University of Stirling

Dr Samantha Punch

Staff Profile-Dr Samantha Punch
Dr Samantha Punch Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Applied Social Science Room 4S19
School of Applied Social Science
Colin Bell Building
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
UK 01786 467985
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About

I am currently researching the sustainable use of aquatic resources and rural livelihoods in China, Vietnam and India (EC funded, multi-partner project). I am also completing a follow up study on migration and young people's livelihoods in rural Bolivia by tracking down the children from my doctoral research ten years ago. My PhD included two years' ethnographic fieldwork on rural childhoods in Bolivia, exploring children’s daily lives at work, home, play and school. Since then I have also carried out research on young people’s problems, children's experiences of sibling relationships and birth order, and children's food practices in residential care, all of these in central Scotland. I have also been involved in some research about gender and household livelihoods in peri-urban Calcutta, India.

Research
  • Sociology of Childhood
  • Sibling relationships and birth order
  • Young people and food practices in residential care homes
  • Sociology of Development
  • Migration and youth transitions in the majority world
  • Children's work and household livelihoods in the majority world
Research Groups
Teaching
Publications

Books

  • McIntosh, I. and Punch, S. (2005) Get Set for Sociology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


Journal Papers
  • Punch, S. (2011) ‘Hidden Struggles of Fieldwork: Exploring the Role and Use of Field Diaries’, Emotion, Space and Society, Online publication complete: 4-NOV-2010. DOI information: 10.1016/j.emospa.2010.09.005.
  • McIntosh, I., Punch, S., Dorrer, N. and Emond, R. (2010) ‘‘You don’t have to be watched to make your toast’: surveillance and food practices within residential care.’ Surveillance and Society 7(3): 287-300.
  • Dorrer, N., McIntosh, I., Punch, S. and Emond, R. (2010) ‘Children and Food Practices in Residential Care: Managing Ambivalence in the Institutional Home’, Special Edition of Children’s Geographies, 8 (3): 247-260.
  • Punch, S., McIntosh, I. and Emond, R. (2010) ‘Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions’, Special Edition of Children’s Geographies, 8 (3): 227-232.

  • McIntosh, I. and Punch, S. (2009) ‘Barter’, ‘deals’, ‘bribes’ and ‘threats’: Exploring Sibling Interactions, Childhood, 16 (1):49-65.

  • Punch, S. (2008) “You can do nasty things to your brothers and sisters without a reason”: Siblings’ Backstage Behaviour, Children & Society, 22: 333-344.

  • Punch, S. (2007) ‘Negotiating Migrant Identities: Young People in Bolivia and Argentina’, Children’s Geographies, 5(1): 95-112.

  • Punch, S. (2007) “I Felt they were Ganging up on me”: Interviewing Siblings at Home, Children’s Geographies, 5(3): 219-234.

  • Punch, S. (2005) ‘The Generationing of Power: A Comparison of Child-Parent and Sibling Relations in Scotland’, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 10: 169-188.

  • Punch, S. (2004) ‘The Impact of Primary Education on School-to-work Transitions for Young People in Rural Bolivia,’ Youth & Society, 36 (2): 163-182.

  • Punch, S. (2003) ‘Childhoods in the Majority World: Miniature Adults or Tribal Children?’ Sociology, 37 (2): 277-295.

  • Punch, S. (2002) ‘Youth Transitions and Interdependent Adult-child Relations in Rural Bolivia’, Journal of Rural Studies, 18 (2): 123-133.

  • Punch, S. (2002) ‘Interviewing Strategies with Young People: The ‘Secret Box’, Stimulus Material and Task-based Activities’, Children & Society, 16: 45-56.

  • Punch, S. (2002) ‘Research with Children: The Same or Different from Research with Adults?’ Childhood, 9 (3): 321-341.

  • Punch, S. (2001) ‘Household Division of Labour: Generation, Gender, Age, Birth Order and Sibling Composition’, Work, Employment & Society, 15 (4): 803-823.


Book Chapters
  • McIntosh, I., Dorrer, N., Punch, S. and Emond, R. (2011), ‘I know we can’t be a family, but as close as you can get’ Displaying Families within an Institutional Context’, in Dermott, E and Seymour, J, (eds) Displaying Family: New Theoretical Directions in Family and Intimate Life, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Punch, S., McIntosh, I., Emond, R. and Dorrer, N. (2009) ‘Food and Relationships: Children’s Experiences in Residential Care’, in James, A., Kjørholt, A.T. and Tingstad, V. (Eds) Children, Food and Identity, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Punch, S. (2009) "Moving for a better life: To stay or to go?" in Kassem, D., Murphy, L. and Taylor, E. (Eds) Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies, London: Routledge, pp.202-215.

  • Punch, S. (2009) ‘Researching Childhoods in Rural Bolivia’, in Tisdall, K., Davis, J. and Gallagher, M. (eds) Researching with Children and Young People: Research Design, Methods and Analysis, London: Sage, pp.89-96.

  • Punch, S. (2008) ‘Negotiating the Birth Order: Children’s Experiences’ in Klett-Davies, M. (ed.) Putting Sibling Relationships on the Map: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective, London: Family and Parenting Institute, pp.30-49.

  • Punch, S. (2007) ‘Generational Power Relations in Rural Bolivia’, in Panelli, R., Punch, S. and Robson, E. (eds) Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives, London: Routledge.

  • Punch, S. (2004) ‘Scrambling through the Ethnographic Forest: Research Commentary’, in Lewis, V., Kellett, M., Robinson, C., Fraser, S. and Ding, S. (eds) The Reality of Research with Children and Young People, London: Sage, pp. 94-119.

  • Hallett, C., Murray, C., and Punch, S. (2003) ‘Young People and Welfare: Negotiating Pathways’, in Hallett, C. and Prout A. (eds) Hearing the Voices of Children: Social Policy for a New Century, London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 123-138.

  • Punch, S. (2001) “Multiple Methods and Research Relations with Young People in Rural Bolivia”, in Limb, M. and Dwyer, C. (eds) Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers, London: Arnold, pp.165-180.

  • Punch, S. (2001) ‘Negotiating Autonomy: Childhoods in Rural Bolivia’, in Alanen, L. and Mayall, B. (eds) Conceptualising Child-Adult Relations, London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 23-36.

  • Punch, S. (2000) ‘Children's Strategies for Creating Playspaces: Negotiating Independence in Rural Bolivia’, in Holloway, S. and Valentine, G. (eds) Children’s Geographies: Living, Playing, Learning and Transforming Everyday Worlds, Routledge, London, pp. 48-62.


Research Reports
  • No Research Reports in our records

Edited Books

  • Marsh, I., Keating, M., Punch, S. and Harden, J. (eds.) (2009) Sociology: Making Sense of Society, London: Pearson.

  • Panelli, R. , Punch, S. and Robson, E. (eds) (2007) Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives, London: Routledge.

Research Projects

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