
Yr Athro EJ Renold
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Emma Renold is Professor in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005), the co-founder of youngsexualities.org and was co-editor of the journal Gender and Education (2006-2012). Working with feminist, queer and post-constructionist theories her research explores young gendered and sexual subjectivities across diverse institutional sites and public spaces. Her current research projects include:
- exploration of bodies, affect, subjectivity and movement in a community multi-media ethnography of girls$acirc; and boys$acirc; negotiations of place and space in a semi-rural post-industrial locale - KLiC Project $acirc; Young People and Place.
- qualitative exploration of pre-teen sexualities and relationship cultures (age 10-13) in rural and urban south wales.
Research interests include:
Participatory methodologies with children and young people$acirc; ¨Ethnography, creative methods, multi-media/multi-sensory, critical reflexivity, psycho-social.
Young masculinities, femininities and sexualities$acirc; ¨Subjectivity; relationship cultures; sexualisation debates; gender and education; 'real'/virtual socialities; locality and spatiality.
Marginalisation, pathologisation and young abject subjects$acirc; ¨Children in/ leaving care; children, social class and poverty; gendered/sexualised bullying and violence.
Critical theory$acirc; ¨New materialist feminist theory, queer theory, feminist post-constructionist, post-humanist.
Research produced by Professor Renold also featured in the February 2012 edition of Cardiff News, where she discusses the impact that an increasingly sexualised culture has on young people, particularly young girls from the South Wales Valleys. An electronic version of the article is available here.
Current Writing
"Hold her down!": exploring the gaming of gender and sexual violence in between boys and girls in the early years (with Naomi Holford and Tuija Huuki)
What can a kiss do?: theorizing the power plays in young children$acirc; s sexual cultures (with Naomi Holford, Open University and Tuija Huuki, University of Oulu)
Transversal subjectivity: Applying Deleuze and Guattari's BwO to theorise a young girl's becoming in a post industrial locale (with Gabrielle Ivinson, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
$acirc; F**k rape!$acirc; : Exploring affective intensities in a feminist research assemblage (with Jessica Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London)
Current Research
Young Sexualities, Equalities and Well-Being (funded by Cardiff University, NSPCC, Children$acirc; s Commissioner$acirc; s Office for Wales)
Current ESRC Seminar Series
Forthcoming Special Issues
Feminism, Contemporary Girlhood and $acirc; Sexualization$acirc; , Feminist Theory (2013)
ESRC Seminar series: 'Pornified? Complicating the debates about the sexualisation of culture'
Seminar 5: Girls, Sexuality and Sexualisation: Beyond spectacle and sensationalism.
Dr Emma Renold and Dr. Jessica Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London:
Theorising and researching teen-girls$acirc; sexual cultures in an era of $acirc; sexualisation$acirc; : beyond the moral panic.
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Academic Employment
- Sept, 2012 Professor in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2009 Reader in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2006 Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2003 Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2000-3 Full-time Lecturer (Social Work, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University) - three year fixed term contract
- Mar, 2000 Education Research Fellow (0.5, job share) (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- May 1999-Jan 2000 Research Associate (School of Social Sciences): Secured funding (from NSPCC) to undertake a literature review on 'Child Pornography and the Exploitation of Children' ( £6000)
- Oct 1998-Apr 1999 Part-time Research Officer (0.4) MRC-funded project entitled 'Women's experience of breast related problems' (University of Wales, College of Medicine)
- Oct 1998-Apr 2000 Part-time Research Officer (0.5) ESRC-funded project $acirc; Peer Violence in Children$acirc; s Homes$acirc; (part of Violence Research Programme).
Education and Qualifications
- 1994-1999 PhD in Sociology of Education (School of Education, Cardiff University) Title: $acirc; Presumed Innocence: An Ethnographic Exploration into the Construction of Gender and Sexual Identities in the Primary School.
