Emeritus Prof Paul Atkinson

2026

• Atkinson, P. 2026. An ethnographic sojourner. In: Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. eds. Ethnography’s ghosts: spectres, archives, ancestors. Routledge. , pp.147-157. (10.4324/9781003541424-14)
• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. eds. 2026. Ethnography’s ghosts: spectres, archives, ancestors. Routledge. (10.4324/9781003541424)
• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2026. Introduction: ghosts, ancestors and ethnography. In: Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. eds. Ethnography’s ghosts: spectres, archives, ancestors. Routledge. , pp.1-9. (10.4324/9781003541424-1)
• Atkinson, P. 2026. Dangerous fun: The social lives of big wave surfers by Ugo Corte [Book Review]. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941261442175)
• Atkinson, P. , Rees, T. and Shone, D. 2026. Industrial training for the disadvantaged. In: Gleeson, D. ed. Youth Training and the Search for Work. Routledge Revivals Routledge. , pp.277-290. (10.4324/9781003737445-21)
• Atkinson, P. and Cataldi, S. 2026. The sociologist and the sirens: iconography and inspiration of a metaphor thirty years later. SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE 138 (3), pp.33-59. (10.3280/SR2025-138002)

2025

• Lewis, J. and Atkinson, P. 2025. Documents and documentation. In: Silverman, D. ed. Qualitative Research. Vol. 6, London: Sage. , pp.183-199.
• Lewis, J. and Atkinson, P. 2025. Anonymity and pseudonyms in ethnographic work. In: Ryen, A. ed. A Research Agenda for Ethics and Qualitative Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

2022

• Smith, R. J. , Atkinson, P. and Evans, R. 2022. Situating stigma: Accounting for deviancy, difference, and categorial relations. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 28 (5), pp.890-896. (10.1111/jep.13749)
• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2022. Reflexive ethnography. In: Poferl, A. and Schröer, N. eds. Handbuch Soziologische Ethnographie. Springer VS. , pp.265–279. (10.1007/978-3-658-26405-5_15)

2021

• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2021. Interactionist research: Extending methods, extending fields. In: Lehn, D. v. , Ruiz-Junco, N. and Gibson, W. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. , pp.425-434. (10.4324/9780429276767-43)
• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. 2021. Ethnographic engagements: encounters with the familiar and the strange. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429056840)
• Kerpen, S. and Marston, K. 2021. Heteronormativity. In: Delamont, S. et al. SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE

2019

• Whitaker, E. M. and Atkinson, P. 2019. Authenticity and the interview: a positive response to a radical critique. Qualitative Research 19 (6), pp.619-634. (10.1177/1468794118816885)
• Atkinson, P. and Sampson, C. 2019. Narrative stability in interview accounts. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 22 (1), pp.55-66. (10.1080/13645579.2018.1492365)
• Delamont, S. et al. 2019. Lo spirito esplorativo libero La scuola di Etnografia di Cardiff 1974 - 2017, Traduzione di Giuseppina Cersosimo, Chiuso in stampa nel mese di marzo 2019, Presso Creative 3.0 srl - Reggio Calabria. Documentation.

2017

• Atkinson, P. 2017. Thinking ethnographically. London: SAGE.

2016

• Lewis, J. , Bartlett, A. and Atkinson, P. 2016. Hidden in the middle: culture, value and reward in bioinformatics. Minerva 54 , pp.471-490. (10.1007/s11024-016-9304-y)
• Atkinson, P. and Ryen, A. 2016. Indigenous research and romantic nationalism. Societies 6 (4) 34. (10.3390/soc6040034)

2015

• Smith, R. and Atkinson, P. 2015. Method and measurement in sociology, fifty years on. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19 (1), pp.99-110. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1068010)

2014

• Atkinson, P. 2014. For ethnography. London: SAGE.
• Lewis, J. , Hughes, J. and Atkinson, P. 2014. Relocation, realignment and standardisation: circuits of translation in Huntington’s disease. Social Theory and Health 12 , pp.396-415. (10.1057/sth.2014.13)

