Fiona McQueen

Fiona McQueen

Dr Fiona McQueen

Lecturer

 0131 455 3367

  F.McQueen@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am a lecturer in sociology as part of the social sciences team at Edinburgh Napier University. My principal interests are in gender and sexuality, including research into couple relationships, emotion and sexual health education.

I completed my PhD in 2015 hosted by the Centre for Research into Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh. At present I am part of a short life working group at the Scottish Government developing key messages around the topics of Consent and Healthy Relationships.

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Research Areas

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Men and Masculinities: Policy, Politics and Praxis - paper presented at Orebro University in Sweden
  • Gender Ideology and Gender Equality in the Private Sphere – Presented at International Week in Alicante, 2016
  • Intimacy Despite Inequality: Has the Stalled Revolution been Restarted? Paper presented in Prague at the European Sociological Association conference, 2015.
  • A Discussion of the Pressures Felt by Men to Be Emotionally Open in Couple Relationships - Paper presented at BSA symposium on masculinity in London
  • Emotions as Boundary Breaking: Considering the impact of the Therapeutic Discourse on Male Emotionality - Paper presented at BSA symposium on emotion in Edinburgh
  • Researching the emotional landscape of couple relationships - Paper presented at ESA midterm on emotion in Rhodes
  • Is ‘doing emotion’ becoming less gendered in couple relationships? And would a change lead to an effect on gendered power? - Paper presented at ESA midterm on gender in Dortmund
  • Emotions as Boundary Breaking: Considering the impact of the Therapeutic Discourse on Male Emotionality - Paper presented at ESA midterm on emotions in Stockholm

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • ENSA Student Award
  • Outstanding Student Experience Award

 

Invited Speaker

  • Keynote – New Directions Conference at Edinburgh University Sociology Department, 2016

 

Media Activity

  • Father dusters: Men are doing housework more than ever before
  • More equal? Still different?

 

Reviewing

  • Article reviewed for Sexuality and Culture Journal

 

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The new feeling rules of emotion work in heterosexual couple relationships

Journal Article
McQueen, F. (in press)
The new feeling rules of emotion work in heterosexual couple relationships. Emotions and Society,
This article suggests that new feeling rules of intimacy within heterosexual couple relationships are widely recognised and reflect the contention that an androgynisation of t...

‘I Would Like to Be Better at It’: A Critical Engagement with Illouz’s Account of Men and Intimacy in Romantic Relationships

Book Chapter
McQueen, F., & Osborn, S. (2020)
‘I Would Like to Be Better at It’: A Critical Engagement with Illouz’s Account of Men and Intimacy in Romantic Relationships. In J. Carter, & L. Arocha (Eds.), Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’, (83-107). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0_5
With a focus on established heterosexual romantic relationships, this chapter engages with Illouz’s claim that the predominance of the therapeutic ethos has caused a convergen...

Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education

Journal Article
Brown, S., & McQueen, F. (2020)
Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 20(2), 186-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2019.1636780
Despite a substantial body of research on young people’s wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction...

Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk’

Journal Article
McQueen, F. (2017)
Male emotionality: ‘boys don’t cry’ versus ‘it’s good to talk’. NORMA - Nordisk tidsskrift for maskulinitetsstudier, 12(3-4), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2017.1336877
In this article male affect within intimate relationships is examined as a product of the tension between two competing discourses: ‘it’s good to talk’ versus ‘boys don’t cry’...

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