Wolfson Fellow

Professor Rachel Pain - all publications

Articles: review

• Pain, R., Phillips, D., Nagel, C., Mohammad, R., McLean, J., Dunn, K. & Hopkins, P. (2011). Reading Peter Hopkins’ The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11: A Social Analysis. Political Geography 30: 339-348.

Books: authored

• Pain, R., Barke, M., Gough, J., MacFarlane, R., Mowl, G. & Fuller, D. (2001). Introducing Social Geographies. Arnold.

Books: edited

• Smith, S.J., Pain, R., Marston, S. & Jones, J.P. (2010). The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies. Sage.
• Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (2007). Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Routledge studies in human geography. London: Routledge.

Books: sections

• Alexander, C. & Pain, R. (2012). Urban Security: Whose Security? Everyday responses to urban fears. In The urban fabric of crime and fear. Ceccato, V. Springer. 37-53.
• kinpaisby-hill, C. (2011). Participatory praxis and social justice: towards more fully social geographies. In A Companion to Social Geography. Del Casino, V., Thomas, M.E., Cloke, P. & Panelli, R. Blackwell. 214-34.
• Pain, R. & Askins, K. (2010). Engaging communities in research. In Communicating geographical research beyond the academy. Gardner, R. RGS.
• Smith, S.J. & Pain, R. (2008). Critical geopolitics and everyday fears. In Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety. Lee, M. & Farrell, S. London.: Routledge. 45-58.
• Pain, R. & Smith, S.J. (2008). Fear, critical geopolitics and everyday life. In Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life. Pain, R. & Smith, S.J. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1-24.
• Pain, R. (2008). Whose fear is it anyway? Resisting terror fear and fear for children. In Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life. Pain, R. & Smith, S.J. Aldershot: Ashgate. 211-222.
• Pain, R. & Bailey, C. (2007). British social and cultural geography: beyond turns and dualisms?. In Mapping worlds: international perspectives on social and cultural geographies. Kitchin, R. London.: Routledge.
• Pain, R., Kesby, M. & Kindon, S. (2007). Conclusion: the space(s) and scale(s) of participatory action research: constructing empowering geographies?. In Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods Connecting People, Participation and Place. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. London: Routledge. 225-230.
• Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (2007). Introduction: connecting people, participatory and place. In Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. London: Routledge. 1-6.
• Kesby, M., Kindon, S. & Pain, R. (2007). Participation as a form of power: retheorising empowerment and spatialising participatory action research. In : Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. London: Routledge. 19-25.
• Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (2007). Participatory action research: making a difference to theory, practice and action. In Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. London: Routledge. 26-33.
• Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (2007). Participatory action research: origins, approaches and methods. In Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. London: Routledge. 9-18.
• Alexander, C., Beale, N., Kesby, M., Kindon, S., McMillan, J,, Pain, R. & Ziegler, F. (2007). Participatory diagramming. In Connecting People, Participation and Place: Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods. Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. Routledge.
• Kesby, M., Kindon, S. & Pain, R. (2005). Participatory research. In Methods in Human Geography. Flowerdew, R. & Martin, M. Pearson.
• Pain, R. (2003). Old age and victimisation. In Victimisation: Theory, Research and Politics. Davies, P., Francis, P. & Jupp, V. Macmillan. 61-79.
• Pain, R. (2003). Writing essays and related assignments. In The Student's Companion to Geography. Rogers, J. Blackwell. 180-184.

