In today's programme, our QUAL-LIGHTHOUSE guest is Dr Kirsty Finn, a sociologist and researcher of Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom). Dr Finn's research explores the relational and affective experiences of peer-shared living, friendships and other intimacies, commuting and combining living at home with university, and the wider relationships between universities, students and local communities. She is the author of the book Personal Life, Young Women and Higher Education A Relational Approach to Student and Graduate Experiences published in 2015. You can find more about Dr Finn's work here.  I talked to Kirsty while she was in a Café, the place where she often used to write her PhD. Among the sound of babies, dogs barking and café chit chat, we discussed the process of writing and publishing Kisrty's first qualitative paper post PhD: K. Finn (2013). Young, free and single? Theorising partner relationships during the first year of university. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 34(1), pp.94-111. You can read it here. Kirsty selected the song Wrong by Everything but the Girl. You can listen to the full song here. You can find more information about the White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership here: (wrdtp.ac.uk)

In today's programme our QUAL-LIGHTHOUSE guest is Dr Kim Allen, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities at the School of Sociology & Social Policy (University of Leeds, UK). An interdisciplinary feminist researcher, Dr Allen's research is located at the intersections of youth studies, sociology, gender studies, and cultural studies. You can find out more about Kim's work here: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/staff/1/dr-kim-allen We discussed the process of writing and publishing Kim's first qualitative paper post PhD:  Allen, K., 2014. ‘Blair's children’: young women as ‘aspirational subjects’ in the psychic landscape of class.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-954X.12113 Kim selected the song "Get it Right" by Aretha Franklin to represent this paper. You can listen the full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnQXghCpFg You can find more information about the WhiteRose DTP here: https://wrdtp.ac.uk/

The QUAL-LIGHTHOUSE is an interview space from the Advanced Qualitative Training Pathway from the WhiteRose Doctoral Training Partnership. In these informal and fun interviews we like to take our guests through the different rooms of an imaginary lighthouse.  In these conversations, our Director, Dr Ana Manzano, discusses with other academics their experiences of publishing their first qualitative publications after finishing their PhDs.  In today's programme, our guest is Dr Roxana Barbulescu, Academic Fellow in Migration Studies at the School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds. You can read more about Roxana's work here: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/staff/4/dr-roxana-barbulescu Roxana talks about her publication called “Unaccompanied minors, migration control and human rights at the EU’s southern border: The role and limits of civil society activism". You can read it here: https://academic.oup.com/migration/article/4/2/253/2413177?login=true You can listen to Roxana's choice of song "Clandestino" by Manu Chao here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AzimrAgWbA You can find more information about the WhiteRose DTP here: https://wrdtp.ac.uk/