I have research interests in youth, education, families, intimacy, feminist theory and methodology, and qualitative longitudinal methods, and publish in these areas. Currently Co-Director of Timescapes, an ESRC funded 5 year qualitative longitudinal study with seven projects covering the life course located in five UK universities (Leeds (lead, Director Bren Neale), LSBU, Cardiff, Edinburgh and The Open University). Also have an archiving project in this study with colleagues, Making the Long View, archiving data from a 10 year qualitative longitudinal study of youth transitions, Inventing Adulthoods. See too www.timescapes.leeds.ac.uk; www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods.
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Introduction PART ONE: FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS Reason, Science and Progress Feminism's Enlightenment Inheritance Can Feminists Tell the Truth? Challenges of Scientific Method From Truth/Reality to Knowledge/Power Taking a Feminist Standpoint PART TWO: FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE Escape from Epistemology? The Impact of Postmodern Thought on Feminist Methodology Researching `Others' Feminist Methodology and the Politics of Difference Knowledge, Experience and Reality Justifying Feminist Connections PART THREE: MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES Choices and Decisions Doing a Feminist Research Project Conclusion