Dr Virginia Eatough
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Overview
Overview
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, University of London, 2005
- MA Women's Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990
Administrative responsibilities
- MSc Psychology Research Dissertation Co-ordinator
- Member of the Departmental Ethics Committee
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the British Psychological Society
International Human Sciences Research Group
Honours and awards
- Outstanding Qualitative Research, BPS, Qualitative Methods Section, November 2008
- Ronald Tress Prize, Birkbeck University of London, November 2008
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Aspects of lived experience using qualitative phenomenological methods e.g. IPA
- Neurophenomenology
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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ALICE RYLEY
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ROSEMARY MCCRACKEN
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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NATALIE PHILLIPS
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Eatough, Virginia and Maclennan, S. and Cox, Tom (2022) An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the meaning of work to women living with breast cancer. Chronic Illness 18 (3), pp. 503-516. ISSN 1742-3953.
- Lancer, Natalie and Eatough, Virginia (2021) The Eight Tensions Framework: a road map for coaches working with undergraduates. The Coaching Psychologist 17 (2), ISSN 1748-1104.
- Lancer, Natalie and Eatough, Virginia (2021) The Eight Tensions Framework: an existential-phenomenological analysis of the tensions of undergraduate life. Existential Analysis 32 (2), pp. 231-249.
- O'Keeffe, S. and Weitkamp, K. and Isaacs, D. and Target, M. and Eatough, Virginia and Midgley, N. (2020) Parents’ understanding and motivation to take part in a randomized controlled trial in the field of adolescent mental health: a qualitative study. Trials 21 (952), ISSN 1745-6215.
- Boden, Z.V.R. and Eatough, Virginia (2020) Parallel returns: feelings, temporality and narrative in the experience of guilt. Qualitative Research in Psychology 17 (1), pp. 36-52. ISSN 1478-0887.
- Eatough, Virginia and Shaw, K. (2019) 'It’s like having an evil twin': an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lifeworld of a person with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Research in Nursing 24 (1-2), pp. 49-58. ISSN 1744-9871.
- Davelaar, Eddy J. and Eatough, Virginia and Etienne, Mervyn and Ozolins, C. (2018) Mid-frontal theta oscillations discriminate between sham-control and neurofeedback training manipulations: a signal detection analysis. Current Neurobiology 9 (3), pp. 95-100. ISSN 0975-9042.
- Davelaar, Eddy J. and Barnby, Joseph and Almasi, Soma and Eatough, Virginia (2018) Differential subjective experiences in learners and non-learners in frontal alpha neurofeedback: piloting a mixed-method approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ISSN 1662-5161.
- Allan, R. and Ungar, M. and Eatough, Virginia (2018) "Now I know the terrain": phenomenological exploration of CFTs learning on evidence-based practice. Contemporary Family Therapy 40 (2), pp. 164-175. ISSN 0892-2764.
- Thackeray, Lisa and Eatough, Virginia (2018) ‘Shutting the world out’: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring the paternal experience of parenting a young adult with a developmental disability. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 31 (S2), pp. 179-190. ISSN 1360-2322.
- Smith, S. and Eatough, Virginia and Smith, J. and Radu, M. and Weaver, A. and Sadler, G. (2018) “I know I’m not invincible”: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of thyroid cancer in young people. British Journal of Health Psychology 23 (2), pp. 352-370. ISSN 1359-107X.
- Lancer, Natalie and Eatough, Virginia (2018) One-to-one coaching as a catalyst for personal development: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of coaching undergraduates at a UK university. International Coaching Psychology Review 13 (1), ISSN 1750-2764.
- Eatough, Virginia and Shaw, K. (2017) ‘I’m worried about getting water in the holes in my head’: a phenomenological psychology case study of the experience of undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease. British Journal of Health Psychology 22 (1), pp. 94-109. ISSN 1359-107X.
- Midgley, Nick and Parkinson, S. and Holmes, J. and Stapley, E. and Eatough, Virginia and Target, M. (2017) “Did I bring it on myself?” An exploratory study of the beliefs that adolescents referred to mental health services have about the causes of their depression. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 26 (1), pp. 25-34. ISSN 1018-8827.
- Kidd, M. and Eatough, Virginia (2017) Yoga, well-being and transcendence: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.. The Humanistic Psychologist 45 (3), pp. 258-280. ISSN 0887-3267.
