Jenny Perry - Research Officer

Jenny has worked for AWARD as a Research Officer since September 2005. Jenny was previously employed at CSPRD as a Research Officer, also within IMSCaR, from January 2005, when she was engaged in ‘Promoting the Health of Older People in Respect of Alcohol Use’ review, and the ‘Older People and Ageing Research & Development Network (OPAN), Social care scoping study-literature/online/database review’ for the Welsh Assembly Government working with Dr Vanessa Burholt. Jenny’s research interests lie in the sociology of education, social gerontology – the health and social care of BME’s and LGBT’s, and qualitative research methods. Her particular areas of expertise are ethnography, discourse analysis, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Jenny is currently engaged on the Carers Strategy in England (for the DoH) and the Carers Strategy in Wales (for the WAG) projects with Dr Catherine Robinson and Dr Diane Seddon; the OPSIR (Older People’s Strategy Interim Review) for the WAG, with Catherine Robinson, Diane Seddon and Gill Windle, in collaboration with AWARD at Swansea.

Biography

1998 BA (Joint Hons) Sociology/Criminology, University of Wales, Bangor
1999 Counselor for CAIS, local drug and alcohol abuse counseling agency
1999 Educational Research in Action MA Module, Open University, Milton Keynes
2000 MA Sociology and Social Research, University of Wales, Bangor
2001 Coordinator working with homeless people for The Big Issue Cymru in North Wales
2001/2005 PhD (thesis to be submitted) Thesis title: Classroom Collaborative Work: ‘The social organization of net-based learning’, funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
January 2005 Research Officer, Centre of Social Policy Research and Development, University of Wales, Bangor
September 2005 Research Officer, All Wales Alliance for Research and Development, IMSCaR, University of Wales, Bangor
Professional affiliations:
Member of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA)
Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Member and secretary to the Research Committee 25 on Sociolinguistics (RC-25) of the ISA
Member of the editorial board for the online Newsletter of Research Committee 25 on Sociolinguistics (RC-25) of the ISA
Member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG)

Publications

Perry, J.K. (2002) The social organization of CSCW in the primary school classroom – The ‘crafting of virtual space’ in a ‘Virtual Learning Environment’, Position Paper 22, in Bhattacharjee, A. and Paul, R.J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on “Interpretive” Approaches to Information Systems and Computing Research, UKAIS & IIEMCA Inaugural Meeting of Special Interest Group “Interpretive” Approaches and Methods, July 2002, Brunel University, West London, UK.

Perry, J.K. (2002) Book Review: McHoul, A. and Rapley, M. (2001) (Eds.) ‘How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Case Book of Methods’, London: Continuum, International Sociolinguistics Newsletter Vol.1, No.1/Fall 2002, Research Committee 25 of the International Sociological Association

Perry, J.K. (2004) ‘Producing ‘local order’ at the computer: ‘Requests, offers and threats’ International Sociolinguistics Newsletter, Vol 4, Summer 2004, Research Committee 25 of the International Sociological Association

Perry, J.K. & Burholt, V. (2005) Promoting the Health of Older People in Respect of Alcohol Use, report submitted to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) Perry, J.K. & Burholt, V. (2005) Older People and Ageing Research & Development Network
(OPAN), Social care scoping study-literature/online/database review, submitted to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG)