Dr Julie Parsons

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Parsons, J.M. (2019) Narrative re-scripting: Reconciling past and present lives, Auto/Biography review 2018, (editor) Andrew C. Sparkes, published by the British Sociological Association Auto/Biography Study Group, Russell Press, Nottingham, Chapter 8, pp 111-128

Parsons J.M. (2018) Commensality as a theatre for witnessing change for criminalised individuals working at a resettlement scheme, European Journal of Probation,Volume 10, Issue 3, pp182-198 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2066220318819239

Parsons, J.M. (2018) Virtual social media spaces, a relational arena for ‘bearing witness’ to desistance, Papers from the British Criminological Conference 2018, Vol 18, http://www.britsoccrim.org/papers-from-the-british-criminology-conference-2018/

Parsons, J (2018) Book Review: McLeod, K. Wellbeing Machine: How Health Emerges from the Assemblages of Everyday Life. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 2017. 234 pp $39 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-61163-705, Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol 119, Iss 5, pp 1079-1090.

Parsons, J.M. and Hocking, S (2018) The Lived experience of Carrots and Risks, voices from within the criminal justice system, ISRF Bulletin XV1, pp32-38, https://issuu.com/isrf/docs/isrf_bulletin_issue_xvi

Parsons, J.M. (2017) Cooking with Offenders to improve health and wellbeing. Special issue of the British Food Journal on Cooking, Health and Evidence, Vol 119, Iss 5, pp 1079-1090.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) “I much prefer to feed other people than to feed myself.” The ’i-poem’ as a tool for highlighting ambivalence and dissonance within Auto/Biographical accounts of everyday foodways, in a Special Issue of The Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, Offering Food ↔ Receiving Food, Vol 10, Iss 2 (unpaginated) http://www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/volume-10-issue-2-october-2017/

Pettinger, C., Parsons, J.M., Withers, L., Daprano G., Cunningham, M, Whiteford, A., Ayers, R., Sutton, C., and Letherby, G. (2017), Engaging homeless individuals in dscussions about their food experiences to optimise wellbeing: a pilot study, Health Education Journal, Vol 76, Iss 5, pp 557-568.

Parsons, J.M. and Pettinger, C. (2017) ‘Liminal identities’ and power struggles, reflections on the regulation of everyday foodways at a homeless centre and the use of creative participatory research as a tool of empowerment and resistance, in Bleakley, A. Lynch, L. and Whelan, G. (eds) Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp171-189.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) Book Review: Food and Femininity, by Cairns, K and Johnston, J. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, in The Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies Vol: 97(4), pp273-275.

Fok, J., Parsons, J. and Corrigan, O. (2016) Social and Cultural Aspects of Food Shopping, a pilot study of mum’s healthy and unhealthy food choices, Healthwatch Essex, http://www.healthwatchessex.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Social-and-Cultural-aspects-of-food-shopping-report.pdf.

Bos, E., Brown G., Parsons, J., Halliday, J. and Brady, G., (2016) Supporting Rehabilitation: A pilot study exploring the role of community and land based models, Coventry University, Centre for Business in Society (CBiS). http://www.coventry.ac.uk/Global/08%20New%20Research%20Section/CBiS/Supporting%20Rehabilitation%20report.pdf

Parsons, J.M. (2016) When convenience is inconvenient, ‘healthy’ family foodways and the persistent intersectionalities of gender and class, Journal of Gender Studies, Vol 25, Iss 4, pp382-397.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) The joy of food play - an exploration of the continued intersectionalities of gender and class in men’s auto/biographical accounts of everyday foodways. Special Issue on Food in Women, Gender and Research, Vol 24, no 3-4, pp 35-47.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) Book Review: A Fat Girl’s Manifesto, A thin book on living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Peter E. Randall, 2015., in Fat Studies Journal, volume 5(1) 2016.

Parsons, J.M. (2015) ‘Food Work’ in Michelini, A. (Eds) Food, Nutrition, Agriculture: The Challenge for the New Millennium, 2nd Edition, UK and IT.

Parsons, J.M. and Jarvie, R.J. (2015) 'Fat' editorial. M/C Journal, A Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.18, No:3. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/1001.

