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Emma Renold is a researcher affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, specializing in social sciences with a focus on sociology and political science, cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and the visual and performing arts.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these, Renold's research covers several subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Social Psychology
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts

The key topics addressed in their work reflect a multidisciplinary engagement with:

  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Renold's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • "Posthuman co-production: becoming response-able with what matters" (2022), published in Qualitative Research Journal
  • "What if?: becoming response-able with the making and mattering of a new relationships and sexuality education curriculum" (2021), published in Professional Development in Education
  • "Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a post-qualitative art-ful praxis" (2022), published in Sex Education
  • "Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research" (2024), published in Children & Society

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Emma Renold include:

  • Gabrielle Ivinson
  • Gareth Thomas
  • Eva Elliott
  • Ester McGeeney
  • Victoria Timperley

Renold's work has been published in venues such as:

  • Qualitative Research Journal
  • Body & Society
  • Professional Development in Education
  • Sex Education
  • Children & Society

Best Publications

  • The use of vignettes in qualitative research

    CA Barter;E Renold

  • Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities: Exploring Childrens' Gender and Sexual Relations in the Primary School

    Emma Renold

  • 'I wanna tell you a story': Exploring the application of vignettes in qualitative research with children and young people

    Christine Barter;Emma Renold

  • Schizoid subjectivities? Re-theorizing teen girls’ sexual cultures in an era of ‘sexualization’

    Emma Renold;Jessica Ringrose

  • Power, agency and participatory agendas: A critical exploration of young people's engagement in participative qualitative research

    Sally Holland;Emma Renold;Nicola J. Ross;Alexandra Hillman

  • Normative cruelties and gender deviants: the performative effects of bully discourses for girls and boys in school

    Jessica Ringrose;Emma Renold

  • ‘Other’ boys: negotiating non‐hegemonic masculinities in the primary school

    Emma Renold

  • Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual Research

    Rose Wiles;Jon Prosser;Anna Bagnoli;Andrew Clark

  • Slut-shaming, girl power and ‘sexualisation’: thinking through the politics of the international SlutWalks with teen girls

    Jessica Ringrose;Emma Renold

  • "Coming out" : Gender, (hetero)sexuality and the primary school

    Emma Renold

  • Learning the 'Hard' Way: Boys, hegemonic masculinity and the negotiation of learner identities in the primary school

    Emma Renold

  • Regulation and rupture Mapping tween and teenage girls' resistance to the heterosexual matrix

    Emma Renold;Jessica Ringrose

  • “F**k Rape!” Exploring Affective Intensities in a Feminist Research Assemblage

    Jessica Ringrose;Emma Renold

  • ‘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

    Emma Renold

  • Presumed Innocence: (Hetero)Sexual, Homophobic and Heterosexist Harassment amongst Primary School Girls and Boys

    Emma Renold

  • ‘All They've Got on Their Brains is Football.’ Sport, Masculinity and the Gendered Practices of Playground Relations

    Emma Renold

  • 'More than boy, girl, male, female': Exploring young people's views on gender diversity within and beyond school contexts

    Sara Bragg;Emma Renold;Jessica Ringrose;Carolyn Patricia Jackson

  • Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care

    Nicola Jane Ross;Emma Renold;Sally Holland;Alexandra Hillman

  • Bright and Beautiful: High achieving girls, ambivalent femininities, and the feminization of success in the primary school

    Emma Renold;Alexandra Allan

  • Rape culture, lad culture and everyday sexism: researching, conceptualizing and politicizing new mediations of gender and sexual violence

    Alison Phipps;Jessica Ringrose;Emma Renold;Carolyn Patricia Jackson

  • Rethinking Agency and Resistance What Comes After Girl Power

    Marnina Gonick;Emma Renold;Jessica Ringrose;Lisa Weems

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica Ringrose
Jessica Ringrose University College London
Debbie Epstein
Debbie Epstein University of Roehampton
Liesbet van Zoonen
Liesbet van Zoonen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood Cardiff University

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