QUALITATIVE METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY SECTION
PROFESSORS JONATHAN SMITH, ANN PHOENIX AND LIZ STOKOE TALK TO QMiP
FRIDAY 16 JULY 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Jonathan Smith
Jonathan is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London where he conducts research using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and leads the IPA research group. He teaches qualitative methods at all levels. Prior to coming to Birkbeck he held lectureships at Keele and Sheffield Universities. He was recently elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Psychological Society.
Prof. Anne Phoenix
Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial studies at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education [and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is on the Nuffield Foundation Trust Board.
Her research is mainly about the ways in which psychological experiences and social processes are linked and intersectional. It includes work on racialised and gendered identities and experiences; mixed-parentage, masculinities, consumption, young people and their parents, the transition to motherhood, families, migration and transnational families.
Much of her research draws on mixed methods and includes narrative approaches. Her recent books are Environment in the Lives of Children and Families: Perspectives from India and the UK. Policy Press, 2017. (with Janet Boddy, Catherine Walker and Uma Vennan) and Researching Family Narratives. SAGE, 2020. (with Julia Brannen, Corinne Squire and the Novella project research team). Nuancing Young Masculinities (with Marja Peltola) will be published by Helsinki University Press in 2022.
Prof. Liz Stokoe
Elizabeth graduated from University of Central Lancashire (Preston Poly) in 1993 with a traditional psychology degree. She then completed three years PhD research at Nene College (Leicester University) with Dr. Eunice Fisher.
Her PhD was a conversation analysis of university tutorial interaction, where she examined topics like gender and language, and student identity. Elizabeth developed these and other interests whilst working at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences (University of Derby, 1997-2000) and University College Worcester (2000-2002).
Elizabeth joined the previous Department of Social Sciences, now Communication and Media subject area, in October 2002, teaching on the BSc Social Psychology programme.
She was promoted to Reader (2007) and Chair (2009). She was Associate Dean (Research) between 2013-18. She is currently Professor II at University of Southeast Norway (2017-2021) and was an Industry Fellow at Typeform (2018-19). She is currently Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (REF).
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