Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
University of Lincoln
Professor, Sociology
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Adam Evans
John McCormack
Gareth McNarry
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My Publications
Endurance of mind and body in high-altitude mountaineering - Allen-Collinson, Crust, & ...
Sociology
December 2017
The 2015 Nepal earthquake and avalanche on Mount Everest generated one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters in modern times, bringing to media attention the physical-cultural world of high-alt...
'Weather work': learning how to engage with weather in a Welsh outdoor exercise programme
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
July 2017
Over the past 25 years, UK government policy has sought to promote and increase exercise and physical activity levels in the population. In recent years, too, there has been growing sociological in...
Weather and the senses in high altitude mountaineering - a sociological study
Body & Society
November 2018
In this article we explore the ‘weathering’ body in the physical culture of high-altitude mountaineering, such as the Himalayas. Here we examine in-depth the lived experience of weather, and more s...
The experience of heat in sport and physical cultures
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
December 2016
Drawing on sociological and anthropological theorizations of the senses and “sensory work”, the purpose of this article is to investigate the under-researched sense of thermoception, or the sense o...
Experiences of weather in running and triathlon
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
March 2018
Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreatio...
Reflexivity in sociological phenomenology - research on competitive swimmers
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
August 2018
In this article, we consider the challenges of engaging in reflexivity and (sociological) bracketing when undertaking ethnographic ‘insider’ research, or research in familiar settings. We ground o...
'I just want to be left alone': novel sociological insights into demands on professiona...
Sociology of Sport Journal
January 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0135 Drawing on findings from a British Academy-funded project examining high-profile sports workers and employing Goffman’s dramaturgical insights, this arti...
The lived sense of temperature in competitive swimming
The Sociological Review
March 2020
In this article, we address a gap in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for wh...
Exploring 'positive pain' in competitive swimming
Sociology of Sport Journal
January 2020
Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a socio-cultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, ...
To be or not to be phenomenology?: that is the question
European Journal for Sport and Society
October 2019
In this editorial for the European Journal for Sport & Society, we look at the distinctive elements of empirical / sociological phenomenology, and highlight how this tradition has often been errone...
Endurance work in competitive swimming and distance running - sociological perspectives
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
June 2020
Despite a growing number of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, in-depth investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-develo...
Learning in and through sport - beyond the life-skills approach
Sport Education and Society
January 2020
Competitive swimming in the UK - exploring the practices of 'doing' swimming
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
January 2020
Identity, learning and leaving pre-elite sport - a youth athlete
The Sport Psychologist
January 2020
Community Health Trainers in the UK - identity, identity work and boundary work
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
July 2019
Attracting and retaining boys in ballet and dance
Journal of Dance Education
March 2019
Mental toughness in high altitude mountaineers
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
July 2018
Identity and retired military veterans: identity struggles in the transition to civilia...
Sociological Research Online
July 2018
Reflexivity in qualitative research
January 2018
Physical activity across the life course
January 2018
Dance teachers' perceptions of boys and girls in their dance classes
Research in Dance Education
October 2017
Retired servicemen and experiences of their ageing bodies
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
September 2017
Studying the moving body in interaction with other moving bodies
July 2017
Running together in distance running - chapter in edited collection
July 2017
Exercise referral schemes - exercise as medicine?
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
July 2017
Stuck in limbo: 'teaching-only' staff in UK universities
Human Relations
June 2017
Running a temperature: distance running, heat and ‘temperature work’
February 2017
Mental toughness and decision-making in elite, high-altitude mountaineers
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
December 2016
Mental toughness and surviving the 2015 Mount Everest disaster
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
November 2016
French sports students' use of alcohol: gender and drinking
Sex Roles
July 2016
Asthma identities, sport and the body
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
July 2016
The Occupational Role of the Lay Health Trainer in England: A Review of Practice
Universal Journal of Public Health
July 2016
Using arts-based research to explore dance and challenge the audit culture
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
June 2016
Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal ‘instincts’: Swimming and motherhood
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
March 2016
Understanding people's experience of asthma in sport and exercise
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
February 2016
Women amateur golfers in England and sexism
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
February 2016
Response
CHEST Journal
January 2016
Digging in
October 2015
Using patient narratives to enhance care for those with asthma
CHEST Journal
July 2015
“It Gives Me My Freedom”: Technology and Responding to Bodily Limitations in Motor Neur...
