Dr Kahryn Hughes
Senior Research Fellow
I am a Senior Research Fellow, and the Co-Director of the Families Lifecourse and Generations Research Centre (FLaG).
I previously worked in the Health Sciences and Public Health Research Centre. My research ranged from governance and quality in Complementary and Alternative Medicines, local hospitals, and community eye services, to ESRC-funded research that developed innovative methodologies to reach and recruit socially excluded individuals and groups.
Research Interests
My current projects are Intergenerational Exchange: grandparenting and social exclusion, a ESRC-funded Timescapes study, and New forms of participation: internet gambling and the role of the family under the ESRC/RIGT initiative.
My main theoretical interests lie around relational processes of identity constitution and maintenance, including those associated with practices of addiction, and theorising social networks in the context of low-income communities.
Teaching
I teach mainly within the areas of qualitative research methods, and teach on the MA Sociology of Health and Illness.
PhD Supervision
I am keen to supervise students that have an interest in areas that broadly overlap with my own substantive interests, and who are keen to explore the uses of different qualitative methodologies.
Key Publications
Chapters in Books
Emmel N.D. and Hughes K. (2009 ) 'Small-N access cases to refine theories of social exclusion and access to socially excluded individuals and groups'. In: Byrne D and Ragin C (eds.) The SAGE handbook of Case-Cantered Methods, Sage. London.
Hughes, K.A. (2007) 'CAM and the meaning of nursing care'. In: Jon Adams and Phil Tovey (eds.) Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: towards a critical social science, Routledge.
Hughes, K.A. (2004) 'Health as individual responsibility: possibilities and personal struggle'. In: Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope, Jon Adams (ed.) The mainstreaming of complementary and alternative medicine: studies in social context, Routledge.
Journal Articles
Hughes, K.A. (2007) 'Migrating identities: the relational constitution of drug use and addiction'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(5).
Reports
Emmel, N.D., Hughes K., Greenhalgh J., Sales A. (2007) 'Accessing socially excluded people: trust and the gatekeeper in the researcher-participant relationship' at Sociological Research Online.
Briefing Papers
Hughes K., Emmel N.D., Hemmerman L., (2009) Briefing Paper 2: Intergenerational exchange: Grandparents and social exclusion; Mid-term briefing paper for policy makers and practitioners.
Valentine, G., Hughes, K., University of Leeds (2008) New Forms of Participation: Problem Internet Gambling and the Role of the Family
Contact Details
- Room: SSB 11.08
- Tel: 0113 343 1161
- Email: k.a.hughes@leeds.ac.uk