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Research

Kay has been researching self-injury and related issues for a number of years. All of her work uses qualitative methodologies and employs rigorous ethical protocols to ensure integrity, and to respect and empower all those who participate in all stages of the research. Since 2007 Kay has been a member of the School of Social Work and Social Policy Research Ethics Committee in Trinity College Dublin and she has also lectured in research ethics and qualitative research methods on the M.Sc in Applied Social Research and the M.Sc in Disability Studies in TCD.

 

Kay’s primary research is in the area of self-injury and holistic, user-led and harm-reduction interventions. She has also researched and published in the fields of gender and sexuality, disability and qualitative and creative research methods and ethics.

Her publications include:

 Books
2010: Flesh Wounds? New Ways of Understanding Self-Injury. PCCS Books: Ross-on-Wye. 
http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/product.php?xProd=529&xSec=116

2007: Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

 http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Writing-on-the-Body---Thinking-through-Gendered-Embodiment-and-Marked-Flesh.htm


Articles and Chapters

Under review: “The First Cut is the Deepest: Exploring a Harm-Reduction       Approach to Self-Injury” Social Work in Mental Health

Under review: “Scarred for Life: Women’s Creative Self-Journeys Through Stigmatised Embodiment” Somatechnics

2010: “At the Cutting Edge: Creative and Holistic Responses to Self-Injury” Creative Nursing 16(4): 60-65

2010: Response to Therapist’s Dilemma: Working with a Young Person who Self-injures. Éisteach: The Journal of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. October: 31-32

2010: “Bent: Non-Normative Embodiment as Lived Intersectionality” pp.255-273 in Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines and Mark Casey (editors) Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

2010: “Telling Tales? Using Ethnographic Fiction to Speak Embodied ‘Truth’” Qualitative Research. 10(1): 27-47

2009: “Transformative: An Interview with Trans Activist Stephen Whittle” Gay

Community News Ireland, May.


2008: “Policing the Body: A Conversation from the Edge of Normative

Femininity” in Andrew Sparkes (editor) Auto/Biography Yearbook 2007:

75-94.


2008: “Bloodletting” pp.4-6 in Victoria Pitts (editor) The Cultural

Encyclopaedia of the Body.  Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press.


2008: “The Cultural History of Blood” pp.6-11 in Victoria Pitts (editor) The

Cultural Encyclopaedia of the Body.  Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press.


2007: “In The I Of The Beholder? Paranoia, Reparation and Queer Ethics in

the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick” Irish Feminist Review Vol.3: 42-60.


2007: “Carved in Flesh? Inscribing Body, Identity and Desire” The Journal of

Lesbian Studies Vol. 11 (1-2): 233-242.


2006: “Tragic Heroines, Stinking Lilies and Fallen Women: Love and Desire in

Kate O’Brien’s As Music & Splendour” Irish Feminist Review Vol.2: 56-73.


2005: “Who’s Hurting Who? The Ethics of Engaging the Marked Body”

Auto/biography Vol.13 (3): 227-248.

 

 

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