- Allan, R. and Eatough, Virginia (2016) The use of interpretive phenomenological analysis in couple and family therapy research. The Family Journal 24 (4), pp. 406-414. ISSN 1066-4807.
- Allan, R. and Eatough, Virginia and Ungar, M. (2016) "So I Feel Like I’m Getting It and Then Sometimes I Think OK, No I’m Not": couple and family therapists learning an evidence-based practice. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 37 (1), pp. 56-74. ISSN 0814-723X.
- Allan, R. and Eatough, Virginia and Ungar, M. (2016) “I had no idea this shame piece was in me”: couple and family therapists’ experience with learning an evidence-based practice. Cogent Psychology 3 (1), ISSN 2331-1908.
- Midgley, N. and Holmes, J. and Parkinson, S. and Stapley, E. and Eatough, Virginia and Target, M. (2016) ‘Just like talking to someone about like shit in your life and stuff, and they help you’: hopes and expectations for therapy among depressed adolescents. Psychotherapy Research 26 (1), pp. 11-21. ISSN 1050-3307.
- Parkinson, S. and Eatough, Virginia and Holmes, J. and Stapley, E. and Target, M. and Midgley, N. (2016) Framework analysis: a worked example of a study exploring young people’s experiences of depression. Qualitative Research in Psychology 13 (2), pp. 109-129. ISSN 1478-0887.
- Allan, R. and Eatough, Virginia and Ungar, M. (2015) “Oh, this is What It Feels Like”: a role for the body in learning an evidence-based practice. Humanities 4 (4), pp. 861-884. ISSN 2076-0787.
- Midgley, N. and Parkinson, S. and Holmes, J. and Stapley, E. and Eatough, Virginia and Target, M. (2015) Beyond a diagnosis: the experience of depression among clinically-referred adolescents. Journal of Adolescence 44, pp. 269-279. ISSN 0140-1971.
- Thackeray, L.A. and Eatough, Virginia (2015) "Well the Future, that is Difficult": a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis exploring the maternal experience of parenting a young adult with a developmental disability. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 28 (4), pp. 265-275. ISSN 1360-2322.
- Tomkins, L. and Eatough, Virginia (2014) Stop 'helping' me! Identity, recognition and agency in the nexus of work and care. Organization 21 (1), pp. 3-21. ISSN 1350-5084.
- Boden, Z. and Eatough, Virginia (2014) Understanding more fully: a multimodal hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. Qualitative Research in Psychology 11 (2), pp. 160-177. ISSN 1478-0887.
- Midgley, N. and Holmes, J. and Parkinson, S. and Stapley, E. and Eatough, Virginia and Target, M. (2014) 'Just like talking to someone about like shit in your life and stuff, and they help you': hopes and expectations for therapy among depressed adolescents. Psychotherapy Research ISSN 1050-3307.
- Eatough, Virginia and Santini, H. and Eiser, C. and Goller, M.-L. and Krysa, W. and de Nicola, A. and Paduanello, M. and Petrollini, M. and Rakowicz, M. and Squitieri, F. and Tibben, A. and Lee Weille, K. and Landwehrmeyer, B. and Quarrell, O. and Smith, Jonathan A. (2013) The personal experience of parenting a child with Juvenile Huntington’s Disease: perceptions across Europe. European Journal of Human Genetics 21, pp. 1042-1048. ISSN 1018-4813.
- Eatough, Virginia and Tomkins, L. (2013) Meanings and manifestations of care: a celebration of hermeneutic multiplicity in Heidegger. The Humanistic Psychologisy 41, pp. 4-24. ISSN 0887-3267.
- Eatough, Virginia and Tomkins, L. (2013) The feel of experience: phenomenological ideas for organisational research. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management 8 (3), pp. 258-275. ISSN 1746-5648.
- McCandless, R. and Eatough, Virginia (2012) "Her energy kind of went into a different place": a qualitative study examining supervisors’ experience of promoting reflexive learning in students. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 38 (4), pp. 621-638. ISSN 0194-472X.
- Eatough, Virginia and Finlay, L. (2012) Understanding the experience of discovering a kindred spirit connection: a phenomenological study. Phenomenology & Practice 6 (1), pp. 69-88. ISSN 1913-4711.
- Eatough, Virginia and Shaw, K. and Lees, A.J. (2012) Banking on brains: insights of brain donor relatives and friends from an experiential perspective. Psychology & Health 27 (11), pp. 1271-1290. ISSN 0887-0446.
- Frost, N. and Eatough, Virginia and Shaw, R.L. and Weille, K.L. and Tzemou, E. and Baraitser, Lisa (2012) Pleasure, pain and procrastination: reflections on the experience of doing memory-work research. Qualitative Research in Psychology 9 (3), pp. 231-248. ISSN 1478-0887.
- Larkin, M. and Eatough, Virginia and Osborn, M. (2011) Interpretative phenomenological analysis and embodied, active, situated cognition. Theory & Psychology 21 (3), pp. 318-337. ISSN 0959-3543.
- Aresti, A. and Eatough, Virginia and Brooks-Gordon, Belinda (2010) Doing time after time: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of reformed ex-prisoners' experiences of self-change, identity and career opportunities. Psychology, Crime and Law 16 (3), pp. 169-190. ISSN 1068-316X.
- Eatough, Virginia and Tomkins, L. (2010) Reflecting on the use of IPA with focus groups: pitfalls and potentials. Qualitative Research in Psychology 7 (3), pp. 244-262. ISSN 1478-0887.
- McCandless, R. and Eatough, Virginia (2010) How can this person get me so wrong? A qualitative study examining the self of the systemic training supervisor. Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training 21 (2), pp. 208-236. ISSN 0960-9830.
- Tomkins, L. and Eatough, Virginia (2010) Towards an integrative reflexivity in organisational research. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management 5 (2), pp. 162-181. ISSN 1746-5648.
- Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. and Shaw, R. (2008) Women, anger, and aggression an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 23 (12), pp. 1767-1799. ISSN 0886-2605.
- Brewer, H.M. and Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. and Stanley, C. and Glendinning, N.W. and Quarrell, O. (2008) The impact of juvenile Huntington's disease on the family - the case of a rare childhood condition. Journal of Health Psychology 13 (1), pp. 5-16. ISSN 1359-1053.
- Brewer, H.M. and Smith, Jonathan A. and Eatough, Virginia and Stanley, C.A. and Glendinning, N.W. and Quarrell, O.W.J. (2007) Caring for a child with juvenile Huntington’s Disease: helpful and unhelpful support. Journal of Child Health Care 11 (1), pp. 40-52. ISSN 1367-4935.
- Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. (2006) I was like a wild wild person: understanding feelings of anger using interpretative phenomenological analysis. British Journal of Psychology 97, pp. 483-498. ISSN 0007-1269.
- Chappell, D. and Eatough, Virginia and Davies, M.N.O. and Griffiths, M.D. (2006) EverQuest - it's just a computer game right? an interpretative phenomenological analysis of online gaming addiction. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction 4 (3), pp. 205-216. ISSN 1557-1874.
- Smith, Jonathan A. and Brewer, H.M. and Eatough, Virginia and Stanley, C.A. and Glendinning, N.W. and Quarrell, O.W.J. (2006) The personal experience of juvenile Huntington's disease: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of parents' accounts of the primary features of a rare genetic condition. Clinical Genetics 69 (6), pp. 486-496. ISSN 0009-9163.
- Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. (2005) I feel like a scrambled egg in my head: an idiographic case study of meaning making and anger using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 78, pp. 1-24. ISSN 1476-0835.
- Forrest, S. and Eatough, Virginia and Shevlin, M. (2005) Measuring adult indirect aggression: the development and psychometric assessment of the indirect aggression scales. Aggressive Behavior 31, pp. 84-97. ISSN 0096-140X.
- Bramley, N. and Eatough, Virginia (2005) The experience of living with Parkinson's disease: an interpretative phenomenological analysis case study. Psychology & Health 20 (2), pp. 223-235. ISSN 0887-0446.
- Wood, R.T.A. and Griffiths, M.D. and Eatough, Virginia (2004) Online data collection from videogame players: methodological issues. CyberPsychology and Behaviour 7 (5), pp. 511-518.
- Forrest, S. and Shevlin, M. and Eatough, Virginia and Gregson, M. and Davies, M.N.O. (2002) Factor structure of the Expagg and Revised Expagg: a failure to replicate using confirmatory factor analysis. Aggressive Behaviour 28 (1), pp. 11-20. ISSN 1098-2337.
