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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Brendan Gough is affiliated with Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, and General Health Professions. Subfields of study also include Clinical Psychology and Geriatrics and Gerontology.

The scientist's main topics of work cover:

  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Family Support in Illness

Brendan Gough has published research in several academic venues, including:

  • Psychology and Health
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Frontiers in Sociology
  • Sociology of Health & Illness

Recent papers associated with Brendan include the following:

  • "Engendered Expressions of Anxiety: Men's Emotional Communications With Women and Other Men" (2021) in Frontiers in Sociology
  • "Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science" (2020) in British Journal of Psychology
  • "Masculinities in the construction industry: A double-edged sword for health and wellbeing?" (2020) in Gender Work and Organization
  • "How has COVID-19 lockdown impacted smoking? A thematic analysis of written accounts from UK smokers" (2020) in Psychology and Health
  • "Community pharmacy and public health: preserving professionalism by extending the pharmacy gaze?" (2020) in Sociology of Health & Illness

Collaborative work features frequent co-authors including:

  • Mary Madden
  • Jim McCambridge
  • Esmée Hanna
  • Karl Atkin
  • Stephanie Morris

Brendan Gough has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Reflexivity : a practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences

    Linda Finlay;Brendan Gough

  • Qualitative research and its place in psychological science

    Anna Madill;Brendan Gough

  • Barriers to healthy eating amongst men: a qualitative analysis.

    Brendan Gough;Mark T. Conner

  • 'Real men don't diet': an analysis of contemporary newspaper representations of men, food and health.

    Brendan Gough

  • Subjectivity in psychological science: from problem to prospect.

    Brendan Gough;Anna Madill

  • ‘Warning! Alcohol can seriously damage your feminine health’. A discourse analysis of recent British newspaper coverage of women and drinking

    Katy Day;Brendan Gough;Majella McFadden

  • Healthy masculinities? How ostensibly healthy men talk about lifestyle, health and gender

    Claire Sloan;Brendan Gough;Mark Conner

  • Women in medicine − is there a problem? A literature review of the changing gender composition, structures and occupational cultures in medicine

    Sue Kilminster;Julia Downes;Brendan Gough;Deborah Murdoch-Eaton

  • Try to be healthy, but don’t forgo your masculinity: Deconstructing men's health discourse in the media

    Brendan Gough

  • Critical Social Psychology : An Introduction

    Brendan Gough;Majella McFadden;Matthew McDonald

  • Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science.

    Daryl B. O'Connor;John P. Aggleton;Bhismadev Chakrabarti;Cary L. Cooper

  • The beer talking: four lads, a carry out and the reproduction of masculinities

    Brendan Gough;Gareth Edwards

  • The psychology of men's health: maximizing masculine capital.

    Brendan Gough

  • ‘I feel totally at one, totally alive and totally happy’: a psycho-social explanation of the physical activity and mental health relationship

    D. Crone;A. Smith;B. Gough

  • Men and the Discursive Reproduction of Sexism: Repertoires of Difference and Equality

    Brendan Gough

  • Psychoanalysis as a resource for understanding emotional ruptures in the text: the case of defensive masculinities

    Brendan Gough

  • Celebrating “Obese” Bodies: Gay “Bears” Talk about Weight, Body Image and Health

    Brendan Gough;Gareth Flanders

  • Men, masculinities and health: critical perspectives

    Brendan Gough;Steve Robertson

  • Women Who Drink and Fight: A Discourse Analysis of Working-Class Women's Talk

    Katy Day;Brendan Gough;Majella McFadden

  • Why do young adult smokers continue to smoke despite the health risks? A focus group study

    Brendan Gough;Gary Fry;Sarah Grogan;Mark Conner

  • How Does Masculinity Impact on Health? A Quantitative Study of Masculinity and Health Behavior in a Sample of UK Men and Women

    Claire Sloan;Mark Conner;Brendan Gough

  • Emoting infertility online: A qualitative analysis of men's forum posts

    Esmée Hanna;Brendan Gough

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Grogan
Sarah Grogan Manchester Metropolitan University
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
Rebecca Lawton
Rebecca Lawton University of Leeds
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Emma Halliwell
Emma Halliwell University of the West of England
Phillippa C. Diedrichs
Phillippa C. Diedrichs University of the West of England
Til Wykes
Til Wykes King's College London
Antonia C. Lyons
Antonia C. Lyons University of Auckland
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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