Guest Editing of Refereed Journals

Goodwin, J., and Hughes, J. (2016) Special Issue of Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung – Elias: The Established and The Outsiders.

Goodwin, J., and O’Connor., H. (2016) Special Issue of Women’s History Review – Pearl Jephcott.

Co-Editor (with  Miklós Haddas, Réka Plugor and Jason Hughes) 2014  –  Special Edition of Erdélyi Társadalom (http://www.erdelyitarsadalom.ro/)

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2012) The Impacts of Demographic Change: Young Workers, Older Workers and the Consequences for Education, Skills and Employment, Education and Training, 53(5).

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2009) Continuity and Change in 40 Years of School to Work Transitions, Journal of Education and Work, 22(5), November (2009).

Book Chapters

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2017) Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata in Youth Employment Restudies 1960-1985, in Edwards, R., Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H. and Phoenix, A. (2016) Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (50%)

Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H., Phoenix, A and Edwards, R. (2017) Working With Paradata, Marginalia And Fieldnotes, in Edwards, R., Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H. and Phoenix, A. (2016) Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


Edwards, R. Phoenix, A., O’Connor, H., Goodwin, J. (2017) AFTERWORD: THE CRAFT OF PARADATA, MARGINALIA AND FIELDNOTES, in Edwards, R., Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H. and Phoenix, A. (2016) Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2015) A Restudy of Young Workers from the 1960s: Researching Intersections of Work and Lifecourse in One Locality over 50 years, Chapter 3 in Worth, N., and Hardhill, I. (eds) (2015) Researching the lifecourse: Critical reflections from the social sciences. London: Policy Press pp. 63-80.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2015) A Critical Reassessment Of The ‘Complexity’ Orthodoxy: Lessons From Existing Data And Youth ‘Legacy’ Studies, Chapter two in Kelly, P. and Kamp, A. (2014) Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill, Chapter 2, pp 38-52.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2014) Exploring Complex Transitions, in Furlong, A. and Woodman, D. (2014) (eds) Youth and Young Adulthood. London: Routledge. Chapter 61 Volume III.

Goodwin, J. and Hughes, J. (2014) Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias, and the Leicester Department, Chapter 68 in Documentary and Archival Research, Volume 4, Sage Library of Research Methods. London: Sage Publications, pp. 181-199.

Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (2014) Human Documents as Figurations: Towards a Relational Approach to Documentary Research, Documentary and Archival Research, Volume 1, Sage Library of Research Methods. London: Sage Publications, pp. xxv-xlvii

Goodwin, J. and Hughes, J. (2014) Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias, and the Leicester Department, in Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (eds)  Documentary and Archival Research, Volume 4, Sage Library of Research Methods. London: Sage Publications.

Goodwin, J. (2012) Secondary Sources and Secondary Analysis: The Need For Secondary Analysis, in Goodwin, J. (ed) Secondary Analysis, Vol. I, London: Sage, pp. ix-xxxviii.

Goodwin, J. (2012) Biographical Research: Locating Social Science Research in the Intersection of History and Biography, in Goodwin, J. (ed) Biographical Research, Vol. I, London: Sage, pp. ix-xxxvi.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2012) Exploring Complex Transitions, in Goodwin, J. (ed) Secondary Analysis, Vol. III, London: Sage, pp. 45-63.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2012) Through the Interviewer’s Lens, in Goodwin, J. (ed) Secondary Analysis, Vol. III, London: Sage, pp.65-85.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2012) Utilizing Data from a Lost Sociological Project, in Goodwin, J. (ed)  Secondary Analysis, Vol. IV, London: Sage, pp.11-27.

Abusidalaghoul, V., Goodwin, J., James, N., Rainnie, A., Venter, K., and White, M (2009) Sitting on a Wall in Northumberland Crying: The Realities of Semi-Structured Interviews, in Townsend, K. and Burgess, J. (eds) Method in the Madness? Research Stories You Won’t Find in a Textbook. Oxford: Chandos, pp. 151-164.

Goodwin, J. (2007) The Transition to Work and Adulthood: Becoming Adults via Communities of Practice in Hughes, J, Jewson, N., and Unwin, L. (eds) Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge, pp. 96-108.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2005) Girls’ Perceptions of Adulthood in the 1960s. Chapter 4 in Pilcher, J., Pole, C., and Williams, J. (eds) Young People in Transition. Becoming Citizens?  London: Palgrave, pp. 52-73.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2003) The Young Worker Project Renewed. In Dunning E., and Mennell, S. (eds) Norbert Elias, London: Sage, pp. 39-43.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2001) ‘Learning the Ropes’: Young Workers’
Reflections on Workplace Learning in the 1960s. In Streumer, J. N (ed) Perspectives on Learning at the Workplace, Enschede: University of Twente, pp. 65-70.

Research Monographs/Commissioned Reports

Goodwin, J. (2009) My Dear Norbert:  Ilya Neustadt’s Correspondence with Norbert Elias in Ghana 1962-1964, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H. and Quinn, M. (2009) Youth Employment in Vietnam: A Survey of Employers, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce/International Labour Organization, Hanoi and Geneva, pp. 1-39.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) From Young Workers To Older Workers: Reflections On Work In The Lifecourse, ESRC: Swindon.

Goodwin, J. Sung, J. and Quinn, M. (2003) Baseline Labour Market Information for Leicestershire SSP (Pilot Feasibility Study for the Creation of SSP Data), Final Report for the East Midlands Development Agency, Nottingham: EMDA.

Felstead, A. and Jewson, N. with Goodwin, J. (1996) Homeworking in Britain, London: HMSO.

Ashton, D., and Goodwin, J. (1996) Competence and the Professions: Reconciling the Irreconcilable?, in Felstead, A., Black. M., and Ashton. D. (eds) The Assessment of Competence in Management and the Professions, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, pp. 1-11.

Felstead, A, Jewson, N. and Goodwin, J. (1995) Homeworkers in Britain, Department for Employment, London: Caxton House.

Felstead, A., Goodwin, J. and Green, F. (1995). Measuring up to the National Training Targets: Women’s Attainment of Vocational Qualifications, Leicester: University of Leicester, Centre for Labour Market Studies.

Goodwin, J. and Sung, J.  (1994) Researching the Lives and Careers of Doctors: A Study of Medical Training in Britain, in Felstead, A., Black. M., and Ashton. D. (eds) Training and Development: Bringing Together Theory and Practice, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, pp. 206-235.

Felstead, A. and Goodwin, J. (1994) Training for Adults: An Analysis of Training for Work Data in Leicestershire,, Leicestershire: Leicestershire Training and Enterprise Council.

Felstead, A., Jewson, N. and Goodwin, J. (1994) Homeworking in Britain: An Analysis of Large Scale Datasets, Department of Employment. London: Caxton House.

Fuller, A., Goodwin, J., Maguire, M. and Pugh, V. (1994) Assessing for Competence: Assessment of Participant Performance on ATC Student Controller Training Courses, London: Civil Aviation Authority.

Felstead, A., Goodwin, J. and Francis Green (1994) Women’s Achievement of Vocational Qualifications, National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets, December, Centre for Labour Market Studies, Leicester

Felstead, A, Maguire, S. and Goodwin, J. (1993) Evaluating the Funding for Training: A Training Cost Exercise. Leicestershire: Leicestershire Training and Enterprise Council.

Maguire. M, Maguire. S and Goodwin, J. (1992) Literature Review of Research on WRFE Evaluation, Department for Employment, London: Caxton House.

Other Publications

Goodwin, J. (2013) ‘Governments Leaving the Youth on the Shelf’: Why The Specials have Direct Relevance Today, Making The Precariat (ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Phase I) Research Dissemination Blog, http://ukyouthresearch.wordpress.com, May 22nd 2013.

Goodwin, J. (2013) Who are the Missing Middle and Ordinary Youth Now? Making The Precariat (ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Phase I) Research Dissemination Blog, http://ukyouthresearch.wordpress.com, April 18th 2103.

Goodwin, J. (2013) The 1980s Return to Public Consciousness, Making The Precariat (ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Phase I) Research Dissemination Blog, http://ukyouthresearch.wordpress.com, April 10th 2103.

Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (2013) Human Documents as Figurations: Towards a Relational Approach to Documentary Research, University of Leicester: Leicester Elias Research Network Occasional Paper, No. 1.

