Dr Miriam Snellgrove

  • Lecturer in Sociology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

email: Miriam.Snellgrove@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Social and Political Sciences, 42 Bute Gardens - room 1013, University of Glasgow, GL12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116

Research interests

My main research interests lie in micro-sociological and feminist understandings of everyday life with a focus on gender, leisure practices and qualitative methodologies.

My doctoral research explored the intentional, life-sharing Camphill community network; with more recent research developing the sociology of mindsport through the case study of the card game bridge.

I am currently engaged in a research project titled Waste. Water. Walking. The project troubles wellbeing narratives in green and blue spaces through the leisure practices of walking and swimming. In particular, my research explores the complicated (and often extractive relationships) walkers and swimmers have with their environment, drawing on ideas of dirty and polluted leisure. The project employs walking and swimming as method drawing on ethnographic and situated writing approaches.​

 

Research Areas

  • Micro-sociological approaches to everyday life
  • Dirty Leisure – defecation, dirt and pollution in green and blue spaces
  • Leisure practices – swimming and walking
  • Feminist conceptualisations of leisure, nature, human/animal relations and situated writing.
  • Qualitative methodologies – ethnography, creative methods, ethnofiction, poetry, diaries and interviews.

I welcome applications for doctoral supervision in any of these areas.

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2024) Situating bridge: Understanding older adults’ digital leisure practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Leisure Research, (doi: 10.1080/00222216.2024.2329158) (Early Online Publication)

Punch, Samanatha and Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2024) Bridging time: negotiating serious leisure in intimate couple relationships. Annals of Leisure Research, 27(5), pp. 624-644. (doi: 10.1080/11745398.2023.2197243)

2023

Punch, Samantha, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116, Graham, Elizabeth, McPherson, Charlotte and Cleary, Jessica (2023) Bridging brains: Exploring neurosexism and gendered stereotypes in a mindsport. Leisure/Loisir, 47(3), pp. 459-485. (doi: 10.1080/14927713.2022.2160787)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2023) Bridge during a time of disruption: Pandemic playing, everyday habits and situated writing. In: Sharp, Briony, Finkel, Rebecca and Dashper, Katherine (eds.) Transforming Leisure in the Pandemic: Re-imagining Interaction and Activity during Crisis. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781003262503 (doi: 10.4324/9781003262503-11)

2022

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Negotiating insider research through reactive collaboration: challenges, issues and failures. Qualitative Research Journal, 22(4), pp. 548-558. (doi: 10.1108/QRJ-11-2021-0116)

Rogers, Ashley, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women’s game in the mind-sport bridge. World Leisure Journal, 64(4), pp. 342-360. (doi: 10.1080/16078055.2022.2051068)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Bridging the gaps: Diaries and digital card games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociological Review Magazine, 2022(Sept 6), (doi: 10.51428/tsr.hwei2799)

2021

Punch, Samantha and Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2021) Playing your life: Developing strategies and managing impressions in the game of bridge. Sociological Research Online, 26(3), pp. 601-619. (doi: 10.1177/1360780420973043)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116, Punch, Samantha and Rees, Tim (2021) Using digital leisure to tackle social isolation. Project Report. University of Stirling.

Rogers, Ashley, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2021) Bridging Sexism: Gender Inequality at and away from the Bridge Table. Working Paper. University of Stirling, Stirling.

2020

Snellgrove, Miriam L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2020) Challenges, Issues and Solutions facing National Bridge Organisations in Europe. Discussion Paper. University of Stirling, Stirling.

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2020) Bridge in the Time of Covid-19. Project Report. University of Stirling, Stirling.

2019

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2019) Taking bridge seriously. Discover Society, 4 Dec.

2018

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2018) Barefoot Sociologist: Lyrical Musings on Everyday Life. [Website]

2013

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2013) 'May the meal be blessed:' exploring the dynamics of a meal. Scottish Affairs, 85(1), pp. 75-95. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2013.0043)

2009

Snellgrove, M.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2009) On not writing. [Website]

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Number of items: 16.

Articles

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2024) Situating bridge: Understanding older adults’ digital leisure practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Leisure Research, (doi: 10.1080/00222216.2024.2329158) (Early Online Publication)

Punch, Samanatha and Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2024) Bridging time: negotiating serious leisure in intimate couple relationships. Annals of Leisure Research, 27(5), pp. 624-644. (doi: 10.1080/11745398.2023.2197243)

Punch, Samantha, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116, Graham, Elizabeth, McPherson, Charlotte and Cleary, Jessica (2023) Bridging brains: Exploring neurosexism and gendered stereotypes in a mindsport. Leisure/Loisir, 47(3), pp. 459-485. (doi: 10.1080/14927713.2022.2160787)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Negotiating insider research through reactive collaboration: challenges, issues and failures. Qualitative Research Journal, 22(4), pp. 548-558. (doi: 10.1108/QRJ-11-2021-0116)

Rogers, Ashley, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Between equality and discrimination: the paradox of the women’s game in the mind-sport bridge. World Leisure Journal, 64(4), pp. 342-360. (doi: 10.1080/16078055.2022.2051068)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2022) Bridging the gaps: Diaries and digital card games during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociological Review Magazine, 2022(Sept 6), (doi: 10.51428/tsr.hwei2799)

Punch, Samantha and Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2021) Playing your life: Developing strategies and managing impressions in the game of bridge. Sociological Research Online, 26(3), pp. 601-619. (doi: 10.1177/1360780420973043)

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2019) Taking bridge seriously. Discover Society, 4 Dec.

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2013) 'May the meal be blessed:' exploring the dynamics of a meal. Scottish Affairs, 85(1), pp. 75-95. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2013.0043)

Book Sections

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2023) Bridge during a time of disruption: Pandemic playing, everyday habits and situated writing. In: Sharp, Briony, Finkel, Rebecca and Dashper, Katherine (eds.) Transforming Leisure in the Pandemic: Re-imagining Interaction and Activity during Crisis. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781003262503 (doi: 10.4324/9781003262503-11)

Research Reports or Papers

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116, Punch, Samantha and Rees, Tim (2021) Using digital leisure to tackle social isolation. Project Report. University of Stirling.

Rogers, Ashley, Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2021) Bridging Sexism: Gender Inequality at and away from the Bridge Table. Working Paper. University of Stirling, Stirling.

Snellgrove, Miriam L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2020) Challenges, Issues and Solutions facing National Bridge Organisations in Europe. Discussion Paper. University of Stirling, Stirling.

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 and Punch, Samantha (2020) Bridge in the Time of Covid-19. Project Report. University of Stirling, Stirling.

Website

Snellgrove, Miriam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2018) Barefoot Sociologist: Lyrical Musings on Everyday Life. [Website]

Snellgrove, M.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-1116 (2009) On not writing. [Website]

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Grants

My research has been funded by:

  • The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • The Brigstow Institute 
  • Third Sector Organisations

Supervision

I currently supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students and welcome enquires from potential PhD students. I have supervised and examined doctoral students researching generational sociology and everyday life; rural water maintenance in Chile; queer methodologies and prisons.

I am interested in doctoral supervision in the following areas: everyday life; gender and leisure; dirty leisure; watery leisure practices; leisured mobilities;  games and mindsports; qualitative and creative methodologies.

Teaching

Current teaching

  • Leisure and Society
  • Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Honours)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (PGT/PGR)

 

Previous Teaching

  • Current Issues in Social Theory
  • Sociologies of Everyday Life 
  • Ethnography 
  • Investigating the Social
  • Thinking Sociologically 
  • Social Divisions 

 

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