Medical Anthropology
June 2015
Career aspirations of further education students
Sport Education and Society
January 2015
Mothers' swimming with their pre-school children - changing body perceptions
Leisure Studies
September 2014
Women's distance running and boxing - sensing heat
Body & Society
July 2014
The sense of touch in experiences of Motor Neurone Disease
Sociology of Health & Illness
July 2014
The role of the senses in outdoor exercise
Leisure Studies
June 2014
Perceptions of mental toughness in regular exercisers & exercise leaders
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
March 2014
‘What it takes’: perceptions of mental toughness and its development in an English Prem...
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
February 2014
Seeing space and place: the distance runner's view
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
October 2013
Using Friendship as method / methodology in ethnographic research
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
July 2013
The Lived Experience of Diagnosis Delivery in Motor Neurone Disease: A Sociological-Phe...
Sociological Research Online
May 2013
The role of the senses in experiences of asthma and sport
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
November 2012
I'm a Reddie and a Christian! Identity negotiations amongst first-year university students
Studies in Higher Education
June 2012
Phenomenological Approaches to Sport
March 2012
Autoethnography and personal narratives in sport and physical cultures
January 2012
The woman in the distance-running body - feminist phenomenology
Sport Ethics and Philosophy
August 2011
A new way to research the sporting body: autophenomenography and the use of bracketing
Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health
March 2011
Domestic violence and intimate partner abuse of a male victim
Symbolic Interaction
February 2011
Senses of touch in distance running and scuba diving
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
August 2010
Negative ‘marking’? University research administrators and the contestation of moral ex...
Studies in Higher Education
December 2009
The sporting body, sports studies, sport sociology and phenomenology
Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise
November 2009
The senses and the body at work
The Sociological Review
May 2009
A Marked Man: Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Abuse
International Journal of Men s Health
April 2009
University research administrators and their occupational knowledge and practices
Higher Education Quarterly
April 2009
Dialogue, monologue, and boundary crossing within research encounters: A performative n...
International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
January 2009
The Essence of Sporting Embodiment
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Annual Review
January 2009
An ethnographic study of high altitude climbers making sense of dissonant experiences
The Sport Psychologist
September 2008
Book Reviews
Sport in Society
August 2008
Running the Routes Together: Distance running and runners' knowledge
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
February 2008
Autoethnography as ‘Valid’ Methodology? A Study of Disrupted Identity Narratives
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Annual Review
January 2008
‘Working Out’ Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
Leisure Studies
October 2007
‘Get yourself some nice, neat, matching box files!’ Research administrators and occupat...
Studies in Higher Education
June 2007
Understanding how it feels to be a sporting body
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
June 2007
Just ‘non-academics’?
Work Employment and Society
June 2006
Seeing the way: visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective
Visual Studies
April 2006
Student experiences of undertaking practice-based PhDs in art and design
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
November 2005
Emotions, Interaction and the Injured Sporting Body
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
June 2005
Identity Change: Doctoral students in art and design
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
February 2005
Social science contract researchers in UK higher education - identity under challenge
Sociology
April 2004
Running into Injury time: Distance running, sports injury and time
Sociology of Sport Journal
December 2003
Working at a Marginal ‘Career’: The Case of UK Social Science Contract Researchers
The Sociological Review
August 2003
The Supervision of Practice‐based Research Degrees in Art and Design
Journal of Art & Design Education
October 2000
Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education: Perceptions of Craft Knowledge
Work Employment and Society
March 2000
Social Science Contract Researchers in Higher Education: Perceptions of Craft Knowledge
Work Employment and Society
March 2000
Capturing Contracts: informal activity among contract researchers
British Journal of Sociology of Education
December 1998
The Social Science Training‐model Doctorate: student choice?
Journal of Further and Higher Education
October 1997
Bodies injured or in pain
Bodies in sport