2013

• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Blowing hot: The ethnography of craft and the craft of ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 19 (5), pp.397-404. (10.1177/1077800413479567)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Ethnographic writing, the Avant-Garde and a failure of nerve. International Review of Qualitative Research 6 (1), pp.19-35. (10.1525/irqr.2013.6.1.19)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Ethnography and craft knowledge. Qualitative Sociology Review IX (2), pp.56-63.
• Atkinson, P. A. 2013. The mastersingers: language and practice in an operatic masterclass. Ethnography and Education 8 (3), pp.355-370. (10.1080/17457823.2013.792673)
• Atkinson, P. A. , Featherstone, K. and Gregory, M. 2013. Kinscapes, timescapes and genescapes: families living with genetic risk. Sociology of Health and Illness 35 (8), pp.1227-1241. (10.1111/1467-9566.12034)
• Atkinson, P. A. , Watermeyer, R. and Delamont, S. 2013. Expertise, authority and embodied pedagogy: operatic masterclasses. British Journal of Sociology of Education 34 (4), pp.487-503. (10.1080/01425692.2012.723868)
• Lewis, J. T. et al. 2013. Representation and practical accomplishment in the laboratory: when is an animal model good-enough?. Sociology 47 (4), pp.776-792. (10.1177/0038038512457276)
• Sampson, C. and Atkinson, P. A. 2013. The golden star: an emotional repertoire of scientific discovery and legacy. Sociological Review 61 (3), pp.573-590. (10.1111/1467-954X.12064)
• Stephens, N. J. , Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2013. Institutional imaginaries of publics in stem cell banking: the cases of the UK and Spain. Science as Culture 22 (4), pp.497-515. (10.1080/14636778.2013.764071)
• Stephens, N. J. , Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2013. Closing the regulatory regress: GMP accreditation in stem cell laboratories. Sociology of Health & Illness 35 (3), pp.345-360. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01482.x)

2012

• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2012. From classification to integration: Bernstein and the sociology of medical education. In: Brosnan, C. and Turner, B. S. eds. Handbook of Sociology of Medical Education. London: Routledge. , pp.36-50.
• Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2012. Creating conditions: the making and remaking of a genetic syndrome. Genetics and Society Abingdon: Routledge.

2011

• Arribas-Ayllon, M. , Featherstone, K. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The practical ethics of genetic responsibility: non-disclosure and the autonomy of affect. Social Theory & Health 9 (1), pp.3-23. (10.1057/sth.2009.22)
• Atkinson, P. A. and Coffey, A. J. 2011. Analysing documentary realities. In: Silverman, D. ed. Qualitative Research. London: Sage Publications Ltd. , pp.56-75.
• Lewis, J. T. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. The surveillance of cellular scientists' practice. BioSocieties 6 (4), pp.381-400. (10.1057/biosoc.2011.18)
• Sampson, C. and Atkinson, P. A. 2011. Accounting for discovery: genetic scientists' narratives. Narrative Inquiry 21 (1), pp.88-108. (10.1075/ni.21.1.05sam)
• Stephens, N. J. , Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2011. Documenting the doable and doing the documented: bridging strategies at the UK Stem Cell Bank. Social Studies of Science 41 (6), pp.791-813. (10.1177/0306312711423306)
• Stephens, N. J. , Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2011. Internationaliser des standards, mettre en banque avec confiance: la mise en banque de cellules souches dans trois systèmes nationaux. Revue D'Anthropologie des Connaissances 5 (2), pp.260-286. (10.3917/rac.013.0260)

2010

• Atkinson, P. A. 2010. The contested terrain of narrative analysis - an appreciative response [Letter]. Sociology of Health & Illness 32 (4), pp.661-662. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01240_1.x)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2010. Making opera work: bricolage and the management of dramaturgy. MAiA - Music and Arts in Action 3 (1), pp.3-19.
• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. 2010. Can the silenced speak? A dialogue for two unvoiced actors. International Review of Qualitative Research 3 (1), pp.11-15.
• Delamont, S. , Atkinson, P. A. and Pugsley, L. A. 2010. The concept smacks of magic: fighting familiarity today. Teaching and Teacher Education 26 (1), pp.3-10. (10.1016/j.tate.2009.09.002)
• Delamont, S. et al. 2010. Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Research 10 (6), pp.749-758. (10.1177/1468794110380578)
• Gregory, M. L. , Middleton, A. and Atkinson, P. A. 2010. Timescapes and genescapes: the temporal organisation of family communication about genetic conditions. In: Bylund, C. L. and Gaff, C. L. eds. Family Communication about Genetics: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.87-101.

