Response to Whitaker and Atkinson

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Jason Hughes

Jason Hughes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK, and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His key publications relate to sociological theory, methods and practice, with substantive work relating to smoking, e-cigarettes and addiction, work and organisations and youth. As PI, he is currently researching adolescent ‘vaping careers’ in a study funded by Cancer Research UK, and community engagement in health research in a study funded by UKRI.

Kahryn Hughes

Kahryn Hughes is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leeds, and Director of the Timescapes Archive. Her research over the past fifteen years has primarily aimed at methods innovation and development. Her research interests include: qualitative secondary analysis, addiction, poverty, and time. She is also co-author with Dr Anna Tarrant, of an edited collection called Qualitative Secondary Analysis (2020) published with Sage.

Grace Sykes

Grace Sykes is Programme Director and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. She is enthusiastic about most things, but her research and teaching interests focus broadly on the lives of young people and university students, with particular emphasis on education and health related transitions and risk/risky behaviour. She has a genuine passion for participatory qualitative research and developing visual/creative methods with young people. Most recently she has been involved in research for Cancer Research UK and Wellcome Trust. Grace is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Katy Wright

Katy Wright is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Her research interests have focused particularly on communities and the dynamics of local participation, mostly recently involving researching community resilience in the face of crisis and change, about which she is writing a book for Routledge. She has a strong interest in methodological issues, particularly qualitative approaches and is Deputy Co-Director of the new Centre for Transdisciplinary Methods at the University of Leeds, reflecting her interest in finding ways of working across disciplines to address complex social problems.