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Staff Profile

Dr Neil Jenkings

Senior Research Fellow

  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 3806
  • Address: Geography, Politics & Sociology
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Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Research Fellow School of Geography Politics and Sociology.

Co-Editor of the Routledge book series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 


Qualifications

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

MA Sociology Of Contemporary Society, University of York. 

MSc Research Methods, University of Surrey.

PhD in Sociology, University of Nottingham.


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) Â鶹´«Ã½

Senior Research Associate, GPS, Â鶹´«Ã½.

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Health and Society, Â鶹´«Ã½.

Senior Research Associate, GPS, Â鶹´«Ã½.

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



Research

Major Recent Funded Projects:


  • AHRC (2020-2023) As Co-Investigator on 'Turning RAF Fylingdales Inside-Out'. Project with Prof. Rachel Woodward, Dr. Michael Mulvihill and Ms. Chloe Barker.
  • ESRC (2014-17) As Co-Investigator on 'Keeping enough in reserve: the employment of hybrid citizen-soldiers and the Future Reserves 2020 programme. Project with Prof. Rachel Woodward, Prof. Tim Edmunds, and Dr. Paul Higate.
  • ESRC (2012-14) 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 (Â鶹´«Ã½).


Research Interests Include:


  • Studies of social interaction: members' practices and the local production of collaborative work.
  • Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
  • Research methodology and research methods.
  • Military, culture and society: including military work, military identity and its representations, regulars and reservists service issues; veterans and access to information services; representation in photography and print media; contemporary military memoirs; practices of memorialisation and memory; and University Armed Service Units.
  • Medical, health and social care informatics; Medical and health services work practices, decision-making and information provision; Biobanking.
  • Interaction and collaborative work in rock climbing and navigation.
  • Military art and aesthetics in popular culture.



 

 

Teaching

Not current teaching duties.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Woodward R, Barker C, Cree ASJ, Mulvihill M, Jenkings KN, West H. . Critical Military Studies 2026, 12(1), 102-122.
    • Jenkings KN. . Communication & Medicine 2024, 19(3), 241-255.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Mulvihill M. . Space and Polity 2023, 27(2), 153-168.
    • Jenkings KN, Beales J. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2022, 15(3), 328-349.
    • Jenkings KN. . Critical Military Studies 2022, 9(1), 40-58.
    • Higate P, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Critical Military Studies 2021, 7(2), 173-191.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . Area 2020, 52(3), 505-513.
    • Jenkings KN. . Ethnographic Studies 2018, 15, 38-57.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams A. . Political Geography 2017, 60, 203-212.
    • Gray A, Wilson R, Jenkings KN, Harrison D, Martin M. . Public Money and Management 2017, 37(1), 15-22.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ. . RUSI Journal 2016, 161(1), 32-39.
    • Edmunds T, Dawes A, Higate P, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Defence Studies 2016, 16(2), 118-136.
    • Ruggerone R, Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2015, 38(3), 393–412.
    • Lie MLS, Murtagh MJ, Burges Watson D, Jenkings KN, Mackintosh J, Ford GA, Thomson RG. . Emergency Medicine Journal 2015, 32(5), 357-363.
    • Kleinreesink LHE, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Journal of Political and Military Sociology 2015, 43, 1-26.
    • Rech MF, Bos D, Jenkings KN, Williams A, Woodward R. . Critical Military Studies 2015, 1(1), 47-60.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies 2014, 14(4), 338-350.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . Journal of War & Culture Studies 2014, 7(1), 5-17.
    • Jenkings KN, Megoran N, Woodward R, Bos D. . Area 2012, 44(3), 356-363.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Political Geography 2012, 31(8), 495-508.
    • Murtagh MJ, Watson DLB, Jenkings KN, Lie MLS, Mackintosh JE, Ford GA, Thomson RG. . PLoS One 2012, 7(6), e37066.
    • Murtagh MJ, Demir I, Jenkings KN, Wallace SE, Murtagh B, Boniol M, Bota M, Laflamme P, Boffetta P, Ferretti V, Burton PR. . Public Health Genomics 2012, 15(5), 243-253.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2012, 5(3), 349-369.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Williams AJ, Rech M, Murphy A, Bos D. . Sociology Compass 2011, 5(1), 37-51.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . Sociology 2011, 45(2), 252-268.
    • May CR, Finch TL, Cornford J, Exley C, Gately C, Kirk S, Jenkings KN, Osbourne J, Robinson AL, Rogers A, Wilson R, Mair FS. . BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11(1), 131.
    • Jenkings KN. . Sociology 2009, 43(4), 775-781.
    • Woodward R, Winter T, Jenkings KN. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2009, 2(2), 211-223.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Winter T. . Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 2008, 9(3), Article 30.
    • Jenkings KN, Wilson R. . Informatics in Primary Care 2007, 15(2), 93-101.
    • Jenkings KN. . Health Informatics Journal 2007, 13(1), 57-69.
    • Gibson M, Jenkings KN, Wilson RG, Purves IN. . Social Science and Medicine 2006, 63(6), 1684-1698.
    • Jenkings KN, Barber N. . Text and Talk 2006, 26(2), 169-189.
    • Jenkings KN. . Sociology 2006, 40(5), 957-963.
    • Gibson M, Jenkings KN, Wilson RG, Purves IN. . International Journal of Medical Informatics 2005, 74(6), 425-436.
    • Jenkings KN, Barber N. . Social Science and Medicine 2004, 58(9), 1757-1766.
    • Jenkings KN. . Health Informatics Journal 2004, 10(4), 314-324.

