Research outputs

 

During the course of the ESRC-funded ‘If the Shoe Fits’ project, a number of papers and publications were produced to disseminate the research findings. This included work by the project’s postgraduate researcher Alexandra Sherlock, awarded a PhD for her thesis ‘This is Not a Shoe’ in 2017. The legacy of the research has continued beyond the end of the project with additional publications by members of the research team and associates, notably Professor Victoria Robinson, whose continued work with podiatrists has resulted in significant impact for podiatry and foot health.

List of Publications:

  • Dilley, Rachel; Hockey, Jenny; Robinson, Victoria; Sherlock, Alexandra, 2015. Occasions and non-occasions: Identity, femininity and high-heeled shoes. European Journal of Women's Studies. 22 (2), pp. 143-158. Available here (open access)

  • Farndon, Lisa, Victoria Robinson, Emily Nicholls, and Wesley  Vernon. 2016. If the Shoe Fits: Development of an On-line Tool to Aid Practitioner/Patient Discussions About “Healthy Footwear”.  Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 9 (1):17-. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0149-2.

  • Hockey, Jenny; Dilley, Rachel; Robinson, Victoria; Sherlock, Alexandra, 2015. 'There's not just trainers and non-trainers, there's like degrees of trainers': Commoditisation, Singularisation and Identity. Journal of Material Culture, 20 (1), pp 21-42. Available here (open access)

  • Hockey, Jenny; Dilley, Rachel; Robinson, Victoria; Sherlock, Alexandra, 2014. The temporal landscape of shoes: a life course perspective. The Sociological Review, 62 (2), pp. 255-275. Available here (open access)

  • Hockey, Jenny; Dilley, Rachel; Robinson, Victoria; Sherlock, Alexandra, 2013, Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 18, Issue 1, Available here (open access) 

  • Nicholls, Emily, Victoria Robinson, Lisa Farndon, and Wesley Vernon. 2020. “You don’t like to tell them their job, but it’s your foot at the end of the day”: Theorising and Negotiating “Resistance” in Clinical Encounters.  Social Theory & Health 19 (3):246-62. doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00134-0.

  • Nicholls, Emily, Victoria Robinson, Lisa Farndon, and Vernon Wesley. 2018. “A Good Fit?” Bringing the Sociology of Footwear to the Clinical Encounter in Podiatry Services: A Narrative Review.  Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 11 (1):9-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-018-0253-6.

  • Nicholls, Emily, Victoria Robinson, and Lisa Farndon. 2016. ‘The last thing I want is my shoes to stand out’: Embodied Experience, Identity and Footwear Choice Amongst Patients with Complex Health Conditions. In ASA Section on Body & Embodiment. American Sociological Association. Available: http://sectionbodyembodiment.weebly.com/blog/archives/12-2016

  • Robinson, Victoria, Sarah Neal, and Karim Murji. 2015. Reconceptualising the Mundane and the Extraordinary: A Lens Through Which to Explore Transformation Within Women’s Everyday Footwear Practices.  Sociology 49 (5):903-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515591942.

  • Robinson, Victoria. 2014. Risky Footwear Practices: Masculinity, Identity and Crisis.  NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies 9 (3):151-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2014.950501.

  • Sherlock, Alexandra, 2017. ‘This is Not a Shoe’: An Exploration of the Co-Constitutive Relationship Between Representations and Embodied Experiences of Shoes. PhD, University of Sheffield.

  • Sherlock, Alexandra, 2014, 'It's kind of where the shoe gets you to I suppose': Materializing identity with footwear, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 5 (1), pp. 25-51, Intellect, Available here (open access)