RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 1976-77:  Ph.D. Research. Cultural and political expressions of Welsh nationalism. Participant observation, semi-structured and unstructured interviewing, and documentary research. Funded by the American Social Science Research Council and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Output: Sole-authored book; three chapters in edited collections; two conference papers.
• 1977-78:  Research Assistant to Dr. Carol A. Smith, Department of Anthropology, Duke University.  Data preparation for analysis by SPSS of a study of production and marketing systems in Western Guatemala.
• 1984-85 Research Assistant (part time, in south Wales) to Dr. Glyn Williams, University College of North Wales. Structured interviews with adults and children, both Welsh  and non Welsh speakers, for a study of viewer attitudes to S4C (the then newly established Welsh-language television service).
• 1985-88: Research Consultant for the Dean, faculty and post-graduate students, College of Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, USA. Design of research instruments, data handling, programming (SAS, SPSS) and statistical analysis.
• 1989- 92: Senior Research Assistant to Dr. Richard Jenkins, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swansea University. ‘The Transition to Adulthood of People with Mental Handicaps’.  Primarily semi-structured interviewing with some participant observation. Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust for the amount of  £61,684.
• 1993: Series of interviews with women activists (former and current) in Plaid Cymru to obtain additional data on women and the nationalist movement in Wales for an invited paper in an edited volume.
• 1994: Interviews with women volunteers and paid workers in Welsh Women's Aid refuges in two predominantly Welsh-speaking communities as a basis for a conference presentation on feminism and nationalism as well as a subsequent journal article. Funded by University of Wales Swansea staff research fund for the amount of £200.
• 1996: Research on the Welsh National Eisteddfod and its representations in the media.
• 1998: Research on ‘Women in Senior Management in Wales’. A collaborative and inter-disciplinary research project looking at women’s under-representation in senior positions. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Funded jointly by the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Institute for Welsh Affairs and the Welsh Development Agency for the amount of £15,157.
• 2000: Research on theoretical understandings of community.
• 2001-04: Research on ‘Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships’. A re-study using a classic study of family and social change in Swansea in the 1960s as a baseline. Survey of 1000 households and ethnographic studies of 3 neighbourhoods. Funded by the ESRC in the amount of £250,000. Analysis and writing is on-going.
• 2003-04: Research for the Welsh Language Board. An evaluation of their programme of Language Action Plans. Semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. Funded in the amount of £15,000.
• 2004-05: Research on ‘Mass Education, National Identity and Citizenship: Policy Development and Transmission’. Funded by the ESRC in the amount of £40,000. Semi-structured interviews and documentary research. Analysis and writing  is on-going.
• 2005-08: Research on ‘Gender and Political Processes in the Context of Devolution’ with Prof Nickie Charles (University of Warwick) and Dr Emma James (Swansea). Documentary analysis, survey, semi-structured interviews, observation. Funded by the ESRC in the amount of £260,000.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sole-authored Books:

• 1989 Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State, Praeger.
• 1999 Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others, Routledge.
  2008 2nd ed., Routledge.

Co-Edited Book:

• 2003 Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives (co-edited with S Jones), University of Wales Press.

Journals Articles, Chapters in Books:

