Margaret Wetherell | |
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Born | 24 November 1954 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Bristol University |
Thesis | Social identification, social influence and group polarisation (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | John Turner |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Open University,University of Auckland |
Main interests | Discourse analysis |
Website | open.ac.uk/Margaret_Wetherell |
Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954 [1] ) is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
Wetherell worked for 23 years at the Open University,UK from which she retired as Emeritus Professor in 2011. She then took up a part-time post of Professor in Psychology at the University of Auckland,New Zealand. [2]
Wetherell has promoted a discursive approach to psychology. Her 1987 book,Discourse and Social Psychology:Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour,cowritten with Jonathan Potter,was very influential,particularly in social psychology,though also in other fields (e.g. Wood &Kroger,2000). While discourse analysis has many different meanings,Wetherell's approach has been quite catholic in line with other anglophone discourse analysts like Gilbert &Mulkay (1984).
Wetherell asserts that social actions and routines are formed within our respective social organizations,and that we can not separate a bodies,talk,and text. [3]
In 2010/11 she led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). [2]
data sheet (b. 11/24/54)