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Overview

Janet Holland is affiliated with London South Bank University in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span several subfields within the social sciences, with particular emphasis on sociology and political science, urban studies, history, emergency medicine, and physical therapy, sports therapy, and rehabilitation.

Holland's publication record includes research articles, books, and collaborative works. Notable recent papers include:

  • Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing (2020, International Journal of Social Research Methodology)
  • Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts? (2024, The Sociological Review)
  • Exploring the concept of a 'long lie' after a fall to inform clinical pathways in pre-hospital services: a systematic literature review (2025, Nursing Older People)

Their books have been published by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks and Bloomsbury Publishing plc, with titles including Qualitative Interviewing (2023) and Vignette Research (2024).

Janet Holland's research topics cover a range of areas related to qualitative methods and social inquiry. These include:

  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • French Historical and Cultural Studies
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Frequent coauthors working with Holland include Rosalind Edwards, Vernon Gayle, Evi Agostini, Bren Neale, and Dawn Lyon. Holland has published multiple papers in these academic venues:

  • International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • The Sociological Review
  • Nursing Older People

Overall, Holland's scholarly work is situated at the intersection of social science methodologies and applied health and urban studies, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to research across qualitative interviewing, participatory methods, and care studies.

Best Publications

  • Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices

    Caroline Ramazanoglu;Janet Holland

  • The Male in the Head: Young People, Heterosexuality and Power

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • What is Qualitative Interviewing

    Rosalind Edwards;Janet Holland

  • Critical moments: Choice, chance and opportunity in young people's narratives of transition

    Rachel Thomson;Robert Bell;Janet Holland;Sheila Henderson

  • Making spaces : citizenship and difference in schools

    Tuula Gordon;Janet Holland;Elina Lahelma;Jo Campling

  • Inventing Adulthoods: A Biographical Approach to Youth Transitions

    Sheila J. Henderson;Janet Holland;Sheena McGrellis;Sue Sharpe

  • Hindsight, foresight and insight: the challenges of longitudinal qualitative research

    Rachel Thomson;Janet Holland

  • Sexual health education interventions for young people: a methodological review

    A Oakley;D Fullerton;J Holland;S Arnold

  • Ethnographic research in educational settings

    Tuula Gordon;Janet Holland;Elina Lahelma

  • Sex, gender and power: young women's sexuality in the shadow of AIDS

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Scott;Sue Sharpe

  • Behavioural interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention

    Ann Oakley;Deirdre Fullerton;Janet Holland

  • Transitions, Networks and Communities: The Significance of Social Capital in the Lives of Children and Young People

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  • Power and Desire: The Embodiment of Female Sexuality

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • Risk, power and the possibility of pleasure: young women and safer sex.

    J Holland;C Ramazanoglu;S Scott;S Sharpe

  • Emotions and Research

    Janet Holland

  • Inventing adulthoods: a biographical approach to understanding youth citizenship

    Rachel Thomson;Janet Holland;Sheena McGrellis;Robert Bell

  • Between Embarrassment and Trust: Young Women and the Diversity of Condom Use

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Scott;Sue Sharpe

  • Pleasure, Pressure and Power: Some Contradictions of Gendered Sexuality:

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazonoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • Making the Most of What You've Got? Resources, Values and Inequalities in Young Women's Transitions to Adulthood

    Rachel Thomson;Sheila Henderson;Janet Holland

  • Deconstructing virginity—young people's accounts of first sex

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • Preventing falls and subsequent injury in older people.

    A Oakley;M F Dawson;J Holland;S Arnold

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Thomson
Rachel Thomson University of Sussex
Sue Scott
Sue Scott University of Missouri
Rosalind Edwards
Rosalind Edwards University of Southampton
Ann Oakley
Ann Oakley University College London
Amanda Sowden
Amanda Sowden University of York
Tim Rhodes
Tim Rhodes London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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