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<p>Men and Masculinties</p><p>Social Class</p><p>Ethnography</p><p>Life Writing</p><p>Community
Transport</p><p> </p><p>ESRC-funded research project–<em>Beyond Male Role
Models: gender identities and work with young men</em></p><p>The project has been
developed in close partnership between a team at The Open University and a major national
charity, Action for Children, which has extensive experience of working with vulnerable
and troublesome young men. The research will be carried out at Action for Children
projects throughout the UK, and project staff and young people themselves will be
involved in organising and facilitating the research.</p><p>The project will explore
the following questions:</p><ul><li>What ideas and assumptions influence practice
with boys and young men and in particular what assumptions about gender inform current
theory, policy and practice?</li></ul><ul><li>How do boys and young men in contact
with services talk about their interactions and relationships with male and female
professionals?</li></ul><ul><li>What do they value in their relationships with workers?
To what extent is this related to the gender of the worker?</li></ul><ul><li>What
do they identify as essential to developing good relationships?</li></ul><ul><li>What
do girls say about boys and their relationships with workers?</li></ul><ul><li>How
do male and female professionals working with boys and young men across a range of
settings talk about and construct their interactions and relationships with service
users?</li></ul><ul><li>What do they identify as essential to developing good relationships?</li></ul><ul><li>How
does gender interact with other aspects of identity, such as class and ethnicity,
in relationships between young men and professional workers?</li></ul><ul><li>What
are the implications of these findings for developing interventions with boys and
young men who are perceived to be vulnerable or‘at risk’?</li></ul><p>The
study will include focus groups and individual interviews with young male service
users; interviews with male and female workers in the same settings; a small number
of interviews with young women service users; and an analysis of policy documents,
media stories and academic texts covering the issue of‘male role models’
and the role of gender in work with young men.</p><p><a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/beyondmalerolemodels/">http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/beyondmalerolemodels/</a></p> |
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<p>Mike is a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the
Open University. He is currently working on an ESRC project titled'Beyond Male
Role Models' which is exploring gender identities and practices in work with
young men. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study that centred on the lives
of a group of young working-class men (aged 16-18) in a community in the South Wales
Valleys. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman he examined how his respondents educational
pathways and leisure interests impacted on their performances of masculinity within
this former industrial space.</p><p>Mike’s other work has examined the transport
needs of older people in rural Lincolnshire. Alongside collegues at the University
of Lincoln he wrote a report seeking to develop community transport in the county.
He has taught sociology at both further and higher education institutions to students
of all ages and is a tutor at the Lifelong Learning Centre at Cardiff University.
Mike is also a member of the Social Science Centre (SSC) in Lincoln. The SSC
offers opportunities to engage in a co-operative experience of higher education. Run
as a not-for-profit co-operative, the SSC is organised on the
basis of democratic, non-hierarchical principles, with all members having equal involvement
in the life and work of the SSC.<a href="http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/">http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/</a> .We
study themes that draw on the core subjects in social science: sociology,
politics and philosophy, as well as psychology, economics, journalism and photography.
The Centre organises study and research at all levels including undergraduate, Masters
and Doctorates in Philosophy</p><p> </p> |
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<p>Mike is a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the
Open University. He is currently working on an ESRC project titled'Beyond Male
Role Models' which is exploring gender identities and practices in work with
young men. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study that centred on the lives
of a group of young working-class men (aged 16-18) in a community in the South Wales
Valleys. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman he examined how his respondents educational
pathways and leisure interests impacted on their performances of masculinity within
this former industrial space.</p><p>Mike’s other work has examined the transport
needs of older people in rural Lincolnshire. Alongside collegues at the University
of Lincoln he wrote a report seeking to develop community transport in the county.
He has taught sociology at both further and higher education institutions to students
of all ages and is a tutor at the Lifelong Learning Centre at Cardiff University.
Mike is also a member of the Social Science Centre (SSC) in Lincoln. The SSC
offers opportunities to engage in a co-operative experience of higher education. Run
as a not-for-profit co-operative, the SSC is organised on the
basis of democratic, non-hierarchical principles, with all members having equal involvement
in the life and work of the SSC.<a href="http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/">http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk/</a> .We
study themes that draw on the core subjects in social science: sociology,
politics and philosophy, as well as psychology, economics, journalism and photography.
The Centre organises study and research at all levels including undergraduate, Masters
and Doctorates in Philosophy</p><p> </p> |
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