Emeritus Professor Pat Sikes
Cert Ed, BEd, PhD
School of Education
Professor Emeritus of Qualitative Inquiry


+44 114 222 8158
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School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Research interests
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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
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Conference proceedings papers
- 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.
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