Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes

Cert Ed, BEd, PhD

School of Education

Professor Emeritus of Qualitative Inquiry

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p.j.sikes@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 8158

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Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Research interests

As Professor Emeritus I continue to be involved in research, writing, out-reach, and consultancy. My academic career began in 1978 and since then my interests have been around: qualitative, and especially narrative and auto/biographical approaches, to research and its re-presentation; research ethics; and social justice issues. In September 2018 I was awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship by the British Educational Research Association for an outstanding contribution to educational research over a career and as far as I can I hope to continue to live up to this honour.

In 2022, in ‘retirement’, as well as being grandma to 4 amazing little people who are teaching me so much about life and living, I am involved in the following activities:

  • a study in collaboration with Professor Caroline Gelman at Hunter College, City º£½ÇÉçÇø of New York, and Dr Mel Hall from MMU, looking at how people at risk of inherited dementias make decisions about whether to have genetic testing
  • working with the Further and Higher Education Authority in Malta, in the field of research ethics and accreditation of higher education institutions
  • acting in a consultant capacity for the UK Research Integrity Office ()
  • active membership of the workstream, working with academics and people living with dementia to best target and disseminate research 
  • active membership of the Alzheimer’s Society Research Network and the Three Nations Dementia Working Group
  • I am on the editorial boards of the British Educational Research Journal, the International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Qualitative Research, and the Qualitative Research Journal
Publications

Books

  • Sikes P & Piper H (2011) Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research. London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P & Piper H (2009) Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools. Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Goodson I, Sikes P, Antikainen A & Andrews M (Eds.) (2016) The Routledge International Handbook of Narrative and Life History. London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ (Ed.) (2013) Autoethnography. London: Sage. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P & Piper H (Ed.) (2011) Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research. Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ, nixon J & Carr W (Eds.) (2003) The Moral Foundations of Educational Research: Knowledge, Inquiry and Value. Maidenhead: Open º£½ÇÉçÇø Press. RIS download Bibtex download
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  • Sikes P & Potts A (Ed.) () . Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Sikes P & Hall M (2020) ‘It’s just limboland’: Parental dementia and young people’s life courses. The Sociological Review, 68(1), 242-259. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ & Hall M (2018) . British Educational Research Journal, 44(4), 593-607. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hall M & Sikes PJ (2018) . Families, Relationships and Societies, 7(2), 207-225. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hall M & Sikes PJ (2018) . Illness, Crisis, and Loss, 26(2), 124-144. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P & Hall MJ (2018) . Dementia, 17(2), 180-198. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ & Hall M (2017) . Qualitative Health Research. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ & Hall M (2017) . Mortality, 22(4), 324-338. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ (2015) Hijacked by the project? Research which demands to be done.. Research in Teacher Education, 5(1), 45-50. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2013) Researching The Perceptions and Experiences of Children and Young People Who Have a Parent With Dementia: Ethical Considerations and Concerns. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, 12, 884-884. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ (2013) Working Together for Critical Research Ethics. Compare, 43, 516-536. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lavia J, Neckles T & Sikes P (2011) . Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 1(1), 112-129. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P & Piper H (2011) . Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-10. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes PJ & Piper H (2010) . International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 33(3), 205-213. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lavia J & Sikes PJ (2010) . Power and Education, 2(1), 85-96. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2010) . Ethnography and Education, 5(2), 143-157. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2009) . International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 32(1), 13-24. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2008) . Qualitative Inquiry, 14(2), 235-253. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P, Lawson H & Parker M (2007) . International Journal of Inclusive Education, 11(3), 355-370. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2006) . Qualitative Inquiry, 12(3), 523-540. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2006) . Studies in Higher Education, 31(5), 555-568. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2006) . Sex Education, 6(3), 265-280. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wellington J & Sikes P (2006) . Studies in Higher Education, 31(6), 723-734. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P (2005) . Qualitative Research, 5(1), 79-94. RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Sikes P & Hall M (2018) "It'd Be Easier If She'd Died'': Researching and Reporting "Taboo'' Issues. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 17(1) (pp 50-50) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sikes P & Hall M (2018) "You Start Grieving Even When They're Standing Right in Front of You": The Grief of Children and Young People Who Have a Parent With Young Onset Dementia. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS, Vol. 17(1) (pp 28-28) RIS download Bibtex download
Publications - 2022
  • Sikes, P. & Platt, M. (2022) ‘Discovering ethnography and passing on the baton: exploring life in a hospital school’ Qualitative Research Journal Early Cite, April 12
  • Sikes, P. & Hall, M. (2022)‘The perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with dementia’ in de Vught, M., Millenaar, J. & Carter, J. (Eds) Understanding young onset dementia: evaluation, needs and care London, Routledge, pp. 88 -99.