• 1978 ‘Ethnic nationalism and political mobilization in industrial societies’ (with R Fox and L Cimino) in Interethnic Communication, L Ross (ed), University of Georgia Press, pp 114 33.
• 1978 Ethnic Nationalism in Wales: An Analysis of the Factors Governing the Politization of Ethnic Identity (PhD Dissertation, Duke University), Dissertation Abstracts International, 39(9), 5591A.
• 1981 ‘Ethnic nationalism and the welfare state’ (with R Fox and L Cimino) in Ethnic Change, C. Keyes (ed), University of Washington Press, pp 198 245.
• 1983 ‘Welsh nationalism and the British state’ in Crisis of Economy and Ideology: Essays on Welsh Society 1840 1980, G. Williams (ed), SSRC/BSA Sociology of Wales Study Group.
• 1990 ‘Language and national identity’ in One Step Forward? South and West Wales Towards the Year 2000, R Jenkins and A Edwards (eds), Gomer, pp 35 46.
• 1994 ‘Women, nationalism and feminism’ in Our Sisters’ Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales, J Aaron, T Rees, S Betts and M Vincentelli (eds), University of Wales Press, pp 242-55.
• 1996 ‘Nationalism – discourse and practice’ in Practising Feminism: Identity, Difference, Power, N Charles and F Hughes-Freeland (eds), Routledge, pp 156-79.
• 1997 “‘She has different fits to me”: how people with learning difficulties see themselves’ (with R Jenkins), Disability and Society 12(2): 95-109 [equal contributor, 50%].
• 1997 ‘Contested communities: the refuge movement and cultural identities in Wales’ (with N Charles), The Sociological Review 45(3): 416-36 [equal contributor, 50%].
• 1998 “‘A oes heddwch?” Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod’ in Ritual, Performance, Media, F Hughes-Freeland (ed.), Routledge, pp 141-59.
• 1998 ‘Caring communities or effective networks? Community care and people with learning disabilities in South Wales’ in The Anthropology of Welfare, I R Edgar and A Russell (eds), Routledge.
• 1998 ‘Constructing other selves: (In)competences and the category of learning difficulties’ in Questions of Competence: Comparative Perspectives, R Jenkins (ed.), Cambridge University Press.
• 1999 ‘Nationalism, feminism and Welsh women’ in Nation, Identity and Social Theory: Perspectives from Wales, R Fevre and A Thompson (eds), University of Wales Press.
• 2000  ‘Cultural stereotypes and the gendering of senior management’ (with N Charles), The Sociological Review 48(4): 544-67.
• 2000 ‘It’s still there! Maintaining the glass ceiling in Wales’ (with N Charles, D Blackaby, P Murphy, N O’Leary, P Ransome), Contemporary Wales, 13: 116-37 [equal contributor, 50%].
• 2002 ‘The dictionary, the reader and the handbook: approaches to qualitative research’ (review essay), Qualitative Research 2(3): 417-21.
• 2002   ‘The piano in the parlour: methodological issues in the conduct of a restudy’ (with N Charles), Sociological Research Online 7(2)
• 2003 ‘Conceptualizing community’ in Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives,  C A Davies and S Jones (eds), University of Wales Press.
• 2003 ‘Conclusions: reflecting on Welsh communities’ (with S Jones) in Welsh Communities: New Ethnographic Perspectives, C A Davies and S Jones (eds), University of Wales Press.
• 2004 ‘Researcher positioning and the “problem of Wales”’, Contemporary Wales, vol 17.
• 2005  ‘Welsh identity and language in Swansea, 1960-2002’ (with N Charles, C Harris), Contemporary Wales, vol. 18.
• 2005  ‘Studying the particular, illuminating the general: community studies and community in Wales’ (with N Charles), The Sociological Review, in press.
• 2006  ‘Social change and the family’(with C Harris and N Charles), Sociological Research Online 11(2).
• 2007 ‘Food and the social identities of people with learning disabilities’, Disability Studies Quarterly 27(3).

Research Reports:

• 1993 Joseph Rowntree Foundation Findings: Young People with Learning Difficulties Making the Transition to Adulthood (with R Jenkins), Social Care Research Findings No. 35, June 1993.
• 1999 Women in Senior Management in Wales (with D Blackaby, N Charles, P Murphy, N O’Leary, P Ransome), Equal Opportunities Commission.
• 2004  Cynlluniau Gweithredu Iaith: Gwerthusiad i Fwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg [Language Action Plans: An Evaluation for the Welsh Language Board] (with H Gruffudd and S Morris), Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg The Welsh Language Board.
• 2004 ESRC End of Award Report, Social Change, Family Formation and Kin Relationships (with N Charles and C Harris).
• 2005 ESRC End of Award Report, Mass Education, National Identity and Citizenship (with N Exell).