyday life strategies, family change and ambivalent communities), Germany.

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

Elliott, H., Edwards, R., Phoenix, A., & Boddy, J. (2015). Narrative analysis of paradata from the Poverty in the UK survey: a worked example. (pp. 1-21). Southampton, GB: National Centre for Research Methods.
Baker, S. E., & Edwards, R. (Eds.) (2012). How many qualitative interviews is enough? Expert voices and early career reflections on sampling and cases in qualitative research. (National Centre for Research Methods Reviews). Southampton, GB: National Centre for Research Methods.
Weller, S., Edwards, R., & Stephenson, R. (2011). Researching children’s lateral relationships over time: methodological & ethical lessons from a qualitative longitudinal study. (Families & Social Capital Research Group Working Paper; No. 30). London, GB: London South Bank University.
Caballero, C., & Edwards, R. (2010). Lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children: then and now. (Runnymede Perspectives). London, GB: The Runnymede Trust.
Edwards, R., & McCarthy, J. (2009). Comparative approaches. Milton Keynes, GB: Open University.
Edwards, R., & McCarthy, J. (2009). Family as discourse. Milton Keynes, GB: Open University.
Edwards, R., & McCarthy, J. (2009). Family forms. Milton Keynes, GB: Open University.
Edwards, R., & McCarthy, J. (2009). Family practices. Milton Keynes, GB: Open University.
Edwards, R. (2008). Difference and belonging, hopes and fears: parenting ‘mixed’ children and the implications for career development. (iCEGS Occasional Paper). Derby, GB: University of Derby.
Caballero, C., Edwards, R., & Puthussery, S. (2008). Parenting 'mixed' children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families. London, GB: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Adam, B., Hockey, J., Thompson, P., & Edwards, R. (2008). Researching lives through time: time, generation and life stories. (Timescapes Working Paper Series; No. 1). London, GB: Economic and Social Research Council.
Weller, S., & Edwards, R. (Ed.) (2004). Researching the familiar: age, place and social capital in the field. (Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group Working Paper; No. 10). London, GB: London South Bank University.

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

Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Horsley, N. Challenging the politics of early intervention blog, posted 23 August 2017: https://policypress.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/challenging-the-politics-of-early-intervention/
Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Horsley, N. The fluctuating fortunes of the Peck family from 1928 to 1950: a ‘deserving’ case for the Charity Organisation Society, Living the Family blog, posted 14 November 2016: https://livingthefamily.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/the-fluctuating-fortunes-of-the-peck-family-from-1928-to-1950-a-deserving-case-for-the-charity-organisation-society/
Talking head: ‘Family Action – there for families since 1869’ video, first posted 1 September 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVSrbaKRno&feature=youtu.be
Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Horsley, N. The troubles with and of families across 150 years: the case of COS constructions and interventions, History and Parenting Policy Forum blog: https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/parentingforum/2016/05/24/the-troubles-with-and-of-families-across-150-years-the-case-of-cos-constructions-and-interventions/
Reposted at http://blog.soton.ac.uk/fshs/2016/05/25/the-troubles-with-and-of-families-across-150-years/
Edwards, R., Gillies, V. and Horsley, N. Collecting data about disadvantaged families – preoccupations and possibilities, Discover Society, 5 July 2016: http://discoversociety.org/2016/07/05/collecting-data-about-disadvantaged-families-preoccupations-possibilities/
Caringscapes: Response to death and family relationships in urban Senegal project report, video posted 9 February 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9gKkVAIUI
Collaborative academic/Family Action third sector agency exhibition based on ESRC SDAI project, ‘Families and Hard Times: Reflections on family support from the Long Depression to the Global Crash’, Geffreye Museum, London, 19.11.15, 6.30-8.30pm
Consultant providing advice on background social context to Director and Cast of ‘A Taste of Honey’, The National Theatre, January 2014
(with V. Gillies) Doing it for ourselves: the Women’s Workshop, 20th February 2014, blog publication: http://womantheory.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/doing-it-for-ourselves-the-womens-workshop-ros-edwards-and-val-gillies/
‘What’s a traditional family and do we need it?’, Westminster Faith Debates GCSE and A Level Religious Education teaching resource: http://www.reonline.org.uk/westminster-faith-debates-whats-a-traditional-family-and-do-we-need-it/
Interviewed and quoted: ‘Fathers sought for interracial study’, The Star [Dunedin, NZ], 27 March 2014
University of Otago Podcast for Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work: Brain science and early years intervention, recorded 4 April 2014: https://unitube.otago.ac.nz/view?m=sK135zNGkBB and https://unitube.otago.ac.nz/view?m=NHPZ5zPl3ZI
University of Otago Podcast for module SOCI 207 Families and Society, recorded 7 April 2014:http://www.otago.ac.nz/sgsw/study/sociology/papers/?papercode=SOCI207#2017

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, Criminology University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

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