Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Research Associate, School of Geography Politics and Sociology

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Social Research, University of Northumbria.

Diploma of the Market Research Society

MA Sociology Of Contemporary Society, University of York. 

MSc Research Methods, University of Surrey.

PhD in Sociology, University of Nottingham.

UKCHIP (Council for Health Informatics Professionals) Level 3

Previous Positions

DAAD, Scholarship, Alfred Schutz Memorial Archive, University of Konstanz, Germany. 

Post-Doc Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy, University College London

Senior Research Associate, Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics (SCHIN) Newcastle University

Senior Research Associate, GPS, Newcastle University.

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Health and Society, Newcastle University.

Senior Research Associate, GPS, Newcastle University.

Research Consultant, Dept. of Health Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Leicester. 

Memberships

British Sociological Association

International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 

International Visual Sociology Association.

UK Health Informatics Professionals.

Research Interests

Military representation in photography and print media, contemporary military memoirs and University Armed Service Units.

Health Informatics, Medical and Health Services Decision-Making and Information Provision and Biobanking.

Interaction and collaborative work in rock climbing.

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. 

Current Work

University Armed Service Units, Militarism and Popular Culture, Representations of the Military.

Future Research

On-going studies in Military Culture, Health Informatics, Biobanking and Rock climbing - but open to interesting suggestions!

Major Recent Funded Projects

ESRC (2012-) As Co-investigator on 'The Value of the University Armed Service Units'. Project with Dr Alison William and Prof. Rachel Woodward.

ESRC (2009-11)As Co-Investigator on 'The Social Production of the Contemporary British Military Memoir'. Project with Prof. Rachel Woodward.

ESRC (2006-07) As Research Associate on 'Negotiating identity and Representation in the Mediated Armed Forces'. With Dr Trish Winter (University of Sunderland) and Professor Rachel Woodward (Newcastle University).