  • Authored Books

    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ. . London, UK: Ubiquity Press, 2015.
    • Jenkings KN. . Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1997.

  • Book Chapters

    • Jenkings KN. . In: Srikant Sarangi, ed. Teamwork and Team Talk: Decision-Making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026. In Press.
    • Jenkings KN. . In: Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Dirk vom Lehn, ed. Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction. Roultedge, 2026. In Press.
    • Carlin AP, Dennis A, Jenkings KN, Linwall O, Mair M. . In: The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology. London: Routledge, 2025. In Press.
    • Jenkings KN. . In: Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology. London and New York: Routledge, 2025, pp.323-334.
    • Jenkings KN, Lindwall O, Carlin AP, Mair M, Dennis A. . In: Andrew P. Carlin, Alex Dennis, K. Neil Jenkings, Oskar Lindwall, Michael Mair, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnomethodology. London and New York: Routledge, 2025, pp.1-22.
    • Woodward R, Barker C, Jenkings KN, Mulvihill M. . In: Cree A, ed. Creative Methods in Military Studies. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . In: Ben-Ari E; Connelly V, ed. Contemporary Military Reserves: Between the Civilian and Military Worlds. London: Routledge, 2023, pp.146-164.
    • Rapley T, Ardron K, Littlefair D, Mullholland K, Jenkings KN. . In: Tiernery R; Rizvi F; Ercikan K, ed. International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2023, pp.285-291.
    • Woodward R, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Jenkings KN. . In: E. Ben-Ari, V. Connolly, ed. Contemporary Military Reserves - Between the Civilian and Military Worlds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022, pp.146-164.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Steinbrecher M; Biehl H; Elbe M, ed. Empirical Social Research in and on the Armed Forces : Comparative and National Perspectives. Potsdam, Germany: ZMSBw, 2022, pp.261-284.
    • Jenkings KN. . In: Schnettler B; Tuma R; vom Lehn D; Traue B; Eberle TS, ed. Kleines Al(e)phabet des Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2019, pp.207-210.
    • Jenkings KN, Dawes A, Edmunds T, Higate P, Woodward R. . In: Orie Swed and Thomas Crosbie, ed. The Sociology of Privatized Security. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp.107-136.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Dawson G; Dover J; Hopkins S, ed. Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2017, pp.91-107.
    • Jenkings KN. . In: Christian Meyer & Ulrich von Wedelstaedt, ed. Moving Bodies in Interaction—Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeal and Interkinesthetic Enaction in Sports. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing, 2017, pp.149-171.
    • Woodward R, Duncanson C, Jenkings KN. . In: Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson, ed. The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp.525-542.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Williams,AJ; Jenkings,KN; Woodward,R.; Rech,MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.71-83.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Walklate,S;McGarry,R, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War. London: Palgrave, 2016, pp.389-405.
    • Jenkings KN, Murphy A, Woodward R. . In: Williams, AJ; Woodward, R; Rech, MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.345-356.
    • Jenkings KN, Bos D. . In: Williams,AJ; Jenkings,KN; Woodward,R; Rech,MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.58-70.
    • Rech MF, Jenkings KN, Williams AJ, Woodward R. . In: Williams, AJ; Jenkings, KN; Woodward, R; Rech, MF, ed. The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods. London: Routledge, 2016, pp.1-17.