Brown, G., Davidson, D., Harvey, J.,Letherby, G., and Parsons, J.M. (2015) HE(R)tales: reflections on some auto/biographical inter/multi-connections in academia, in Sparkes, C. (Ed) Auto/Biography Yearbook, Russell Press, Nottingham.

Parsons, J.M. (2015) Gender, Class and Food: families, bodies and health, Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/gender-class-and-food-julie-m-parsons/?K=9781137476401.

Parsons, J. M. (2015) "Good" Food as Family Medicine: Problems of Dualist and Absolutist Approaches to "Healthy" Family Foodways, Journal of Food Studies, Vol 4, Issue 2, pp 1-13. http://ijo.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.199/prod.94.

Parsons, J. (2014) "Cheese and Chips out of Styrofoam Containers": an Exploration of Taste and Cultural Symbols of Appropriate Family Foodways, M/C Journal, A Journal of Media and Culture vol.17, No. 1 - 'taste'. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/766

Parsons, J. (2014) 'Ourfoodstories@email.com', An Auto/Biographical Study of relationships with Food, PhD thesis,

Parsons, J. (2011) What Constitutes ‘doing’ feminism? Reflecting upon the unpublished auto/biographical work of Peggy Barclay. In Auto/Biography Yearbook. Sparkes, C. (Ed). Russell Press, Nottingham.

Halliday J., Parsons, J., and Wilkinson, T. (2018) LandWorks Evaluation Final Report (August 2018), Plymouth, University of Plymouth.

Fok, J., Parsons, J. and Corrigan, O. (2016) Social and Cultural Aspects of Food Shopping, a pilot study of mum’s healthy and unhealthy food choices, Healthwatch Essex, http://www.healthwatchessex.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Social-and-Cultural-aspects-of-food-shopping-report.pdf

Bos, E., Brown G., Parsons, J., Halliday, J. and Brady, G., (2016) Supporting Rehabilitation: A pilot study exploring the role of community and land based models, Coventry University, Centre for Business in Society (CBiS). http://www.coventry.ac.uk/Global/08%20New%20Research%20Section/CBiS/Supporting%20Rehabilitation%20report.pdf

Halliday J., Wilkinson, T., and Parsons, J. (2016) LandWorks Interim Evaluation Report: Year 1. Plymouth: Plymouth University.

Parsons, J. (2016) (Editor) “It is What it is”, LandWorks Recipe Book, Volume 1, Cats-Solutions, Swindon, available at https://landworks.org.uk/portfolio/cook-book/

Parsons J.M. (2019) Virtual desistance dialogues; an opportunity for building bridges and as resettlement ritual. European Society of Criminology Conference, 19th Annual Conference, ConverGENT roads, bridges and new pathways in criminology, 18th-21st September, Ghent, Belgium

Parsons, J.M. (2019) “Whose timeline is it anyway?” Coproducing the visual in the pursuit of social justice. British Autoethnography Conference 2019, Bristol, July 22nd-23rd.

Parsons, J.M. and Harvey, J., (2019) Childing’: the influence of place on childhood reflections, BSA Auto/Biography Summer Conference, Wolfson College, Oxford 18th – 20th July.

Parsons, J.M. (2019) Relating to food, beyond resistance and disruption: prisoners’ accounts of everyday foodways from the resettlement wing of a prison in England – A Case Study. 6th BSA Food Studies Group Conference, Monash University, Prato, Italy, 24th – 25th June.

Parsons, J.M. (2019) “I’m neither up nor down”; exploring the coproduction of narratives of transition with those reintegrating into the community after punishment. 4th Annual Ethnographies of Crime and Control Symposium, Glasgow, 13th – 14th June.

Parsons, J.M. (2019) Exploring the benefits of the material and the virtual in the narratives of those working towards release into the community after punishment. Institute of Health & Community (IHC) Auto/Biography Seminar, University of Plymouth, 1st April.

