All Outputs (11)

“Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework (2023)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Callard, F., Pollock, K., Slade, M., & Edgley, A. (2023). “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework. SSM - Mental Health, 3, Article 100221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100221

The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one of chronic ill health to a ‘recovery’ orientation. Knowledge of recovery is based on narratives of people with lived experience of mental distress. H... Read More about “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Pollock, K., Ali, Y., Watson, E., Franklin, D., …Edgley, A. (2022). ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories. Qualitative Health Research, 32(12), 1828-1842. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323221118239

Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department (2022)
Journal Article
Kirk, K., Cohen, L., Edgley, A., & Timmons, S. (2022). ‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department. Journal of Advanced Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15315

Aims: This is the second of two papers conceptualizing emotional labour in the emergency department (ED). This paper aims to understand the environmental ‘moderators’ of ED nurses’ emotional labour. Design: Ethnography, through an interpretivist phil... Read More about ‘You're on show all the time’: Moderating emotional labour through space in the emergency department.

Maternal presenteeism: theorizing the importance for working mothers of 'being there' for their children beyond infancy (2021)
Journal Article
Edgley, A. (2021). Maternal presenteeism: theorizing the importance for working mothers of 'being there' for their children beyond infancy. Gender, Work and Organization, 28(3), 1023-1039. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12619

This study theorizes why full-time working women with partners and school-age children deploy talk of maximal irreplaceable maternal care. The concept of maternal presenteeism frames women's personal beliefs, perceptions, and ambitions as subject to... Read More about Maternal presenteeism: theorizing the importance for working mothers of 'being there' for their children beyond infancy.

“I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department (2021)
Journal Article
Kirk, K., Cohen, L., Edgley, A., & Timmons, S. (2021). “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(4), 1956-1967. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14765

Aims: This study aims to apply Hochschild's theory of emotional labour to emergency care, and uncover the 'specialty-specific' feeling rules driving this labour. Despite the importance of positive nurse wellbeing, the emotional labour of nursing (a g... Read More about “I don’t have any emotions”: An ethnography of emotional labour and feeling rules in the emergency department.

Love, Fear and Disgust: Deconstructing Masculinities and Affective Embodiment in Pregnancy Guides for Men (2021)
Journal Article
Edgley, A., & Roberts, J. (2021). Love, Fear and Disgust: Deconstructing Masculinities and Affective Embodiment in Pregnancy Guides for Men. Men and Masculinities, 24(4), 652-670. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X21990711

© The Author(s) 2021. Employing a material discursive approach, this article deconstructs advice within published guides to pregnancy and birth written by men for men. We deconstruct the representation of feelings and emotions in men during this peri... Read More about Love, Fear and Disgust: Deconstructing Masculinities and Affective Embodiment in Pregnancy Guides for Men.

Introducing midwifery students to the world of research: building the basis for future leaders in evidence-based practice (2020)
Journal Article
Borrelli, S., Walker, L., Jomeen, J., Roberts, J., Edgley, A., Bennett, B., …Spiby, H. (2020). Introducing midwifery students to the world of research: building the basis for future leaders in evidence-based practice. Midirs Midwifery Digest, 30(3), 324-329

This educational project aimed at involving undergraduate midwifery students as co-investigators in research studies, with the primary aim of acquiring first-hand experience of operationalising fundamental aspects of the research process by working w... Read More about Introducing midwifery students to the world of research: building the basis for future leaders in evidence-based practice.

‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study (2020)
Journal Article
Beaver, J., Goldberg, S. E., Edgley, A., & Harwood, R. (2020). ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 107, Article 103589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103589

Background People living with dementia may call out repetitively, sometimes called disruptive vocalisation, or verbal agitation. In literature and policy, patients who call out repetitively are assumed to be expressing an unmet need, which should... Read More about ‘Socialised care futility’ in the care of older people in hospital who call out repetitively: an ethnographic study.

The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Milner, K., Crawford, P., Edgley, A., Hare-Duke, L., & Slade, M. (2019). The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796019000234

Aims Despite an increasing awareness of the importance of spirituality in mental health contexts, a ‘religiosity gap’ exists in the difference in value placed on spirituality and religion by professionals compared with service users. This may be du... Read More about The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review.

Method, methodology and politics (2015)
Book Chapter
Edgley, A. (2015). Method, methodology and politics. In A. Edgley (Ed.), Noam Chomsky. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-32021-6

A number of authors have identified Chomsky’s work as belonging within the critical realist tradition (Wilkin 1997; Edgley 2000; Laffey 2003). In chapter five, Alison Edgley explores some of the epistemological assumptions of critical realism, in or... Read More about Method, methodology and politics.

Being human: transdisciplinarity in nursing (2015)
Journal Article
Timmons, S., Edgley, A., Meal, A., & Narayanasamy, A. (2016). Being human: transdisciplinarity in nursing. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 40(4), 526-542. doi:10.1080/0309877X.2014.984601

Nursing as an academic discipline typically draws on a wide range of other disciplines. There is debate about whether this is a sound basis for the discipline, or whether nursing needs to develop a distinctive body of knowledge. The concept of transd... Read More about Being human: transdisciplinarity in nursing.