The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
The trustees of It's Our Day, for taking the time to provide detailed consideration of the review... more The trustees of It's Our Day, for taking the time to provide detailed consideration of the review protocol, enabling us to clarify our inclusion/exclusion criteria for the review.
The series of articles presented here addresses the problematic issues of women’s agency and resi... more The series of articles presented here addresses the problematic issues of women’s agency and resistance in the context of feminist discursive research conducted
The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or... more Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to gender expression (Duncan, 1999). Research on sexual bullying is disparate and still developing as a field. This study extends on this research through a mixed-methods analysis of the different forms of sexual bullying and the relationships between them across five European nations. Participants were 253 young people (aged 13–18) from Bulgaria, England, Italy, Latvia and Slovenia. As part of focus groups on sexual bullying, participants individually and anonymously completed a Sexual Bullying Questionnaire (SBQ), comprising closed- and open-ended questions about their experiences of victimisation and bullying their peers. Factor analysis identified five forms of sexual bullying victimisation and two forms of sexual bullying towards peers. The quantitative and qualitative findings indicated that bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to...
A great deal has been written, and said, about ‘teenage pregnancy’ and the resultant status of ‘y... more A great deal has been written, and said, about ‘teenage pregnancy’ and the resultant status of ‘young’ motherhood. Much of this commentary takes a moralistic position that seems insistent on imposing causal and consequential explanations; based upon values and beliefs that are seldom subjected to detailed scrutiny. This chapter relies upon recently completed research that did not presume to locate ‘young’ motherhood within such problematising narrative structures. Rather the emphasis was on gaining an appreciation of lives: how they are lived and how they are told. Presented in this chapter is what might be termed a brief encounter with Abby. The data that is presented, and analysed, focuses upon her pre-adolescent and adolescent relationships. The story told here is not one of early pregnancy and caring for children; although these are most certainly later aspects of her life story. Rather we offer an account of a vibrant young woman who enthusiastically shares her experiences and ...
Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender-and sexuali... more Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender-and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people's understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality). Data collected via 41 focus groups with young men and women (N = 253) aged 13-18 across five European countries (Bulgaria, England, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia) were analysed using thematic analysis. Participants highlighted intersections between bullying, dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment. They also drew upon notions of consent to determine whether and when certain actions constituted bullying. We argue that applying this lens of consent to young people's peer relationships illuminates the extent to which bullying (like other forms of gender-and sexuality-related harassment and violence) is culturally situated and embedded within hierarchical gendered power relations. We therefore advocate that Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and anti-bullying initiatives treat consent as a 'common thread' in discussing and challenging a range of gender-and sexuality-related forms of bullying and harassment within peer relationships.
The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative int... more Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges—including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment—on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity across school, community, online, and family contexts. By choosing to represent Max’s experiences as a performance text, we offer a living, breathing resource that can be performed in educational settings not only to young people but also by young people. We share Everybody Knows Me as the Weird Kid as a resource to help others respond to sexual and gender-related bullying and discrimination in their own lives.
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracte... more The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-constructionist approach to examine the content of popular Internet memes. Using thematic analysis on a sample of 240 image macro Internet memes (those featuring an image with a text caption overlaid), we identified two broad, overarching themes – Technological Privilege and Others. Within the analysis presented here, complex and troubling constructions of gendered identity in online humour are explored, illustrating the potential for the othering and exclusion of women through humour in technological spaces. We argue that this new iteration of heter...
The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, avail... more The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies ...
In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with... more In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer insight into our experiences of using both types of interview styles, addressing four key areas which span elements across the research project journey: (a) choosing a mode of interview, (b) ethical concerns in couple research, (c) the interview as a platform for disclosure, and (d) analyzing data from couple research.
A great deal has been written, and said, about 'teenage pregnancy' and the resultant stat... more A great deal has been written, and said, about 'teenage pregnancy' and the resultant status of 'young' motherhood. Much of this commentary takes a moralistic position that seems insistent on imposing causal and consequential explanations; based upon values and beliefs that are seldom subjected to detailed scrutiny. This chapter relies upon recently completed research that did not presume to locate
The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
The trustees of It's Our Day, for taking the time to provide detailed consideration of the review... more The trustees of It's Our Day, for taking the time to provide detailed consideration of the review protocol, enabling us to clarify our inclusion/exclusion criteria for the review.
