Professor Paul Atkinson

2022

• Smith, R. J., Atkinson, P. and Evans, R. 2022. Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference, and categorial relations. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 28(5), pp. 890-896. (10.1111/jep.13749)
• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2022. Reflexive ethnography. In: Poferl, A. and Schröer, N. eds. Handbuch Soziologische Ethnographie. Springer VS, pp. 265–279., (10.1007/978-3-658-26405-5_15)

2021

• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2021. Interactionist research: Extending methods, extending fields. In: Lehn, D. v., Ruiz-Junco, N. and Gibson, W. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 425-434., (10.4324/9780429276767-43)
• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. 2021. Ethnographic engagements: encounters with the familiar and the strange. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429056840)
• Kerpen, S. and Marston, K. 2021. Heteronormativity. In: Delamont, S. et al. eds. SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE

2019

• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2019. Authenticity and the interview: a positive response to a radical critique. Qualitative Research 19(6), pp. 619-634. (10.1177/1468794118816885)
• Atkinson, P. and Sampson, C. 2019. Narrative stability in interview accounts. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 22(1), pp. 55-66. (10.1080/13645579.2018.1492365)
• Stephens, N. and Lewis, J. 2019. Laboratory ethnography. In: Atkinson, P., Delamont, S. and Williams, M. eds. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (online handbook). Los Angeles, CA.: Sage
• Delamont, S., Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. and Smith, R. 2019. Lo spirito esplorativo libero La scuola di Etnografia di Cardiff 1974 - 2017, Traduzione di Giuseppina Cersosimo, Chiuso in stampa nel mese di marzo 2019, Presso Creative 3.0 srl - Reggio Calabria. Documentation.

2017

• Atkinson, P. 2017. Thinking ethnographically. London: SAGE.

2016

• Lewis, J., Bartlett, A. and Atkinson, P. 2016. Hidden in the middle: culture, value and reward in bioinformatics. Minerva 54, pp. 471-490. (10.1007/s11024-016-9304-y)
• Atkinson, P. and Ryen, A. 2016. Indigenous research and romantic nationalism. Societies 6(4), article number: 34. (10.3390/soc6040034)

2015

• Smith, R. and Atkinson, P. 2015. Method and measurement in sociology, fifty years on. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19(1), pp. 99-110. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1068010)

2014

• Atkinson, P. 2014. For ethnography. London: SAGE.
• Lewis, J., Hughes, J. and Atkinson, P. 2014. Relocation, realignment and standardisation: circuits of translation in Huntington’s disease. Social Theory and Health 12, pp. 396-415. (10.1057/sth.2014.13)

2013

• Atkinson, P. A., Featherstone, K. and Gregory, M. 2013. Kinscapes, timescapes and genescapes: families living with genetic risk. Sociology of Health and Illness 35(8), pp. 1227-1241. (10.1111/1467-9566.12034)
• Lewis, J. T., Atkinson, P. A., Harrington, J. and Featherstone, K. 2013. Representation and practical accomplishment in the laboratory: when is an animal model good-enough?. Sociology 47(4), pp. 776-792. (10.1177/0038038512457276)
• Sampson, C. and Atkinson, P. A. 2013. The golden star: an emotional repertoire of scientific discovery and legacy. Sociological Review 61(3), pp. 573-590. (10.1111/1467-954X.12064)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Blowing hot: The ethnography of craft and the craft of ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 19(5), pp. 397-404. (10.1177/1077800413479567)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. The mastersingers: language and practice in an operatic masterclass. Ethnography and Education 8(3), pp. 355-370. (10.1080/17457823.2013.792673)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Ethnography and craft knowledge. Qualitative Sociology Review IX(2), pp. 56-63.
• Stephens, N. J., Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Closing the regulatory regress: GMP accreditation in stem cell laboratories. Sociology of Health & Illness 35(3), pp. 345-360. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01482.x)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Ethnographic writing, the Avant-Garde and a failure of nerve. International Review of Qualitative Research 6(1), pp. 19-35. (10.1525/irqr.2013.6.1.19)
• Atkinson, P. A., Watermeyer, R. and Delamont, S. 2013. Expertise, authority and embodied pedagogy: operatic masterclasses. British Journal of Sociology of Education 34(4), pp. 487-503. (10.1080/01425692.2012.723868)
• Stephens, N. J., Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2013. Institutional imaginaries of publics in stem cell banking: the cases of the UK and Spain. Science as Culture 22(4), pp. 497-515. (10.1080/14636778.2013.764071)

2012

• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2012. From classification to integration: Bernstein and the sociology of medical education. In: Brosnan, C. and Turner, B. S. eds. Handbook of Sociology of Medical Education. London: Routledge, pp. 36-50.
• Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2012. Creating conditions: the making and remaking of a genetic syndrome. Genetics and Society. Abingdon: Routledge.

2011

• Stephens, N. J., Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2011. Documenting the doable and doing the documented: bridging strategies at the UK Stem Cell Bank. Social Studies of Science 41(6), pp. 791-813. (10.1177/0306312711423306)
• Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The surveillance of cellular scientists' practice. BioSocieties 6(4), pp. 381-400. (10.1057/biosoc.2011.18)
• Arribas-Ayllon, M., Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The practical ethics of genetic responsibility: non-disclosure and the autonomy of affect. Social Theory & Health 9(1), pp. 3-23. (10.1057/sth.2009.22)
• Atkinson, P. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2011. Analysing documentary realities. In: Silverman, D. ed. Qualitative Research. London: Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 56-75.
• Stephens, N. J., Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2011. Internationaliser des standards, mettre en banque avec confiance: la mise en banque de cellules souches dans trois systèmes nationaux. Revue D'Anthropologie des Connaissances 5(2), pp. 260-286. (10.3917/rac.013.0260)
• Sampson, C. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. Accounting for discovery: genetic scientists' narratives. Narrative Inquiry 21(1), pp. 88-108. (10.1075/ni.21.1.05sam)

2010

• Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. A., Smith, R. J., Da Costa, L., Hillyard, S. and Pilgrim, A. 2010. Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Research 10(6), pp. 749-758. (10.1177/1468794110380578)
• Gregory, M. L., Middleton, A. and Atkinson, P. A. 2010. Timescapes and genescapes: the temporal organisation of family communication about genetic conditions. In: Bylund, C. L. and Gaff, C. L. eds. Family Communication about Genetics: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 87-101.
• Atkinson, P. A. 2010. The contested terrain of narrative analysis - an appreciative response [Letter]. Sociology of Health & Illness 32(4), pp. 661-662. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01240_1.x)
• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2010. Can the silenced speak? A dialogue for two unvoiced actors. International Review of Qualitative Research 3(1), pp. 11-15.
• Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. A. and Pugsley, L. A. 2010. The concept smacks of magic: fighting familiarity today. Teaching and Teacher Education 26(1), pp. 3-10. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.09.002)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2010. Making opera work: bricolage and the management of dramaturgy. MAiA - Music and Arts in Action 3(1), pp. 3-19.

2009

• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. Illness narratives revisited: the failure of narrative reductionism. Sociological Research Online 14(5), article number: 16. (10.5153/sro.2030)
• Atkinson, P. A., Glasner, P. E. and Lock, M. eds. 2009. Handbook of genetics and society: Mapping the new genomic era. Genetics and Society. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. The social organisation of aesthetics – a note. MAiA - Music and Arts in Action 2(1), pp. 69-72.
• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. A. eds. 2009. Gender and research. 4 vols.. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. London: SAGE Publications.
• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. Ethics and ethnography. Twenty-First Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 4(1), pp. 17-30. (10.1080/17450140802648439)

