Gay and Pleasant Land? Exploring Sexuality, Ageing and Rurality in a Multi-Method, Performative Project

Journal Article Gay and Pleasant Land? Exploring Sexuality, Ageing and Rurality in a Multi-Method, Performative Project Get access Lee-Ann Fenge, Lee-Ann Fenge * Lee-Ann Fenge is an Associate Dean for Postgraduate Students in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. She teaches on the social work degree and her teaching and research interests include working with older people and participatory methodologies. She is a co-researcher on the Gay and Pleasant Land? Project, which is a work package in the New Dynamics of Ageing Project, 'Grey and Pleasant Land? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Connectivity of Older People in Rural Civic Society', being undertaken in South West England and Wales. Kip Jones is Reader in Qualitative Research and Leader of the Performative Social Science Group in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. He is the Principal Investigator in the 'Gay and Pleasant Land? Project—a study about positioning, ageing and gay life in rural south-west England and Wales. He is an expert in the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method of research and leads a programme of work around the use of performative social science. *Correspondence to Dr Lee-Ann Fenge, School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, Room R309, Royal London House, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3LT, UK. E-mail: lfenge@bournemouth.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kip Jones Kip Jones Lee-Ann Fenge is an Associate Dean for Postgraduate Students in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. She teaches on the social work degree and her teaching and research interests include working with older people and participatory methodologies. She is a co-researcher on the Gay and Pleasant Land? Project, which is a work package in the New Dynamics of Ageing Project, 'Grey and Pleasant Land? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Connectivity of Older People in Rural Civic Society', being undertaken in South West England and Wales. Kip Jones is Reader in Qualitative Research and Leader of the Performative Social Science Group in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. He is the Principal Investigator in the 'Gay and Pleasant Land? Project—a study about positioning, ageing and gay life in rural south-west England and Wales. He is an expert in the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method of research and leads a programme of work around the use of performative social science. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 42, Issue 2, March 2012, Pages 300–317, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr058 Published: 04 May 2011