Dr Will Mason
Sheffield Methods Institute
Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences
+44 114 222 8368
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Sheffield Methods Institute
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Will is a sociologist with interests in the study of childhood and youth, consumption, families, identities and inequalities.
Before joining the Sheffield Methods Institute as a lecturer in Qualitative Methods, Will spent one year as a University Teacher in the Department of Sociological Studies (University of Sheffield) and two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working on the Nuffield-funded Child Welfare Inequalities Project. This UK comparative study used mixed methods to identify and explain unequal rates of child welfare interventions, revealing strong relationships between area level deprivation and families’ chances of engagement with child protection services.
- Research interests
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Will’s ongoing research projects use a co-production approach to explore residents’ experience of community services in a low-income neighbourhood and to explore the everyday lives of marginalised young people in a Northern inner-city neighbourhood.
Will's research interests include:
- Childhood and youth
- Youth work
- Social work
- Consumption
- Families
- Identities
- Inequality
- Qualitative research methods
- Mixed methods
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Understanding out of Home Care Rates in Northern Ireland: A Thematic Analysis of Mixed Methods Case Studies. The British Journal of Social Work. View this article in WRRO
- “No one learned”: interpreting a drugs crackdown operation and its consequences though the ‘lens’ of social harm. British Journal of Criminology, 60(2), 382-402. View this article in WRRO
- Towards full integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in case study research: insights from investigating child welfare inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. View this article in WRRO
- Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: Changing the conversation across the UK in child protection?. Children and Youth Services Review, 97, 127-133. View this article in WRRO
- ‘Swagger’: Urban Youth Culture, Consumption and Social Positioning. Sociology, 52(6), 1117-1133. View this article in WRRO
- Some Useful Sources. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 679-681.
- Walking the Walk: changing familial forms, government policy and social work practice. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 603-618. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction: Families, Social Work and the Welfare State: Where Contemporary ‘Family’ Meets Policy and Practice. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 599-602.
- Social work, poverty, and child welfare interventions. Child and Family Social Work, 23(3), 364-372. View this article in WRRO
- The association between child maltreatment and adult poverty – A systematic review of longitudinal research. Child Abuse & Neglect, 77, 121-133. View this article in WRRO
- Using the Framework Method to Analyze Mixed-Methods Case Studies. SAGE Research Methods Cases, Part 2. View this article in WRRO
- Poverty, child abuse and neglect: patterns of cost and spending. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(1), 155-161. View this article in WRRO
- Austerity youth policy: exploring the distinctions between youth work in principle and youth work in practice. Youth and Policy: the journal of critical analysis, 114, 55-74. View this article in WRRO
- Safeguarding Children when Fabricated or Induced illness (FII) is suspected or proven: Reviewing the experiences of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB) in England. Child Abuse Review. View this article in WRRO
Reports
- Youth violence, masculinity and mental health: learning from the communities most affected
- The relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect: a rapid evidence review View this article in WRRO
- ‘You Don’t Come to Maple or You Get Bullets in Your Head’: Somali Youth, Risk Talk and the Realities of Risk Avoidance View this article in WRRO
Website content
- Police drugs crackdown operations can do more harm than good – I’ve seen it.
- Knife crime: folk devils and moral panics?.
- ‘Reproducing the Stereotypes’: Family Complexity, Resource Scarcity and Social Work Decision-Making..
- “No one walks out their house without a knife”: living with violence as a daily threat. View this article in WRRO
- Reframing child welfare inequalities: making sense with research and changing the conversation. View this article in WRRO
- Why those most needing child protection might be least likely to get it.
- A critical case for participant action research in youth work. View this article in WRRO
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- Hermeneutics. In SAGE Research Methods Foundations (Vol 1).
- Understanding out of Home Care Rates in Northern Ireland: A Thematic Analysis of Mixed Methods Case Studies. The British Journal of Social Work. View this article in WRRO