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Professor Jennifer Mason FBA

Sociology of personal and everyday life; affinities, kinship, relationalities, connectedness, personal relationships; ecological sociology and socio-atmospherics; qualitative, creative and mixed methodologies, including ‘facet methodology’
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jennifer.mason.html

Current post

Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester

Past appointments

ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Director of ‘Real Life Methods’ and ‘Realities’ Nodes

2005 - 2011

The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester Founding Co-Director

2005 - 2015

University of Leeds Reader in Sociology

2002 - 2005

Publications

Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life

Jennifer Mason - Published in 2017 by Polity Press

Qualitative Researching

Jennifer Mason - Published in 2017 by SAGE Publications Ltd

Third edition

Living the Weather: voices from the Calder Valley

Edited by Jennifer Mason - Published in 2016 by Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester

Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method

Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale - Published in 2011 by SAGE Publications Ltd

Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England

Jennifer Mason and Janet Finch - Published in 2000 by Routledge

Conjuring up Traditions: Atmospheres, Eras and Family Christmases

Jennifer Mason and Stewart Muir - Published in 2013 by The Sociological Review

Difficult friendships and ontological insecurity

Jennifer Mason, Carol Smart, Katherine Davies and Brian Heaphy - Published in 2012 by The Sociological Review

Facet Methodology: The Case for an Inventive Research Orientation

Jennifer Mason - Published in 2011 by Methodological Innovations Online

Tangible Affinities and the Real-Life Fascination of Kinship

Jennifer Mason - Published in 2008 by Sociology

Being Related: How Children Define and Create Kinship

Jennifer Mason and Becky Tipper - Published in 2008 by Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

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Professor Sara Arber FBA

Gender and ageing, including care-giving, older men, pensions; health inequalities, including women's health, social capital, cross-national comparisons; sociology of sleep, research on women, couples and ageing

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Professor Jouni Kuha FBA

Social statistics; statistical methods for the analysis of measurement problems; analysis of survey data; applications in the social sciences

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