Assoc. Prof. Lee Monaghan
Biography
PhD (Cardiff University) 1998, Previously Lecturer at Cardiff University 1999-2002, then Newcastle University 2002-2005Research Interests
The Body, Health & Illness, Risk, Masculinities, The Obesity Debate, Illicit Drug Use, Violence, Sexualities, Qualitative Research, Stigma, Asthma, Dental Health, Financial Crisis, .Professional Activities
Education
- 1998 Cardiff University - PhD
Employment
- Newcastle University - Lecturer
- Cardiff University - Lecturer
Language
- English
Peer Reviewed Journals
A discourse analysis of school girls engagement with fat pedagogy and critical health education: rethinking the childhood 'obesity scandal'
Emma Rich, Lee F. Monaghan and Andrea E. Bombak (2019) A discourse analysis of school girls engagement with fat pedagogy and critical health education: rethinking the childhood 'obesity scandal'. Sport, Education And Society
Read moreDietary Approaches to Weight-Loss, Health-At-Every-Size® and Beyond: Rethinking the War on Obesity
Bombak, A.E., Monaghan, L.F. and Rich, E. (2018) Dietary Approaches to Weight-Loss, Health-At-Every-Size® and Beyond: Rethinking the War on Obesity. Social Theory & Health
Read moreObesity, Neoliberalism and Epidemic Psychology: Critical Commentary and Alternative Approaches to Public Health
Monaghan, L.F., Bombak, A.E. and Rich, E. (2018) Obesity, Neoliberalism and Epidemic Psychology: Critical Commentary and Alternative Approaches to Public Health. Critical Public Health :498-508
Read moreManaging Stigma: Asthma, Young People and the Politics of Chronic Illness
Monaghan, L.F. and Gabe, J. (2018) Managing Stigma: Asthma, Young People and the Politics of Chronic Illness. Qualitative Health Research
Read moreCritiquing Masculinity Myths: Rethinking Male Bodies, Obesity and Health in Context
Monaghan, L.F. (2015) Critiquing Masculinity Myths: Rethinking Male Bodies, Obesity and Health in Context. International Journal of Men's Health
Read moreSeeking university Research Ethics Committee approval: the emotional vicissitudes of a "rationalised' process
Monaghan, LF,O'Dwyer, M,Gabe, J (2013) Seeking university Research Ethics Committee approval: the emotional vicissitudes of a "rationalised' process. International Journal Of Social Research Methodology :65-80
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Embodied Heterosexual Masculinities, Part 2: Foregrounding Men's Health and Emotions
Robertson, S; Monaghan, L.F. (2012) Embodied Heterosexual Masculinities, Part 2: Foregrounding Men's Health and Emotions . Sociology Compass :151-165
Read moreMen, physical activity, and the obesity discourse: Critical understandings from a qualitative study
Monaghan, LF (2008) Men, physical activity, and the obesity discourse: Critical understandings from a qualitative study. Sociology Of Sport Journal :97-129
Read moreBody Mass Index, masculinities and moral worth: men's critical understandings of 'appropriate' weight-for-height
Monaghan, LF (2007) Body Mass Index, masculinities and moral worth: men's critical understandings of 'appropriate' weight-for-height. Sociology Of Health & Illness :584-609
Read moreWeighty Words: Expanding and Embodying the Accounts Framework
Monaghan, LF (2006) Weighty Words: Expanding and Embodying the Accounts Framework. Social Theory And Health :128-167
Read moreDiscussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate.
Monaghan, LF (2005) Discussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate.. Social Theory And Health :302-314
Read moreBig Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of 'Fat Male Embodiment'
Monaghan, LF (2005) Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of 'Fat Male Embodiment'. Body & Society :81-111
Read moreDoorwork and Legal Risk: Observations from an Embodied Ethnography
Monaghan, LF (2004) Doorwork and Legal Risk: Observations from an Embodied Ethnography. Social And Legal Studies :453-480
Read moreDanger on the Doors: Bodily Risk in a Demonised Occupation
Monaghan, LF (2003) Danger on the Doors: Bodily Risk in a Demonised Occupation. Health, Risk & Society :11-31
Read moreRegulating Unruly; Bodies: Work Tasks, Conflict and Violence in Britain's Night-Time Economy.
