Webinar: Ethnography’s Ghosts: Spectres, Archives, Ancestors
29 October 2026, 11:00-12:00 (UK time) Register to avoid disappointment Ethnography’s Ghosts: Spectres, Archives, Ancestors with Emer. Professor Paul Atkinson. This talk introduces Ethnography’s Ghosts, edited by Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson. Their previous collaborations include Reflexivity and Social Research (Palgrave 2022), Ethnographic Explorations (Routledge, 2023) and methodological […]
Lessons learned: Creative & embodied research methods in practice
This is a call for contributions to an open educational resource aimed at helping researchers, students, practitioners and educators learn about using creative and embodied methods in real-world research settings.
The lived experience of fibromyalgia
This podcast is an audio-recording with slides as it was presented on the 25th June 2021 to the fibromyalgia support group Faversham Fibromyalgia Friends.
Research impact poster
This is an example of a prize-winning research impact poster.
LEGO® reflections in Higher Education
This is a guest post on the Advance HE website published after I had delivered a successful workshop at the HEA Annual Conference demonstrating how to use LEGO reflections in higher education.
Creative output: “I need duvet days” – Chronically ill academics
This is an example for analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with chronically ill academics. The illustrated poem was created from the transcripts of conversations with chronically ill academics and an arts-based approach to making sense of data.
Reshaping higher education
This is my reshaping higher education contribution to the post-strike Big Meeting organised by Reclaim the University in June 2018.
Article: Exploring the lived experience of fibromyalgia
The paper reports on the lived experience of fibromyalgia, which used identity boxes and metaphorical representation to offer a holistic view.
Learning from the Korean context
This post shows the Korean educational context and how I have discovered that you can be half-way around the world, and yet nothing changes.
Strategies for learning names of students
Strategies for learning names at the beginning of an academic year, and reasons for why learning names is important.
Getting started with educational research
Getting started with educational research is a short introduction to the research process and offers help with questions and methods.
The “I” in Fibromyalgia at the PGFes2016
This is my contribution to the Postgraduate Research Festival, the PGFes2016, at the University of Kent.
Book review: The art of being a brilliant middle leader
This is a review of "The art of being a brilliant middle leader" by G. Toward, C. Henley and A. Cope. A fantastic read for any team leader.
Teaching empathy in dance classes
A report about teaching empathy in dance classes
Writing a good academic essay
Consider some key elements when writing an academic essay: structure, language, use of sources.
Critical incidents according to Tripp
This is a brief outline of what Tripp considers as critical incidents.