Goodwin, J. (2009) African Interludes – Elias and Neustadt in Ghana. Figurations, No. 30, p. 5.

Goodwin, J. (2006) Notes for Non-German Speakers Visiting the Elias Archive. Figurations, No. 25, pp. 2-3.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) Contextualising the Research Process: Using Interviewer Notes in the Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 9, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) From Young Workers to Older Workers Photograph Book.  Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) From Young Workers to Older Workers: Research Activities and Results. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 8, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) A Life Time of Learning? The Experiences of Learning During 40 years at Work. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 7, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2004) Boys’Gendered Transitions to Work in the 1960s. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 6, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2003) Exploring Complex Transitions: Looking Back at the ‘Golden Age’ of Youth Transitions. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 5, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2002) ‘They Had Horrible Wallpaper’: Representations of Respondents in Interviewer Notes. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 4, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2002) She Wants to be Like her Mum: Girl’s Perceptions of Adulthood in the 1960s. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 3, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2002) Forty years on: Norbert Elias and the Young Worker Project. ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 2, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2002) The Young Workers Project Renewed. Figurations, No. 17, pp. 2-3.

Goodwin J. and O’Connor, H. (2001) ‘I Couldn’t Wait for the Day’: Young
Workers’ Reflections on Education During the Transition to Work in the
1960s.ESRC Young Worker Project – Research Paper No. 1, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. (2001) The Influence of Family and School on Dublin Men’s Working Lives: Preliminary Findings, Working Paper No.30, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. (2000) Dad Was A Terrible Hard Worker: The Influence of Family and School on Dublin Men’s Working Lives – Preliminary Findings, Working Paper No.30, Centre for Labour Market Studies , University of Leicester.

O’Connor, H and Goodwin, J. (2000) Locating Irish Workers in the British Labour Force Survey, Working Paper No.25, Centre for Labour Market Studies,, University of Leicester.
Goodwin, J. (1999) Men, Gender and Work in Dublin: Initial Findings on Work and Class, Working Paper No.24, Centre for Labour Market Studies , University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. (1997) The Republic of Ireland and The Singaporean Model of Skill Formation and Economic Development, Working Paper No.14, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester.

Goodwin, J. (1997) Men and Private Work: An Analysis of Men’s Household Participation in the National Child Development Study, Department of Sociology Discussion Paper No.S97/4, University Of Leicester,

Goodwin, J.D. (1996) ‘Economy and Human Resources in The Republic of Ireland’ in Continual Professional Development: Learning Frontiers, Vol.1 , No. 3, pp. 5-8.

Goodwin, J. (1995) Men and Non-Standard Work in NCDS5, SSRU Cohort Studies, May, Vol. 3, p. 6.

Goodwin, J. (1995) Male Work, Perceptions and Health: Notes and Issues, American Men’s Studies, Vol.4, No.1, p. 2.

Goodwin, J. (1993) Gender Studies and the Critique Of Men, Department of Sociology Discussion Paper S96/6, University Of Leicester.

Conference and Seminar Papers

Goodwin, J and O’Connor, H. (2016) Pearl Jephcott’s Unpublished Notebooks as Auto/Biographical Method. 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, ISA/RC33, September 12th 2016.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2016) Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata in Youth Employment Restudies, 1960-1985. Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes, 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, ISA/RC33, September 13th 2016.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2016) Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata in Youth Employment Restudies, 1960-1985. Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes, National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Festival of Research Methods, University of Bath, 7/7/2016.

Goodwin, J. (2016) Sociological Reflections on the Photographs of David Francis: Exhibition Installation. University of Leicester, The Leicester Weekend, Queens Hall June 17th – 18th 2016.

Goodwin, J. (2015) Searching for Pearls: Reflections on Researching the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott, Wednesday 11 November 2015. University of Glasgow/The Bridge, Easterhouse, Glasgow. Also exhibition contributor.