Journal papers: academic

• Pain, R., Finn, M., Bouveng, R. & Ngobe, G. (2012). Productive Tensions: Engaging Geography Students in Participatory Action Research with Communities. Journal of Geography in Higher Education
• Olson, E., Hopkins, P., Pain, R. & Vincett, G. (2012). Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment,Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• Pain, R., Kesby, M. & Askins, K. (2012). The politics of social justice in neoliberal times. Area
• Vincett, G., Olson, E., Hopkins, P. & Pain, R. (2012). Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27(2): 275–290.
• Askins, K. & Pain, R. (2011). Contact zones: participation, materiality and the messiness of interaction. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(5): 803-821.
• Pain, R., Kesby, M. & Askins, K. (2011). Geographies of impact: power, participation and potential. Area 43(2): 183-188.
• Hopkins, P., Olson, B., Pain, R. & Vincett, G. (2011). Mapping intergenerationalities: the formation of youthful religiosities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36(2): 314-327.
• Jarvis, H., Pain, R. & Pooley, C. (2011). Multiple scales of time–space and lifecourse. Environment and Planning A 43(3): 519 – 524.
• Russell, A., Cattermole, A., Hudson, R., Banks, S., Armstrong, A., Robinson, F., Pain, R., Gollan, S. & Brown, G. (2011). Sustaining Community-University Collaborations: the Durham University Model. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (4).
• Pain, R., Panelli, R., Kindon, S. & Little, J. (2010). Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics: Young people’s fears and hopes. Geoforum 41(6): 972–982.
• Pain, R.H. (2010). The new geopolitics of fear. Geography Compass 4(3): 226-240.
• Pain, R. (2010). Ways beyond disciplinarity. Children’s Geographies 8(2): 223-5.
• Pain, R. (2009). Commentary: Working Across Distant Spaces: Connecting Participatory Action Research and Teaching. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 33(1): 81-87.
• Pain, R. (2009). Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics. Progress in Human Geography 33(4): 466-486.
• Pain, R. (2008). Ethical possibilities: towards participatory ethics. Children's Geographies
• Pain, R. (2008). Mrs Kinpaisby: Taking stock of participatory geographies: envisioning the communiversity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(3): 292-299.
• Kindon, S., Pain, R. & Kesby, M. (2008). Participatory action research. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography 90-95.
• Hopkins, P. & Pain, R. (2007). Geographies of age: thinking relationally. Area 39(3): 287-294.
• Cahill, C., Sultana, F. & Pain, R. (2007). Participatory ethics: politics, practices, institutions. ACME: an International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 6(3): 304-318.
• Pain, R. & Kindon, S. (2007). Participatory geographies. Environment and Planning A 39(12): 2807-2812.
• Pain, R., MacFarlane, R., Turner, K. & Gill, S. (2006). 'When, where, if, and but': qualifying GIS and the effect of streetlighting on crime and fear. Environment and Planning A 38(11): 2055–2074.
• Pain, R. (2006). Paranoid parenting? Rematerializing risk and fear for children. Social and Cultural Geography 7(2): 221-243.
• Pain, R. (2006). Social geography: seven deadly myths in policy research. Progress in Human Geography 30(2): 250-260.
• Pain, R., Grundy, S., Gill, S., Towner, E., Sparks G. & Hughes, K. (2005). 'So long as I take my mobile': Mobile phones, urban life and geographies of young people's safety. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29(4): 814-830.
• Birnie, J., Madge, C., Pain, R., Raghuram, P. & Rose, G. (2005). Working a fraction and making a fraction work: a rough guide for geographers in the academy. Area 37(3): 251-259.
• Bailey, C., Pain, R. & Aarvold, J. (2004). A 'give it a go' breastfeeding culture and early cessation among low-income mothers. Midwifery 20(3): 240-250.
• Pain, R. & Bailey, C. (2004). Country review: British social and cultural geography. Social & Cultural Geography 5(2): 319-329.
• Pain, R. (2004). Introduction: Children at Risk?. Children's Geographies 2(1): 65-67.
• Pain, R. & Francis, P. (2004). Living with crime: Spaces of risk for homeless young people. Children's Geographies 2(1): 95-110.
• Pain, R. (2004). Social geography: participatory research. Progress in Human Geography 28(5): 652-663.
• Shirlow, P. & Pain, R. (2003). Introduction: the geographies and politics of fear. Capital and Class 60: 15-26.
• Pain, R. & Francis, P. (2003). Reflections on participatory research. Area 35(1): 46-54.
• Pain, R. (2003). Social geography, relevance and action. Progress in Human Geography 27(5): 659-676.
• Pain, R. (2003). The Geographies and Politics of Fear. Capital and Class 80.
• Pain, R. & Gill, S. (2003). Where can children turn. Criminal Justice Matters 50: 16-17.
• Pain, R. (2003). Youth, age and the representation of fear. Capital and Class 60: 151-171.
• Pain, R. & Townshend, T. (2002). A safer city centre for all? Senses of 'community safety' in Newcastle upon Tyne. Geoforum 33(1): 105-119.
• Pain, R. (2001). Abuse and older people. Criminal Justice Matters 42: 22-23.
• Pain, R. (2001). Gender, race, age and fear in the city. Urban Studies 38(5-6): 899-913.
• Pain, R. & Bailey, C. (2001). Geographies of infant feeding and access to primary health care. Health and Social Care in the Community 9(5): 309-317.
• Pain, R., Bailey, C. & Mowl, G. (2001). Infant feeding in North East England: contested spaces of reproduction. Area 33(3): 261-272.

Other publications: research

• Pain, R., Whitman, G., Milledge, D. & Lune Rivers Trust (2012). Participatory Action Research Toolkit: an introduction to using PAR as an approach to learning, research and action. Durham University.
• Durham Community Research Team. (2011). Community-based Participatory Research: Ethical Challenges Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham University.
• Pain, R. & Hopkins, P. (2009). Common ground: a space of emotional wellbeing? Report to East Area Asylum Seekers Support Group. Durham University.
• Curtis, S., Daya, S., Khatib, Y., Pain, R., Rothon, C. & Stansfeld, S. (2009). Mapping links between young people, neighbourhoods, schools and families, with respect to adolescent mental health. Final review report to the Nuffield Foundation. Durham University.
• Pain, R, Askins, K & Kitoko, G (2007). Connecting places, connected lives: an anti-bullying art project. Durham University.
• Pain, R (2005). Intergenerational relations and practice in the development of sustainable communities: Report to Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Durham University.