Professor Brendan Gough

Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange Leeds Beckett University

  • Leeds West Yorkshire

Professor Brendan Gough is a Critical Social Psychologist and qualitative researcher interested in men and masculinities.

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Biography

Brendan is a critical social psychologist and qualitative researcher interested based at Leeds Beckett University. He has published 100+ papers on gender identities and relations, mostly in the context of gender, lifestyle and wellbeing. His research projects have been funded by ESRC, NIHR, EU, WHO and some charities. His most recent books are: (In)Fertile Male Bodies: Masculinities and Lifestyle Management in Neoliberal Times (2022, with Esmee Hanna; Emerald) and Contemporary Masculinities: Embodiment, Emotion and Wellbeing (2018, Palgrave). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social & Personality Psychology Compass. In 2016 he was awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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Areas of Expertise

Men’s Grooming
Men’s Experiences of Infertility
Qualitative Research Methods
Psychology
Mental Health Issues

Accomplishments

Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship

2016

Affiliations

  • Qualitative Research in Psychology : co-founder and co-editor
  • Social & Personality Psychology Compass : co-Editor-in-Chief

Languages

  • English

Media Appearances

‘An amazing shoot!’: Manchester Village Spartans rugby players bare all to support Worldwide Roar

Sports Media LGBT+  online

2021-11-19

The research team, consisting of Professor Brendan Gough and Dr Gabriel Knott-Fayle of Leeds Beckett University, UK, and Dr Michael Kehler of University of Calgary, Canada, are interested to gain an insight into the participants’ motivations for contributing to the Worldwide Roar, their experiences of taking part, their perspectives on the issues the project seeks to tackle, and what impact contributing to the project has on them personally.

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Research Excellence Framework 2021

BPS Policy Unit Blog  online

2019-06-18

Most importantly, the much welcomed news of the timely appointment of Professor Brendan Gough as a qualitative methods expert to Unit of Assessment (UoA) 4: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience.

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Articles

Engendered Expressions of Anxiety: Men’s Emotional Communications With Women and Other Men

Frontiers in Sociology

2021

While the contemporary therapeutic discourse inveigles us to talk about our personal problems, a countervailing neo-liberal healthist discourse, aligning with conventional masculinity norms, presumes that we will manage any issues independently. This discursive tension can be difficult to navigate, especially for men confronted with still powerful traditional expectations around masculinity (e.g., self-reliance; personal control; restricted emotionality).

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Imagining a vibrant [post]Qualitative Psychology via ‘Experimentation’

Methods in Psychology

2021

In this article I reflect on – and celebrate - the increasing eclecticism and creativity within Qualitative Psychology. Diverse forms of hybrid qualitative research, knowledge production and dissemination are referenced, including performative, fictional and digital iterations, and the potential for participant-centred, co-produced, democratic practices is promoted.

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Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying: viewing young people’s talk about peer relationships through the lens of consent

Journal of Youth Studies

2021

Bullying has typically been defined and studied separately from other forms of gender- and sexuality-related harassment and violence such as dating and relationship violence and sexual harassment, arguably obscuring the complex interrelations between these phenomena. This article is based on an EU-funded project which explored young people’s understandings and experiences of sexual bullying (bullying related to gender and/or sexuality).

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