The series of articles presented here addresses the problematic issues of women’s agency and resi... more The series of articles presented here addresses the problematic issues of women’s agency and resistance in the context of feminist discursive research conducted
The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or... more Sexual bullying refers to bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to gender expression (Duncan, 1999). Research on sexual bullying is disparate and still developing as a field. This study extends on this research through a mixed-methods analysis of the different forms of sexual bullying and the relationships between them across five European nations. Participants were 253 young people (aged 13–18) from Bulgaria, England, Italy, Latvia and Slovenia. As part of focus groups on sexual bullying, participants individually and anonymously completed a Sexual Bullying Questionnaire (SBQ), comprising closed- and open-ended questions about their experiences of victimisation and bullying their peers. Factor analysis identified five forms of sexual bullying victimisation and two forms of sexual bullying towards peers. The quantitative and qualitative findings indicated that bullying or harassment that is sexualised, related to sexuality, and/or related to...
A great deal has been written, and said, about ‘teenage pregnancy’ and the resultant status of ‘y... more A great deal has been written, and said, about ‘teenage pregnancy’ and the resultant status of ‘young’ motherhood. Much of this commentary takes a moralistic position that seems insistent on imposing causal and consequential explanations; based upon values and beliefs that are seldom subjected to detailed scrutiny. This chapter relies upon recently completed research that did not presume to locate ‘young’ motherhood within such problematising narrative structures. Rather the emphasis was on gaining an appreciation of lives: how they are lived and how they are told. Presented in this chapter is what might be termed a brief encounter with Abby. The data that is presented, and analysed, focuses upon her pre-adolescent and adolescent relationships. The story told here is not one of early pregnancy and caring for children; although these are most certainly later aspects of her life story. Rather we offer an account of a vibrant young woman who enthusiastically shares her experiences and ...
Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender-and sexuali... more Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender-and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people's understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality). Data collected via 41 focus groups with young men and women (N = 253) aged 13-18 across five European countries (Bulgaria, England, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia) were analysed using thematic analysis. Participants highlighted intersections between bullying, dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment. They also drew upon notions of consent to determine whether and when certain actions constituted bullying. We argue that applying this lens of consent to young people's peer relationships illuminates the extent to which bullying (like other forms of gender-and sexuality-related harassment and violence) is culturally situated and embedded within hierarchical gendered power relations. We therefore advocate that Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and anti-bullying initiatives treat consent as a 'common thread' in discussing and challenging a range of gender-and sexuality-related forms of bullying and harassment within peer relationships.
The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked f... more The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.
Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative int... more Everyone Knows Me as the Weird Kid is a performance text created from collaborative narrative interviews between the first author and a 15-year-old participant named Max who identifies as bisexual and genderfluid. The performance explores how Max negotiates a range of challenges—including homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and harassment—on a day-to-day basis. It offers evocative insights into life as a young person with an intersecting identity across school, community, online, and family contexts. By choosing to represent Max’s experiences as a performance text, we offer a living, breathing resource that can be performed in educational settings not only to young people but also by young people. We share Everybody Knows Me as the Weird Kid as a resource to help others respond to sexual and gender-related bullying and discrimination in their own lives.
The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracte... more The Internet is a space where the harassment of women and marginalised groups online has attracted the attention of both academic and popular press. Feminist research has found that instances of online sexism and harassment are often reframed as “acceptable” by constructing them as a form of humour. Following this earlier research, this present paper explores a uniquely technologically-bound type of humour by adopting a feminist, social-constructionist approach to examine the content of popular Internet memes. Using thematic analysis on a sample of 240 image macro Internet memes (those featuring an image with a text caption overlaid), we identified two broad, overarching themes – Technological Privilege and Others. Within the analysis presented here, complex and troubling constructions of gendered identity in online humour are explored, illustrating the potential for the othering and exclusion of women through humour in technological spaces. We argue that this new iteration of heter...
The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, avail... more The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of the University, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the items on this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full items free of charge; copies ...
In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with... more In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer insight into our experiences of using both types of interview styles, addressing four key areas which span elements across the research project journey: (a) choosing a mode of interview, (b) ethical concerns in couple research, (c) the interview as a platform for disclosure, and (d) analyzing data from couple research.
A great deal has been written, and said, about 'teenage pregnancy' and the resultant stat... more A great deal has been written, and said, about 'teenage pregnancy' and the resultant status of 'young' motherhood. Much of this commentary takes a moralistic position that seems insistent on imposing causal and consequential explanations; based upon values and beliefs that are seldom subjected to detailed scrutiny. This chapter relies upon recently completed research that did not presume to locate
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