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Citations
9023
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4121
National Ranking
693

Overview

Rachel Thomson is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and specializes in social sciences, with a primary focus on sociology and political science. Their research interests span subfields including gender studies, general health professions, developmental and educational psychology, and general social sciences.

The scientist's contributions encompass main topics such as qualitative research methods and ethics, youth education and societal dynamics, data analysis and archiving, gender, feminism, and media, identity, memory, and therapy, social science and policy research, and participatory visual research methods.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rachel Thomson include:

  • "Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis," 2020, The Sociological Review
  • "Starting with the archive: principles for prospective collaborative research," 2021, Qualitative Research
  • "A Sad Story? Time, Interpretation and Feeling in Biographical Methods," 2023, Child Care in Practice

They have also contributed to co-authored works alongside frequent collaborators including Gillian Ruch, Jette Kofoed, Jeanette Østergaard, Ester McGeeney, and Ashley Barnwell.

Rachel Thomson's publications appear regularly in several venues, reflecting the breadth of their work. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Psychosocial Studies
  • International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • The Sociological Review
  • University of Sussex
  • Child Care in Practice

Book publications add to the scope of their scholarship, with titles published through University of Sussex eBooks and Bristol University Press eBooks. Notable books include "Digital intimacies and LGBT+ youth: celebration, equity and safety" (2021) and "Narrative Research Now" (2023).

Best Publications

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

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

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

    Rachel Thomson;Robert Bell;Janet Holland;Sheila Henderson

  • 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

  • Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches

    Julie McLeod;Rachel Thomson

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

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Scott;Sue Sharpe

  • The Qualitative Longitudinal Case History: Practical, Methodological and Ethical Reflections

    Rachel Thomson

  • Power and Desire: The Embodiment of Female Sexuality

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazanoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • Making modern mothers

    Rachel Thomson;Mary Jane Kehily;Lucy Hadfield;Sue Sharpe

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

    J Holland;C Ramazanoglu;S Scott;S Sharpe

  • 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

  • Youth in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice

    Jeremy Roche;Stanley Tucke;Rachel Thomson;Ronny Flynn

  • Unfolding lives: Youth, gender and change

    Rachel Thomson

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

    Janet Holland;Caroline Ramazonoglu;Sue Sharpe;Rachel Thomson

  • New frontiers in qualitative longitudinal research: an agenda for research

    Rachel Thomson;Julie McLeod

  • Between cosmopolitanism and the locals: mobility as a resource in the transition to adulthood

    Rachel Thomson;Rebecca F. Taylor

  • 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

  • Learning about sex: young women and the social construction of sexual identity

    Rachel Thomson;Sue Scott

  • Researching Social Change

    Julie McLeod;Rachel Thomson

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

    R Thomson;R Bell;S Henderson;S Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Holland
Janet Holland London South Bank University
Sue Scott
Sue Scott University of Missouri

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