Masculinities lecture
I wrote a lecture which I delivered a couple of weeks ago, so I’ve uploaded the PDF version. Masculinities – Russell Delderfield (Masculinities References). Not all picture credits are complete (sloppy…
Posts Tagged: men
Drafting a thesis
At least everything exists in a rough draft form by now but just when the end looks ever closer re-reading a chapter immediately prior to sending it to my supervisors…
Too close for comfort? The emotional labour of researching eating disorders.
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.” ― Fernando Pessoa I feel wrung out. As the end of writing my thesis draws ever nearer I feel a little as if…
Free Eating Disorders Awareness Event at University of Huddersfield
Tomorrow I’m speaking at a conference which is designed to raise awareness by bringing practitioners, specialists, activists and parents and carers together to share information and latest thinking and advice…
What a difference 6 years make…
It has finally happened(?) When I began studying my PhD in 2008 there was barely a news story to be found that truly did any justice to male EDs. It…
Feminist Relational Model and Male EDs
Today I’ve been re-reading something that I’m including in the chapter I’m currently drafting. This tends to happen, despite having completed secondary analysis some time ago, when I need to…
Working between interpretive immersion and chapter drafting – not for the faint-hearted?
Apologies for the decidedly chaotic presentation in this post but here’s the latest outpouring of everything I’ve assembled during my work on the stories you’ve sent in. The sheer number…
Chewing the Fat in Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
I’ve been avidly writing something for publication so I’ve not been updating extracts from my research journal for a while. Today I wanted to share what promises to be an…
Is this a tipping point?
For those of you who are not familiar, Gladwell (2000) wrote of the tipping point that exists where something that was overlooked, not succeeding or had previously been thought unlikely…
Returning your stories
I’m pleased to say that by Christmas I’ll be able to send my raw interpretations back to you guys who contributed your story for you to see what you think…
How ‘The Story of…’ has been arrived at.
For each man I’ve worked with his whole story at anyone time, resisting more traditional social science approaches to break the ext apart into smaller units of analysis. However, what…
Thesis Skeleton Structure
I’ve recently been thinking about how my written up thesis will be organised, thinking it would be complicated and rather hard to mesh all of the interwoven interpretations together, especially…