Rose Rickford

Biography

• PhD Sociology (in progress), University of York
• MA Social Research (Distinction), 2019, University of York
• BA Sociology (First class with distinction), 2007, University of York

Rose is currently working on her PhD research into work of grassroots community organisations during the pandemic. She is considering whether grassroots community organisations were effective in helping to meet human need during the first lockdown in England, concluding that they were. From here, she is considering the ontology of organisations, and what are the conditions of possibility to enable an organisation to support human flourishing.

More broadly, Rose is a radical materialist feminist, and a poststructuralist. She is interested in exploring how domination works in society, and how societies might work differently to enable justice. This brings her to an interest in the role of care within society, and particularly how people can work together reciprocally to meet one another’s’ needs.

Rose is also interested in research methodology, and particularly in questions of ontology and its relationship to social research. Just as different human senses enable us to learn different things about the world, depending on the ontological properties of the things, different research methods can help us answer different types of question depending on the ontological properties of the phenomena under investigation.

Rose is currently an editor for The Radical Notion, an internationally distributed feminist magazine. She has also been an Associate Editor for Contention: A multi-disciplinary journal of social protest.

Research

Rose is currently working on her PhD research, supervised by Dr Clare Jackson and Dr Merran Toerien, funded by the ERSC White Rose Doctoral Training Programme. She is conducting a qualitative study into the work of grassroots community organisations during the first lockdown in England.

Rose has a background in conversation analysis, and is developing a paper on turn-taking in interaction based on her Masters dissertation. She also has an interest in ontology and research methodology, and recently presented a conference paper on the relationship between social constructionism and the erasure of sex as a category in social research.

Rose has worked as a research assistant on a number of healthcare related research projects, including a conversation analytic project looking at shared decision making between clinicians and patients (University of York), a mixed-method study of clinicians' and patients' perceptions of spirituality in mental-health care (University of Huddersfield), and a mixed-method study of women's attitudes to and experiences of cervical screening in England (University of Huddersfield).

Publications

Articles

• Rickford, R, Rogers, M, Halliday, A, Lamptey, P, Kola-Palmer, S. (2023) Attitudes to reducing cervical screening frequency among UK women: A qualitative analysis. Psychooncology. https://doi-org.libproxy.york.ac.uk/10.1002/pon.6117
• Rickford, R. (2022) Feminism and Femalism: We are not the same movement. The Radical Notion. 8:69-79
• Kola-Palmer, S., Rogers, M., Halliday,A., & Rickford, R. (2022).“A lot can happen in five years”:Women's attitudes to extending cervical screening intervals.European Journal of Cancer Care, e13655.https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13655
• Rogers M, Wattis J, Moser R, Borthwick, R., Waters, P. and Rickford, R. (2020) Views of mental health practitioners on spirituality in clinical practice, with special reference to the concepts of spiritually competent practice, availability and vulnerability: A qualitative evaluation. Journal for the Study of Spirituality. 11(1):7-23
• Kitzinger, C., and Rickford, R. (2007). Becoming a Bloke' The Construction of Gender in Interaction. Feminism & Psychology, 17(2): 214-223.
• Land, V., and Rickford, R. (2007). Are LGB people human? The European Convention on heterosexual rights. Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review, 8(1): 28-33.

Reports

• Needham, C., Gleeson, D., Martin, B. and Rickford, R., (2006) Academy schools: case unproven. London: NASUWT.

Book reviews

• Rickford, R., and Kitzinger, C. (2008). Jane Sunderland, Language and gender: An advanced resource book Language in Society, 37(2): 308-310.

Guest blogs

• Rickford, R. (2020) Sharing CA with the public at a research festival, Research on Language and Social Interaction - Blog. Available at: https://rolsi.net/2020/03/06/guest-blog-sharing-ca-with-the-public-at-a-research-festival/

Conference Papers

• Rickford, R. (2022). Social constructionism, sociology and sex denial (or what happens if social scientists forget the world exists). Unpublished paper presented at 'Let's Talk About Sex', Workshop, University of York, May 2022, and also at 'Early career perspectives on sex, gender and feminism', Open University Gender Critical Research Network online public workshop, June 2022.

Teaching

Rose has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant on 2nd Year undergraduate modules Language of Turn and Sequence (Department of Language and Linguistic Sciences) and Social Interaction and Conversation Analysis (Department of Sociology), and 1st year undergraduate module Introduction to Sociological Theory (Department of Sociology). 

She has completed the York Learning and Teaching Award (for which she was awarded a Portfolio Prize) and is an Associate Fellow of Advanced HE.