Parsons, J.M. (2018), Reconciling past and past present lives, whilst imagining ‘non-criminalised’ future selves. Narratives of reflection from prisoners working at a resettlement scheme, BSA Auto/Biography Winter Conference, Friends Meeting House, London, Friday 7th December 2019

Parsons, J.M. (2018) “At least it’s not bread and water”: Beyond resistance and disruption, ambivalence and generativity in prisoners’ narrative reflections on the lived experience of everyday foodways in a UK prison. FOOD IN PRISON, International and multidisciplinary, perspectives, 21-22 September 2018, Brussels (Belgium)

Parsons, J.M. (2018) Family narratives, inside-out, the lived experience of family life from prison, BSA Auto/Biography Summer Conference 2018, Wolfson College, Oxford, 19-21st July

Parsons, J.M. (2018) Visualising desistance dialogues through social media platforms and the benefits of imagined social capital for ‘offenders’ working at a resettlement scheme (RS), British Society of Criminology Conference 2018, Birmingham City University, 3-6th July

Parsons, J.M. (2018), Gendering ‘noshtalgia’: tastes of reflection, food memories and the temporal affects of sedimented personal histories on everyday foodways. Food and Embodied Identities in the Early Modern and Modern World c. 1500 - c. 2000, Room 5, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Friday 29 June 2018

Parsons, J.M. and Hocking, S. (2018) The lived experience of ‘carrots’ and ‘risks’: Voices from Within the Criminal Justice System, ISRF Workshop, Law, Social Organisation and Social Control, All Souls College, Oxford, 15th June 2018

Parsons, J.M. (2018) Examining the benefits of social capital for ‘offender’ health and wellbeing at a resettlement scheme (RS), Institute of Health & Community (IHC) Seminar, June 13th, University of Plymouth

Parsons, J.M. (2018) The Photographic electronic Narrative (PeN) project, creating a social space for the disembodied articulation of ‘imagined social capital’ for ‘offenders’ working at a resettlement scheme (RS), BSA Annual Conference, Theme: Identity, Community and Social Solidarity, Northumbria University, 10/12th April

Parsons J.M. and Pettinger, C. (2018) Creative and collaborative approaches to research, Institute of Health and Community (IHC) Showcase event, Plymouth University, Wednesday 24th January 2018

Parsons J.M. and Hocking, S. (2018) The PeN project at LandWorks: enabling dialogue and connecting the community with those looking to re/integrate after punishment (poster presentation), Effective Community Engagement, Devonport Guildhall, Monday 22nd January 2018

Parsons, J.M. (2017) “Interacting with women has probably helped as well”, on ‘doing’ gender in the field, BSA Auto/Biography Summer Conference, Dartington Hall, 19th – 21st July 2017.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) The PeN project as a tool for generating dialogue between offenders and the wider community, British Society of Criminology Conference, Forging Social Justice: Local Challenges, Global Complexities, Sheffield Hallam University - 4-7th July 2017.

Parsons J.M. (2017) The transformative potential of commensality as an aid to social inclusion. BSA Food Study Group Conference: Food & Society 2017, What is food? And how should we study it? University of Westminster, 26-27th June 2017.

Adlam, J., Turner., K, Ali, G., Goodall, J., Parsons, J.M., Nott, S., Plumb, C., (2017), Offering Food <->Receiving Food, A Symposium, BSA Food Study Group Conference: Food & Society 2017, What is food? And how should we study it? University of Westminster, 26-27th June 2017.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) The PeN Project: Developing capitals through Photographic e-Narratives (PeN) at an offender resettlement scheme. Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Workshop: Today’s Future, Challenges and Opportunities Across the Social Sciences, Het Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam 21st and 22nd June 2017.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) Mapping the transformative potential of participatory styles of research with vulnerable, marginalised and/or hard-to-reach groups, ISRF Workshop: Today’s Future, Challenges and Opportunities Across the Social Sciences, Het Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam 21st and 22nd June 2017.

Parsons, J.M. (2017) What choice Brexit? And the impact of neo-liberal discourses of responsible individualism on the aspirations of offenders working at a local resettlement scheme. Brexit Criminology: What are the implications for crime, justice and society, Institute for Social, Policy and Enterprise Research (iSPER), Plymouth University, April 5th 2017.