2008

• Stephens, N. J., Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2008. The UK stem cell bank: securing the past, validating the present, protecting the future. Science as Culture 17(1), pp. 43-56. (10.1080/09505430701872970)
• Stephens, N. J., Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2008. The UK Stem Cell Bank as performative architecture. New Genetics and Society 27(2), pp. 87-98. (10.1080/14636770802076977)
• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. eds. 2008. Representing ethnography: Reading, writing and rhetoric in qualitative research. 4 vols.. Sage benchmarks in social research methods. London: Sage.
• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. eds. 2008. Gender and research. London: Sage.
• Atkinson, P. A., Delamont, S. and Housley, W. 2008. Contours of culture : complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

2007

• Gaff, C. L. et al. 2007. Process and outcome in communication of genetic information within families: a systematic review. European Journal of Human Genetics 15(10), pp. 999-1011. (10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201883)

2006

• Featherstone, K., Gregory, M. and Atkinson, P. A. 2006. The moral and sentimental work of the clinic: the case of genetic syndromes. In: Atkinson, P. A., Glasner, P. E. and Greenslade, H. T. eds. New Genetics, New Identities. Genetics and Society Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 101-119.
• Latimer, J. E., Featherstone, K., Atkinson, P. A., Clarke, A. J., Pilz, D. T. and Shaw, A. 2006. Rebirthing the clinic: the interaction of clinical judgment and genetic technology in the production of medical science. Science technology & human values 31(5), pp. 599-630. (10.1177/0162243906289613)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2006. Everyday arias: an operatic ethnography. Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press.
• Featherstone, K., Atkinson, P. A., Bharadwaj, A. and Clarke, A. J. 2006. Risky relations: family, kinship and the new genetics. Oxford: Berg.

2005

• Featherstone, K., Latimer, J. E., Atkinson, P. A., Pilz, D. T. and Clarke, A. J. 2005. Dysmorphology and the spectacle of the clinic. Sociology of Health & Illness 27(5), pp. 551-574. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00456.x)
• Dicks, B., Mason, B. L., Coffey, A. J. and Atkinson, P. A. 2005. Qualitative research and hypermedia: ethnography for the digital age. New Technologies for Social Research Series. London: Sage.

2004

• Atkinson, P. A. 2004. The discursive construction of competence and responsibility in medical collegial talk. Communication and Medicine 1(1), pp. 13-23. (10.1515/come.2004.001)

2003

• Atkinson, P. A., Coffey, A. J. and Delamont, S. 2003. Key themes in qualitative research: continuities and changes. Walnut Creek, CA, USA: AltaMira Press.
• Atkinson, P. A., Bharadwaj, A. and Featherstone, K. 2003. Inheritance and society. In: Cooper, D. ed. Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome., Vol. 3. London: Nature Publishing Group, pp. 483-488.
• Atkinson, P. A. and Housley, W. 2003. Interactionism. BSA new horizons in sociology. London: Sage.
• Shaw, A., Latimer, J. E., Atkinson, P. A. and Featherstone, K. 2003. Surveying 'slides': Clinical perception and clinical judgment in the construction of a genetic diagnosis. New Genetics and Society 22(1), pp. 3-19. (10.1080/1463677032000069682)

2001

• Delamont, S., Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. and Burgess, R. 2001. An open exploratory spirit? Ethnography at Cardiff 1974 - 2001. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Atkinson, P. A., Parsons, E. P. and Featherstone, K. 2001. Professional constructions of family and kinship in medical genetics. New Genetics and Society 20(1), pp. 5-24. (10.1080/14636770125617)

2000

• Featherstone, K., Atkinson, P. A. and Clarke, A. J. 2000. Practical kinship and the disclosure of genetic information. Journal of Medical Genetics 37(Supp 2), pp. A15-A15.
• Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. A. and Odette, P. 2000. The doctoral experience: success and failure in graduate school. New York ; London: Falmer.

1995

• Atkinson, P. A. 1995. Medical talk and medical work : the liturgy of the clinic. London: Sage.

1990

• Atkinson, P. A. 1990. The ethnographic imagination: textual constructions of reality. London ; New York: Routledge.

1985

• Atkinson, P. 1985. Language, structure and reproduction: an introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London ; New York: Methuen.