- 1994-1995 Diploma in Social Science Research Methods (School of Education, Cardiff University)
- 1991-1994 English literature/Education BA - First class honours (Cardiff University)
PhD Students
Completed
- Dr Alexandra Allan (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship. $acirc; Struggling for Success: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Construction of Young Femininities in a Selective, Single-Sex School$acirc; (co-supervised with Amanda Coffey)
- Dr David Mellor (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship; 'Playground Romance: An ethnography of children's investments in romantic love.' (co-supervised with Debbie Epstein)
- Dr Nicola Critchlow (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship: Children's representations of authority figures in the home and school (co-supervised with Sally Holland and Raya Jones)
- Dr Nika Varvara (Full-time) Bullying and children with special needs (co-supervised with Raya Jones)
- Dr Kelly Buckley (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship. $acirc; 'Keeping it Real: Young working class femininities and celebrity culture' (co-supervised with Bella Dicks)
- Dawn Mannay (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship $acirc; Mothers and daughters on the margins: gender, generation and education$acirc; (co-supervised with Bella Dicks and John Fitz)
- Tabitha Ong (part-time) The Role of Global Values in Regard to the Family Life Cycle in Hong Kong with Specific Regard to Young Adults$acirc; Perception of Marriage, Parenthood and Family Responsibility in Late Modernity (co-supervised with Andy Pithouse)
- Naomi Holford (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship $acirc; Normative abuse: investigating issues of gender and power in heterosexualised violence within teenage partner relationships$acirc; (co-supervised with Amanda Robinson)
- Mike Ward (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship $acirc; The performance of young working class masculinities in the South Wales valleys$acirc; (Co-supervised with Debbie Epstein)
Ongoing
- Jennifer Smith (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship Gender and Sexuality in the Early Years: An Ethnography (co-supervised with Debbie Esptein)
- Josie Austin (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship $acirc; Young people and sexual learning in an era of $acirc; sexualisation$acirc; $acirc; A mixed-methods approach$acirc; (Co-supervised with Sara MacBride-Stewart)
- Hannah Iqbal (full-time) 1+3 ESRC Studentship $acirc; Refugee Children in Britain: a Study of Wellbeing, Integration and Resilience$acirc; (Co-supervised with Gareth Williams)
- Ian Thomas (full-time) +3 ESRC Studentship (Homo)sex out of the city: the digital cultures of rural men who have sex with men (co-supervised with Matthew Williams)
- Helen Sivey (full-time) self-funded, Growing up queer: non-heterosexual maturity narratives (co-supervised with Radikah Mohanram, ENCAP)
Projects
Please visit the Projects Page.
Major National and International Conference Organization
- 2012-2014 Understandings of the young sexual body, (13,500K) (with Hoggat, University of Greenwich, Walker, Anglia Ruskin University, Koffman, Kings College, University of London and Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London)
- Dec 2011 Pornified: Complicating the debates about the sexualisation of culture, Institute of Education (co-organising with Ringrose, Gill, Barker)
- March 2012 Young Sexualities and Sexualisation: Children and young people in wales speak back, Cardiff University (leading and co-organising with Children$acirc; s Commissioner for Wales) Cardiff News / Cardiff Events
- 2011 Girls, Sexuality and Sexualisation: Beyond Spectacle and Sensationalism, Cardiff University (international seminar, as part of ESRC Pornification seminar series)
- 2009-2011 Pornification? Complicating the debates about the 'sexualisation of culture' with Gill, R. (Kings) and Ringrose, J. (IoE) £18.7K
- ESRC Festival of Social Science 2009 $acirc; By Us, For Us, About Us$acirc; : A Children and Young People$acirc; s Festival of Participation in Research
- 2008 Difference and Sameness?: Sexualities, Schooling and Schizoid Agendas, invited one-day conference, Institute of Education, 30 October (funded and organised by BERA Sexualities SIG).
