Jackie Goode is a sociologist with a long association with the Department. She first came to Loughborough in 1992 to work on a project researching Parliamentary selection for Westminster with Professors Joni Lovenduski and Pippa Norris. She joined the Social Sciences Department a year later and over the following seven years worked on a variety of projects including on the Sociology of Food and Eating (Leverhulme-funded ‘Dietary Dilemmas of the 1990s), with Teresa Keil and Alan Beardsworth; interdisciplinary projects with female colleagues, investigating the operation of gender both at LU and within the ESRC application process; and the ‘Purse or Wallet?’ project, investigating intra-household income distribution within families reliant on welfare benefits with Professor Ruth Lister.
At King’s College London and at the University of Nottingham, she conducted: ethnographic work on NHS Direct; an evaluation of the first year of a new Graduate-entry Medical Course; and projects examining the experiences of both international students and students with disabilities. She re-joined the Department in 2008 to work in CRSP on projects investigating over-indebtedness in low-income families and men’s experiences of Money Advice services.
Between 2011 and 2014, she worked with academic colleagues at the universities of Nottingham and Sheffield as an Independent Research Consultant (on projects related to both the internationalisation of Higher Education and the use of mixed methods in Health Service research); and back at Loughborough with Professors John Downey, David Deacon and James Stanyer on projects commissioned by the BBC as part of their Impartiality Reviews.
In 2015, she worked on policing-related research with Dr Karen Lumsden.
Her doctorate used her research in the areas of health, welfare and higher education as examples of Foucault’s ‘governmentality’ in practice.
In recent years she has specialised in Autoethnography, publishing articles in a number of social science journals as well as two edited collections (see ‘Key Publications’). In 2025, she gave the Keynote address at the BSA Auto/biography Conference in Reading.
Jackie Goode’s current research uses Autoethnography to analyse a variety of social and cultural phenomena, often with a focus on class and gender.
- Jackie Goode, Karen Lumsden and Jasn Bradford (Eds.) (2023) Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture. Routledge Winner of the 2026 International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry ‘Outstanding Edited Book’ award.
- Jackie Goode (Ed.) Clever Girls: Autoethnographies of Class, Gender and Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan. Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's ‘Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience’.
- Jackie Goode, Jan Bradford & Mark Price (2025) Braided Stories of Ghostly Disappointments and Dissonances Encountered in Formations of Gender, Class and Age. Auto/biography Review.
- Line Nyhagen and Jackie Goode (2024) ‘Memory work as a collaborative intersectional feminist research method’. Chapter in Jennifer Cooke and Line Nyhagen (Eds.) Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies Taylor Francis.
- Jackie Goode (2021) ‘Plenty more at the factory gate: An autoethnography of a precarious work (life) in progress’. Chapter in Ellen Cole & Lisa Hollis-Sawyer (Eds.) Older women who work: Resilience, choice, and change. American Psychological Association.
- Jackie Goode (2019) Europe in Fragments. International Review of Qualitative Research, Vol. 12, No.1, pp 77-84.
- Jackie Goode & Jess Moriarty (2019) ‘I found my mentor in a toilet’, chapter in Jess Moriarty (Ed.) Autoethnographies from the Neoliberal Academy: Rewilding, Writing and Resistance in Higher Education.
- Jackie Goode (2019) ‘Precarity, Performativity and Politics in the Life of an Academic Researcher’, chapter in Karen Lumsden (Ed.) Reflexivity: Theory, Method, and Practice. Routledge.