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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
76
Citations
35124
World Ranking
486
National Ranking
80

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 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

Paul Atkinson is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to various aspects of social sciences through research that spans sociology, political science, and public administration.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • For an ethics of generosity: Values for ethnography in a time of regulatory ethics, 2024, Qualitative Research
  • Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference and categorial relations, 2022, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Ethnopoetics and Narrative Analysis, 2021, Narrative Works
  • Response to Hughes, Hughes, Sykes and Wright, 2020, International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Frequent co-authors of Paul Atkinson include:

  • Robin Smith
  • Rhiannon Evans
  • Silvia Cataldi
  • David Wästerfors
  • Emilie Morwenna Whitaker

Their work has been published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Qualitative Research
  • International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • Narrative Works

Paul Atkinson's primary field of study is social sciences, with a focus distributed across subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, public administration, general health professions, and social psychology.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Social Work Education and Practice
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
  • Social Science and Policy Research
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies

Paul Atkinson has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, indicating a professional acknowledgment within their academic discipline.

Best Publications

  • Making sense of qualitative data

    Amanda Coffey;Paul Atkinson

  • Ethnography and participant observation.

    Paul Atkinson;Martyn Hammersley

  • Kundera's Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self

    Paul Atkinson;David Silverman

  • The ethnographic imagination: textual constructions of reality

    Paul Anthony Atkinson

  • Narrative Turn or Blind Alley

    Paul Atkinson

  • Analysing documentary realities

    Paul Anthony Atkinson;Amanda Jane Coffey

  • Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations:

    Amanda Coffey;Beverley Holbrook;Paul Atkinson

  • SAGE Research Methods Foundations

    Paul Atkinson;Sara Delamont;Alexandru Cernat;Joseph W. Sakshaug;Joseph W. Sakshaug

  • Medical talk and medical work

    Paul Atkinson

  • Rescuing narrative from qualitative research

    Paul Atkinson;Sara Delamont

  • Understanding ethnographic texts

    Paul Atkinson

  • Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing

    Paul Atkinson;Amanda Coffey

  • Key themes in qualitative research: continuities and changes

    Paul Anthony Atkinson;Amanda Jane Coffey;Sara Delamont

  • Etnografía: métodos de investigación

    Martyn Hammersley;Paul Atkinson

  • Medical talk and medical work : the liturgy of the clinic

    Paul Anthony Atkinson

  • THINKING BEYOND BASEL III: NECESSARY SOLUTIONS FOR CAPITAL AND LIQUIDITY

    Adrian Blundell-Wignall;Paul Atkinson

  • Do-It-Yourself: Democracy and Design

    Paul Atkinson

  • Doctoring uncertainty: mastering craft knowledge

    Sara Delamont;Paul Anthony Atkinson

  • Training for certainty.

    Paul Atkinson

  • Qualitative Research and Hypermedia: Ethnography for the Digital Age

    Bella Dicks;Bruce Lionel Mason;Amanda Jane Coffey;Paul Anthony Atkinson

  • The ethnographic imagination

    Paul Atkinson

  • Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social

    Paul Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Delamont
Sara Delamont Cardiff University
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy University of Newcastle Australia
Martyn Hammersley
Martyn Hammersley The Open University
Margaret Lock
Margaret Lock McGill University

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