All Outputs (3)

Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life (2017)
Journal Article
Turner, N., & Almack, K. (in press). Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life. Children's Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1350633

This article draws on a narrative study of young people with a parent who is at the end of life to examine how family lives are troubled by life-limiting parental illness. Young people struggled to reconcile the physical and emotional absence of fami... Read More about Troubling meanings of family and competing moral imperatives in the family lives of young people with a parent who is at the end of life.

Young people's perspectives on open communication between family members when a parent is dying (2017)
Journal Article
Turner, N. (2017). Young people's perspectives on open communication between family members when a parent is dying. Palliative and Supportive Care, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951517000578

Objective: Living with a parent who is approaching the end of life is profoundly troubling for young people. Research indicates that family communication about life-limiting parental illness can influence how young people manage living with dying. In... Read More about Young people's perspectives on open communication between family members when a parent is dying.

Recruiting young people to sensitive research: turning the ‘wheels within wheels’ (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, N., & Almack, K. (2017). Recruiting young people to sensitive research: turning the ‘wheels within wheels’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(5), 485-497. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1207943

This article explores the difficulties encountered in recruiting participants for a study of young people living with a parent at the end of life. Far from being a smooth, linear process, recruitment was experienced as a series of overlapping challen... Read More about Recruiting young people to sensitive research: turning the ‘wheels within wheels’.