• Jenkings KN. Adjudicating Accounts: A Review of Dupret's Ethnomethodological Studies of Arab Practices. Symbolic Interaction 2013, 36(1), 99-103.
• Jenkings KN. An ethnomethodological look at rock climbing. In: Rouncefield, M., Tolmie, P, ed. Ethnomethodology at Play. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. In Press.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Soldiers. In: Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P., Sheller, M, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. London, UK: Routledge, 2013. In Press.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. 'This place isn't worth the left boot of one of our boys': Geopolitics, militarism and memoirs of the Afghanistan war. Political Geography 2012, 31(8), 495-508.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Military memoirs, their covers, and the reproduction of public narratives of war. Journal of War and Culture Studies 2012, 5(3), 349-369.
• Jenkings KN. On Joking and Smoking with Christian. In: Luff, P., Hindmarsh, J., vom Lehn, D., Schnettler, B, ed. Work, Interaction and Technology: A Festschrift for Christian Heath. London, UK: King's College London and Universitat Bayreuth, 2012, pp.34-35.
• Murtagh MJ, Demir I, Jenkings KN, Wallace SE, Murtagh B, Boniol M, Bota M, Laflamme P, Boffetta P, Ferretti V, Burton PR. Securing the Data Economy: Translating Privacy and Enacting Security in the Development of DataSHIELD. Public Health Genomics 2012, 15(5), 243-253.
• Murtagh MJ, Watson DLB, Jenkings KN, Lie MLS, Mackintosh JE, Ford GA, Thomson RG. Situationally-Sensitive Knowledge Translation and Relational Decision Making in Hyperacute Stroke: A Qualitative Study. PLoS One 2012, 7(6), e37066.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Soldiers' bodies and the contemporary British military memoir. In: McSorely, K, ed. War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience. London, UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.152-164.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Soldiers' Photographic Representations of Participation in Armed Conflict. In: Gibson, S., Mollan, S, ed. Representations of Peace and Conflict. Palgrave McMillan, 2012, pp.105-119.
• Jenkings KN, Megoran N, Woodward R, Bos D. Wootton Bassett and the political spaces of remembrance and mourning. Area 2012, 44(3), 356-363.
• May CR, Finch TL, Cornford J, Exley C, Gately C, Kirk S, Jenkings KN, Osbourne J, Robinson AL, Rogers A, Wilson R, Mair FS. Integrating telecare for chronic disease management in the community: What needs to be done?. BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11(1), 131.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Military Identities in the Situated Accounts of British Military Personnel. Sociology 2011, 45(2), 252-268.
• Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Williams AJ, Rech M, Murphy A, Bos D. Military Occupations: Methodological approaches and the Military-Academy research nexus. Sociology Compass 2011, 5(1), 37-51.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Winter T. Negotiating military identities: British soldiers, memory and use of photographs. In: Hall, K., Jones, K.N, ed. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Histography, Culture and Media. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2011, pp.53-72.
• Woodward R, Jenkings KN. Reconstructing the Colonial Present in British Soldiers' Accounts of the Afghanistan Conflict. In: Kirsch, S., Flint, C, ed. Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011, pp.115-131.
• Jenkings KN. Watson, R., 'Analysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach', Ashgate, 2009 [book review]. Sociology 2011, 45(2), 350-352.
• Woodward R, Winter R, Jenkings KN. 'I used to keep a camera in my top left-hand pocket’: the photographic practices of British soldiers. In: Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes, Klaus Dodds, ed. Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture. London: IB Tauris, 2010, pp.143-166.
• Rapley T, Jenkings KN. Document Analysis. In: Baker, E; Peterson, P; McGaw, B, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Education. London: Elsevier Science, 2010, pp.380-385.
• Jenkings KN, Woodward R. Negotiating Identity: Representation and self-repesentation of the soldier in photographs and memoirs. In: Glumnz, C; Schneider, TF, ed. Wahrheitsmaschen (Machines of Truth). Gottingen: V&R Press, 2010, pp.159-174.
• Woodward R, Winter T, Jenkings KN. Heroic anxieties: the figure of the British soldier in contemporary print media. Journal of War and Culture Studies 2009, 2(2), 211-223.
• Jenkings KN. Studies in and as Ethnomethodology: Garfinkel and his Ethnomethodological 'Bastards'. Sociology 2009, 43(4), 775-781.
• Jenkings KN, Winter T, Woodward R. 'Presentations of Soldierly Identity in Print Media and Soldiers' own Photographic Accounts'. In: Boll J, ed. War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008, pp.95-108.
• Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Winter T. The Emergent Production of Analysis in Photo Elicitation: Pictures of Military Identity. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2008, 9(3), Article 30.
• Jenkings KN. User-Designer Relations in Technology Production: The Development and Evaluation of an 'Animator' Tool to Facilitate User Involvement in the Development of Electronic Health Records. In: Voss A; Hartswood M; Procter R; Rouncefield M; Slack RS; Büscher M, ed. Configuring User-designer Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: Springer, 2008, pp.61-85.
• Jenkings KN. Implementation, change management and benefit realization: investigating the utility of ethnographically enriched process maps. Health Informatics Journal 2007, 13(1), 57-69.
• Hindmarsh J, Jenkings KN, Rapley TJ. Introduction to healthcare technologies in practice. Health Informatics Journal 2007, 13(1), 5-8.
• Jenkings KN, Wilson R. The challenge of electronic health records (EHRs) design and implementation: Responses of health workers to drawing a 'big and rich picture' of a future EHR programme using animated tools. Informatics in Primary Care 2007, 15(2), 93-101.
• Jenkings KN, Wilson R, Gibson M, Purves I. Directing patients’ attention from and towards artefacts: medical and information technologies in doctor-patient consultations. In: International Conference on Pragmatics. 2006, Pune, India: Institute for Advanced Studies in English.
• Jenkings KN. Garfinkel and his ethnomethodological 'bastards'. Sociology 2006, 40(5), 957-963.
• Jenkings KN, Andriychenko D, Robinson G, Smart S. Knowledge Needs of Extended Formulary and Nurse Supplementary Prescribers: Survey Report. Dept. of Health, 2006.
• Jenkings KN, Barber N. Same evidence, different meanings: Transformation of textual evidence in hospital new drugs committees. Text and Talk 2006, 26(2), 169-189.
• Gibson M, Jenkings KN, Wilson RG, Purves IN. Verbal prescribing in general practice consultations. Social Science and Medicine 2006, 63(6), 1684-1698.
• Gibson M, Jenkings KN, Wilson RG, Purves IN. Multi-tasking in practice: Coordinated activities in the computer supported doctor-patient consultation. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2005, 74(6), 425-436.
• Jenkings KN. Problems encountered in integrated care records research. Health Informatics Journal 2004, 10(4), 314-324.
• Jenkings KN, Barber N. What constitutes evidence in hospital new drug decision making?. Social Science and Medicine 2004, 58(9), 1757-1766.