Goodwin, J. and Sparham, E. (2015) The Civilising of Children: Childhood in Elias’s Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles Project. Paper presented at Norbert Elias, Childhood and Education Seminar, Department of Education, Aarhus University, Tuborgvej 164, Copenhagen. August 13-14 2015.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2015) Pearl Jephcott: Biographical Starting Points. Pearl Jephcott Symposium: Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott, University of Leicester 9th July 2015.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2015) From Nottingham to Notting Hill: Explorations of Delinquency. Pearl Jephcott Symposium: Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott, University of Leicester 9th July 2015.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2015) Fieldnotes, marginalia and paradata in youth employment restudies, 1960-1985, Researching relationships across generations and through time University of Leeds, Great Woodhouse Suite, 9th June 2015.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2015) Making the ‘Precariat’: Unemployment, Insecurity and Work-Poor Young Adults in Harsh Economic Conditions (Profs Henrietta O’Connor and John Goodwin). LLAKES Research Conference 2015, The crisis for contemporary youth: opportunities and civic values in comparative, longitudinal and inter-generational perspective. 4th June 2015.

Hadfield, S., Goodwin, J., and O’Connor, H. (2015)  ‘The Lost Generation’: Political Discourse Around Youth Unemployment, Contemporary Youth, Contemporary Risks – Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1st April 2015.

Goodwin, J. and Hughes, J. (2015) Return to Winston Parva: A Reassessment of the Original Scotson Thesis. Seminar Paper at the Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam, January 9th 2015.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2014) Researching The Ordinary: The Extraordinary Sociological Research of Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980), History of Sociology RC, ISA 15, Yokohama, Japan. 15th July 2014.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2014) Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes in Restudies of Youth Unemployment, Insecurity and Work. University of Huddersfield, 9th July 2014.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2014) Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata in Youth Employment Restudies, 1960-1985. Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research, National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), University of Leicester, College Court, 14 January 2014.

Hughes, J. and Goodwin, J. (2013) Norbert Elias, Ilya Neustadt and the “Leicester School” of Sociology, The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences 45th Annual Meeting, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, June 20-23, 2013.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2013) The making of the ‘precariat’. National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) 8th May 2013.

Goodwin, J. and Hughes, J. (2013) Popular Culture, Youth Culture and the Civilising of Youth. Habitus, War and Civilisation Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Graz. Graz, Austria, 25–27 April 2013.

Goodwin, J., O’Connor, H., and Hadfield, S., (2013) The making of the ‘precariat’: unemployment, insecurity and work-poor young adults in harsh economic conditions, Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, 9th April 2013.

Goodwin, J. (2013) Fifty Years On: Sociological Adventures in Historic Studies of Youth Transition, University of Coventry, 8th February 2013.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2012) Norbert Elias at Leicester, College of Arts, Humanities and Law, December 11th 2012.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H.  (2012) Forty Years On: QLR Restudies and ‘Within Individual Variability’ Over the Life Course, EUCCONET & SLLS International Conference Paris, France, Venue: FIAP Jean Monnet 29th – 31st October 2012

Goodwin, J. (2012) From Young Workers to Older Workers: Restudying the Same Respondents in one Locality over 50 years. Geographies of the Life Course, Association of American Geographers Conference, New York, USA February 24-28, 2012.

Goodwin, J. (2012) From Young Workers to Older Workers: Eliasian Perspectives on the Transitions to Work and Adulthood, International Sociological Association, RC34 Transitions Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA 13-15 January 2012.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H.  (2008) The Young Workers and Their Families. Understanding Families and Relationships over time, CRFR National Conference, Edinburgh, 30th October 2008.

Goodwin, J. (2008) Ilya Neustadt and the Rise of Sociology at Leicester: Exploring a Legacy via Archival Data and Interviews, Department of Sociology April 30th 2008.

Goodwin J and O’Connor, H.  (2006) Norbert Elias and the Lost Young Worker Project. Norbert Elias in the 21st Century Conference: University of Leicester 10th  May 2006

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) From Young Workers To Older Workers: Using the Interviewer Notes.  Paper presented to the Annual research Conference, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, May 9 2005.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2005) Whatever Happened to the Young Workers?: Change and Transformations During Forty Years at Work. Seminar Paper presented to the Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby, April 6 2005.

Goodwin J and O’Connor, H.  (2005) Whatever Happened to the Young Workers?: Change and Transformations During Forty Years at Work. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2002, University of York, March 2005.

