Papers Using the ARTS as a lens to interpret Mary and Ken Gergen during
Methodological Problems of Biographical Research
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My increasing work in video format can now be viewed at VIMEO
Background on the research and making of the short film Rufus Stone
can also be found on its own blog site.
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This long-awaited resource is published with an opening Chapter by Kip Jones.
The Chapter, “Short Film as Performative Social Science: The Story Behind "’Princess Margaret’"
outlines his fascinating and innovative approach to research and its dissemination
via a fusion of the arts and social sciences.
Special Issue of FQS on
Performative Social Science
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exploring arts and humanities-based methods for use in
the production and dissemination of social science data.
The list has now reaches almost 300 members worldwide and continues to grow.
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Leader, Performative Social Science Group
Centre for Qualitative Research
School of Health & Social Care andThe Media School
Bournemouth University
Bournemouth U.K.
"The goal of my life is to unify serious scholarship and popular culture, even if I break my neck in doing so"
–Kip Jones, paraphrasing composer, Alfred Schnittke
"A Biographic Researcher in Pursuit of an Aesthetic:
The use of arts-based (re)presentations in 'performative' dissemination of life stories"
in a special issue on Biographical Sociology
in the
Qualitative Sociology Review
The Continuing Development of a Performative Social Science
at Bournemouth's Centre for Qualitative Research
Kip Jones explores a bit of the background of performative social science
and outlines the progress so far in establishing a hub at Bournemouth
for the 'performative' in production and diffusion of qualitative data.
Past and future activities at Bournemouth are highlighted.
Other Works by Kip Jones
Systematic Reviews of Qualitative Evidence
in Ethnicity, Health & Diversity
Examining 'race' in health research: the case for 'listening' to language
Published in Diversity in Health and Social Care,
Volume 3, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 35-41(7)
The Qualitative Report, V. 9, No. 1, pp. 94-111
Qualitative Review Methods paper:
Mission Drift in Qualitative Research, Or
Moving toward a systematic review of qualitative studies,
moving back to a more systematic narrative review
CEEHD Systematic Review papers by KIP JONES:
Diversities in Approach to End-of-Life:
A view from Britain of the qualitative literature
The final version of this paper was published in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of Research in Nursing
and is available on the journal's Sage website
Annotated Bibliography:
Qualitative review of end-of-life and ethnicity/race/diversity
Websites of interest
to end-of-life researchers and policy-makersGeborgenheit in a Paradise Garden: The architecture of the Bromley-by-Bow Centre
A LITERATURE REVIEW AND CASE STUDY
produced for NHS Estates
Social Science data:
The Spiritual Dimension:
a gerotranscendental take on Akira Kurosawa's film, "Ran"
paper presented at
International Association of Gerontology
34th EBSSRS symposium on Ageing and Diversity
Bergen, Norway 31 August 2002
PDF version of paper available hereThe Spiritual Dimension . . .
Also now available onLars Tornstam's Theory of Gerotranscendence website.
"The Birth of Constructionism! or
On a Train from Morgantown,
West Virginia, 1976,
with Klaus Riegel & Kenneth Gergen"
An audio fantasy in one act
By Kip Jones
Presented at the Free University of Berlin
February 2002
REVISED version of the script is
the author's visit to their home in July 2003.
International Sociological Association
Kassel Germany
24-26 May 2001"Beyond the Text: An Artaudian take on the non-verbal clues
revealed within the biographical interpretive process"
by Kip Jones
Volume 1, No. 3 - December 2000
Big Science or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even"
Review Essay:
Wendy Hollway & Tony Jefferson (2000)
Doing Qualitative Research Differently
Free Association, Narrative and the Interview MethodCommunity of Science ProfileSocial Psychology Network Professional Profile 
My most recent CV is available by
emailing me
Centre for Narrative Research
Narrative Psychology Internet and Resource Guide
The Virtual Faculty The Discursive Turn in Psychology
Lots of links to papers, etc.
Ken Gergen's webpage
many of his papers on-line here under Recent Manuscripts
Qualitative Research Web Ring
