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Dr Robin Smith
Reader in Sociology
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Overview:
I am Reader in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences where I teach ethnography, urban sociology, interactionist theory, qualitative research methods, and ethnomethodology.
I am currently UK PI on the ESRC funded, ORA7 international project "Visions of Policing". Working with colleagues in Canada, Germany, and France, this project investigates how visual technologies produce emergent forms of police oversight and accountability in public and legalistic contexts, as well as their use in police training to accomplish understandings of 'reasonable officer conduct'.
More generally, my research is heavily influenced by the work of Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks and has included: an ethnography of urban outreach work with the street homeless; a study of social scientific reasoning and coding procedures; and studies of mobile interaction and spatial categorisation practices in cycling, walking, and running. In my spare time, I am pursuing some of the above interests via an ongoing ethnomethodological ethnography of the work of Mountain Rescue. And I am, like many others, trying to work out ways to describe scenes and activities featuring (social) robots and "AI"/automated systems.
I'm always happy to talk about any of the above stuff, and more, and am available to supervise doctoral research in any substantive area which includes ethnography, video studies, and EMCA.
Current positions:
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chair of UG Exam Board
Founding Convenor of Cardiff Ethnography Ethnomethodology, Interaction and Talk (CEEIT) research group
Co-convener of the Cardiff Ethnography, Cultural and Interpretive Analysis Research Group.
Faculty member and academic lead for Wales of the EMCA Doctoral Network
Editorial Board member of Discourse, Context, and Media
Editorial Board member of Qualitative Research
Publication
2024
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2024. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning
2023
- Weightman, A. L. et al. 2023. Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta‐analysis and thematic synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews 19(2), article number: e1329. (10.1002/cl2.1329)
2022
- Smith, R. 2022. Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941221132955)
- 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)
- Smith, R. J. 2022. Interaction in public places. In: Hviid Jacobsen, M. and Smith, G. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 97-107., (10.4324/9781003160861-10)
- Weightman, A. L. et al. 2022. PROTOCOL: Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta-analysis and thematic synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews 18(1), article number: e1220. (10.1002/cl2.1220)
- Pehkonen, S., Smith, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2022. Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course. Mobilities 17(1), pp. 152-178. (10.1080/17450101.2021.1953945)
- Smith, R. 2022. Membership Categorisation Analysis. In: Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Abingdon and New York: Routledge
- Smith, R. 2022. Interaction in public places. In: Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge
2021
- Smith, R. 2021. Space, mobility, and interaction. In: Vom Lehn, D., Ruiz-Junco, N. and Gibson, W. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge
- Smith, R. J. 2021. Categorisation practices, instructed actions, and teamwork as occasioned phenomena: structuring the ‘carry off’ in mountain rescue work. In: Cekaite, A. et al. eds. Human‐Assisted Mobility in Social Interaction. Gesprächsforschung Online‐Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion
- Jimenez, P. and Smith, R. 2021. Accomplishing the categorial landscape of the classroom: the case of group singing. Ethnographic Studies 18, pp. 173-194. (10.5281/zenodo.5805434)
2020
- Smith, R. J. 2020. Categorisation practices, place, and perception: doing incongruities and the commonplace scene as ‘assembled activity’. In: Smith, R. J., Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. On Sacks: Methdology, Materials, and Inspirations. Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Routledge, pp. 182-194.
- Smith, R., Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. 2020. On sacks: methdology, materials, and inspirations. Routledge.
- Stanley, S., Smith, R., Jones, J. and Ford, E. 2020. Making something out of nothing: breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place. The Sociological Review 68(6), pp. 1250-1272. (10.1177/0038026120940616)
- Smith, R. 2020. Seeing the trouble: a mountain rescue training scenario in its circumstantial and situated detail in three frames. Ethnographic Studies 17, pp. 41-59. (10.5281/zenodo.4050536)
- Smith, R. J. et al. 2020. Ethnography and the new normal. Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa 2020(2), pp. 195-205. (10.3240/97805)
2019
- Ablitt, J. and Smith, R. J. 2019. Working out Douglas’ aphorism: discarded objects, categorisation practices, and moral inquiries. The Sociological Review 67(4), pp. 866-885. (10.1177/0038026119854271)
- Smith, R. 2019. Visually available order, categorisation practices, and perception-in-action: a running commentary. Visual Studies 34(1), pp. 28-40. (10.1080/1472586X.2019.1622445)
- Smith, R. and Delamont, S. eds. 2019. The lost ethnographies: Methodological insights from projects that never were.. Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Bingley: Emerald.
- Smith, R. 2019. Remarks from a lost engagement with the engaging ordinariness of parkour. In: Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. eds. The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were., Vol. 17. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 31-45.
- Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. 2019. Editorial introduction. In: The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were., Vol. 17.Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 1-15.
- Delamont, S., Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. and Smith, R. 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.
2018
- Smith, R. 2018. The lessons to be learned from a(Re)introduction to covert research: Ethics beyond informed consent [Book Review] Covert research: The art, politics and ethics of undercover fieldwork By David Calvey (SAGE, 2017)[Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 41(4), pp. 571-573. (10.1002/SYMB.362)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
2017
- Housley, W., Dicks, B., Henwood, K. and Smith, R. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17(6), pp. 607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
- Smith, R. J. 2017. Membership categorisation, category-relevant spaces, and perception-in-action: the case of disputes between cyclists and drivers. Journal of Pragmatics 118, pp. 120-133. (10.1016/j.pragma.2017.05.007)
- Smith, R. J. 2017. The practical organisation of space, interaction, and communication in and as the work of crossing a shared space intersection. Sociologica 2017(2) (10.2383/88200)
- Smith, R. 2017. Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell (eds) (2016). Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press [Book Review]. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography 7(1), pp. 140-143.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Interactionism and digital society. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 187-201. (10.1177/1468794116685142)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. Abingdon: Routledge
- Smith, R. J. 2017. Doing it tidy: the open exploratory spirit and methodological engagement in recent Cardiff ethnographies. In: Delamont, S. ed. An Open Exploratory Spirit? The Cardiff School of Ethnography 1974-2017. Kurumuny Edizioni, pp. 50-60.
2016
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
- Smith, R. 2016. Book review: Dirk Vom Lehn, Harold Garfinkel: the creation and development of ethnomethodology. Qualitative Research 16(3), pp. 348-349. (10.1177/1468794115571435)
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)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. 2015. Membership categorisation and methodological reasoning in research team interaction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE
- Smith, R. 2015. Book review: Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield (eds), Ethnomethodology at Play R Smith. Qualitative Research 15(2), pp. 269-270. (10.1177/1468794114535039)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
- Housley, W., Dicks, B., Henwood, K. L. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15(1), pp. 3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
2014
- Taylor, S. and Smith, R. J. 2014. The ethics of interviewing for discourse analysis: responses to Martyn Hammersley. Qualitative Research 14(5), pp. 542-548. (10.1177/1468794113503742)
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
- Smith, R. J. 2014. Missed miracles and mystical connections: Qualitative research, digital social science and big data. In: Hand, M. and Hillyard, S. eds. Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research., Vol. 13. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 181-204., (10.1108/S1042-319220140000013011)
2013
- Smith, R. J. 2013. Symbolic interaction. In: McIntosh, S. et al. eds. Key Concepts in Nursing and Healthcare Research.. SAGE, pp. 125-130.
- Smith, R. J. and Hetherington, K. eds. 2013. Urban rhythms: mobilities, space and interaction in the contemporary city. Sociological Review Monographs. Chichester: Wiley.
- Smith, R. J. 2013. Accounting for the landscape of regeneration: Spatial membership, categorization practices, and the moral order of commonsense topographies. Space and Culture 16(1), pp. 43-59. (10.1177/1206331212451668)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
- Maynard, T., Taylor, C. M., Waldron, S., Rhys, M., Smith, R., Power, S. and Clement, J. 2013. Evaluating the Foundation Phase: policy logic model and programme theory. Project Report. [Online]. Welsh Government. Available at: http://gov.wales/docs/caecd/research/130318-evaluating-foundation-phase-policy-logic-model-programme-theory-en.pdf
- Smith, R. 2013. Book review: Sarah Pink, situating everyday life: practices and places. Qualitative Research 13(5), pp. 628-630.
2012
- Smith, R. 2012. Personal troubles and public Issues on the streets of Las Vegas: Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories From the Street By Kurt Borchard Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2011 [Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 35(4), pp. 510-512. (10.1002/symb.37)
- Smith, R. J. 2012. How far does mobility get us?. Sociology 46(3), pp. 555-561. (10.1177/0038038511419181)
2011
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and the everyday ontology of space and place in interview talk. Qualitative Research 11(6), pp. 698-715. (10.1177/1468794111415960)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk. Discourse Studies 13(4), pp. 417-434. (10.1177/1461445611403258)
- Smith, R. J., Heley, J. and Stafford, I. 2011. Woolworths and Wales: a multi-dimensional analysis of the loss of a local brand. Sociological Research Online 16(1), article number: 10. (10.5153/sro.2284)
- Smith, R. J. 2011. Goffman's interaction order at the margins: stigma, role, and normalization in the outreach encounter. Symbolic Interaction 34(3), pp. 357-376. (10.1525/si.2011.34.3.357)
2010
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2010. Innovation and reduction in contemporary qualitative methods: the case of conceptual coupling, activity-type pairs and auto-ethnography. Sociological Research Online 15(4), article number: 9. (10.5153/sro.2216)
- Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. A., Smith, R. J., Da Costa, L., Hillyard, S. and Pilgrim, A. 2010. Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Research 10(6), pp. 749-758. (10.1177/1468794110380578)
- Smith, R. J. 2010. SALLY CAMPBELL GALMAN, Shane, The Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner’s Guide to Ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2007. 181 pp. ISBN 9780759103443 (pbk) £17.99 [Book review]. Qualitative Research 10(2), pp. 275-276. (10.1177/14687941100100020902)
- Smith, R. 2010. Whose method is it anyway? Researching space, setting, and practice. Cardiff University Working Paper Series 135, pp. 1-9.
2009
- Housley, W., Moles, K. and Smith, R. 2009. Identity, brand or citizenship: the case of post-devolution Wales. Contemporary Wales 22(1), pp. 196-210.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason and the politics of space. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, August 2009.
- Smith, R. 2009. Outreach as sense walking. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, August 2009.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason, ontology and the politics of space. Presented at: Sociological Review Conference- The Politics of Imagination, Stratford, UK, May 2009.
- Smith, R. 2009. The negotiation of a pastless place. Presented at: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, April 2009.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Smith, R. J. 2022. Interaction in public places. In: Hviid Jacobsen, M. and Smith, G. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 97-107., (10.4324/9781003160861-10)
- Smith, R. 2022. Membership Categorisation Analysis. In: Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. Abingdon and New York: Routledge
- Smith, R. 2022. Interaction in public places. In: Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge
- Smith, R. 2021. Space, mobility, and interaction. In: Vom Lehn, D., Ruiz-Junco, N. and Gibson, W. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge
- Smith, R. J. 2021. Categorisation practices, instructed actions, and teamwork as occasioned phenomena: structuring the ‘carry off’ in mountain rescue work. In: Cekaite, A. et al. eds. Human‐Assisted Mobility in Social Interaction. Gesprächsforschung Online‐Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion
- Smith, R. J. 2020. Categorisation practices, place, and perception: doing incongruities and the commonplace scene as ‘assembled activity’. In: Smith, R. J., Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. On Sacks: Methdology, Materials, and Inspirations. Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Routledge, pp. 182-194.
- Smith, R. 2019. Remarks from a lost engagement with the engaging ordinariness of parkour. In: Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. eds. The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were., Vol. 17. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 31-45.
- Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. 2019. Editorial introduction. In: The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were., Vol. 17.Smith, R. J. and Delamont, S. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 1-15.
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Seeing the need: urban outreach as sensory walking. In: Bates, C. and Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Walking Through Social Research. Abingdon: Routledge
- Smith, R. J. 2017. Doing it tidy: the open exploratory spirit and methodological engagement in recent Cardiff ethnographies. In: Delamont, S. ed. An Open Exploratory Spirit? The Cardiff School of Ethnography 1974-2017. Kurumuny Edizioni, pp. 50-60.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. 2015. Membership categorisation and methodological reasoning in research team interaction. In: Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. Advances in Membership Categorisation Analysis. SAGE
- Smith, R. J. 2014. Missed miracles and mystical connections: Qualitative research, digital social science and big data. In: Hand, M. and Hillyard, S. eds. Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research., Vol. 13. Studies in Qualitative Methodology Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 181-204., (10.1108/S1042-319220140000013011)
- Smith, R. J. 2013. Symbolic interaction. In: McIntosh, S. et al. eds. Key Concepts in Nursing and Healthcare Research.. SAGE, pp. 125-130.
Cynadleddau
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason and the politics of space. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, August 2009.
- Smith, R. 2009. Outreach as sense walking. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, August 2009.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2009. Mundane reason, ontology and the politics of space. Presented at: Sociological Review Conference- The Politics of Imagination, Stratford, UK, May 2009.
- Smith, R. 2009. The negotiation of a pastless place. Presented at: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, April 2009.
Erthyglau
- Smith, R., Ablitt, J., Williams, J. and Hall, T. 2024. The coining of convivial public space: Homelessness, outreach work, and interaction order. Urban Planning
- Weightman, A. L. et al. 2023. Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta‐analysis and thematic synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews 19(2), article number: e1329. (10.1002/cl2.1329)
- Smith, R. 2022. Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action. Qualitative Research (10.1177/14687941221132955)
- 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)
- Weightman, A. L. et al. 2022. PROTOCOL: Exploring the effect of case management in homelessness per components: A systematic review of effectiveness and implementation, with meta-analysis and thematic synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews 18(1), article number: e1220. (10.1002/cl2.1220)
- Pehkonen, S., Smith, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2022. Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course. Mobilities 17(1), pp. 152-178. (10.1080/17450101.2021.1953945)
- Jimenez, P. and Smith, R. 2021. Accomplishing the categorial landscape of the classroom: the case of group singing. Ethnographic Studies 18, pp. 173-194. (10.5281/zenodo.5805434)
- Stanley, S., Smith, R., Jones, J. and Ford, E. 2020. Making something out of nothing: breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place. The Sociological Review 68(6), pp. 1250-1272. (10.1177/0038026120940616)
- Smith, R. 2020. Seeing the trouble: a mountain rescue training scenario in its circumstantial and situated detail in three frames. Ethnographic Studies 17, pp. 41-59. (10.5281/zenodo.4050536)
- Smith, R. J. et al. 2020. Ethnography and the new normal. Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa 2020(2), pp. 195-205. (10.3240/97805)
- Ablitt, J. and Smith, R. J. 2019. Working out Douglas’ aphorism: discarded objects, categorisation practices, and moral inquiries. The Sociological Review 67(4), pp. 866-885. (10.1177/0038026119854271)
- Smith, R. 2019. Visually available order, categorisation practices, and perception-in-action: a running commentary. Visual Studies 34(1), pp. 28-40. (10.1080/1472586X.2019.1622445)
- Smith, R. 2018. The lessons to be learned from a(Re)introduction to covert research: Ethics beyond informed consent [Book Review] Covert research: The art, politics and ethics of undercover fieldwork By David Calvey (SAGE, 2017)[Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 41(4), pp. 571-573. (10.1002/SYMB.362)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2018. Everyday territories: homelessness, outreach work and city space. British Journal of Sociology 69(2), pp. 372-390. (10.1111/1468-4446.12280)
- Housley, W., Dicks, B., Henwood, K. and Smith, R. 2017. Qualitative methods and data in digital societies. Qualitative Research 17(6), pp. 607-609. (10.1177/1468794117730936)
- Smith, R. J. 2017. Membership categorisation, category-relevant spaces, and perception-in-action: the case of disputes between cyclists and drivers. Journal of Pragmatics 118, pp. 120-133. (10.1016/j.pragma.2017.05.007)
- Smith, R. J. 2017. The practical organisation of space, interaction, and communication in and as the work of crossing a shared space intersection. Sociologica 2017(2) (10.2383/88200)
- Smith, R. 2017. Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell (eds) (2016). Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press [Book Review]. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography 7(1), pp. 140-143.
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2017. Interactionism and digital society. Qualitative Research 17(2), pp. 187-201. (10.1177/1468794116685142)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Mobilities at work: care, repair, movement and a fourfold typology. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1246897)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. 2016. Pedestrian circulations: Urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work. Mobilities 11(4), pp. 498-508. (10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819)
- Wood, L. A., Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2016. Work on the move: editors' introduction to the special issue. Applied Mobilities 1(2), pp. 139-146. (10.1080/23800127.2016.1250371)
- Smith, R. 2016. Book review: Dirk Vom Lehn, Harold Garfinkel: the creation and development of ethnomethodology. Qualitative Research 16(3), pp. 348-349. (10.1177/1468794115571435)
- 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)
- Smith, R. 2015. Book review: Peter Tolmie and Mark Rouncefield (eds), Ethnomethodology at Play R Smith. Qualitative Research 15(2), pp. 269-270. (10.1177/1468794114535039)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness. Sociology 49(1), pp. 3-18. (10.1177/0038038514546662)
- Housley, W., Dicks, B., Henwood, K. L. and Smith, R. J. 2015. Editorial. Qualitative Research 15(1), pp. 3-3. (10.1177/1468794114567381)
- Taylor, S. and Smith, R. J. 2014. The ethics of interviewing for discourse analysis: responses to Martyn Hammersley. Qualitative Research 14(5), pp. 542-548. (10.1177/1468794113503742)
- Hall, T. and Smith, R. J. 2014. Knowing the city: maps, mobility and urban outreach work. Qualitative Research 14(3), pp. 294-310. (10.1177/1468794112469623)
- Smith, R. J. 2013. Accounting for the landscape of regeneration: Spatial membership, categorization practices, and the moral order of commonsense topographies. Space and Culture 16(1), pp. 43-59. (10.1177/1206331212451668)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2013. Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work. Mobilities 8(2), pp. 272-292. (10.1080/17450101.2012.659470)
- Smith, R. J. and Hall, T. A. 2013. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city. The Sociological Review 61(S1), pp. 89-108. (10.1111/1467-954X.12055)
- Smith, R. 2013. Book review: Sarah Pink, situating everyday life: practices and places. Qualitative Research 13(5), pp. 628-630.
- Smith, R. 2012. Personal troubles and public Issues on the streets of Las Vegas: Homeless in Las Vegas: Stories From the Street By Kurt Borchard Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2011 [Book Review]. Symbolic Interaction 35(4), pp. 510-512. (10.1002/symb.37)
- Smith, R. J. 2012. How far does mobility get us?. Sociology 46(3), pp. 555-561. (10.1177/0038038511419181)
- Hall, T. A. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Walking, welfare and the good city. Anthropology in Action 18(3), pp. 33-44. (10.3167/aia.2011.180304)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Mundane reason, membership categorization practices and the everyday ontology of space and place in interview talk. Qualitative Research 11(6), pp. 698-715. (10.1177/1468794111415960)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2011. Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk. Discourse Studies 13(4), pp. 417-434. (10.1177/1461445611403258)
- Smith, R. J., Heley, J. and Stafford, I. 2011. Woolworths and Wales: a multi-dimensional analysis of the loss of a local brand. Sociological Research Online 16(1), article number: 10. (10.5153/sro.2284)
- Smith, R. J. 2011. Goffman's interaction order at the margins: stigma, role, and normalization in the outreach encounter. Symbolic Interaction 34(3), pp. 357-376. (10.1525/si.2011.34.3.357)
- Housley, W. and Smith, R. J. 2010. Innovation and reduction in contemporary qualitative methods: the case of conceptual coupling, activity-type pairs and auto-ethnography. Sociological Research Online 15(4), article number: 9. (10.5153/sro.2216)
- Delamont, S., Atkinson, P. A., Smith, R. J., Da Costa, L., Hillyard, S. and Pilgrim, A. 2010. Review symposium: Martyn Hammersley, Questioning Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Research 10(6), pp. 749-758. (10.1177/1468794110380578)
- Smith, R. J. 2010. SALLY CAMPBELL GALMAN, Shane, The Lone Ethnographer: A Beginner’s Guide to Ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2007. 181 pp. ISBN 9780759103443 (pbk) £17.99 [Book review]. Qualitative Research 10(2), pp. 275-276. (10.1177/14687941100100020902)
- Smith, R. 2010. Whose method is it anyway? Researching space, setting, and practice. Cardiff University Working Paper Series 135, pp. 1-9.
- Housley, W., Moles, K. and Smith, R. 2009. Identity, brand or citizenship: the case of post-devolution Wales. Contemporary Wales 22(1), pp. 196-210.
Llyfrau
- Smith, R., Fitzgerald, R. and Housley, W. eds. 2020. On sacks: methdology, materials, and inspirations. Routledge.