Monaghan, LF (2002) Regulating Unruly; Bodies: Work Tasks, Conflict and Violence in Britain's Night-Time Economy.. British Journal Of Sociology :403-429
Read moreEmbodying Gender, Work and Organization: Solidarity, Cool Loyalties and Contested Hierarchy in a Masculinist Occupation
Monaghan, LF (2002) Embodying Gender, Work and Organization: Solidarity, Cool Loyalties and Contested Hierarchy in a Masculinist Occupation. Gender, Work & Organisation :504-536
Read moreHard Men, Shop Boys and Others: Embodying Competence in a Masculinist Occupation.
Monaghan, LF (2002) Hard Men, Shop Boys and Others: Embodying Competence in a Masculinist Occupation.. The Sociological Review :334-355
Read moreVocabularies of Motive for Illicit Steroid Use Among Bodybuilders
Monaghan, LF (2002) Vocabularies of Motive for Illicit Steroid Use Among Bodybuilders. Social Science And Medicine :695-708
Read moreOpportunity, Pleasure and Risk: An Ethnography of Urban Male Heterosexualities
Monaghan, LF (2002) Opportunity, Pleasure and Risk: An Ethnography of Urban Male Heterosexualities. Journal Of Contemporary Ethnography :440-477
Read moreLooking Good, Feeling Good: The Embodied Pleasures of Vibrant Physicality
Monaghan, LF (2001) Looking Good, Feeling Good: The Embodied Pleasures of Vibrant Physicality. Sociology Of Health & Illness :330-356
Read moreDrug-Taking, 'Risk Boundaries' and Social Identity: Bodybuilders' Talk about Ephedrine and Nubain.
Bloor, M; Monaghan, LF; Dobash, RP; Dobash, RE (2000) Drug-Taking, 'Risk Boundaries' and Social Identity: Bodybuilders' Talk about Ephedrine and Nubain.. Sociological Research Online
Read moreChallenging Medicine? Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk
Monaghan, LF (1999) Challenging Medicine? Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk. Sociology Of Health & Illness :707-734
Read moreCreating 'The Perfect Body': A Variable Project
Monaghan, LF (1999) Creating 'The Perfect Body': A Variable Project. Body & Society :267-290
Read moreBooks
Challenging Myths of Masculinity: Understanding Physical Cultures
Monaghan, L.F. and Atkinson, M. (2014) Challenging Myths of Masculinity: Understanding Physical Cultures. Aldershot : Ashgate
Read moreMen and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study
Monaghan, LF (2008) Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study. London and New york : Routledge
Read moreBodybuilding, Drugs and Risk
Monaghan, LF (2001) Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk. London : Routledge
Read moreBook Chapters
Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study
Monaghan, L.F. (2014) Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk: Reflections on an Ethnographic Study. London and New York : Routledge Doing Real World Research in Sports Studies
Read more'It's Worse for Women and Girls': Negotiating Embodied Masculinities through Weigh-Related Talk
Monaghan, L.F. and Malson, H. (2014) 'It's Worse for Women and Girls': Negotiating Embodied Masculinities through Weigh-Related Talk. New York : Routledge Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Research, Critique and Interventions
Read moreIllness Narratives
Bury, M and Monaghan, L.F. (2013) Illness Narratives. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreEmbodiment
Williams, S.J. and Monaghan, L.F. (2013) Embodiment. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreThe Sick Role
Bury, M. and Monaghan, L.F. (2013) The Sick Role. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreStigma
Monaghan, L.F. and Williams, S.J. (2013) Stigma. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreAwareness Contexts
Monaghan, L.F. (2013) Awareness Contexts. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreIllness-related Behaviour
Monaghan, L.F. (2013) Illness-related Behaviour. London : Sage Key Concepts in Medical Sociology
Read moreAccounting for Illicit Steroid Use: Bodybuilders' Justifications
Monaghan, L.F. (2011) Accounting for Illicit Steroid Use: Bodybuilders' Justifications. New York : Routledge Critical Readings in Bodybuilding
Read moreReflections on and Developing Critical Weight Studies