    • Kleinreesink LHE, Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Neovi M. Karakatsanis and Jonathan Swarts, ed. Political and Military Sociology: Political Attitudes, Perceptions and Culture: An Annual Review. Transaction Publishers, 2015, pp.1-26.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P., Sheller, M, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities. London, UK: Routledge, 2014, pp.358-366.
    • Jenkings KN. . In: Tolmie, P., Rouncefield, M, ed. Ethnomethodology at Play. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013, pp.191-210.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Gibson, S., Mollan, S, ed. Representations of Peace and Conflict. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2012, pp.105-119.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: McSorely, K, ed. War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience. London, UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.152-164.
    • Jenkings KN. . 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.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN. . In: Kirsch, S., Flint, C, ed. Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.115-131.
    • Woodward R, Jenkings KN, Winter T. . 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.
    • Jenkings KN, Woodward R. . In: Glumnz, C; Schneider, TF, ed. Wahrheitsmaschinen: Der Einfluss technischer Innovationen auf die Darstellung und das Bild des Krieges in den Medien und Künsten. Gottingen: V&R Press, 2010, pp.159-174.
    • Woodward R, Winter R, Jenkings KN. . In: MacDonald, F., Hughes, R., Dodds, K, ed. Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture. London and New York: IB Tauris, 2010, pp.143-166.
    • Rapley T, Jenkings KN. . In: Baker, E; Peterson, P; McGaw, B, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Education. London: Elsevier Science, 2010, pp.380-385.
    • Jenkings KN. . 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, Winter T, Woodward R. . In: Boll J, ed. War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008, pp.95-108.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

    • Jenkings KN, Wilson R, Gibson M, Purves I. . In: International Conference on Pragmatics. 2006, Pune, India: Institute for Advanced Studies in English.

  • Edited Books

    • Carlin AP, Dennis A, Jenkings KN, Lindwall O, Mair M, ed. . London and New York: Routledge, 2025.
    • Williams AJ, Jenkings KN, Woodward R, Rech MF, ed. . London: Routledge, 2016.

  • Editorials

    • Corsby CLT, Sanchez-Garcia R, Jenkings KN. . Sports Coaching Review 2024, 13(1), 1-12.
    • Woodward R, Benwell MC, Jenkings KN, Natale E, Parr H. . Journal of War & Culture Studies 2022, 15(3), 261-265.
    • Hindmarsh J, Jenkings KN, Rapley TJ. . Health Informatics Journal 2007, 13(1), 5-8.

  • Reports

    • Wilson R, Harrison D, Gray A, Martin M, Jenkings KN. . London, UK: Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), 2015.
    • Jenkings KN, Andriychenko D, Robinson G, Smart S. . London: Department of Health, 2006.

  • Reviews

    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2024, 47(4), 610-615.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2021, 44(3), 685-688.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2020, 43(4), 773-776.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2019, 42(2), 342-345.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2018, 41(2), 285-288.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2018, 41(4), 589-591.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2016, 39(1), 162-164.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2015, 38(4), 651-653.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2014, 37(2), 315-317.
    • Jenkings KN. . Symbolic Interaction 2013, 36(1), 99-103.
    • Jenkings KN. . Sociology 2011, 45(2), 350-352.