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Andrew C. Sparkes
Researcher at Leeds Beckett University
Publications - 215
Citations - 14966
Andrew C. Sparkes is an academic researcher from Leeds Beckett University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Narrative inquiry. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 208 publications receiving 13760 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew C. Sparkes include University of Portsmouth & University of Exeter.
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Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health: From Process to Product
Andrew C. Sparkes,Brett Smith +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the role of data collection, analysis, and interpretation in the development of qualitative research techniques and their applications in clinical practice.
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Careership: a sociological theory of career decision making
Phil Hodkinson,Andrew C. Sparkes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new model of career decision-making, given the shorthand title of "careership", which avoids the twin pitfalls of implicit social determinism or of seeing (young) people as completely free agents.
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Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the criteria used by various audiences to pass judgment on an auto-ethnography/narrative of self that I submitted to, and eventually had published, in a leading journal.
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Judging the quality of qualitative inquiry: Criteriology and relativism in action
Andrew C. Sparkes,Brett Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two ideal types of researcher, one a criteriologist and the other a relativist, are constructed to illustrate how each might judge qualitative studies of different kinds.
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Telling Tales in Sport and Physical Activity: A Qualitative Journey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the landscape of scientific tales realist tales confessional tales auto-ethnography poetic representations ethnodrama fictional representations different tales and judgement calls.