Professor Samantha Punch
Professor of Sociology, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Email: s.v.punch@stir.ac.uk
Profile
My research interests are within the sociology of childhood and youth, with a recent focus on mindsport education. As an international bridge player who has represented Scotland since 2008, I am currently developing the sociology of mindsport as a new field of research. The project, Bridge: A MindSport for All (BAMSA) explores the social interactions and dynamics of serious leisure, including intergenerationality, emotions, identities and gendered inequalities (see https://bridgemindsport.org/). BAMSA has a new research project on bridge, youth and schools. Twitter: @punch4S47 @bridgemindsport
Research
Publications
Punch, S. (2021) Bridge at the Top: Behind the Screens, Toronto: Master Point Press.
Punch, S. and Vanderbeck, R. (eds) (2018) Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations, Vol. 5 of Skelton, T. (editor-in-chief) Springer Major Reference Work in Geographies of Children and Young People. Singapore: Springer.
Punch, S. and Tisdall, K. (eds) (2014) Children and Young People’s Relationships: Learning Across Majority and Minority Worlds, London: Routledge. 114p
Punch, S., McIntosh, I. and Emond, R. (eds) (2011) Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions, London: Routledge. 95p.
Panelli, R. , Punch, S. and Robson, E. (eds) (2010) Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives, London: Routledge. 266p.
Punch, S. (2002) Research with Children: The same or different from research with adults? Childhood 9 (3): 321-341
Punch, S. (2002) Interviewing Strategies with Young People: The ‘Secret Box’, Stimulus Material and Task-based activities Children & Society 16: 45-56