- 2005-7 ESRC-funded National Seminar Series, Girls in Education (3-16) (with Professor Carrie Paechter, Goldsmiths and Dr. Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University), £13.5K
- 2005 Pleasure and Danger Revisited, Sexualities in the 21st Century' International Conference, SOCSI, Cardiff University, 30 June-2 July
- 2004 Gender, Power and Difference$acirc; International Bi-Annual Gender and Education Association Conference, SOCSI, Cardiff University, 31 Mar-2 April
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Capacity-building in Innovative Qualitative Research Methods
The Cardiff QUALITI node (National Centre for Research Methods) has involved extensive research capacity building across the social sciences (e.g. seminar series, training workshops etc.). QUALiti and WISERD funded projects continues to contribute significantly here. See latest seminar, $acirc; Exlporing the use of visual media in the communication of research findings$acirc;
Peer Review Experience (grants, articles, book proposals)
I regularly review government-funded grant proposals, book proposals, international studentships and journal articles for a range of international journals, including: Gender and Education, International Journal of Childhood Studies, Sex Education, Sexualities, British Education Research Journal, International Journal of Social Science Research Methodology, Qualitative Research, Educational Review, Sociological Research On-line, SIGNS, Feminism and Psychology, YOUNG, Girlhood Studies.
Journal Editor
I was co-editor of the international journal Gender and Education (2006-2012). This journal now produces 8 issues per year and is ranked 3rd highest of all UK education journals and 31st of the top 100 educational journals worldwide.
Editorial Board Membership
I am editorial board member of five international journals: International Journal of Girlhood Studies (Canada), Thymos: International Journal of Boyhood Studies (USA), International Journal of Lesbian and Gay Youth (USA), Gender and Education (UK), Journal of Masculinities and Social Change (Spain).
Professional Membership
- 2006-9 Sexualities Special Interest Group Convenor for British Educational Research Association
- 2005-13 Executive committee member of Gender and Education Association
Member of the following associations: European Sociological Association, American Education Research Association, British Education Research Association, British Sociological Association, International Children$acirc; s Research Network, Onscenity Network, Cardiff Feminist Network.
Advisory Roles
- Advisor to Governmental Commissioned research: $acirc; Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood in Ireland$acirc; (2013)
- Cross-party committee on $acirc; Children, Sexualities, $acirc; sexualisation$acirc; and Equalities (Welsh Government)
- Academic Advisor (2009-2010) for Open University Press textbook: Equality, Participation and Inclusion: Diverse Perspectives (by Jon Rix, Melanie Nind, Kieron Sheehy and Katy Simmons (2010, OUP).
- Violence Against Girls and Women (Cardiff)
- ALLIES: Teachers$acirc; and Parents$acirc; Alliance for Early Violence Prevention in Preschool, (EU-funded, DAPHNE III Programme) 2010-2012, Research Consultant, $acirc; 8K
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- Sept, 2012 Professor in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2009 Reader in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2006 Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2003 Lecturer in Childhood Studies (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Sept, 2000-3 Full-time Lecturer (Social Work, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University) - three year fixed term contract
- Mar, 2000 Education Research Fellow (0.5, job share) (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- May 1999-Jan 2000 Research Associate (School of Social Sciences): Secured funding (from NSPCC) to undertake a literature review on 'Child Pornography and the Exploitation of Children' (£6000)
- Oct 1998-Apr 1999 Part-time Research Officer (0.4) MRC-funded project entitled 'Women's experience of breast related problems' (University of Wales, College of Medicine)
- Oct 1998-Apr 2000 Part-time Research Officer (0.5) ESRC-funded project "Peer Violence in Children's Homes" (part of Violence Research Programme).
