Sikes, Pat, Emeritus Professor

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Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes

Cert Ed, BEd, PhD

School of Education

Professor Emeritus of Qualitative Inquiry

p.j.sikes@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8158

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Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes
School of Education
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Research interests

As Professor Emeritus I continue to be involved in research, writing, out-reach, and consultancy. My academic career began in 1978 and since then my interests have been around: qualitative, and especially narrative and auto/biographical approaches, to research and its re-presentation; research ethics; and social justice issues. In September 2018 I was awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship by the British Educational Research Association for an outstanding contribution to educational research over a career and as far as I can I hope to continue to live up to this honour.

In 2022, in ‘retirement’, as well as being grandma to 4 amazing little people who are teaching me so much about life and living, I am involved in the following activities:

a study in collaboration with Professor Caroline Gelman at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Dr Mel Hall from MMU, looking at how people at risk of inherited dementias make decisions about whether to have genetic testing

working with the Further and Higher Education Authority in Malta, in the field of research ethics and accreditation of higher education institutions

acting in a consultant capacity for the UK Research Integrity Office ()

active membership of the workstream, working with academics and people living with dementia to best target and disseminate research

active membership of the Alzheimer’s Society Research Network and the Three Nations Dementia Working Group

I am on the editorial boards of the British Educational Research Journal, the International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Qualitative Research, and the Qualitative Research Journal

Publications

Books

Sikes P & Piper H (2011) Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research. London: Routledge.
Sikes P & Piper H (2009) Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools. Routledge.

Edited books

Goodson I, Sikes P, Antikainen A & Andrews M (Eds.) (2016) The Routledge International Handbook of Narrative and Life History. London: Routledge.
Sikes PJ (Ed.) (2013) Autoethnography. London: Sage.
Sikes P & Piper H (Ed.) (2011) Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research. Routledge.
Sikes PJ, nixon J & Carr W (Eds.) (2003) The Moral Foundations of Educational Research: Knowledge, Inquiry and Value. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
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Sikes P & Potts A (Ed.) () . Routledge.

Journal articles

Sikes P & Hall M (2020) ‘It’s just limboland’: Parental dementia and young people’s life courses. The Sociological Review, 68(1), 242-259.
Sikes PJ & Hall M (2018) . British Educational Research Journal, 44(4), 593-607.
Hall M & Sikes PJ (2018) . Families, Relationships and Societies, 7(2), 207-225.
Hall M & Sikes PJ (2018) . Illness, Crisis, and Loss, 26(2), 124-144.
Sikes P & Hall MJ (2018) . Dementia, 17(2), 180-198.
Sikes PJ & Hall M (2017) . Qualitative Health Research.
Sikes PJ & Hall M (2017) . Mortality, 22(4), 324-338.
Sikes PJ (2015) Hijacked by the project? Research which demands to be done.. Research in Teacher Education, 5(1), 45-50.
Sikes P (2013) Researching The Perceptions and Experiences of Children and Young People Who Have a Parent With Dementia: Ethical Considerations and Concerns. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, 12, 884-884.
Sikes PJ (2013) Working Together for Critical Research Ethics. Compare, 43, 516-536.
Lavia J, Neckles T & Sikes P (2011) . Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 1(1), 112-129.
Sikes P & Piper H (2011) . Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-10.
Sikes PJ & Piper H (2010) . International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 33(3), 205-213.
Lavia J & Sikes PJ (2010) . Power and Education, 2(1), 85-96.
Sikes P (2010) . Ethnography and Education, 5(2), 143-157.
Sikes P (2009) . International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 32(1), 13-24.
Sikes P (2008) . Qualitative Inquiry, 14(2), 235-253.
Sikes P, Lawson H & Parker M (2007) . International Journal of Inclusive Education, 11(3), 355-370.
Sikes P (2006) . Qualitative Inquiry, 12(3), 523-540.
Sikes P (2006) . Studies in Higher Education, 31(5), 555-568.
Sikes P (2006) . Sex Education, 6(3), 265-280.
Wellington J & Sikes P (2006) . Studies in Higher Education, 31(6), 723-734.
Sikes P (2005) . Qualitative Research, 5(1), 79-94.

Conference proceedings papers

Sikes P & Hall M (2018) "It'd Be Easier If She'd Died'': Researching and Reporting "Taboo'' Issues. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 17(1) (pp 50-50)
Sikes P & Hall M (2018) "You Start Grieving Even When They're Standing Right in Front of You": The Grief of Children and Young People Who Have a Parent With Young Onset Dementia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 17(1) (pp 28-28)

Publications - 2022

Sikes, P. & Platt, M. (2022) ‘Discovering ethnography and passing on the baton: exploring life in a hospital school’ Qualitative Research Journal Early Cite, April 12
Sikes, P. & Hall, M. (2022)‘The perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with dementia’ in de Vught, M., Millenaar, J. & Carter, J. (Eds) Understanding young onset dementia: evaluation, needs and care London, Routledge, pp. 88 -99.

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School of Education

School of Education

Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes

Books

Edited books

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