Goodwin J and O’Connor, H.  (2004) A Life Time of Learning?: The Experience of Learning During 40 years at Work, presented to the European Conference on Educational Research, University of Crete, 24th September 2004.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2003) The Role of Work in the Transition to Adulthood: Norbert Elias and the Young Worker Project, presented to the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, University of Madeira, Funchal, Madeira 5th September 2003.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2002) School to Work Transitions in the 1960s in the East Midlands: What’s Changed? Paper presented to the East Midland Learning and Skills Network, Learning and Skills Development Agency, South Derbyshire College, 28 April 2002.

Goodwin, J. (2003) Exploring Complex Transitions: Looking Back at the ‘Golden Age’ of Youth Transitions. Seminar paper presented at The Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester 10/4/2003.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2002) Forty Years On: Norbert Elias and the Young Worker Project, British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2002, University of Leicester, March 27th 2001.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H. (2002) Norbert Elias and the Young Worker Project. Seminar Paper presented to the Elias/Figurational Group, CLMS, University of Leicester, March 27 2002.

O’Connor, H. and Goodwin, J. (2002)‘She Wants to be Like Her Mum and He Wants to Drive a Train’ : Girls and Boys Perceptions of Adulthood in the 1960s, British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2002, University of Leicester, March 26th 2001.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2001) I like a job where you can dress up smart: Young People and the Meaning of Work in The 1960s, Work Employment and Society Conference, University of Nottingham, Wednesday, September 12th 2001.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2001) ‘I couldn’t wait for the day’: Young Workers’ Reflections on Education during the Transition to Work in the 1960s. European Educational Research Association, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, Thursday September 6th 2001.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2001) The DSIR Young Workers Project: Methodological Lessons from 35 years of Sociological Research, British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2001, University of Manchester, April 11th, 2001.

Goodwin, J. and O’Connor, H (2001) ‘Learning the Ropes’: Young Workers’ Reflections on Workplace Learning in the 1960s University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2nd Conference on HRD Research and Practice Across Europe, 2001.

Goodwin, J. (2000) Imaging Ballymun: Looking Beyond Tower Blocks, Drug Dealers and Violence, Leicester University Visual Sociology Group, Seminar paper, Friday 13 October 2000.

Goodwin, J. (2000) Dad Was A Terrible Hard Worker: Linking Family, School and Work in Irish Men’s Reflections On The Recent Past, British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2000, University of York 17th April 2000.

Goodwin, J. (1999) Considering Men, Gender and Work in the Republic of Ireland, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, The University of Glasgow, 8th April 1999.

Goodwin, J. (1997) Developing Competence in the Irish Labour Market: A Source of National Competitive Advantage ?, Competence Network Conference: Competence – A Source of Competitive Advantage’, Leicester University, September 10th 1997.

Goodwin, J. (1998) Understanding Men and Masculinity: Implications for Social Workers. Department of Social Studies, University of Coventry, 1998.

Conference and Workshop Organising

Lead Organiser ­– 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, ISA/RC33, University of Leicester September, 11-16, 2016.

Stream/Panel Joint Convenor – Auto/Biographical Methods, 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, ISA/RC33, September 2016.

Stream/Panel Joint Convenor – Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes, 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, ISA/RC33, September 2016.

Principal Organiser: Pearl Jephcott Symposium: Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott, University of Leicester 9th July 2015.

Stream/Panel co organiser – Applications of Process Sociology in European Societies at the Joint Conference of the HSA and the UBB Department of Hungarian Sociology and Social Work, Universitatitea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania, November 27-29, 2014.

Stream Convenor: Youth Unemployment/Underemployment and Precarity, RC34, ISA World Congress of Sociology 2014. Yokohama, Japan. Largest stream in RC with over 25 papers.

Co-organiser:  From the Past to the Present and Towards Possible Futures: The Collected Works of Norbert Elias, being held at College Court, University of Leicester, 20-22 June 2014.

Co-organiser: Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research, National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), University of Leicester, College Court, 14 January 2014.

Principal Organiser: European Symposium on Eliasian Perspectives on Childhood, being held at the University of Leicester, 26th-28th November 2013.

Co-organiser:  Young Workers to Older Workers: Reflections on Work in the Lifecourse (ESRC funded), April 13th 2005 and April 20th 2005, CLMS, University of Leicester.

Co-organiser: High Performance Work Practice Conference, Dublin Castle, Dublin October 1999.