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Renold, E. and Timperley, V. 2022. Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a postqualitative art-ful praxis. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning (10.1080/14681811.2022.2090915)
- Renold, E. J. and Ivinson, G. 2022. Posthuman co-production: becoming response-able with what matters. Qualitative Research Journal 22(1), pp. 108-128. (10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0005)
2021
- Ivinson, G. and Renold, E. 2021. What more do bodies know? Moving with the gendered affects of place. Body and Society 27(1), pp. 85-112. (10.1177/1357034X20923017)
- Renold, E., Ashton, M. and McGeeney, E. 2021. What if?: becoming response-able with the making and mattering of a new relationships and sexuality education curriculum. Professional Development in Education 47(2/3), pp. 538-555. (10.1080/19415257.2021.1891956)
2020
- Renold, E., Edwards, V. and Huuki, T. 2020. Becoming eventful: making the ‘more-than’ of a youth activist conference matter. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 25(3), pp. 441-464. (10.1080/13569783.2020.1767562)
- Ivinson, G. and Renold, E. 2020. Moving with the folds of time and place: exploring gut reactions in speculative transdisciplinary research with teen girls in a post-industrial community. In: Taylor, C. A., Ulmer, J. and Hughes, C. eds. Transdisciplinary Feminist Research Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice. Routledge Research in Gender and Society London: Routledge
- Renold, E., Ivinson, G., Thomas, G. and Elliott, E. 2020. The making, mapping and mobilising in Merthyr project: young people, research and arts-activism in a post-industrial place. In: McDermont, M. et al. eds. Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-Creating Regulation for Engagement. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 127-144.
- Renold, E. 2020. "Coming out": Gender, (hetero)sexuality and the primary school. In: Dean, J. J. and Fischer, N. L. eds. Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies. Routledge International Handbooks Routledge, pp. 122-138.
2019
- Renold, E. 2019. Becoming AGENDA: the making and mattering of a youth activist resource on gender and sexual violence. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 10(2-3), pp. 208-241. (10.7577/rerm.3677)
- Renold, E. and Ivinson, G. 2019. Anticipating the more-than: working with prehension in artful interventions with young people in a post-industrial community. Futures 112, article number: 102428. (10.1016/j.futures.2019.05.006)
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2019. Selfies, relfies, and phallic tagging: Posthuman participations in teen digital sexuality assemblages. In: Jackson, L. and Peters, M. A. eds. From ‘Aggressive Masculinity’ to ‘Rape Culture’: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Gender and Sexualities Reader, Volume V. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice London and New York: Routledge, pp. 182-201.
- Renold, E. 2019. Ruler-skirt risings: Becoming crafty with how gender and sexuality education research-activisms can come to matter. In: Jones, T., Coll, L. and Taylor, Y. eds. Up-lifting Gender & Sexuality Study in Education and Research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-26.
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2019. JARing: making phematerialist research practices matter. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture 4
- Renold, E. 2019. Primary AGENDA: Supporting children in making positive relationships matter.. Cardiff: Cardiff University, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, NSPCC Cymru/Wales, and Welsh Women’s Aid.
2018
- Thomas, G. M., Elliott, E., Exley, E., Ivinson, G. and Renold, E. 2018. Light, connectivity, and place: young people living in a post-industrial town. cultural geographies 25(4), pp. 537-551. (10.1177/1474474018762811)
- Bragg, S., Renold, E., Ringrose, J. and Jackson, C. 2018. 'More than boy, girl, male, female': Exploring young people's views on gender diversity within and beyond school contexts. Sex Education 18(4), pp. 420-434. (10.1080/14681811.2018.1439373)
- Renold, E. 2018. 'Feel what I feel': making da(r)ta with teen girls for creative activisms on how sexual violence matters. Journal of Gender Studies 27(1), pp. 37-55. (10.1080/09589236.2017.1296352)
- Libby, ., Georgia, ., Chloe, ., Courtney, ., Olivia, ., Rhiannon, . and Renold, E. 2018. Making our feelings matters: using creative methods to re-assemble the rules on healthy relationships education in Wales. In: Lombard, N. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence. London and New York: Taylor and Francis, pp. 303-319.
2017
- Renold, E. and McGeeney, E. 2017. Informing the future of the Sex and Relationships Education Curriculum in Wales. Project Report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Renold, E. and McGeeney, E. 2017. The future of the sex and relationships education curriculum in Wales: Recommendations of the Sex and Relationships Education Expert Panel.. Project Report. Cardiff: Welsh Government.
- Renold, E. and McGeeney, E. 2017. Dyfodol y Cwricwlwm Addysg Rhyw a Pherthnasoedd yng Nghymru: Argymhellion y Panel o Arbenigwyr Addysg Rhyw a Pherthnasoedd Rhagfyr. Project Report. Cardiff: Welsh Government.
