Dr Will Mason

Journal articles

• Mason W, Haybe M & Unity Gym Project (2024) The Unity gym project podumentary: joint enterprise, anti-racism and community partnership. Sociological Research Online. View this article in WRRO
• Mason W & Warmington M (2024) Academic reading as a grudging act: how do Higher Education students experience academic reading and what can educators do about it?. Higher Education.
• Mason W & Williams P (2022) CiviAct: Negotiating ‘fields of paradox’ in anti-racist university community partnerships. Methodological Innovations.
• Mason W (2022) Book Review: The politics and ethics of representation in qualitative research: Addressing moments of discomfort. Qualitative Research, 146879412210822-146879412210822.
• Mason W (2021) On staying: Extended temporalities, relationships and practices in community engaged scholarship. Qualitative Research.
• Mason W, Morris K, Featherstone B, Bunting L, Davidson G, McCartan C, Bywaters P & Webb C (2021) Understanding out of Home Care Rates in Northern Ireland: A Thematic Analysis of Mixed Methods Case Studies. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(7), 2645-2664.
• Ratcliffe J, Gray J, Bools C, Wilson R, Wigfield A & Mason W (2021) Safeguarding children when fabricated or induced illness is suspected or proven: reviewing the experiences of local safeguarding children boards in England. Child Abuse Review, 29(6), 559-573. View this article in WRRO
• Mason W, Morris K, Webb C, Daniels B, Featherstone B, Bywaters P, Mirza N, Hooper J, Brady G, Bunting L & Scourfield J (2020) Toward Full Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Case Study Research: Insights From Investigating Child Welfare Inequalities. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 14(2), 164-183.
• Mason W (2020) ‘No One Learned’: Interpreting a Drugs Crackdown Operation and its Consequences Through The ‘Lens’ of Social Harm. British Journal of Criminology, 60(2), 382-402.
• Featherstone B, Morris K, Daniel B, Bywaters P, Brady G, Bunting L, Mason W & Mirza N (2019) Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: changing the conversation across the UK in child protection?. Children and Youth Services Review, 97, 127-133. View this article in WRRO
• Mason WJ (2018) “Swagger”: urban youth culture, consumption and social positioning. Sociology, 52(6), 1117-1133. View this article in WRRO
• Walsh JC & Mason W (2018) Walking the Walk: changing familial forms, government policy and social work practice. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 603-618. View this article in WRRO
• Walsh J & Mason W (2018) Some Useful Sources. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 679-681.
• Walsh J & Mason W (2018) Introduction: Families, Social Work and the Welfare State: Where Contemporary ‘Family’ Meets Policy and Practice. Social Policy and Society, 17(4), 599-602.
• Morris KM, Mason W, Bywaters P, Daniel B, Featherstone B, Brady G, Bunting L, Hooper J, Mirza N, Scourfield J & Webb C (2018) Social work, poverty, and child welfare interventions . Child and Family Social Work, 23(3), 364-372. View this article in WRRO
• Bunting L, Davidson G, McCartan C, Hanratty J, Bywaters P, Mason WJ & Steils N (2018) The association between child maltreatment and adult poverty: a systematic review of longitudinal research. Child Abuse & Neglect, 77, 121-133. View this article in WRRO
• Mason WJ, Mirza N & Webb C (2018) Using the Framework Method to Analyze Mixed-Methods Case Studies. SAGE Research Methods Cases, Part 2. View this article in WRRO
• Mason WJ & Bywaters P (2016) Poverty child abuse and neglect patterns of cost and spending. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(1), 155-161. View this article in WRRO
• Mason W (2015) Austerity youth policy: exploring the distinctions between youth work in principle and youth work in practice. Youth and Policy, 114, 55-74. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

• Mason W, Featherstone B & Bywaters P (2022) Structural Inequalities, Neighbourhoods and Protecting Children, Child Maltreatment (pp. 81-99). Springer International Publishing
• Mason W (2021) Radically slow? Reflections on time, temporality and pace in engaged scholarship In Clift B, Gore J, Gustafsson S, Bekker S, Costas Batlle I & Hatchard J (Ed.), Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices (pp. 142-157). Routledge

Reports

• Mason W, Brasab S, Stone B, Soutar J, Mohamed A & Mwale T (2019) Youth violence, masculinity and mental health: learning from the communities most affected
• Bywaters P, Bunting L, Davidson G, Hanratty J, Mason WJ, McCartan C & Steils N (2016) The relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect: a rapid evidence review View this article in WRRO
• Mason WJ (2013) ‘You Don’t Come to Maple or You Get Bullets in Your Head’: Somali Youth, Risk Talk and the Realities of Risk Avoidance View this article in WRRO

Website content

• Mason W & Unity Gym Project S (2020) #unitydoc : participatory filmmaking as counter-storytelling. Retrieved from https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/unitydoc/ View this article in WRRO
• Mason W (2019) Police drugs crackdown operations can do more harm than good – I’ve seen it. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/police-drugs-crackdown-operations-can-do-more-harm-than-good-ive-seen-it-121515 View this article in WRRO
• Mason W (2019) Knife crime : folk devils and moral panics?. Retrieved from https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/knife-crime-folk-devils-and-moral-panics View this article in WRRO
• Mason WJ & Featherstone B (2017) Reframing child welfare inequalities: making sense with research and changing the conversation. Retrieved from https://archive.discoversociety.org/2017/06/06/reframing-child-welfare-inequalities-making-sense-with-research-and-changing-the-conversation/ View this article in WRRO
• Mason W & Warmington M If you want students to read more, consider asking them to read less.
• Mason W Reading Sociological Theory. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.51428/tsr.ahgo9029
• Mason W & Walsh J ‘Reproducing the Stereotypes’: Family Complexity, Resource Scarcity and Social Work Decision-Making..
• Mason WJ “No one walks out their house without a knife”: living with violence as a daily threat. Retrieved from https://discoversociety.org/2018/06/05/on-the-frontline-no-one-walks-out-their-house-without-a-knife-living-with-violence-as-a-daily-threat/ View this article in WRRO
• Morris K, Mason W, Bywaters P, Featherstone B, Daniels B & Mirza N Why those most needing child protection might be least likely to get it.
• Mason WJ A critical case for participant action research in youth work. Retrieved from https://www.ymca.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/yresarch-journal-2015-edition-1-ebook-1.pdf View this article in WRRO

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

• Mason W & May T (2019) Hermeneutics. In SAGE Research Methods Foundations (Vol 1).