Monaghan, L.F., Rich, E. and Aphramor, L. (2011) Reflections on and Developing Critical Weight Studies. New York : Palgrave MacMillan Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives
Read moreCritiquing Obesity Discourse and Developing an Alternative
Rich, E., Monaghan, L.F. and Aphramor, L. (2011) Critiquing Obesity Discourse and Developing an Alternative. New York : Palgrave MacMillan Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives
Read moreBodily Sensibility: Vocabularies of the Discredited Male Body
Monaghan, L.F. and Hardey, M. (2011) Bodily Sensibility: Vocabularies of the Discredited Male Body. New York : Palgrave MacMillan Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives
Read moreMcDonaldizing Men's Bodies? Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances
Monaghan, L.F. (2010) McDonaldizing Men's Bodies? Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances. California : Pine Forge Press & Sage McDonaldization: The Reader
Read moreBig Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of Fat Male Embodiment
Monaghan, L.F. (2008) Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of Fat Male Embodiment. Oxford : Oxford University Press Sociology of the Body: A Reader
Read moreHard Men, Shop Boys and Others: Embodying Competence in a Masculinist Occupation
Monaghan, L.F. (2008) Hard Men, Shop Boys and Others: Embodying Competence in a Masculinist Occupation. Aldershot: : Ashgate Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities
Read moreCorporeal Indeterminacy: The Value of Embodied, Interpretive Sociology.
Monaghan, LF (2006) Corporeal Indeterminacy: The Value of Embodied, Interpretive Sociology.. Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interactionism and the Sociology of the Body. :125-140
Read moreFieldwork and the Body: Reflections on an Embodied Ethnography
Monaghan, LF (2006) Fieldwork and the Body: Reflections on an Embodied Ethnography. The Sage Handbook of Fieldwork. :225-242
Read moreHormonal Bodies, Civilised Bodies: Incorporating the Biological into the Sociology of Health
Monaghan, LF (2003) Hormonal Bodies, Civilised Bodies: Incorporating the Biological into the Sociology of Health. Debating Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health, Medicine and Society. :145-156
Read moreThe Bodybuilding Ethnophysiology Thesis
Monaghan, LF (2001) The Bodybuilding Ethnophysiology Thesis. Reframing the Body :131-151
Read moreAccessing a Demonised Subculture: Studying Drug Use and Violence among Bodybuilders
Monaghan, LF (1999) Accessing a Demonised Subculture: Studying Drug Use and Violence among Bodybuilders. Qualitative Research in Criminology :76-90
Read moreBodybuilding, Steroids and Violence: Is There a Connection?
Monaghan, LF; Dobash, RP; Dobash, RE; Bloor, M (1999) Bodybuilding, Steroids and Violence: Is There a Connection?. Crime Unlimited: Questions for the 21st Century
Read moreBodybuilding and Sexual Attractiveness
Bloor, M; Monaghan, LF; Dobash, RP; Dobash, RE (1998) Bodybuilding and Sexual Attractiveness. The Body in Qualitative Research
Read moreThe Body as a Chemistry Experiment: Steroid Use Among South Wales Bodybuilders
Bloor, M; Monaghan, LF; Dobash, RP; Dobash, RE (1998) The Body as a Chemistry Experiment: Steroid Use Among South Wales Bodybuilders. The Body In Everyday Life
Read moreEdited Books
Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Research, Critique and Interventions
(2014) Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics: Research, Critique and Interventions. London : Routledge
Read moreDebating Obesity: Critical Perspectives
(2011) Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. New York : Palgrave MacMillan
Read moreOther Journals
Men and the Obesity Epidemic: Exercising Healthy Scepticism.
Monaghan, LF (2008) Men and the Obesity Epidemic: Exercising Healthy Scepticism.. National Fitness News :39-40
Read moreMen and the Obesity Epidemic: Promoting Healthy Scepticism.
Monaghan, LF (2008) Men and the Obesity Epidemic: Promoting Healthy Scepticism.. Fare Choice: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Scottish Community Diet Project.