- Renold, E., Bragg, S., Jackson, C. and Ringrose, J. 2017. How gender matters to children and young people living in England. Project Report. Cardiff University.
2016
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2016. Selfies, relfies and phallic tagging: posthuman part-icipations in teen digital sexuality assemblages. Educational Philosophy and Theory 49(11), pp. 1066-1079. (10.1080/00131857.2016.1185686)
- Huuki, T. and Renold, E. 2016. Crush: mapping historical, material and affective force relations in young children's hetero-sexual playground play. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 37(5), pp. 754-769. (10.1080/01596306.2015.1075730)
2015
- Renold, E. and Ivinson, G. 2015. Mud, mermaids and burnt wedding dresses: mapping queer becomings in teen girls’ talk on living with gender and sexual violence. In: Renold, E., Ringrose, J. and Egan, D. eds. Children, Sexuality and Sexualization. AIAA, pp. 239-258.
2014
- Adam, B. E. et al. 2014. Promise through the lens of time. Presented at: Futures in Question, Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-12 September 2014.
- Ringrose, J. and Renold, E. 2014. 'F**k Rape!': Exploring affective intensities in a feminist research assemblage. Qualitative Inquiry 20(6), pp. 772-780. (10.1177/1077800414530261)
- Renold, E. and Ivinson, G. 2014. Horse-girl assemblages: towards a post-human cartography of girls' desire in an ex-mining valleys community. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 35(3), pp. 361-376. (10.1080/01596306.2014.888841)
2013
- Ivinson, G. M. and Renold, E. 2013. Valleys' girls: re-theorising bodies and agency in a semi-rural post-industrial locale. Gender and Education 25(6), pp. 704-721. (10.1080/09540253.2013.827372)
2012
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2012. Phallic girls?: girls’ negotiations of phallogocentric power. In: Landreau, J. C. and Rodriguez, N. M. eds. Queer Masculinities: a Critical Reader in Education. Explorations of Educational Purpose Vol. 21. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 47-67., (10.1007/978-94-007-2552-2_4)
2011
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2011. Schizoid subjectivities? Re-theorizing teen girls' sexual cultures in an era of 'sexualization'. Journal of Sociology 47(4), pp. 389-409. (10.1177/1440783311420792)
- Ross, N., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman, A. 2011. Meaningful meanderings: using mobile methods to research young people’s everyday lives. In: Heath, S. and Walker, C. eds. Innovations in youth research. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-57.
- Renold, E., Holland, S., Ross, N. J. and Hillman, A. 2011. 'Becoming participant': problematising 'informed consent' in participatory research with young people in care. In: Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, K. S. eds. SAGE Qualitative Research Methods., Vol. 4. London: Sage, pp. 55-74.
- Ross, N. J., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman, A. 2011. Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care. In: Coffey, A. J. and Hall, T. A. eds. Researching Young People., Vol. 1. Fundamentals of Applied Research London: Sage, pp. 123-140.
2010
- Ringrose, J. and Renold, E. 2010. Boys, girls and normative violence in schools: a gendered critique of bully discourses. In: Barter, C. and Berridge, D. eds. Children Behaving Badly?: Peer Violence Between Children and Young People. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp. 181-198., (10.1002/9780470976586.ch13)
- Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N. and Hillman, A. 2010. Power, agency and participatory agendas: A critical exploration of young people's engagement in participative qualitative research. Childhood 17(3), pp. 360-375. (10.1177/0907568210369310)
- Ringrose, J. and Renold, E. 2010. Normative cruelties and gender deviants: the performative effects of bully discourses for girls and boys in school. British Educational Research Journal 36(4), pp. 573-596. (10.1080/01411920903018117)
2009
- Ross, N. J., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman, A. 2009. Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care. Qualitative Research 9(5), pp. 605-623. (10.1177/1468794109343629)
- Ivinson, G. M. and Renold, E. 2009. Whose 'gender agenda'?: a feminist response to the DfCSF’s appropriation of gender in their achievement agenda. Presented at: Gender and Education Conference, London, UK, 12 - 14 May 2009.