- Allen, T. and Cox, S. and Eatough, Virginia and Underwood, J. (2001) Why do women remain childless? an examination of the decision to remain childless and attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 19 (3), pp. 259-277. ISSN 0264-6838.
- Eatough, Virginia and Gregson, M. and Shevlin, M. (1997) Comments on SP0409: A. Campbell, M. Sapochnik and S. Muncer's "Sex differences in aggression: Does social representation mediate form of aggression?". British Journal of Social Psychology 36 (3), pp. 383-384. ISSN 0144-6665.
- Frankel, J.P. and Kempster, P.A. and Stibe, C.M.H. and Eatough, Virginia and Nathanson, M. and Lees, A.J. and Stern, G. (1989) A double blind controlled study of high-dose L-Deprenyl in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Clinical Neuropharmacology 12 (5), pp. 448-451. ISSN 0362-5664.
- Lees, A.J. and Frankel, J. and Eatough, Virginia and Stern, G. (1989) New approaches to the use of Selegine for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 80 (s126), pp. 139-145. ISSN 1600-0404.
Book Section
- Eatough, Virginia (2018) "What can’t be cured must be endured": living with Parkinson’s disease. In: Galvin, K.T. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Well-Being. Routledge. ISBN 9781138850101.
- Tomkins, L. and Eatough, Virginia (2017) Hermeneutics: interpretation, understanding and sense-making. In: Cassell, C. and Cunliffe, A. and Grandy, G. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods. London, UK: Sage. ISBN 9781473926622.
- Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. (2017) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton-Rogers, W. (eds.) Handbook of Qualitative Psychology 2nd Edition. London, UK: Sage. pp. 193-211. ISBN 9781473925212.
- Eatough, Virginia (2012) An introduction to qualitative research. In: Breakwell, G.M. and Smith, Jonathan A. and Wright, D.B. (eds.) Research Methods in Psychology. London, UK: Sage. pp. 321-343. ISBN 9780857022646.
- Smith, Jonathan A. and Eatough, Virginia (2012) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Breakwell, G.M. and Smith, Jonathan A. and Wright, D.B. (eds.) Research Methods in Psychology. London, UK: Sage. pp. 439-461. ISBN 9780857022639.
- Eatough, Virginia (2009) 'My heart was killing me’: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experience of anger. In: Finlay, L. and Evans, K. (eds.) Relational-centred Research for Psychotherapists: Exploring Meanings and Experience. Hoboken, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 185-196. ISBN 9780470997765.
- Smith, Jonathan A. and Eatough, Virginia (2008) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Willig, C. and Stainton Rogers, W. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology. Research Methods in Psychology. London, UK: Sage. pp. 179-194. ISBN 9781412907804.
- Eatough, Virginia and Smith, Jonathan A. (2007) Making sense of anger: a case study using interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Coyle, A. and Lyons, E. (eds.) Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology: A Practical & Comparative Guide. London, UK: Sage. pp. 205-215. ISBN 9781446273753.
- Smith, Jonathan A. and Eatough, Virginia (2007) Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Coyle, A. and Lyons, E. (eds.) Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology: A Practical & Comparative Guide. London, UK: Sage. pp. 35-50. ISBN 9781446273753.
- Eatough, Virginia and Kempster, P. and Lees, A.J. and Stern, G. (1990) Premorbid personality and idiopathic Parkinson's disease. In: Streifler, M.B. and Korczyn, A.D. and Melamed, E. and Youdim, M.B.H. (eds.) Parkinson's Disease: Anatomy, Pathology and Therapy. Advances in Neurology. New York, USA: Raven Press. pp. 335-337. ISBN 9780881676341.
- Eatough, Virginia and Rodgers, D. and Kempster, P. and Lees, A.J. and Stern, G. (1990) Effects of L-Deprenyl on Parkinsonian bradyphrenia. In: Streifler, M.B. and Korczyn, A.D. and Melamed, E. and Youdim, M.B.H. (eds.) Parkinson's Disease: Anatomy, Pathology and Therapy. Advances in Neurology. New York, USA: Raven Press. pp. 441-443. ISBN 9780881676341.