Publications: Health and Well-being

Blodgett, A., Schinke, R., Smith, B., Peltier, D., & Pheasant, C. (2011). In indigenous words: Exploring vignettes as a narrative strategy for presenting the research voices of Aboriginal Community Members. Qualitative Inquiry. 17 (6): 522-533.

Devís-Devís, J., Pérez-Samaniego, V., Sparkes, A., & Smith., B. (2011). La investigación narrativa en la educación física y el deporte: qué es y para qué sirve. Movimento, 17(1).

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (2011). Exploring multiple responses to a chaos narrative. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine, 15 (1): 38-53.

Soundy, A., Smith, B., Dawes, H., Pall, H., Gimbrere, K., & Ramsay, J. (in-press). Patients expression of hope and illness narratives in three neurological conditions: A meta-ethnography. Health Psychology Review.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2011) Inhabiting different bodies over time: Narrative and pedagogical challenges. Sport, Education & Society. 16 (3): 357-370.

Stewart, C., Sparkes, A., and Smith, B. (2011). Sporting autobiographies of illness and the role of metaphor. Sport in Society. 14(5): 577–593.

Phoenix, C., Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (2010). Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration. Journal of Aging Studies, 24 (1): 1-11.

Smith, B. (2010). Dialogism, monologism, and boundaries: Some possibilities for disability studies and interdisciplinary research. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 6 (3): 25-33.

Smith, B. (2010). Narrative inquiry: Ongoing conversations and questions for sport psychology research.International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3 (1): 87-107.

Soundy, A., Smith, B., Cressy, F., & Webb, L. (2010). The experience of spinal cord injury: using Frank's narrative types to enhance physiotherapy undergraduates' understanding. Physiotherapy, 96, (1): 52-58.

Soundy, A., Smith, B., Butler, M., Minns-Lowe, C., Dawes, H., & Windward, C. H. (2010). A qualitative study in neurological physiotherapy and hope: Beyond physical improvement. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 26 (2): 79-88.

Smith, B., Allen Collinson, J., Phoenix, C., Brown, D., & Sparkes, A. (2009). Dialogue, monologue, and boundary crossing within research encounters: A performative narrative analysis. International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 7 (3): 342-358.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2009). Narrative analysis and sport and exercise psychology: Understanding lives in diverse ways. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10 (2): 279-288.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2009). Narrative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology: What can it mean, and why might we do it? Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10 (1): 1-11.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2009). Judging the quality of qualitative inquiry: Criteriology and relativism in action. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10 (5): 491-497.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2009). Men, spinal cord injury, memories, and the narrative performance of pain. Disability & Society, 23 (7): 679-690.

Smith, B. (2008). Disabled bodies and storied selves: An example of qualitative inquiry and narrative research. European Bulletin of Adapted Physical Activity, 1 (1): 23-35.

Smith, B. (2008). Imagining being disabled through playing sport: The body and alterity as limits to imagining others lives. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2 (2): 142-157.

Smith, B. (2008). Spinal cord injury, the body, and narratives of recovery in mental distress. SCI PsychoSocial Process, 20 (2): 18-30.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2008). Changing bodies, changing narratives and the consequences of tellability: A case study of becoming disabled through sport. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30 (2): 217-236.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2008). Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies. Disability & Society, 23 (1): 17-28.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2007). Sport, spinal cord injury, and body narratives: A qualitative project. Health Psychology Update, 16 (3): 26-33.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2005). Men, sport, spinal cord injury and narratives of hope. Social Science & Medicine, 61 (5): 1095-1105.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2004). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: An analysis of metaphors and narrative types. Disability & Society, 19 (6), 509-612.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2005). When narratives matter: men sport and spinal cord injury. Medical Humanities, 31(2): 81-88.

Rees, T., Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (2003). The influence of social support on the lived experiences of spinal cord injured sportsmen. The Sport Psychologist, 17 (2): 135-156.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2003). Men, sport, spinal cord injury and narrative time. Qualitative Research, 3 (3): 295-320.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2002). Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and the construction of coherence: Narrative practice in action. Qualitative Research, 2 (2): 143-171.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2002).Sport, spinal cord injuries, embodied masculinities and the dilemmas of narrative identity . Men and Masculinities, 4 (3): 258-285.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2001). Hombres, deporte, lesión en la médula espinal y problemas en la restauración del yo [Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and the dilemmas of restorying the self]. ÁGORA para la EF y el Deporte, nº 1, 37-48.