- Renold, E. 2009. Tomboys and 'female masculinity': (dis)embodying hegemonic masculinity, queering gender identities and relations. In: Martino, W., Kehler, M. D. and Weaver-Hightower, M. B. eds. The Problem With Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash. New York: Routledge, pp. 224-241.
2008
- Renold, E., Holland, S., Ross, N. and Hillman, A. 2008. 'Becoming participant': problematizing 'informed consent' in participatory research with young people in care. Qualitative Social Work 7(4), pp. 427-447. (10.1177/1473325008097139)
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2008. Regulation and rupture: Mapping tween and teenage girls' resistance to the heterosexual matrix. Feminist Theory 9(3), pp. 313-338. (10.1177/1464700108095854)
- Wiles, R., Prosser, J., Bagnoli, A., Clark, A., Davies, K., Holland, S. and Renold, E. 2008. Visual ethics: ethical issues in visual research. Working paper. National Centre for Research Methods,. Available at: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/421/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-011.pdf
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2008. Mapping ‘resistances’ to regulative heteronormativity: methodological challenges in researching young marginalised femininities. Presented at: Symposia: Problematising the methodological terrain: The limits and possibilities of posts The limits and possibilities of post structural ethnographic research on young non/normative sexualities in educational settings, British Educuation RA, Edinburgh, UK, 3 - 8 September 2008.
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2008. Critical openings: Girls rupturing the heterosexual matrix and heteronormative femininity in UK schools. Presented at: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory, Cardiff, UK, 27- 29 June 2008 Presented at Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. eds.
- Renold, E. and Ross, N. 2008. "Look at my eyes, they’re lush”: representing mediated identities in longitudinal participatory research with children and young people in public care. Advancing the use of visual methods in researching children’s cultures. Presented at: Advancing the Use of Visual Methods in Research on Children’s Cultures Seminar, Cardiff University, UK, 16 April 2008.
- Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N. and Hillman, A. 2008. Rights, ‘right on’ or the right thing to do? A critical exploration of young people's engagement in participative social work research. Working paper. ERSC National Centre for Reseacrh Methods. Available at: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/460/1/0708%2520critical%2520exploration.pdf
- Ringrose, J. and Renold, E. 2008. Regulation and resistance?: Exploring postfeminist discourses of girlhood and girls’ negotiations of heteronormative femininity. Presented at: Symposia - Rethinking Resistance and Agency: What Comes After Girl Power? American Education Research Association, New York, USA, 22 - 28 March 2008.
- Renold, E. and Ringrose, J. 2008. Regulation and rupture: Mapping tween and teenage girls' resistance to the heterosexual matrix. Presented at: London Sexuality Forum, London, UK, 26th February 2008.
- Ross, N., Holland, S., Renold, E. and Hillman, A. 2008. The multi-sensory experiences of mobile research encounters. Presented at: NCRM Research Methods Festival 2008, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 30 June - 3 July 2008.
- Renold, E. 2008. Queering masculinity: Re-theorising contemporary tomboyism in the schizoid space of innocent/heterosexualized young femininities. Girlhood Studies 1(2), pp. 129-151. (10.3167/ghs.2008.010208)
- Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N. J. and Hillman, A. 2008. The everyday lives of children in care: using a sociological perspective to inform social work practice. In: Luckock, B. and Lefevre, M. eds. Direct work: social work with children and young people in care. London: British Association for Adoption & Fostering, pp. 77-94.
2007
- Renold, E. 2007. Tomboys. In: Mitchell, C. A. and Reid-Walsh, J. eds. Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group
2006
- Renold, E. 2006. "They won't let us play unless you're going out with one of them": Girls, boys and Butler's 'Heterosexual Matrix' in the primary years. British Journal of Sociology of Education 27(4), pp. 489-509. (10.1080/01425690600803111)
- Coffey, A. J., Renold, E., Dicks, B., Soyinka, B. L. and Mason, B. L. 2006. Hypermedia ethnography in educational settings. Ethnography and Education 1(1), pp. 15-30. (10.1080/17457820500512721)
2005
- Renold, E. 2005. Girls, boys and junior sexualities: exploring children's gender and sexual relations in the primary school. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
2004
- Barter, C., Renold, E., Cawson, P. and Berridge, D. 2004. Peer violence in children's residential care. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Williams, M. L., Mason, B. and Renold, E. 2004. Using computers in qualitative research: a review of software packages. Building Research Capacity 7, pp. 4-7.
