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Professor Karen Henwood
BSc, PhD (Bristol)
Teams and roles for Karen Henwood
Professor of Social Sciences
Overview
I am a social psychologist by training and have worked at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences since 2006. My main research areas span the social science of risk (environment and personal lives) and identity studies. I am a qualitative research specialist.
Supervision
I am interested in supervising doctoral students who have a keen interest in contemporary life practices, how they are imbued with cultural meanings and values, and have implications for identity, social and personal relationships and everyday ways of living with risk.
I encourage the use of biographical, generational and historical lenses as these can help to create more dynamic, temporal understandings of how people live with socio-cultural and environmental change. Students will approach their inquiries as social scientists with particular strengths in qualitative research methodologies and methods – established and novel.
Publication
2025
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2025. Who pays for carbon dioxide removal? Public perceptions of risk and fairness of enhanced rock weathering in the UK.. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 12 1010. (10.1057/s41599-025-05384-9)
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2025. Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes. Housing Studies (10.1080/02673037.2025.2453015)
- Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. Resident experiences of active homes: Implications for current and future developments. Project Report.N/A.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2025. “I can’t imagine living anywhere else”: A qualitative longitudinal view of low carbon home residence. Housing, Theory and Society (10.1080/14036096.2025.2559106)
- Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement. Energy Research & Social Science 120 103874. (10.1016/j.erss.2024.103874)
- Stephanides, P. et al., 2025. Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures. Energy Research & Social Science 127 104251. (10.1016/j.erss.2025.104251)
2024
- Groves, C. et al. 2024. Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 107 103330. (10.1016/j.erss.2023.103330)
- Hale, R. et al. 2024. ‘It’s nice to have a bit of fresh air’: Interpretative flexibility and air quality regimes in active homes. Energy and Buildings
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2024. The role of Active Buildings in Smart Energy Imaginaries: Implications of living well in low carbon homes and neighbourhoods. In: Golubchikov, O. and Yenneti, K. eds. Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low‐Carbon Future. Wiley. , pp.93-110. (10.1002/9781118641156.ch6)
- Roberts, E. et al. 2024. Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 49 (3) e12631. (10.1111/tran.12631)
- Roberts, E. et al., 2024. Using creative mapping methods to analyse multimodal data. In: Kara, H. , Mannay, D. and Roy, A. eds. The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Policy Press. , pp.285-298. (10.51952/9781447369592.ch020)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2024. Going backwards? A temporal perspective of what constitutes improvement in domestic heating transitions. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 20 (1) 2347075. (10.1080/15487733.2024.2347075)
- Thomas, G. and Henwood, K. 2024. HI-ACT synthesis report: Interpreting and deliberating hydrogen visions.
- Thomas, G. H. et al. 2024. A relational approach to characterizing householder perceptions of disruption in heat transitions. Nature Energy 9 , pp.570-576. (10.1038/s41560-024-01506-w)
2023
- Groves, C. et al. 2023. Putting visions in their place: Responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization. Journal of Responsible Innovation 10 (1) 2149954. (10.1080/23299460.2022.2149954)
- Henwood, K. et al. 2023. Living well in low carbon homes project report. Project Report.Self-publish.
- Henwood, K. and Shirani, F. 2023. Researching the temporal. In: Cooper, H. ed. APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, APA Handbooks in Psychology American Psychological Association
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2023. Identity, place narrative and biophilic urban development: Connecting the past, present and future for sustainable liveable cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 5 1139029. (10.3389/frsc.2023.1139029)
- Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2023. Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities?. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Thomas, G. , Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Hydrogen, a less disruptive pathway for domestic heat? Exploratory findings from public perceptions research. Cleaner Production Letters 5 100047. (10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100047)
2022
- Cherry, C. et al. 2022. A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: findings and methodological insights. Energy Research and Social Science 87 102455. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102455)
- Henwood, K. 2022. Commentary: interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after?. In: Świtek, B. , Abramson, A. and Swee, H. eds. Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.297–327. (10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8_12)
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2022. Why active buildings? Realising the potentials of energy networked homes: a social scientific perspective. In: Vahidinasab, V. and Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, eds. Active Building Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology , pp.25-49. (10.1007/978-3-030-79742-3_2)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. From active houses to active homes: understanding resident experiences of transformational design and social innovation. Energies 15 (19) 7441. (10.3390/en15197441)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Transformational innovation in home energy: How developers imagine and engage with future residents of low carbon homes in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 91 102743.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Living in an active home: household dynamics and unintended consequences. Buildings and Cities 3 (1), pp.589–604. (10.5334/bc.216)
- Thomas, G. et al. 2022. “It’s not a very certain future”: Emotion and infrastructure change in an industrial town. Geoforum 132 , pp.81-91. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.04.003)
- Thomas, M. et al. 2022. 'This funny place': uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach. People and Nature 4 (3), pp.804-815. (10.1002/pan3.10318)
2021
- Groves, C. et al. 2021. The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation. Futures 130 102753. (10.1016/j.futures.2021.102753)
- Groves, C. et al. 2021. A missing link? Capabilities, the ethics of care, and the relational context of energy justice. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22 (2), pp.249-269. (10.1080/19452829.2021.1887105)
- Pidgeon, N. et al. 2021. ‘A little self-sufficient town close to the beach’: local energy system transformation through the lens of place and public things. In: Webb, J. , Wade, F. and Tingey, M. eds. Research Handbook on Energy and Society. Edward Elgar. , pp.299-316.
- Roberts, E. et al. 2021. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values 30 (4), pp.501-523. (10.3197/096327120X15916910310635)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2021. Mine water heating in Caerau: Thoughts from local residents. 2020 Report. Project Report.FLEXIS.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2021. ‘Who cares about valley people?’ – lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales valleys. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 29 (1), pp.103-120. (10.1332/175982720X16074511160827)
- Thomas, M. et al. 2021. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. In: Gustavsson, M. et al., Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.181-208.
2020
- Groves, C. et al. 2020. ‘The bills are a brick wall’: narratives of energy vulnerability, poverty and adaptation in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 70 101777. (10.1016/j.erss.2020.101777)
- Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Finn, M. 2020. ‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’: methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition. Routledge. , pp.555-571. (10.4324/9781351032063-3732)
- O'Sullivan, K. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Active buildings in the changing policy landscape: conceptual challenges and social scientific perspectives. Project Report.Cardiff University.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2020. 'I'm the smart meter': Perceptions and experiences of smart technology amongst vulnerable consumers.. Energy Policy 144 111637. (10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111637)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2020. What counts as success? Wider implications of achieving planning permission in a low-impact ecovillage. Environmental Values 29 (3), pp.339-359. (10.3197/096327119X15579936382536)
2019
- Groves, C. et al. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Henwood, K. 2019. Investigating risk – methodological insights from interpretive social science and sustainable energy transitions research. In: Olofsson, A. and Zinn, J. O. eds. Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. , pp.129-152.
- Henwood, K. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2019. Qualitative research in reflexive mode: The participatory turn and interpretive social science. Qualitative Research 19 (3), pp.241-246. (10.1177/1468794119844103)
- Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2019. “It’s an old house and that’s how it works”: Living sufficiently well in inefficient homes. Housing, Theory and Society 36 (4), pp.469-488. (10.1080/14036096.2019.1568296)
2018
- Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2018. Exploring the everyday energyscapes of rural dwellers in Wales: putting relational space to work in research on everyday energy use. Energy Research and Social Science 36 , pp.44-51. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.023)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
2017
- Groves, C. et al. 2017. Why mundane energy use matters: Energy biographies, attachment and identity. Energy Research and Social Science 30 , pp.71-81. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.016)
- Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Groves, C. 2017. Using photographs in interviews: When we lack the words to say what practice means. In: Flick, U. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection. SAGE Publications. , pp.599-614.
- Housley, W. et al. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86 , pp.86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
- Thomas, G. et al. 2017. Texturing waste: attachment and identity in every-day consumption and waste practices. Environmental Values 26 (6), pp.733-755. 23. (10.3197/096327117X15046905490362)
2016
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (3), pp.483-508. (10.1177/0162243915609116)
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25 (3), pp.309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of 'smartness'. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (1), pp.4-25. (10.1080/23299460.2016.1178897)
- Henwood, K. , Groves, C. and Shirani, F. 2016. Relationality, entangled practices, and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies. Families, Relationships and Societies 5 (3), pp.393-410. (10.1332/204674316X147584383416945)
- Henwood, K. et al. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report.Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.
- Henwood, K. L. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2016. Editorial. Qualitative Research 16 (3), pp.257. (10.1177/1468794116638982)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. In: Ansell, N. , Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Vol. 8, Geographies of Children and Young People Singapore: Springer. , pp.1-20. (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19 (4), pp.429-444. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208)
2015
- Capstick, S. B. , Pidgeon, N. F. and Henwood, K. 2015. Stability and change in British public discourses about climate change between 1997 and 2010. Environmental Values 24 (6), pp.725-753. (10.3197/096327115X14420732702617)
- Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2015. Gender, ethical voices and UK energy policy in the post-Fukushima Era. In: Tahbi, B. and Roeser, S. eds. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.67-84.
- Housley, W. et al. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15 (1), pp.3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
- Parkhill, K. et al., 2015. "We are a community but that takes a certain amount of energy": Exploring shared visions, social action and resilience in place-based community-led initiatives. Environmental Science & Policy 53 (A), pp.60-69. (10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.014)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2015. I’m not a tree hugger, I’m just like you’: changing perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Environmental Politics 24 (1), pp.57-74. (10.1080/09644016.2014.959247)
2014
- Butler, C. et al., 2014. Examining the dynamics of energy demand through a biographical lens. Nature and Culture 9 (2), pp.164-182. (10.3167/nc.2014.090204)
2013
- Shirani, F. J. et al. 2013. Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18 (4), pp.455-468. (10.1080/13549839.2013.779236)
2012
- Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. Meeting the challenges of intensive parenting culture: gender, risk management and the moral parent. Sociology 46 (1), pp.25-40. (10.1177/0038038511416169)
- Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. "Why aren't you at work?": negotiating economic models of fathering identity. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers 10 (3), pp.274-290. (10.3149/fth.1003.274)
- Venables, D. et al. 2012. Living with nuclear power: Sense of place, proximity, and risk perceptions in local host communities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32 (4), pp.371-383. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.003)
2011
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Finn, M. 2011. “So you think we've moved, changed, the representation got more what?” Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the Men as Fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. Visual methods in psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research. Hove: Psychology Press. , pp.330-345.
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Procter, J. K. N. 2011. On delayed fatherhood: the social and subjective “logics” at work in men’s lives (a UK study). In: Beets, G. , Schippers, J. J. and te Velde, E. R. eds. The future of motherhood in western societies: late fertility and its consequences. Dordrecht: Springer. , pp.159-176. (10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4_11)
- Parkhill, K. et al. 2011. Laughing it off? Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk. British Journal of Sociology 62 (2), pp.324-346. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01367.x)
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood: relevance without responsibility. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14 (1), pp.17-29. (10.1080/13645571003690876)
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Taking one day at a time: temporal experiences in the context of unexpected life course transitions. Time & Society 20 (1), pp.49-68. (10.1177/0961463X10374906)
2010
- Henwood, K. L. and Finn, M. 2010. Researching masculine and paternal subjects in times of change: Insights from a Qualitative Longitudinal (QLL) and psychosocial case study. In: Thomson, R. et al., Intensity and Insight: Qualitative Longitudinal Methods as a Route to the Psycho-Social. Timescapes Working Paper Series Vol. 3.Leeds: University of Leeds. , pp.34-45.
- Henwood, K. L. et al. 2010. Researching risk: Narrative, biography, subjectivity. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research - Sozialforschung 11 (1) 20.
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Coltart, C. 2010. Fathers and financial risk-taking during the economic downturn: insights from a QLL study of men's identities-in-the-making. 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 5 (2), pp.137-147. (10.1080/17450141003783355)
- Parkhill, K. et al. 2010. From the familiar to the extraordinary: local residents’ perceptions of risk when living with nuclear power in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (1), pp.39-58. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00364.x)
2009
- Finn, M. and Henwood, K. L. 2009. Exploring masculinities within men’s identificatory imaginings of first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 48 (3), pp.547-562. (10.1348/014466608X386099)
- Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2009. Men’s experiences of antenatal services: findings from the ‘Men as Fathers’ Study. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/research/researchprojects/menasfathers/publications/antenatalreport.pdf.
- Venables, D. et al. 2009. Living with nuclear power: a Q-Method study of local community perceptions. Risk Analysis 29 (8), pp.1089-1104. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01259.x)
2008
- Henwood, K. L. 2008. Qualitative research, reflexivity and living with risk: valuing and practicing epistemic reflexivity and centering marginality. Qualitative Research in Psychology 5 (1), pp.45-55. (10.1080/14780880701863575)
- Henwood, K. L. , Finn, M. and Shirani, F. J. 2008. Use of visual methods to explore paternal identities in historical time and social change: reflections from the ‘men-as-fathers’ project. Qualitative Researcher 9 , pp.2-5.
- Henwood, K. L. , Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Science, technology and risk perception: from gender differences to the effects made by gender. Equal Opportunities International 27 (8), pp.662-676. (10.1108/02610150810916730)
- Pidgeon, N. F. et al. 2008. The ethics of socio-cultural risk research. Health, Risk & Society 10 (4), pp.321-329. (10.1080/13698570802334526)
2007
- Charmaz, K. and Henwood, K. L. 2007. Grounded theory. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. , pp.240-260.
- Salter, C. et al., 2007. "I haven't even phoned my doctor yet". The advice giving role of the pharmacist during consultations for medication review with patients aged 80 or more: qualitative discourse analysis. British Medical Journal 334 , pp.1101-1104. (10.1136/bmj.39171.577106.55)
2003
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2003. Grounded theory in psychological research. In: Camic, P. M. , Rhodes, J. E. and Yardley, L. eds. Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design. Washington, DC: APA Publications. , pp.131-155.
- Henwood, K. L. and Procter, J. 2003. The 'good father': reading men's accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 42 (3), pp.337-356. (10.1348/014466603322438198)
2002
- Henwood, K. L. and McQueen, C. 2002. Young men in 'crisis': Attending to the language of teenage boys' distress. Social Science & Medicine 55 (9), pp.1493-1509. (10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00186-1)
2001
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2001. Talk about woods and trees: threat of urbanization, stability, and biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology 21 (2), pp.125-147. (10.1006/jevp.2000.0196)
1999
- Pidgeon, N. F. , Henwood, K. L. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 1999. Risk communication: new challenges for European health policy. Eurohealth 5 (2), pp.12-14.
1995
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Grounded theory and psychological research. The Psychologist 8 (3), pp.115-118.
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Remaking the link: qualitative research and feminist standpoint theory. Feminism and Psychology 5 (1), pp.7-30. (10.1177/0959353595051003)
Articles
- Butler, C. et al., 2014. Examining the dynamics of energy demand through a biographical lens. Nature and Culture 9 (2), pp.164-182. (10.3167/nc.2014.090204)
- Capstick, S. B. , Pidgeon, N. F. and Henwood, K. 2015. Stability and change in British public discourses about climate change between 1997 and 2010. Environmental Values 24 (6), pp.725-753. (10.3197/096327115X14420732702617)
- Cherry, C. et al. 2022. A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: findings and methodological insights. Energy Research and Social Science 87 102455. (10.1016/j.erss.2021.102455)
- Finn, M. and Henwood, K. L. 2009. Exploring masculinities within men’s identificatory imaginings of first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 48 (3), pp.547-562. (10.1348/014466608X386099)
- Groves, C. et al. 2023. Putting visions in their place: Responsible research and innovation for energy system decarbonization. Journal of Responsible Innovation 10 (1) 2149954. (10.1080/23299460.2022.2149954)
- Groves, C. et al. 2021. The future is flexible? Exploring expert visions of energy system decarbonisation. Futures 130 102753. (10.1016/j.futures.2021.102753)
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. Energy biographies: narrative genres, lifecourse transitions and practice change. Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (3), pp.483-508. (10.1177/0162243915609116)
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. Invested in unsustainability? On the psychosocial patterning of engagement in practices. Environmental Values 25 (3), pp.309-328. (10.3197/096327116X14598445991466)
- Groves, C. et al. 2016. The grit in the oyster: using energy biographies to question socio-technical imaginaries of 'smartness'. Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (1), pp.4-25. (10.1080/23299460.2016.1178897)
- Groves, C. et al. 2017. Why mundane energy use matters: Energy biographies, attachment and identity. Energy Research and Social Science 30 , pp.71-81. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.016)
- Groves, C. et al. 2024. Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 107 103330. (10.1016/j.erss.2023.103330)
- Groves, C. et al. 2021. A missing link? Capabilities, the ethics of care, and the relational context of energy justice. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22 (2), pp.249-269. (10.1080/19452829.2021.1887105)
- Groves, C. et al. 2020. ‘The bills are a brick wall’: narratives of energy vulnerability, poverty and adaptation in South Wales. Energy Research and Social Science 70 101777. (10.1016/j.erss.2020.101777)
- Hale, R. et al. 2024. ‘It’s nice to have a bit of fresh air’: Interpretative flexibility and air quality regimes in active homes. Energy and Buildings
- Henwood, K. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2019. Qualitative research in reflexive mode: The participatory turn and interpretive social science. Qualitative Research 19 (3), pp.241-246. (10.1177/1468794119844103)
- Henwood, K. , Groves, C. and Shirani, F. 2016. Relationality, entangled practices, and psychosocial exploration of intergenerational dynamics in sustainable energy studies. Families, Relationships and Societies 5 (3), pp.393-410. (10.1332/204674316X147584383416945)
- Henwood, K. L. 2008. Qualitative research, reflexivity and living with risk: valuing and practicing epistemic reflexivity and centering marginality. Qualitative Research in Psychology 5 (1), pp.45-55. (10.1080/14780880701863575)
- Henwood, K. L. , Dicks, B. and Housley, W. 2016. Editorial. Qualitative Research 16 (3), pp.257. (10.1177/1468794116638982)
- Henwood, K. L. , Finn, M. and Shirani, F. J. 2008. Use of visual methods to explore paternal identities in historical time and social change: reflections from the ‘men-as-fathers’ project. Qualitative Researcher 9 , pp.2-5.
- Henwood, K. L. and McQueen, C. 2002. Young men in 'crisis': Attending to the language of teenage boys' distress. Social Science & Medicine 55 (9), pp.1493-1509. (10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00186-1)
- Henwood, K. L. , Parkhill, K. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2008. Science, technology and risk perception: from gender differences to the effects made by gender. Equal Opportunities International 27 (8), pp.662-676. (10.1108/02610150810916730)
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Grounded theory and psychological research. The Psychologist 8 (3), pp.115-118.
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 1995. Remaking the link: qualitative research and feminist standpoint theory. Feminism and Psychology 5 (1), pp.7-30. (10.1177/0959353595051003)
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2001. Talk about woods and trees: threat of urbanization, stability, and biodiversity. Journal of Environmental Psychology 21 (2), pp.125-147. (10.1006/jevp.2000.0196)
- Henwood, K. L. et al. 2010. Researching risk: Narrative, biography, subjectivity. FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research - Sozialforschung 11 (1) 20.
- Henwood, K. L. and Procter, J. 2003. The 'good father': reading men's accounts of paternal involvement during the transition to first time fatherhood. British Journal of Social Psychology 42 (3), pp.337-356. (10.1348/014466603322438198)
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Coltart, C. 2010. Fathers and financial risk-taking during the economic downturn: insights from a QLL study of men's identities-in-the-making. 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 5 (2), pp.137-147. (10.1080/17450141003783355)
- Housley, W. et al. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17 (6), pp.607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
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- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2025. Understanding residents’ experiences of home, health, and wellbeing in new and novel low carbon homes. Housing Studies (10.1080/02673037.2025.2453015)
- Parkhill, K. et al. 2011. Laughing it off? Humour, affect and emotion work in communities living with nuclear risk. British Journal of Sociology 62 (2), pp.324-346. (10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01367.x)
- Parkhill, K. et al. 2010. From the familiar to the extraordinary: local residents’ perceptions of risk when living with nuclear power in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (1), pp.39-58. (10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00364.x)
- Parkhill, K. et al., 2015. "We are a community but that takes a certain amount of energy": Exploring shared visions, social action and resilience in place-based community-led initiatives. Environmental Science & Policy 53 (A), pp.60-69. (10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.014)
- Pidgeon, N. F. , Henwood, K. L. and Horlick-Jones, T. E. 1999. Risk communication: new challenges for European health policy. Eurohealth 5 (2), pp.12-14.
- Pidgeon, N. F. et al. 2008. The ethics of socio-cultural risk research. Health, Risk & Society 10 (4), pp.321-329. (10.1080/13698570802334526)
- Roberts, E. et al. 2024. Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 49 (3) e12631. (10.1111/tran.12631)
- Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2018. Exploring the everyday energyscapes of rural dwellers in Wales: putting relational space to work in research on everyday energy use. Energy Research and Social Science 36 , pp.44-51. (10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.023)
- Roberts, E. and Henwood, K. 2019. “It’s an old house and that’s how it works”: Living sufficiently well in inefficient homes. Housing, Theory and Society 36 (4), pp.469-488. (10.1080/14036096.2019.1568296)
- Roberts, E. et al. 2021. Valuing nature for wellbeing: narratives of socio-ecological change in dynamic intertidal landscapes. Environmental Values 30 (4), pp.501-523. (10.3197/096327120X15916910310635)
- Salter, C. et al., 2007. "I haven't even phoned my doctor yet". The advice giving role of the pharmacist during consultations for medication review with patients aged 80 or more: qualitative discourse analysis. British Medical Journal 334 , pp.1101-1104. (10.1136/bmj.39171.577106.55)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2015. I’m not a tree hugger, I’m just like you’: changing perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Environmental Politics 24 (1), pp.57-74. (10.1080/09644016.2014.959247)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2021. ‘Who cares about valley people?’ – lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales valleys. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 29 (1), pp.103-120. (10.1332/175982720X16074511160827)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2020. 'I'm the smart meter': Perceptions and experiences of smart technology amongst vulnerable consumers.. Energy Policy 144 111637. (10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111637)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2020. What counts as success? Wider implications of achieving planning permission in a low-impact ecovillage. Environmental Values 29 (3), pp.339-359. (10.3197/096327119X15579936382536)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2017. Critical moments? Life transitions and energy biographies. Geoforum 86 , pp.86-92. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.006)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. From active houses to active homes: understanding resident experiences of transformational design and social innovation. Energies 15 (19) 7441. (10.3390/en15197441)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Transformational innovation in home energy: How developers imagine and engage with future residents of low carbon homes in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science 91 102743.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2022. Living in an active home: household dynamics and unintended consequences. Buildings and Cities 3 (1), pp.589–604. (10.5334/bc.216)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2025. “I can’t imagine living anywhere else”: A qualitative longitudinal view of low carbon home residence. Housing, Theory and Society (10.1080/14036096.2025.2559106)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 19 (4), pp.429-444. (10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2024. Going backwards? A temporal perspective of what constitutes improvement in domestic heating transitions. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 20 (1) 2347075. (10.1080/15487733.2024.2347075)
- Shirani, F. J. et al. 2013. Disconnected futures: exploring notions of ethical responsibility in energy practices. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18 (4), pp.455-468. (10.1080/13549839.2013.779236)
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood: relevance without responsibility. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14 (1), pp.17-29. (10.1080/13645571003690876)
- Shirani, F. J. and Henwood, K. L. 2011. Taking one day at a time: temporal experiences in the context of unexpected life course transitions. Time & Society 20 (1), pp.49-68. (10.1177/0961463X10374906)
- Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. Meeting the challenges of intensive parenting culture: gender, risk management and the moral parent. Sociology 46 (1), pp.25-40. (10.1177/0038038511416169)
- Shirani, F. J. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2012. "Why aren't you at work?": negotiating economic models of fathering identity. Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers 10 (3), pp.274-290. (10.3149/fth.1003.274)
- Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. The infrastructural ecologies of industrial decarbonisation: Visual methods and psychosocial logics in place-based public engagement. Energy Research & Social Science 120 103874. (10.1016/j.erss.2024.103874)
- Stephanides, P. et al., 2025. Beyond public acceptance: Towards systemic societal responsiveness of net zero infrastructures. Energy Research & Social Science 127 104251. (10.1016/j.erss.2025.104251)
- Thomas, G. et al. 2022. “It’s not a very certain future”: Emotion and infrastructure change in an industrial town. Geoforum 132 , pp.81-91. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.04.003)
- Thomas, G. et al. 2017. Texturing waste: attachment and identity in every-day consumption and waste practices. Environmental Values 26 (6), pp.733-755. 23. (10.3197/096327117X15046905490362)
- Thomas, G. , Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. 2023. Hydrogen, a less disruptive pathway for domestic heat? Exploratory findings from public perceptions research. Cleaner Production Letters 5 100047. (10.1016/j.clpl.2023.100047)
- Thomas, G. H. et al. 2024. A relational approach to characterizing householder perceptions of disruption in heat transitions. Nature Energy 9 , pp.570-576. (10.1038/s41560-024-01506-w)
- Thomas, M. et al. 2022. 'This funny place': uncovering the ambiguity of saltmarshes using a multimodal approach. People and Nature 4 (3), pp.804-815. (10.1002/pan3.10318)
- Venables, D. et al. 2012. Living with nuclear power: Sense of place, proximity, and risk perceptions in local host communities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32 (4), pp.371-383. (10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.003)
- Venables, D. et al. 2009. Living with nuclear power: a Q-Method study of local community perceptions. Risk Analysis 29 (8), pp.1089-1104. (10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01259.x)
Book sections
- Charmaz, K. and Henwood, K. L. 2007. Grounded theory. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. London: Sage. , pp.240-260.
- Henwood, K. 2022. Commentary: interpretive risk ethnography as a means of understanding risk problems: encounters with the ordinary-extraordinary and what comes after?. In: Świtek, B. , Abramson, A. and Swee, H. eds. Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives: Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.297–327. (10.1007/978-3-030-83962-8_12)
- Henwood, K. 2019. Investigating risk – methodological insights from interpretive social science and sustainable energy transitions research. In: Olofsson, A. and Zinn, J. O. eds. Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. , pp.129-152.
- Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2015. Gender, ethical voices and UK energy policy in the post-Fukushima Era. In: Tahbi, B. and Roeser, S. eds. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.67-84.
- Henwood, K. and Shirani, F. 2023. Researching the temporal. In: Cooper, H. ed. APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology: 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, APA Handbooks in Psychology American Psychological Association
- Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Finn, M. 2020. ‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’: methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research 2nd Edition. Routledge. , pp.555-571. (10.4324/9781351032063-3732)
- Henwood, K. , Shirani, F. and Groves, C. 2017. Using photographs in interviews: When we lack the words to say what practice means. In: Flick, U. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection. SAGE Publications. , pp.599-614.
- Henwood, K. L. and Finn, M. 2010. Researching masculine and paternal subjects in times of change: Insights from a Qualitative Longitudinal (QLL) and psychosocial case study. In: Thomson, R. et al., Intensity and Insight: Qualitative Longitudinal Methods as a Route to the Psycho-Social. Timescapes Working Paper Series Vol. 3.Leeds: University of Leeds. , pp.34-45.
- Henwood, K. L. and Pidgeon, N. F. 2003. Grounded theory in psychological research. In: Camic, P. M. , Rhodes, J. E. and Yardley, L. eds. Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design. Washington, DC: APA Publications. , pp.131-155.
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Finn, M. 2011. “So you think we've moved, changed, the representation got more what?” Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the Men as Fathers study. In: Reavey, P. ed. Visual methods in psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research. Hove: Psychology Press. , pp.330-345.
- Henwood, K. L. , Shirani, F. J. and Procter, J. K. N. 2011. On delayed fatherhood: the social and subjective “logics” at work in men’s lives (a UK study). In: Beets, G. , Schippers, J. J. and te Velde, E. R. eds. The future of motherhood in western societies: late fertility and its consequences. Dordrecht: Springer. , pp.159-176. (10.1007/978-90-481-8969-4_11)
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2024. The role of Active Buildings in Smart Energy Imaginaries: Implications of living well in low carbon homes and neighbourhoods. In: Golubchikov, O. and Yenneti, K. eds. Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low‐Carbon Future. Wiley. , pp.93-110. (10.1002/9781118641156.ch6)
- O'Sullivan, K. et al. 2022. Why active buildings? Realising the potentials of energy networked homes: a social scientific perspective. In: Vahidinasab, V. and Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo, eds. Active Building Energy Systems. Green Energy and Technology , pp.25-49. (10.1007/978-3-030-79742-3_2)
- Pidgeon, N. et al. 2021. ‘A little self-sufficient town close to the beach’: local energy system transformation through the lens of place and public things. In: Webb, J. , Wade, F. and Tingey, M. eds. Research Handbook on Energy and Society. Edward Elgar. , pp.299-316.
- Roberts, E. et al., 2024. Using creative mapping methods to analyse multimodal data. In: Kara, H. , Mannay, D. and Roy, A. eds. The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis. Policy Press. , pp.285-298. (10.51952/9781447369592.ch020)
- Shirani, F. et al. 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. In: Ansell, N. , Klocker, N. and Skelton, T. eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Vol. 8, Geographies of Children and Young People Singapore: Springer. , pp.1-20. (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)
- Thomas, M. et al. 2021. Using photographs in coastal research and engagement: reflections on two case studies. In: Gustavsson, M. et al., Researching People and the Sea: Methodologies and Traditions. Basingstoke: Palgrave. , pp.181-208.
Monographs
- Groves, C. et al. 2019. Better energy futures: Developing a framework for addressing fuel poverty poverty. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Henwood, K. et al. 2016. Energy Biographies Research Report. Project Report.Cardiff: .Energy Biographies.
- Henwood, K. et al. 2023. Living well in low carbon homes project report. Project Report.Self-publish.
- O'Sullivan, K. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2020. Active buildings in the changing policy landscape: conceptual challenges and social scientific perspectives. Project Report.Cardiff University.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2021. Mine water heating in Caerau: Thoughts from local residents. 2020 Report. Project Report.FLEXIS.
- Shirani, F. et al. 2018. UK smart living demonstrator (better energy futures) – research report. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2025. Resident experiences of active homes: Implications for current and future developments. Project Report.N/A.
- Shirani, F. , Henwood, K. L. and Coltart, C. 2009. Men’s experiences of antenatal services: findings from the ‘Men as Fathers’ Study. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/research/researchprojects/menasfathers/publications/antenatalreport.pdf.
- Smith, H. , Henwood, K. and Pidgeon, N. 2023. Will industrial decarbonisation produce resilient communities?. Project Report.Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Thomas, G. and Henwood, K. 2024. HI-ACT synthesis report: Interpreting and deliberating hydrogen visions.
Research
In my research I investigate ways of living in a changing world, in particular, how environmental and socio-cultural change has implications for understanding questions of identity and risk in late modernity. I also have extensive interests in interpretive social research methodologies, methods and practices, and in qualitative longitudinal and temporal methods for studying changes in and through time. I have been involved in developing a number of arts-social science collaborations in the sustainability, climate change, and risk fields. My work has involved using visual and narrative methods to generate intriguing research encounters, and I led on developing and showing a three day public exhibition "A Sense of Energy". The latter used multimodal and multisensory social science data, materials, artefacts, ideas and methods to create unique public-science engagement opportunities. The policy relevance of my work is in the domains of : family policy, public understandings of nuclear risk, and low carbon energy transitions.
Teaching
Social Science Research Methods (masters level) - qualitative methods (SIT700)
Biography
Professional memberships
British Psychology Society (Associate Member)
Academic positions
- University of East Anglia (1999-2005,
- Bangor University (1995-1999),
- Brunel University (1989-1995),
- Bristol University (RA position, 1984-1989)
