A psychosocial approach to unemployed young men in a South Wales town
Lead Research Organisation:
Cardiff University
Department Name: Sch of Social Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| V Walkerdine (Principal Investigator) | |
| Luis Jimenez (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Jimenez L
(2011)
A psychosocial approach to shame, embarrassment and melancholia amongst unemployed young men and their fathers
in Gender and Education
Jimenez L
(2011)
'Shameful work': A psychosocial approach to father-son relations, young male unemployment and femininity in an ex-steel community
in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
Studdert David
(2016)
Rethinking Community Research: Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality
Walkerdine V
(2010)
Communal Beingness and Affect: An Exploration of Trauma in an Ex-industrial Community
in Body & Society
Walkerdine V
(2017)
Of dinosaurs and divas: is class still relevant to feminist research? Co-Editor of Subjectivity: presentation given as the Opening Lecture at the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths, University of London, October, 2016 and reproduced as part of the 10th Anniversary issue of the journal Subjectivity
in Subjectivity
Walkerdine Valerie
(2012)
Gender, work and community after de-industrialisation: a psychosocial approach to affect
| Description | blaenau gwent council |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | regional body took seriously the effects of trauma on former steel workers and acknowledged the need to engage with this and with women, whose distress had been completely unrecognised. |
| Description | leverhulme trust major research fellowship |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Title | esrc network fof methodological innovation |
| Description | Successfully applied to becomes an ESRC node and research Network for Methodological Innovation on methods for researching affect |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | funded research seminars |
| Description | ankara |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Very useful discussion and comaprison across Europe increased interest in and reach for research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | bogota |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | huge discussions about issues within the conference and discussions of international comparisons and approaches to these issues Formal relationship established between Cardiff and Javeriana Universities with other Cardiff researchers going there and potential Colombian students coming to train with us. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | book launch and debate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presence of local MP, well known media figure and well known academics discussing the book provoked excellent audience engagment and discussion. large interest in book |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | bsa 2011 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | very good discussion about effects of deindustrialisation increased interest in the research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | columbia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | huge student interest and discussion of comparisons between uk and usa; request to return 2007 so successful it led to a further invite in 2008 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2008 |
| Description | european congress of psychology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | symposium was well received and provoked interesting discussion people found the work and disucssion stimulting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | helsinki |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | lively discussion and international links re deindustrialisation in Finland and Russia Invited to participate in Finnish research on deindustrialisation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | media interest steeltown studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Delivered high national profile for the research and sales for the book Continuing request to appear on radio; increased interest in research from public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013 |
| Description | stockholm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | good questions and discussion, clip shown on national television increased Swedish interest in the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | toynbee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Very good disucssion and response from policy makers and academics alike - people seemed highly stimulated by discussion further disucssions and links with policy makers; academics wanting to collaborate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |