Families and Food Outputs

Publications

Knight, A. (2012) Families and food in hard times: methodological innovations for studying habitual practices in times of austerity. NCRM Methods News Spring 2012, p.6.

Knight, A. (2014) Using Narrative Archival Data: Studying Food and Families in Hard Times. Sage Research Methods Cases

Knight, A., O'Connell, R. and Brannen, J. (2014) The temporality of food practices; intergenerational relations, childhood memories and mothers' food practices in working families with young children, Families, Relationships and Societies 3 (2) 303-318.

Knight, A. Brannen, J. and O'Connell, R. (in press, Spring 2015) Re-using community oral history sources to study food and family life in the Lake District and East London during the First World War. Oral History Journal

Knight, A., Brannen, J. and O'Connell, R. Using narrative sources from the Mass Observation Archive to study everyday food and families in hard times: Food practices in England during 1950, Sociological Research Online.

Knight, A., Brannen, J. and O'Connell, R. (forthcoming) Studying family food practices through the secondary analysis of qualitative narrative data. An overview of the literature. NCRM Working Paper

Knight, A., Brannen, J. and O'Connell, R. (forthcoming) Using narrative archival data to study food and family life in hard times: Mass Observation, Oral History and Visual Sources. NCRM Working Paper

O'Connell, R., Knight, A., and Brannen, J (forthcoming) Food austerity from an historical perspective: Making sense of 1950's Mass Observation data in the contemporary era, Discover Society

O'Connell, R., Knight, A. and Brannen, J. (forthcoming) Revealing the unremarkable? Some methodological reflections on the possibilities of researching domestic food practices.

Events

Tales from the Archives: How do food researchers from different disciplines use archives. The British Library. November 19th 2012.

Mass Observation: looking at family lives. Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex, March 20th 2013.

Voices and the Archive: Oral History Research and Researchers. October Gallery, November 20th 2013.

Conference Presentations

O'Connell, R. and Knight, A. (2013) Disclosing Food Practices: Revealing the unremarkable? Disclosure Seminar, IOE in collaboration with Monash University.

Knight, A (2012) Why this seminar? Using narrative archival data to study food. Tales from the Archive: how do food researchers from different disciplines use archives? The British Library, November 2012.

Knight, A. (2013) Using autobiographical narratives from the Mass Observation Archive to study food and families in hard times. British Sociological Association (BSA) conference, April 2013, The British Library, London.

Brannen, J. (2013) Food practices in Westmorland in the early twentieth century: Using archival oral history data. Voices and the archive: oral history, research and researchers, 20th November 2013, October Gallery, London.

Knight, A. (2014) Food and Families in the Archives: Methodological reflections on using narrative archival data to study food and families in hard times. Food, Children and Youth: What's Eating? Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL) February 21-22, 2014 Lisbon, Portugal.

Knight, A. (2014) Disruption, childhood memories and food practices: Re-using oral hsitory narratives to study food and families in hard times, England 1914-18. European Social Science History Conference, April 2014. Vienna, Austria.

Knight, A. (2014) Food and families in the archives: methodological reflections on using narrative archival data to study food and families in hard times. NOVELLA conference, St Catherine's College, July 2014.

Knight, A. (2014). Food and families in the archives: methodological reflections on using narrative archival data to study food and families. Invited presentation at Family History: Facilitating Intergenerational and Intercultural Exchange, conference organised by Archives of Cultural History, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia, November 3-4 November 2014.