- Smith, R. and Delamont, S. eds. 2019. The lost ethnographies: Methodological insights from projects that never were.. Studies in Qualitative Methodology. Bingley: Emerald.
- Smith, R. J. and Hetherington, K. eds. 2013. Urban rhythms: mobilities, space and interaction in the contemporary city. Sociological Review Monographs. Chichester: Wiley.
Monograffau
- Delamont, S., Atkinson, P., Coffey, A. and Smith, R. 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.
- Maynard, T., Taylor, C. M., Waldron, S., Rhys, M., Smith, R., Power, S. and Clement, J. 2013. Evaluating the Foundation Phase: policy logic model and programme theory. Project Report. [Online]. Welsh Government. Available at: http://gov.wales/docs/caecd/research/130318-evaluating-foundation-phase-policy-logic-model-programme-theory-en.pdf
Research
Key words: interactionism; ethnomethodology; conversation analysis; membership categorisation analysis; mobilities, public space; reasoning; perception; methodography
Teaching
I am currently Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Social Sciences.
I teach on a range of undergraduate modules including Introduction to Sociology (Y1), Key Ideas (Y1), and Introduction to Social Science Research Methods (Y1), Ethnography and Everyday Life (Y2), the Sociology of Stigma (Y3), Sociology on the Move (Y3), Live Theory (Y3), Sociology of Disasters (Y3). I convene a course on Ethnomethodology (Y3). I also teach PGT students a little about EMCA as part of the MSc Social Science Research Methods.
Outside of Cardiff I contribute to NCRM courses on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorisation Analysis (check NCRM website for details).
Biography
Appointments
Present:
Reader in Sociology, Cardiff School of Social Sciences
Previous:
2017-2022 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Cardiff School of Social Sciences
2012-17 Lecturer in Sociology, Cardiff School of Social Sciences
2009-12 Research Assistant (Wales Institute of Social Economic Research and Data, Cardiff University)
Qualifications
2015 Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (Cardiff University)
2010 PhD Sociology (Cardiff University, ESRC 1+3 Quota Award Studentship)
2005 MSc Social Science Research Methods (Cardiff University)
2004 BSc/Econ (Hons.) Sociology and Criminology (Cardiff University)
Other positions and affiliations
Visiting Fellowship, "GenZ Project", Oulu University, Spring 2023
Exceptional Visiting Fellow, CeMoRe, Lancaster University, Spring 2016
Visiting Scholar, City University New York, Graduate Centre
Visting Lecturer, Beijing Normal Univeristy
Fellow of Higher Education Academy.
Honours and awards
Article 'Care and repair and the politics of urban kindness' nominated for Sociology SAGE Prize for Excellence and/or Innovation 2015 (with Tom Hall)
Nominated for Enriching Student Life Awards "Most uplifting member of staff" 2013/4; 2014/5; 2018/19; 2022/23; and "Outstanding Doctoral Supervisor" 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2022/23.
Professional memberships
Memberships
- British Sociological Association
- International Sociological Association
- American Sociological Association
- Higher Education Academy
Affiliations
- MOBSIN (Mobilities and Social Interaction; Aalborg, Cardiff, Helsinki, Linkoping, Paris Telecom, and Oulu universities)
- IIEMCA (International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)
- Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
- ANNSoR (Anglo-Nordic Network; founding member)
- Public Space Research Group (City University, New York)
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising doctoral projects concerned with:
- Interaction(s) in public space
- Mobility practices and mobile scenes
- Ethnography of urban settings/groups
- Studies of everyday and institutional talk
Current PhD supervision
Fiona Long (ESRC): everyday interaction, rituals and barriers in homeless hostels
Verena Stein (ESRC): MBSR, mindfulness, interaction, embodiment
Past projects
Jonathan Ablitt (ESRC): urban patrol, repair, waste, urban parks
Zoe John (ESRC): MMA, embodiment, gender, power
Matthew Howell (ESRC): institutional cultures and homeless hostels
Joseph Williams (ESRC): homelessness and politics of care provision in New York
Mark Berry (Dawes Scholarship): organised crime and drug dealing in "Red City"
Research themes
Specialisms
- ethnography
- ethnomethodology
- mobilities
- membership categorisation analysis