Read moreConference Publications
BSA Medical Sociology Group 47th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. and Gabe, J. (2015) BSA Medical Sociology Group 47th Annual Conference.
Read moreBSA Digital Sociology Group's workshop
Monaghan, L.F., O'Flynn, M. and Power, M.J. (2014) BSA Digital Sociology Group's workshop.
Read moreBSA Medical Sociology Group 45th Annual Conference.
Monaghan, L.F. and Gabe, J. (2013) BSA Medical Sociology Group 45th Annual Conference. .
Read more39th Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland
Monaghan, L.F.; O'Flynn, M. (2012) 39th Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland .
Read moreAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2012) American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference.
Read moreCrisis, Austerity and Resistance
Monaghan, L.F; O'Flynn, M. (2012) Crisis, Austerity and Resistance .
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 42nd Annual Conference
O'Dwyer, M; Monaghan, L.F; Gabe, J. (2010) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 42nd Annual Conference.
Read moreThe Perfect Body: Between Normativity and Consumerism
Monaghan, L.F. (2009) The Perfect Body: Between Normativity and Consumerism .
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 39th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2007) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 39th Annual Conference.
Read more34th Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland
Monaghan, L.F. (2007) 34th Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2007) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Conference.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 38th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2006) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 38th Annual Conference .
Read moreBritish Sociological Association 38th Annual conference
Monaghan, L. (2006) British Sociological Association 38th Annual conference. :*-*
Read moreExpanding the Obesity Debate: A One Day Forum
Monaghan, L.F. (2006) Expanding the Obesity Debate: A One Day Forum. :*-*
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Sociology of Sport Group Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2005) British Sociological Association Sociology of Sport Group Conference.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 37th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2005) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 37th Annual Conference.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 36th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2004) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 36th Annual Conference.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 35th Annual Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2003) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 35th Annual Conference.
Read moreRethinking Gender, Work and Organization Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (2001) Rethinking Gender, Work and Organization Conference.
Read moreBSA Language Study Group Conference on Ethnography, Law and Crime
Monaghan, L.F. (2001) BSA Language Study Group Conference on Ethnography, Law and Crime.
Read moreThe British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Making Sense of the Body: Theory, Research and Practice
Monaghan, L.F. (1998) The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Making Sense of the Body: Theory, Research and Practice.
Read moreThe American Society of Criminology Annual Conference
Dobash, R.P., Dobash, R.E., Bloor, M; Monaghan, L.F. (1997) The American Society of Criminology Annual Conference.
Read moreThe British Criminology Conference
Dobash, R.P; Dobash, R.E; Bloor, M; Monaghan, L.F. (1997) The British Criminology Conference.
Read moreThe Theory Culture and Society (TCS) Body Modification Day Conference
Monaghan, L.F. (1997) The Theory Culture and Society (TCS) Body Modification Day Conference.
Read moreBritish Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 29th Annual Conference.
Monaghan, L.F; Bloor, M.; Dobash, R.P; Dobash, R.E. (1997) British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 29th Annual Conference. .
Read moreThe British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 27th Annual Conference.
Monaghan L.F; Bloor, M; Dobash, R.P; Dobash, R.E. (1995) The British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group 27th Annual Conference. .
Read moreThe British Criminology Conference
Dobash, R.P; Dobash, R.E; Bloor, M; Monaghan, L.F. (1995) The British Criminology Conference .
Read moreConference Contributions
Published Reports
Editorials
Book Reviews
Men, Masculinities and Health: Critical Perspectives
Monaghan, LF (2010) Men, Masculinities and Health: Critical Perspectives. Sociology Of Health & Illness :673-674
Read moreOther Publications
Men, Masculinities and Health: Critical Perspectives
Monaghan, LF (2010) Men, Masculinities and Health: Critical Perspectives. Sociology Of Health & Illness :673-674
Read more'We're Not Druggies, We're Athletes': Bodybuilding, Polypharmacology and Self-Identity
Monaghan, LF (1998) 'We're Not Druggies, We're Athletes': Bodybuilding, Polypharmacology and Self-Identity.
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