Dr John Hockey has published extensively on doctoral education encompassing the fields of social science and art and design. He has also published in the sociology of occupations and the sociology of sport. In the former he completed a pioneering ethnography of infantry soldiers (Squaddies: Portrait of a Subculture, Exeter U.P, 1986). Methodologically his interests lie in ethnographic approaches to social life. Current research projects are focused upon part-time PhD students, research administrators, and physical literacy.
Recent publications
Hockey, J. (2008) ‘Practice-Based Research Degree Students in Art and Design: Identity and Adaptation’, in R. Hickman (Ed.) Research in Art & Design Education: Issues and Exemplars, Bristol, Intellect Books, pp. 109-119.
Hockey, J. (2007) ‘United Kingdom Art and Design practice-based PhDs: Evidence from students and their supervisors’, Studies in Art Education, 48 (2) 155-171.
Hockey, J. (2006) ‘Sensing the Run: Distance Running and the Senses’, The Senses and Society, 1 (2) 183-202.
Allen Collinson, J. & Hockey, J. (2007) ‘Public Space and
Running -Together: Some Ethnomethodological
Considerations’,In F. Jordan, L. Kilgour and N. Morgan (Eds) Academic Renewal: Innovation in Leisure and Tourism Theories and Methods, Leisure Studies Association, 97 (2),
Eastbourne: LSA, pp 3-23.
Allen Collinson, J. & Hockey J. (2007) ‘Working Out Identity: Distance Runners and the management of disrupted identity’, Leisure Studies, 26 (4) 381-398.
Hockey, J. & Allen Collinson, J. (2007) ‘ Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 42 (2) 115-131.
Allen Collinson J. & Hockey, J. (2008 ) ‘Autoethnography as Valid Methodology? A study of disrupted identity narratives’, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3 (6) 209-217.
Current RIG Activity
Course leader for the MRes Programme and PGR Training across University Departments.