2009

• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. Illness narratives revisited: the failure of narrative reductionism. Sociological Research Online 14 (5) 16. (10.5153/sro.2030)
• Delamont, S. and Atkinson, P. A. eds. 2009. Gender and research. 4 vols.. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications.
• Atkinson, P. A. , Glasner, P. E. and Lock, M. eds. 2009. Handbook of genetics and society: Mapping the new genomic era. Genetics and Society Abingdon: Routledge.
• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. Ethics and ethnography. Twenty-First Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 4 (1), pp.17-30. (10.1080/17450140802648439)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2009. The social organisation of aesthetics – a note. MAiA - Music and Arts in Action 2 (1), pp.69-72.

2008

• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. eds. 2008. Gender and research. London: Sage.
• Atkinson, P. A. and Delamont, S. eds. 2008. Representing ethnography: Reading, writing and rhetoric in qualitative research. 4 vols.. Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: Sage.
• Stephens, N. J. , Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2008. The UK stem cell bank: securing the past, validating the present, protecting the future. Science as Culture 17 (1), pp.43-56. (10.1080/09505430701872970)
• Atkinson, P. A. , Delamont, S. and Housley, W. 2008. Contours of culture : complex ethnography and the ethnography of complexity. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
• Stephens, N. J. , Atkinson, P. A. and Glasner, P. E. 2008. The UK Stem Cell Bank as performative architecture. New Genetics and Society 27 (2), pp.87-98. (10.1080/14636770802076977)

2007

• Gaff, C. L. et al. 2007. Process and outcome in communication of genetic information within families: a systematic review. European Journal of Human Genetics 15 (10), pp.999-1011. (10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201883)

2006

• Latimer, J. E. et al. 2006. Rebirthing the clinic: the interaction of clinical judgment and genetic technology in the production of medical science. Science technology & human values 31 (5), pp.599-630. (10.1177/0162243906289613)
• Atkinson, P. A. 2006. Everyday arias: an operatic ethnography. Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press.
• Featherstone, K. et al. 2006. Risky relations: family, kinship and the new genetics. Oxford: Berg.
• Featherstone, K. , Gregory, M. and Atkinson, P. A. 2006. The moral and sentimental work of the clinic: the case of genetic syndromes. In: Atkinson, P. A. , Glasner, P. E. and Greenslade, H. T. eds. New Genetics, New Identities. Genetics and Society Abingdon: Routledge. , pp.101-119.

2005

• Featherstone, K. et al. 2005. Dysmorphology and the spectacle of the clinic. Sociology of Health & Illness 27 (5), pp.551-574. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00456.x)
• Dicks, B. et al. 2005. Qualitative research and hypermedia: ethnography for the digital age. New Technologies for Social Research Series London: Sage.

2004

• Atkinson, P. A. 2004. The discursive construction of competence and responsibility in medical collegial talk. Communication and Medicine 1 (1), pp.13-23. (10.1515/come.2004.001)

2003

• Atkinson, P. A. , Bharadwaj, A. and Featherstone, K. 2003. Inheritance and society. In: Cooper, D. ed. Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome. Vol. 3, London: Nature Publishing Group. , pp.483-488.
• Atkinson, P. A. , Coffey, A. J. and Delamont, S. 2003. Key themes in qualitative research: continuities and changes. Walnut Creek, CA, USA: AltaMira Press.
• Atkinson, P. A. and Housley, W. 2003. Interactionism. BSA new horizons in sociology London: Sage.
• Shaw, A. et al., 2003. Surveying 'slides': Clinical perception and clinical judgment in the construction of a genetic diagnosis. New Genetics and Society 22 (1), pp.3-19. (10.1080/1463677032000069682)

2001

• Atkinson, P. A. , Parsons, E. P. and Featherstone, K. 2001. Professional constructions of family and kinship in medical genetics. New Genetics and Society 20 (1), pp.5-24. (10.1080/14636770125617)
• Delamont, S. et al. 2001. An open exploratory spirit? Ethnography at Cardiff 1974 - 2001. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2000

• Delamont, S. , Atkinson, P. A. and Odette, P. 2000. The doctoral experience: success and failure in graduate school. New York ; London: Falmer.
• Featherstone, K. , Atkinson, P. A. and Clarke, A. J. 2000. Practical kinship and the disclosure of genetic information. Journal of Medical Genetics 37 (Supp 2), pp.A15-A15.

1995

• Atkinson, P. A. 1995. Medical talk and medical work : the liturgy of the clinic. London: Sage.

1990

• Atkinson, P. A. 1990. The ethnographic imagination: textual constructions of reality. London ; New York: Routledge.

1985

• Atkinson, P. 1985. Language, structure and reproduction: an introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London ; New York: Methuen.