2003
- PILL, R., WOOD, F., Renold, E., Robling, M., EDWARDS, A. and WILKINSON, C. 2003. Welsh women's comments about breast problems and the care given: a qualitative study in the community. European Journal of Cancer Care 12(3), pp. 240-248. (10.1046/j.1365-2354.2003.00407.x)
- Pill, R., Wood, F. C., Renold, E., Robling, M. R., Edwards, A. G. and Wilkinson, C. E. 2003. Welsh women’s comments about breast problems and the care given: a qualitative study in the community. European Journal of Cancer Care 12(3), pp. 240-248.
- Renold, E. 2003. 'If You Don't Kiss Me, You're Dumped': Boys, boyfriends and heterosexualised masculinities in the primary school. Educational Review 55(2), pp. 179-194. (10.1080/0013191032000072218)
2002
- Renold, E. 2002. Presumed Innocence: (Hetero)Sexual, Homophobic and Heterosexist Harassment amongst Primary School Girls and Boys. Childhood 9(4), pp. 415-434. (10.1177/0907568202009004004)
- Gorard, S., Crozier, R. and Renold, E. 2002. What can we learn from educational research? The implications of work from the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences: the 5* educational research centre with a wider social science perspective. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2000
- Renold, E. 2000. 'Coming out': Gender, (hetero)sexuality and the primary school. Gender and Education 12(3), pp. 309-326. (10.1080/713668299)
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Emma Renold is Professor in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities (2005), the co-founder of youngsexualities.org and was co-editor of the journal Gender and Education (2006-2012). Working with feminist, queer and post-constructionist theories her research explores young gendered and sexual subjectivities across diverse institutional sites and public spaces. Her current research projects include:
- exploration of bodies, affect, subjectivity and movement in a community multi-media ethnography of girls' and boys' negotiations of place and space in a semi-rural post-industrial locale - KLiC Project – Young People and Place.
- qualitative exploration of pre-teen sexualities and relationship cultures (age 10-13) in rural and urban south wales.
Research interests include:
Participatory methodologies with children and young people Ethnography, creative methods, multi-media/multi-sensory, critical reflexivity, psycho-social.
Young masculinities, femininities and sexualities Subjectivity; relationship cultures; sexualisation debates; gender and education; 'real'/virtual socialities; locality and spatiality.
Marginalisation, pathologisation and young abject subjects Children in/ leaving care; children, social class and poverty; gendered/sexualised bullying and violence.
Critical theory New materialist feminist theory, queer theory, feminist post-constructionist, post-humanist.
Research produced by Professor Renold also featured in the February 2012 edition of Cardiff News, where she discusses the impact that an increasingly sexualised culture has on young people, particularly young girls from the South Wales Valleys. An electronic version of the article is available here.
Current Writing
"Hold her down!": exploring the gaming of gender and sexual violence in between boys and girls in the early years (with Naomi Holford and Tuija Huuki)
What can a kiss do?: theorizing the power plays in young children's sexual cultures (with Naomi Holford, Open University and Tuija Huuki, University of Oulu)
Transversal subjectivity: Applying Deleuze and Guattari's BwO to theorise a young girl's becoming in a post industrial locale (with Gabrielle Ivinson, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
"F**k rape!": Exploring affective intensities in a feminist research assemblage (with Jessica Ringrose, Institute of Education, University of London)
Current Research
Young Sexualities, Equalities and Well-Being (funded by Cardiff University, NSPCC, Children's Commissioner's Office for Wales)
Current ESRC Seminar Series
ESRC Seminar series (2012 – 2014) Understandings of the young sexual body
Forthcoming Special Issues
Feminism, Contemporary Girlhood and 'Sexualization', Feminist Theory (2013)