Parsons, J.M. and Hodge, S.J. (2017) “I don’t ever feel trapped in jail, my mind is free”, exploring ‘craft love’ and creativity; reimagining identities through photographic e-narratives, Beyond Words: Privileging the Unspoken in Arts and Communities in a Posthuman World, Institute of Health and Community, Plymouth University 14th - 15th March 2017.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) “Last time I was interviewed I was in custody…” Mediating potential ‘harms’, negotiating power relations and doing ‘normal’ whilst conducting research with trainees (prisoners released on temporary licence (ROTL) and men on community licence) at a resettlement scheme (RS). Auto/Biography Event on Researcher/Respondent Identities, Institute of Health and Community (IHC), Plymouth University, 7th September 2016.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) Reflections on the presentation of self during fieldwork at a rural prisoner resettlement scheme. BSA Auto/Biography Summer Residential Conference, Oxford, 2016.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) “Commensality” as a tool for social inclusion and community resilience at a rural, land-based project for current and former prisoners. Joint Annual Meetings and Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS); the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS); and the Canadian Association for Food Studies Association (CAFS), “Scarborough Fare: Global Foodways and Local Foods in a Transnational City” The University of Toronto, Scarborough (UTSC), 2016.

Parsons, J.M. (2016) Connecting/re-connecting, offenders/ex-offenders with the wider community through commensality and everyday foodways. BSA Annual Conference, Aston University, 6-8th April 2016.

Parsons, J.M. (2015) Negotiating researcher/‘expert’ identities and building trust with those involved in commensal activities at an offender/ex-offender resettlement scheme. BSA Auto/Biography Christmas Conference, 12/2015.

Parsons, J. M. (2015) Another piece of cake: An auto/biographical assemblage, inhabiting the margins and balancing contradictions, lessons on becoming a reflexive researcher. BSA Auto/Biography Summer Conference, Dartington Hall, 16-18 July 2015.

Parsons, J.M. and Pettinger, C., (2015) ‘Liminal identities’, reflections on resistance and empowerment in researcher/respondent relations when utilising a creative participatory research approach. Medical Humanities Conference, Dartington Hall, UK, 23-25 June 2015.

Letherby, G. and Parsons, J. (2015) 'Dear researcher' Revisited: methodological reflections on data collection via e(mail), BSA Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, 15-17th April 2015.

Parsons, J. (2014)"Good" Food as Family Medicine: Problems of Dualist and Absolutist Approaches to"Healthy" Family Foodways, Fourth International Conference on Food Studies, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy,20-21 October 2014.

Parsons, J., Pinkney, J., and Letherby, G. (2014) 'To feel healthier' and 'to be normal', multiple obesities and meanings of success, Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) as a weight loss tool. 46th BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, Aston University. 10th – 12th September 2014.

Parsons, J. and Letherby, G. (2014) "Reset to Normal": An Exploration of Narrative Accounts of Weight Loss Surgery (WLS)', 14th Annual Plymouth Symposium on Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, Plymouth PG Medical Centre at Derriford Hospital, 22nd May 2014.

Parsons, J. (2014) 'Feeding Time and Time for Feeding, How Feeding the Family can be a Source of Cultural Capital for Mothers in the UK', BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 23-25th April 2014.

Parsons, J., Pinkney, J., Letherby, G., (2014) 'Weight Loss Practices, including Weight Loss Surgery: Gendered negotiations of 'Failure' and 'Success', BSA Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 23-25th April 2014

Parsons, J. (2013) 'I was a Fat B... I went from Almost 110 kg to 79 kg, but People Were asking how the Treatment was going?' An Exploration of Gendered Responses to Dietary and Weight Management Practices. 45th BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference, York University. 11th – 13th September 2013.

Parsons, J. (2013) ‘My Food Story’ or ‘ourfoodstories@e-mail.com, snapshots of the self and others within a shifting foodscape. 22nd Auto/Biography Conference, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona. 11th – 13th July 2013.

Parsons, J. (2013) ‘Until we shed the ingrained belief that thin is beautiful, I fear we are lost!’ - An exploration of the role of ‘fat’ talk and how the affective sedimentation of hetero-normative practices of femininity can contribute to weight based stigma. Weight and Stigma Conference, University of Birmingham. 16th May 2013.

Parsons, J. (2013) 'Longing' within the Heroic Middle Ground: Lipoliteracy and the Emotional Appetite for the Thin Ideal. BSA Annual Conference, Connaught Rooms, London. 3rd – 5th April 2013.