Pheonix, C. & Smith, B. (Eds) (2011). The World of Physical Culture in Sport and Exercise: Visual Methods for Qualitative Research. London: Routledge.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (in-press). Disability, sport, and physical activity. In N. Watson, C. Thomas, A. Roulstone (Eds). London: Routledge Companion to Disability Studies.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2011). Narrative analysis as an embodied engagement with the lives of others. In J. Holstein & J. Gubrium (Eds). Varieties of narrative analysis. London: Sage.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (in press). "It doesn't have to be a tragedy": Re-narrating the body-self and post-traumatic growth following catastrophic spinal cord injury in sport. In N. Warren & L. Manderson (Eds,), Reframing disability and quality of life: A global perspective. NY: Springer.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (in-press). Men, spinal cord injury, memories and the narrative
performance of pain. In R. Giulianotti (Ed.) Sociology of Sport. London: Sage.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (2009). Making sense of words and stories. Some strategies for consideration. In G. Tenenbaum, R. Eklund, & A Kamata (Eds). Handbook ofMeasurement in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Human Kinetics.

Smith, B. (2009). The body and alterity as limits to imagining others’ lives. In E. Jespersen & M. McNamee (Eds.). Ethics, Dis/Ability and Sports. London: Routledge.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. (2009). The narrative turn in sport and exercise psychology. In Ryba, T., Schinke, R., & Tenenbaum, G. (Eds.), The cultural turn in sport and exercise
psychology (pp. 75-100). Fitness Information Technology.

Smith, B. (2009). Qualitative research and the role of narrative imagination and empathy.
In D. Robinson, & N. Kelly (Eds.), Narrative, memory and everyday life. West
Yorkshire, University of Huddersfield Press.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2008). Narrative Constructionist Inquiry. In J. Holstein & J. Gubrium (Eds), Handbook of Constructionist Research (pp. 295-314). London: Guilford Publications.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A .C. (2007). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: Identity dilemmas, embodied time, and the construction of coherence. In V. Raoul, C. Canam, A. Henderson, and C. Paterson (Eds), Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma (pp. 191-199). Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A .C. (2007). Becoming disabled through sport: Multiple responses to an embodied chaos narrative. In D. Robinson, N. Kelly, & K. Milnes, &  (Eds.), Narrative, memory and everyday life (pp.91-98). West Yorkshire, University of Huddersfield Press.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2007). Disabled bodies and narrative time: Men, sport, and spinal cord injury. In J. Hargreaves and P. Vertinsky (Eds.) Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (pp. 158-175). London: Routledge.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2006). When narratives matter. In R. Rapport & P. Wainwright (Eds), The self in health and illness: Patients, professionals and narrative identity (pp. 53-67). Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2005). When metaphors matter: Men, sport, spinal cord injury, narrative types, and the reconstruction of selves. In P. Hassmen & N. Hassmen (Eds) Svensk Idrottspsykologisk Forening: Arsbok 2004 (pp. 119-138). Sweden: Orebro
Universitet Press.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2005). Becoming disabled through sport: Embodied memories of pain. In N. Kelly, C. Horrocks, K. Milnes, B. Roberts, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Narrative, memory and everyday life (pp. 135-142). West Yorkshire University of Huddersfield Press.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A .C. (2004). Becoming disabled through sport: Narrative types, metaphorsand the reconstruction of selves. In P. Twohig & V. Kalitzkus (Eds), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease (pp. 67-82). New York: Rodopi.

Sparkes, A. & Smith, B. (2004). Slittede selvopfattesler og narrative rekonstruktioner [Interrupted bodies and narrative reconstructions]. In M. Christensen & G. Wichmann-hansen (Eds), Krop og Kompetence (pp. 119-138). Copenhagen: FADL’s Forlag.

Smith, B. (2004). The possibilities of narrative: The example of becoming disabled through sport. In J. P. Ferreira, P. Gaspar, C. Riberio, A. Teixeira, C. Senra (Eds.), Physical activity and the promotion of mental health (pp. 23-29), University of Coimbra Press: Portugal.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2003). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury the narrative construction of coherence. In C. Horrocks, N. Kelly, B. Roberts, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Narrative, Health, and Life Transitions (pp. 29-36). West Yorkshire: University of Huddersfield Press.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (2003) Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: The dilemmas of narrative identity and biographical time. In Deporte y Calidad de Vida (CD). The
Congresso Mundial De Ciencias de la Actividad Fisica Y El Deporte, pp. 386-392.

Smith, B. & Sparkes, A. C. (2002). Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: A brief commentary on identity dilemmas, time, and the narrative construction of coherence. In C. Horrocks, K. Milnes, B. Roberts, D. Robinson (Eds.), Narrative, memory and life transitions (pp. 145-153). West Yorkshire, University of Huddersfield Press.

Sparkes, A. C. & Smith, B. (1999). Disrupted selves and narrative reconstructions. In A.C. Sparkes & M. Silvennoinen (Eds.), Talking Bodies: Men’s narratives of the body and sport (pp. 76-92). SoPhi, University of Jyvaskyla: Finland.