Dr Fiona Shirani
Research Assistant, FLEXIS
- Email:
- fionashirani@cardiff.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44(0) 29 225 10129
- Location:
- Room 8.04, Tower Building
2019
- Shirani, F.et al. 2019. 'What counts as success? Wider implications of achieving planning permission in a low-impact ecovillage. Environmental Values
2017
- Henwood, K., Shirani, F. and Groves, C. 2017. Using photographs in interviews: When we lack the words to say what practice means. In: Flick, U. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection.. SAGE Publications, pp. 599-614.
- Shirani, F.et al. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86, pp. 86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
- Groves, C.et al. 2017. Why mundane energy use matters: energy biographies, attachment and identity. Energy Research and Social Science 30, pp. 71-81. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.016)
2016
- Henwood, K., Groves, C. and Shirani, F. 2016. Relationality, entangled practices, and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies. Families, Relationships and Societies 5(3), pp. 393-410. (10.1332/204674316X147584383416945)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. In: Ansell, N., Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat., Vol. 8. Geographies of Children and Young People Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-20., (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)
- Groves, C.et al. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25(3), pp. 309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
- Groves, C.et al. 2016. Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change. Science Technology and Human Values 41(3), pp. 483-508. (10.1177/0162243915609116)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2016. Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19(4), pp. 429-444. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208)
- Groves, C.et al. 2016. The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of 'smartness'?. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3(1), pp. 4-25. (10.1080/23299460.2016.1178897)
- Henwood, K.et al. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report. Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.
2015
- Parkhill, K.et al. 2015. "We are a community but that takes a certain amount of energy": Exploring shared visions, social action and resilience in place-based community-led initiatives. Environmental Science & Policy 53(A), pp. 60-69. (10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.014)
- Shirani, F.et al. 2015. I’m not a tree hugger, I’m just like you’: changing perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Environmental Politics 24(1), pp. 57-74. (10.1080/09644016.2014.959247)
- Shirani, F. 2015. "I'm bringing back a dead art": continuity and change in the lives of young fathers. Families, Relationships and Societies 4(2), pp. 253-266. (10.1332/204674315X14230598040336)
2014
- Butler, C.et al. 2014. Examining the dynamics of energy demand through a biographical lens. Nature and Culture 9(2), pp. 164-182. (10.3167/nc.2014.090204)
2013
- Shirani, F. J. 2013. The spectre of the wheezy dad: Masculinity, fatherhood and ageing. Sociology 47(5), pp. 1104-1119. (10.1177/0038038512469063)
- Shirani, F. J.et al. 2013. Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18(4), pp. 455-468. (10.1080/13549839.2013.779236)
2012
- Shirani, F. J., Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. Meeting the challenges of intensive parenting culture: gender, risk management and the moral parent. Sociology 46(1), pp. 25-40. (10.1177/0038038511416169)
- Shirani, F. 2012. The centrality of social capital: concepts of community in the era of the Big Society. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Shirani, F. J., Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. "Why aren't you at work?": negotiating economic models of fathering identity. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers 10(3), pp. 274-290. (10.3149/fth.1003.274)
2011
- Henwood, K. L., Shirani, F. J. and Finn, M. 2011. “So you think we've moved, changed, the representation got more what?” Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the Men as Fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. Visual methods in psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research.. Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 330-345.
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Taking one day at a time: temporal experiences in the context of unexpected life course transitions. Time & Society 20(1), pp. 49-68. (10.1177/0961463X10374906)
- Henwood, K. L., Shirani, F. J. and Procter, J. K. N. 2011. On delayed fatherhood: the social and subjective “logics” at work in men’s lives (a UK study). In: Beets, G., Schippers, J. J. and te Velde, E. R. eds. The future of motherhood in western societies: late fertility and its consequences.. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 159-176., (10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4_11)
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood: relevance without responsibility. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14(1), pp. 17-29. (10.1080/13645571003690876)
- Shirani, F. J. 2011. The right time for fatherhood? a temporal study of men's transition to parenthood. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2010
- Shirani, F. J. 2010. Retrospective reflections on the timing of fatherhood. Presented at: ESRC Fertility Pathways Network Meeting, London, UK, 8 - 9 March 2010.
- Shirani, F. J. 2010. Researcher continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study: The impact of personal characteristics.. Presented at: Timescapes Conference: The Craft of QLL Research, Cardiff, Wales, 20 January 2010.
- Shirani, F. J. 2010. Researcher change and continuity in a qualitative longitudinal study: the impact of personal characteristics. In: Shirani, F. J. and Weller, S. eds. Conducting Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Fieldwork Experiences.. Timescapes Working Paper Series Vol. 2. Leeds: University of Leeds, pp. 49-59.
- Shirani, F. J. and Weller, S. 2010. Introduction: researchers' experiences. In: Shirani, F. J. and Weller, S. eds. Conducting Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Fieldwork Experiences.. Timescapes Working Paper Series Vol. 2. Leeds: University of Leeds, pp. 4-6.
- Henwood, K. L., Shirani, F. J. and Coltart, C. 2010. Fathers and financial risk-taking during the economic downturn: insights from a QLL study of men's identities-in-the-making. 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 5(2), pp. 137-147. (10.1080/17450141003783355)
2009
- Shirani, F. J. 2009. To and from involved fatherhood: A QLL study. Presented at: European Sociological Association 9th Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2 - 5 September 2009.
- Shirani, F., Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2009. Men’s experiences of antenatal services: findings from the ‘Men as Fathers’ Study. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/research/researchprojects/menasfathers/publications/antenatalreport.pdf
- Shirani, F. J., Yang, P. and Mannay, D. 2009. Adhering to the conventional sequence: men’s accounts of first-time fatherhood. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp126.pdf
- Shirani, F., Yang, P. and Mannay, D. 2009. Postgraduate café papers 2009. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2008
- Khan, A.et al. 2008. "The prawn sandwich will live forever”: learning to innovate in commercial sandwich production. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://learningaswork.cf.ac.uk/outputs/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20ESRC%20TLRP%20Learning%20as%20Work%20Research%20Paper%20No%2017.pdf
- Henwood, K. L., Finn, M. and Shirani, F. J. 2008. Use of visual methods to explore paternal identities in historical time and social change: reflections from the ‘men-as-fathers’ project. Qualitative Researcher 9, pp. 2-5.
- Elliott, E., Shirani, F. and Williams, G. H. 2008. Final report on the sustainability and legacy of Healthy Living Centres in Wales. A report to the Department for Public Health and Health Professions. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/wp-115.pdf
- Time – Particularly the significance of imagined futures and experiences of life transitions
- Families and relationships
- Qualitative longitudinal methods